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melindacooper.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hurrah! we have beaten profit push inflation by making people unemployed and pushing down wages
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"Notes from the Sex Worker Left" by @drheatherberg.bsky.social highlights the unruly thinkers who are at the vanguard of radical theorizing on family, work, the state, and community care, drawing on interviews with sex workers and their writings. Check out the intro for free: buff.ly/fKIQIDz
Cover of Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory by Heather Berg. The cover features a watercolor painting of three individuals holding their faces close together with eyes closed. The central figure’s mouth is open showing teeth and bright red lips. The painting uses a navy blue for linework and shading. The title is written in the same blue in an all caps serif font in the bottom right. The subtitle is below in a fleshy pink. the author’s name is to the left in black.
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melindacooper.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
exciting new book by Alison Tait! The House that Family Money Built
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Soziopolis @soziopolis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
„Gezeigt wird, wie hinter der heimeligen Fassade des Familienunternehmertums eine autokratische Restrukturierung der großen Kapitalgesellschaften stattfindet, die die Demokratie bedroht.“ – Christoph Deutschmann über „Oben rechts“, hg. von Heinrich Geiselberger. www.soziopolis.de/das-system-a...
Das System aufkaufen. Rezension zu „Oben rechts. Rechtspopulismus als Klassenprojekt“ von Heinrich Geiselberger (Hg.)
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
How does assetization and assetmanagement inform social conflict? Join us for an online launch event for our NPE special issue "Asset Struggles" on Sept 17th 2PM (German time), featuring: @melindacooper.bsky.social, @jenmcarthur.bsky.social, @benbraun.eurosky.social ⬇️ Signup in post below ⬇️
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Kriti Kapila @kritikapila.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
**Free to download for 30 days•• My paper on the cultivation of inattention towards killing at scale, or why we stopped protesting against dowry deaths and why female foeticide never became a political concern. read.dukeupress.edu/public-cultu...
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Infrastructures of Inattention and Necropolitical Kinship: Ritual, Capital, and the Time of the Law in India
Abstract. This article investigates the relationship between attention and large‐scale killing that takes place away from warzones and battlefields. Structural femicide in India in the form of dowry d...
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melindacooper.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If you missed this in Sydney, Mark Gawne and Nick Southall are launching their book Crimes of Class at Boorkunner in Fyshwick this Saturday
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melindacooper.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If you missed this in Sydney, Mark Gawne and Nick Southall are launching their book Crimes of Class at Boorkunner in Fyshwick this Saturday
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melindacooper.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I wrote a piece on "Schumpeter as Untimely Prophet" of founder controlled capitalism in the NEW ISSUE of the Philosopher "Towards a Critical Theory of Finance" edited by Paul North thephilosopher1923.substack.com/p/new-issue-...
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NEW ISSUE LAUNCH! "Towards a Critical Theory of Finance"
There is still no field dedicated to theorising the ill effects of the newly upside-down world.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We can help to insulate the American people from the cost of the collapse of the AI bubble by changing bankruptcy laws so as not to protect private equity from their failures deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-simple...
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The Simple Way to Stop the Hidden AI Bailout: Rewrite Bankruptcy Law
It's still capitalism with less PE friendly bankruptcy laws
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melindacooper.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I signed this after watching Four Corners last night. Please sign too: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fa...
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Legislate NSW Labour Hire Licensing
This is not about the businesses who are trying to do the right thing. It’s about making the playing field level so that good businesses aren’t being undercut by bad faith actors operating in these sp...
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💜 phonakins 🍉🌲 @phonakins.com · 28/07/2026
"The answer is that immigration has always been a distraction from the real story. Over the past three decades, governments transformed housing from a place to live into a financial asset. They relied on the private market to solve a problem it had strong incentives to make worse"
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House prices are cooling, exposing a stubborn political narrative for what it is
After years of seemingly unstoppable growth, house prices have begun to moderate. For aspiring home buyers, that will come as welcome relief. But it should also prompt journalists to ask whether they ...
