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The Beautiful Game, the Cranky Machine: Football, Imperialism, and Working-Class Histories
The working class built the beautiful game. The ruling class has been flogging it to Gulf petrostates ever since and calling it sport. David Clarke’s latest digs into the cranky machine beneath the beautiful game.
News
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Japan Revives its Historical Enmity Towards China
The visit to Australia of Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi this week highlights both Japans integration into the US military alliance…
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May Day Speech against US-Israeli aggression in West Asia : How workers can support each other globally
Speech delivered by an Australian Iranian member of Red Ant at the Naarm May Day rally.
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The NDIS Cuts – the Government Acts to Protect Profits
The NDIS has always been about extracting profits from disability and the recent cuts are furthering this agenda.
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We demand the immediate release of Communist Party Marxist-Kenya leader Booker Omole!
We demand the immediate release of Communist Party Marxist-Kenya leader Booker Omole!
Analysis
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The Beautiful Game, the Cranky Machine: Football, Imperialism, and Working-Class Histories
The working class built the beautiful game. The ruling class has been flogging it to Gulf petrostates ever since and calling it sport. David Clarke’s latest digs into the cranky machine beneath the beautiful game.
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Organise Workers, Not Just Activists: A Response to Omar Hassan
David Clarke, a member of NSW Socialists, responds to Omar Hassan’s Marxist Left Review Article “The Australian Socialist Party: A Project to Transform the Left”
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The People’s Game Stolen Twice: A History of Rugby League, Media Wars, and the Gambling Takeover
The story of rugby league is not simply one of tries and grand finals. It is a story of how a people’s game, forged in the industrial north of England and the working-class suburbs of Sydney, was gradually captured by media capital, restructured for television, and finally handed to the gambling industry.
Theory
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Dialectic of State Power and Solidarity
What if the violence we condemn abroad is the same machinery we tolerate at home? This article unpacks how state power manufactures conditional solidarity, and…
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Cultivating Organic Intellectuals: Refaat Alareer’s Pedagogy and Praxis Under Scholasticide
Dylan Prunster outlines the principles underlining the work of Palestinian author, poet and academic Refaat Alareer and his role as an organic intellectual which made…
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Partyism and the Limits of Liberalism
Haig Kisherian critiques Partyism and Liberalism, arguing they fail to address sectarianism and bureaucracy within socialist organisations effectively.
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A Boot on Our Necks, a Bill in Our Hands: How US Imperialism Steals Our Livelihoods and How We Fight Back
by David Clarke who is also a member of the NSWTF Let’s be clear: this isn’t an abstract debate. It’s about the price of bread,…