by Immanuel Wallerstein | Mar 2, 2003 | Papers
Picture: Immanuel Wallerstein with Fernand BradelIf the attack on the Twin Towers on Sept 11, 2001 can be considered to have been a political earthquake for the American people, the US is now suffering from the aftershock. The most recent and most dramatic instance of...
by Chris Masters | Feb 21, 2003 | Papers
Who killed investigative journalism?There is nothing like a murder mystery to pull a good crowd. Thank you for your support. For what it is worth, it has long been clear to me that investigative journalism is a good crowd puller. There are many ways to measure the...
by John Spoehr | Feb 14, 2003 | Papers
Crisis & reformAfter nearly half a century under public ownership and control, the electricity industry in Australia is now subject to the influence of market principles and private interests. Over the last ten years most attempts to privatise electricity assets...
by John Quiggin | Jan 29, 2003 | Papers
Repudiating the pastAs with many others on the left of Australian politics, my first encounter with Keith Windschuttle came with his book Unemployment. The book presented a fairly standard left/Marxist account of the causes and effects of unemployment. Its most...
by Greg Patmore, Rae Cooper | Jan 29, 2003 | Papers
“The critical role of active workplace organising in building the success of the Australian labour movement has become a neglected part of our history … The[ese] papers take a fresh look at the simplistic notion that Australian trade union successes have...
by Frank Stilwell | Jan 29, 2003 | Papers
Looking back on 2002The year has been dominated by international security issues – the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the war on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the Bali bombings, and the threatened war on Iraq. These international concerns have...