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mark g @furiousaffects.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
And Liz and Melinda said very nice things about it which is lovely.
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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
ICYMI: "The Philosopher and the News: The Philosophy Behind Palantir" Moira Weigel and Anthony Burton in conversation with Alexis Papazoglou on Silicon Valley Ethos, the Frankfurt School, and fascism. Please like and share on our channel! #Philosophy www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gCC...
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The Philosophy Behind Palantir: Moira Weigel and Anthony Burton w/ Alexis Papazoglou
YouTube video by The Philosopher
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melindacooper.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The War of Capital prospect.org/2026/06/26/w...
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The War of Capital - The American Prospect
Asset managers, private investment firms, and institutional investors like pension funds have divergent interests, though as the SpaceX IPO reveals, the money power acts in concert.
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Annie McClanahan's Beyond the Wage is available from Zone Books/ @princetonupress.bsky.social . press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Beneath the Wage
Beneath the Wage retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Read @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social 's review of @anniemcc.bsky.social 's Beneath the Wage ( Zone Books , @princetonupress.bsky.social ). Brouilette highlights the book's focus on the new terrains of antagonism and solidarity afforded by service labor. spectrejournal.com/service-with...
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Service with a Scowl – Spectre Journal
Sarah Brouillette reviews Annie McClanahan's Beneath the Wage.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Longtime Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is often thought of as a free-market dogmatist. In reality, he was something far worse: an ideologically flexible but devoted servant of the powerful and a leading organizer of the war on US workers.
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Alan Greenspan Was a Faithful Servant of the Ruling Class
Longtime Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is often thought of as a free-market dogmatist. In reality, he was something far worse: an ideologically flexible but devoted servant of the powerful and a leading organizer of the war on US workers.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
In New Political Economy, @melindacooper.bsky.social offers a historical typology of factions of asset-based capitalism.
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Factions of asset-based capitalism: a historical typology
Recent US election cycles have revealed a startling bifurcation in the political allegiances of finance capitalism. The current configuration of alliances places one faction of finance capital, con...
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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Coming up: Mon. June 15 ~ 10am ET / 3pm UK LAUNCH EVENT for our new issue: "Towards a Critical Theory of Finance" Melinda Cooper, Radhika Desai, and Stefan Eich with Paul North Finance turned Marx upside-down; we need new theories to understand this. www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/towar...
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Launch event for our new issue: Towards a Critical Theory of Finance
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Just saw that the first piece from our special issue is already out: Factions of asset-based capitalism: a historical typology, by @melindacooper.bsky.social See here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Will write a thread on the SI and each of the papers once they're all out!
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IfS Frankfurt @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
+++Save the Date+++ Melinda Cooper – Anachronism in Our Times Adorno-Vorlesungen 2026 18–20 November 2026, 6.30–8 pm Nov. 18: Patrimonial Capitalism Nov. 19: Fascism as Revolutionary Conservatism Nov. 20: Patriarchy Resurgent @goetheuni.bsky.social @suhrkamp.de @melindacooper.bsky.social
Plakat der Adorno-Vorlesungen in orange-weiß mit den Infos wie im Post.
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melindacooper.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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What Happened at Harvester? – Spectre Journal
Using International Harvester's McCormick works as a lens, Robin Peterson chronicles over a century of class struggle in the United States.
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melindacooper.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Seminar on Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism (2026) and Slobodian’s Hayek’s Bastards (2025). June 2 at 9am (Sydney time). Discussion by Henry Maher, Melinda Cooper and Brendon O’Connor; followed by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff. Zoom link: uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85780579138
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🇰🇮 🇸🇲 🇱🇨 @tgrdebate.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Ein sehr interessantes Interview mit @theobourgeron.bsky.social (ALT-FINANCE). Ganz ähnliche Überlegungen wie in OBEN RECHTS @lhaffert.bsky.social @tbiebricher.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social @moiraweigel.bsky.social www.tni.org/en/article/f...
