Welcome to the Surplus Value website Surplus Value is a project of The Praxis Network, a loose community of Marxian thinkers and activists from around Australia. Our initial plan is to build a viable and useful network amongst ourselves. We also trust that others may be interested in joining in this project. To carry this out, we have established this website and an email group for discussions and debate. We also publish a journal (currently annually). |
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Latest Additions to our site.
24th July 2010
Marxist-Humanist Initiative - a new US site link.
24th July 2010
Leftside - a new book of poetry by retired Brisbane meatworker Jim Sharp. A special Book launch is to be on Saturday 31st July at the TLC in Brisbane at 3:00pm
30th June 2010
Killard an article by Humphrey McQueen on Julia Gillard - charge sheet for treason against the class of her birth.
5th June 2010
Spiegel Online a link to an article on the rapid speculative price rises in iron ore - driven by multinational mining companies in Aust. and the finance empire behind them..., and of relevance to the current mining "super-profits tax" debate.
20th May 2010
Don Wilson an article on the mining superprofits tax and the need to campaign in support of it.
16th May 2010
Humphrey McQueen an 1980s article on taxes and welfare for the mining industry. Extracted from his 1981 book "Gone tomorrow"
4th April 2010
Julia Gradgrind an audio interview with Humphrey McQueen on 3CR Community Radio about the current ALP government, with accompanying poem by Jim Sharp
24th February 2010
From the Gold Standard to the Floating Dollar Standard , a recent essay based on Marx's Theory of Money.
16th January 2010
Two well known songs and the censorship which has attempted to remove thier cutting social and political content. Also a poem by Brecht in praise of communism!
5th September 09
Links to two Australian websites containing discussion of Marxism, clkass struggle and the application of Marxism to current issues
12th August 09
An update of Humphrey McQueen's critique of the ABCC and their attacks on Ark Tribe
10th August 09
An article by Michio Morishima on a "Dual theory of value and growth"
Marx's Economics
21st July
A series of ten lectures by David Harvey on reading Marx's Capital.
David Harvey - Reading Capital a
23rd June 2009
Detailed critique of the ABCC and the current Federal Government attitude to it, by Humphrey McQueen
24 March 2009
Interesting article from 1965 BLF journal illustrating an approach to working class education - see "Wage Robbery, etc"
22 March 2009
Discussion about gold as a measure of value by Peter Cochrane
16 March 2009
Start of a series of articles on Charles Darwin. Also two important chapters on how the State controls labour, and money, from a book by Suzanne de Brunhoff
4 march 2009
Discussion about seminal 1977 papers by Michael Lebowitz
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| Image above:"In a paired series of mural-like canvases, titled “Builders” and “Pastimes”, the French painter and Communist Fernand Leger (1881-1955) depicted scaffolders as acrobats and circus performers as collective workers. Here, creativity appears as work while work is represented as art, in a world where both jobs and play enrich human capacities. Leger portrayed “new-fangled” human beings, reliant on each other and hence unafraid of machinery or frameworks of steel. For a glimpse of what work should look like, consider the joy in Leger’s paintings." (John Berger, Permanent Red, Methuen , London , 1960, pp. 121-25. ) |
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