The American alliance is simply too costly for Australia both in terms of human lives...

When Julia Gillard became Minister for Education and Everything Else That Moves, as well as...

When I was interviewed recently about the Wall Street protests by Triple J and Brisbane’s...

Since the last issue of Illawarra Unity, the labour movement has been shaken to its...

When Julia Gillard became Minister for Education and Everything Else That Moves, as well as...

Anthony Ashbolt examines the funding inequalities in education and problems with policies of social exclusion.

Putting aside for a moment his wonderful autobiographical reminiscences in The New York Review of...

News that elite private school fess are becoming increasingly less affordable hardly comes as a...

Milton Friedman introduced the concept of vouchers in education over fifty years ago. Thankfully the...

This analysis of American politics today is done through the lens and style of Raymond...

In the Spring and Summer, 1964, issues of the American new left journal Studies on...

In a splendid essay in The London Review of Books (11 September, 2008), Ross McKibbon...

The fortieth anniversary celebrations of the Woodstock music festival have gone dangerously close to transforming...

As brand Labor, otherwise known as Rudd Labor, begins to look more and more like...

As the financial system internationally shudders and shakes and disappears, only to reappear as something...

Kevin Rudd's vigorous attack upon "extreme capitalism" revealed he does not understand the nature of...

Kevin Rudd's vigorous attack upon “extreme capitalism” revealed he does not understand the nature of...

Kevin Rudd's vigorous attack upon "extreme capitalism" revealed he does not understand the nature of...

In October and November last year, Kevin Rudd outlined his Christian social democratic principles. His...

Class and the very concept of class struggle seem almost quaint today. They speak, it...

In 1960s historiography today, the expression ‘Summer of Love’ is used in three senses. It...

The concept of cultural hegemony and the 1960s are interconnected in important ways. First, it...

IN HIS CLASSIC ANALYSIS of consumer capitalist society, One Dimensional Man, Herbert Marcuse pinpointed the...

As the new Industrial Relations legislation prepares the labour movement for wider and more militant...

There is a perplexing myth pervading journalistic commentary and even Labor party thinking. The persistence...

The fundamental measure of education in all spheres is its contribution to a democratic society....

Jim Bradley, the local New South Wales Teachers Federation spokesman at the time of the...

Tony Kevin is the author of the award-winning A Certain Maritime Incident: The Sinking of...

Certain mythologies pervade the assault upon public education. One of these is that Labor's education...

The 40th anniversary commemorations of the Battle of Long Tan have been both excessive and...

On 10 February 1976 the Illawarra Mercury reported that 18,000 steelworkers would strike from midnight...

Two months ago, Illawarra ABC Radio presenter Peter Hand was stood down for alleged bias...

Labour movement struggles have a significant cultural dimension. The role of music has been particularly...

While Tony Blair's war on civil liberties has been checked by the British Parliament, Labor...

Warning become self-fulfilling prophecies in the hands of a mass media trained in the art...

Perry Anderson is a towering figure in the annals of contemporary Marxism. As such, he...

The steady rise of the radical Republican right as an electoral force since the mid...

John McCutcheon is a highly talented singer-songwriter who has a strong commitment to the union...

Alistair Hulett, a Glasgow native, is one of Scotland’s finest folk performers and a committed...

Bob Fox has been performing as a folk musician since the early 1970s, when he...

As a political system, democracy depends upon a vibrant public sphere. Democracy in liberal democratic...

One of the main tasks of education is to nurture inquiring minds. Equipping students with...

In the wake of September 11, a classic European disdain for American sentiment became apparent....

The triumph of a neoliberal economic doctrine in America has been accompanied by, indeed partly...

For some years now, the 1960s have been contested terrain. Many commentators have rushed to...

As the world witnessed the cold ferocity of terrorism last week - the shattering loss...

Transcript of an interview with Professor Michael Paul Rogin, Robson Professor of Political Science, University...

History repeats itself, endlessly and sometimes tiresomely. Numerous writers and scholars have worried about the...

While thinking about the contemporary state of politics, it is very difficult to shake off...

For some years now, the 1960s have been contested terrain. Many-commentators have rushed to specious...

As George Orwell, Herbert Marcuse and, more recently John Ralston Saul have argued, language can...