Australia Charting the rise in Australian inequality Despite the broad-brush painting of increasing prosperity, the Australian working class has been ripped off, while a greater share of the tremendous wealth generated in the domestic economy has been distributed to those at the top. By Editors / 7 Apr 2026
Anti-empire notes From socialist notes to anti-imperialism in the ‘Indo-Pacific’. A change in this newsletter’s orientation By Ben Hillier / 23 Oct 2025
Anti-empire notes Europe’s far-right surge; defining ‘right wing’, ‘conservative’, ‘fascist’, ‘Nazi’ By Ben Hillier / 7 Sep 2025
Anti-empire notes Cost-of-living crisis abating?; remembering NYC’s Day of Rage; Thomas Friedman is unbearable By Ben Hillier / 12 Jun 2025
Anti-empire notes History and memory Of a place I cannot entirely recall By Ben Hillier / 26 May 2025
Anti-empire notes ‘Raped and plundered’?; Einstein the socialist; US worker incomes; the bond market briefly explained All about America and economics By Ben Hillier / 27 Apr 2025
Anti-empire notes Trump’s tariffs through the prism of Marx and Bukharin The logic of imperialist confrontation By Ben Hillier / 5 Apr 2025
Anti-empire notes Adam Tooze and the liberal case for militarism; Australian strike figures By Ben Hillier / 21 Mar 2025