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🇰🇮 🇸🇲 🇱🇨 @tgrdebate.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
In der @woz.ch bespricht heute auch @raulzelik.bsky.social den Band OBEN RECHTS @suhrkamp.de @lhaffert.bsky.social @tbiebricher.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social @moiraweigel.bsky.social www.woz.ch/2620/sachbuc...
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Sachbuch: Polarisierung nach Gutsherrenart
Ein neues Buch nimmt das rechtspopulistische Unternehmertum ins Visier – und hinterfragt gängige Deutungen der autoritären Wende.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
By my quick in the lockup calculation- the cut to the NDIS was roughly 10% in real terms. Absolutely brutal.
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melindacooper.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Building a Bridge to Bolsonarism: Construction Entrepreneurs and the Shaping of the Consolidation State in Brazil Hugo Fanton Ribeiro da Silva doi.org/10.1177/0094...
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Building a Bridge to Bolsonarism: Construction Entrepreneurs and the Shaping of the Consolidation State in Brazil - Hugo Fanton Ribeiro da Silva, 2026
This article analyzes the changes in the political stances adopted by businesses in Brazil’s construction industry and housing sector during the 2010s. It pays ...
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Diagram[me]s @diagrammes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
DOSSIER [Eng] This week, download the PDF dossier accompanying our interview with Melinda Cooper @melindacooper.bsky.social, a Professor in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.
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A.J.A. Woods @ajawoods.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
You can now buy signed copies of “The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy” from the @resident-music.com in Brighton, England if you order online! www.resident-music.com/product/wood...
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The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West by A.J.A. Woods - Resident Music
"Cultural Marxism" is one of the far right's favorite buzzwords. But despite its currency, the meaning and origins of the term are rarely investigated. This book uncovers the bizarre story of the cult...
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🇰🇮 🇸🇲 🇱🇨 @tgrdebate.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Einen etwas längeren Auszug aus ihrem Beitrag gibt es derzeit als nachträglichen Vorabdruck im Neuen Deutschland: www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1199...
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Familienkapitalismus gegen »woke Konzerne«
Hinter der Rechten stehen nicht Arbeiter, sondern ein »Familienunternehmertum«, das nach patriarchaler Wirtschaftsmacht strebt.
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Economics can either enable the slide toward fascism, or defend affordability, dignity, and democracy. I wrote ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with my baby by my side—a constant reminder that the future should be livable for all. Out in October with Random House.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
detailed account of racist NSW police violence against people who comprehend that it is wrong to be feting the Israeli president as Israelis incinerate people across the region they occupy - and what you can do >> www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-pol...
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NSW Police Are Raiding, Arresting and Charging the Herzog Protesters They Assaulted
Police are raiding the homes of the protesters they attacked during the demonstration against the genocidal Israeli president, arresting and charging them with criminal offences
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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 29/03/2026
University council stacked with consultants: ‘I believe that there's an intended infiltration of our governing boards by consultancy firms. It's all the mates looking after each other and seeing these consultancy costs balloon right across the…sector’ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
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'Shockingly high': Unis spend $1.8b on consultants and contractors
Consultancies have been accused of infiltrating universities and wasting scarce public funds on questionable advice about cutting courses and jobs.
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Movies from HELL @26mfhpod.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
john waters at a No Kings rally in Provincetown (not my pic, Peter Toto, x)
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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This has been a LONG time in works: my paper on how dollar hegemony is a form of international law-making power. It includes a long methodological/theoretical section on why strong versions of the 'law constitutes political economy' aren't convincing papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Dollar Hegemony as International Law-making Power
The so-called weaponisation of the dollar as part of the escalating geopolitical competition has drawn attention to dollar hegemony within the fields of interna
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💜 phonakins 🍉🌲 @phonakins.com · 23/03/2026
Last Thursday I was anxiously watching the petrol prices go up in Morisset as I was preparing to take my stepson to his Employment Plus appointment - that they cancelled just before we were about to leave.
