Racism, look, it’s over there
Last week Jeff Sparrow was doing the rounds promoting his new book, Trigger Warnings: political correctness and the rise of the right. I used it as…
On Class and Identity Politics
I was asked by Inference Review to write a response to an article by the German Marxist economist, Wolfgang Streeck, ‘Trump and the Trumpists‘.…
On making refugees work for us
Two recent comments summarise the problem with responding to Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton’s base level Powellian dog-whistling racism with pictures of successful refugees.…
Divestment protestors occupy Australian Council of Superannuation Investors Conference
Reposting news of this very important action by Divest from Detention activists: Text of pamphlet distributed at meeting of Australian Council of Superannuation investors…
The Lure of Frozen Racism – The Occupied Times
My thanks to Michael Richmond of The Occupied Times of London for publishing this short comment on frozen racism, the European abuse of Holocaust…
Hello dear Reza
So begins the letter sent by detainees of Manus Island detention centre to their friend, Reza Berati, killed by his jailers, the agents of…
It’s racist, and you know it is…
Following the Irish government’s plans to move asylum seekers from a detention centre at Mosney, a former Butlins style holiday camp, where they have,…
The Case for Open Borders