Neil Vallelly

Oct 15, 2024 | overland.org.au | Owen Bennett |Jeff Sparrow |Neil Vallelly

What role should unions and the left play when it comes to fighting unemployment and underemployment? With both the Albanese Labor government and Reserve Bank of Australia publicly advocating higher unemployment to bring down inflation, it’s a question that gets surprisingly little attention. Consider the current unemployment situation.

Oct 13, 2024 | overland.org.au | Jeff Sparrow |Neil Vallelly |Adalya Nash Hussein

If you want to understand the dismal state of Australian politics, consider the phrase “social cohesion”. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock (and, honestly, who could blame you), you’ll have heard politicians deploy the slogan repeatedly against protests in solidarity with Palestine. “It is not a time to raise the temperature,” explained Anthony Albanese.

Oct 6, 2024 | overland.org.au | Neil Vallelly |Adalya Nash Hussein |Kate Larsen

The standard refrain about Israel is that “it is the only democracy in the Middle East”. Some stand by this claim; others reject it. Many argue that Benjamin Netanyahu has been eroding democratic values in Israel over the last decade; others insist that so-called Israeli democracy is premised on the oppression and killing of Palestinians, which thus undermines the universalist principles of liberal democracy.