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Rishworth must stop Centrelink penalties in face of fuel crisis
People in poverty cannot afford to pay even higher prices for their own punishment
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Diagram[me]s @diagrammes.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
REVOLUTIONARY CONSERVATISM. Our conversation with Melinda Cooper @melindacooper.bsky.social, professor in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University is now available in podcast on your favourite platforms.
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Join Equator next week for an online conversation between Quinn Slobodian and Melinda Cooper about her essay on the Epstein Files and the psychology of billionaire patriarchs. Free — 7pm Thursday night Eastern Time / 11am Friday morning Canberra Time: www.eventbrite.com/e/epstein-fa...
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Epstein Family Values
Melinda Cooper and Quinn Slobodian discuss the depredations of Jeffrey Epstein, America's billionaire patriarchs, and the far right
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Rosa Press @rosa-collective.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
& friend of Rosa, Liz Humphrys says: "Essential reading for scholars, activists and the outraged, and for those who want to think more deeply about the chasm between legal notions of right and wrong and whose interests they serve."
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Rosa Press @rosa-collective.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
"...Gawne and Southall have an uncanny ability to connect the dots between personal and regional histories from below and capitalist backlash on a global scale. This book will become a classic of the Australian left."
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Rosa Press @rosa-collective.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
friend of Rosa, @melindacooper.bsky.social says this about Crimes of Class: "...a truly moving work of political memoir and a profound reflection on the relationship between capitalism, crime and resistance..." (con'td)
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Rosa Press @rosa-collective.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Rosa Press is very excited to announce that we will be publishing Crimes of Class by @furiousaffects.bsky.social and Nick Southall in March. A Sydney launch is planned for 3–6pm, Saturday March 28 at Frontyard Projects in Marrickville.
Book Launch: Crims of Class. Mark Gawne & Nick Southall, published by Rosa Press. Saturday March 28, 3–6pm Frontyard Projects, 228 Illawarra Road, Marrickville. The flyer is typeset using the book's cover typeface and is on a background of pale blue, echoing the cover stock.
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
What does Epstein’s household economy reveal about the billionaire far-right? Melinda Cooper traces the disturbing logic connecting primal patriarchy, transhumanism, and the rule of masters over servants. www.equator.org/articles/eps...
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Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR
The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants
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🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉 @chrishehim.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 29/01/2026
Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined
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Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined
Exclusive: Acoss report shows property investors received $12.3bn in tax concessions in 2025, while the share of social housing dropped to a record low * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia spends billions of dollars more on tax breaks for property investors than on social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined, according to research by the Australian Council of Social Service (Acoss). The analysis comes as new data from the Productivity Commission reveals the share of homes dedicated to social housing has dropped to a record low 3.6%, from 5.7% in the 1990s. Continue reading...
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melindacooper.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Yes!!
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IfS Frankfurt @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Materialist Feminist Analyses of Fascist Capitalism International Workshop Friday, 13 February 2026 Renate von Metzler-Saal (Cas. 1.801), Goethe-University Frankfurt With Melinda Cooper, Penelope Deutscher, Clara Mattei, Vanessa E. Thompson, Vanessa Wills Please register by February 6!
Flyer mit allen Infos aus dem Post.
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💜 phonakins 🍉🌲 @phonakins.com · 03/01/2026
Union calls for end to tax breaks that make Australian housing ‘a vehicle for hoarding wealth’ The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) wants the capital gains discount phased out for investment properties and negative gearing effectively abolished. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Union calls for end to tax breaks that make Australian housing ‘a vehicle for hoarding wealth’
Manufacturing workers union wants capital gains tax discount to be reduced and then phased out and an effective end to negative gearing
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