By Mark Bahnisch on December 29, 2008
Probably one of the most laudable steps taken by the Rudd government has been the attention given by Senator John Faulkner as Special Minister of State to cleaning up the electoral system. Admittedly, this isn’t one of the funky and [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on September 1, 2008
mute a generation by ~funkadelic on deviantART Image courtesy of Funkadelic at deviantart. Click through and click on full view for a higher res version. Regular LP readers might recall that I’ve been emphasising for some time now research evidence [...]
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All politics is local, but power is global
By Kim on October 30, 2008
The Guardian’s Comment is Free website and Soundings magazine are organising a series of debates on the theme of After New Labour: Who owns the progressive future?. Some of the contributions are making it online. After excoriating the “Third Way” [...]
Posted in Activism, Feminism, International, Politics, Sociology | Tagged civil society, Comment is Free, Feminism, globalisation, international politics, left, New Labour, ngos, political sociology, power, social democracy, social movements, socialism, Sociology, Soundings, Third Way, Who owns the progressive future, Zygmunt Bauman | 21 Responses