The Guardian • class
The Kurdish issue is an issue of equality
A small segment of the population in Turkey possesses enormous wealth, while millions of people are struggling with poverty and unemployment.
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Issue #2045
The Swap
Some young people are being educated in silos. They never meet people who are different. Wouldn’t it be great if a few of them could...
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Issue #2064
The US Prison in film: A Marxist View
In the “land of the free,” millions languish in prisons in the name of law and order. The prison, as an institution, is used by...
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Issue #2067
Marx and Robinson Crusoe: British Imperialism and the slave trade
Marxist literary criticism explains a literary work, a novel, through an analysis of the human-social relationships which reflect the economic base of the story, rather...
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Issue #2053
Adelaide National School
Comrades from all around Australia gathered at Fidel’s Bar in Adelaide for two and a bit days of camaraderie, music and learning. Sessions included “Collective...
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Issue #2130
Capitalism, AI, and class
The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the face of the world. Like all transformations and ‘revolutions’ in society that capitalism has wrought, AI...
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Issue #2023
Class collaboration won’t deliver for workers
Practice, time and time again, has shown class collaboration doesn’t deliver for workers. Efforts by social democracy to water down class struggle through the introduction...
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Issue #2093
History is a class question
When US journalist John Reed called his account of the October Revolution in Russia Ten Days That Shook the World, he was not exaggerating. The...
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Issue #2002
Reflections on the outcomes of the CPA 14th Congress
The Communist Party of Australia successfully hosted its 14th National Congress at the end of February 2022 and elected a new Central Committee. COVID restrictions...
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Issue #2147
Disaster Nationalism: the downfall of liberal civilisation
People like to bully and dominate – at least many do. Does this mean that fascism is something that inevitably emerges from human nature? It...
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Issue #2171
Poetry, class, and the individual
One’s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy...
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Issue #2068
Class interest and Voices
One really bad argument against a Yes vote for the Voice to Parliament is that that a small group of Australians – Indigenous people –...
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Issue #2091
CAPITALISM
Living standards for the majority of Australians continue to fall while the gap between the wealthy and middle to low-income workers widens. The Reserve Bank...
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Issue #2149
Feeling classy?
What’s all this about classes? I left school ages ago. You’re in a social class because of your relation to the means of production. If...
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Issue #2193
EDITORIAL
“Dishonest and class-based.” That was the verdict of Australian Financial Review columnist Phil Coorey on the recent Federal Budget. Coorey didn’t explain what he meant...
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