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254 Autumn 2024

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Overland 254 is the first in a set of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. This issue also launches a new design and format by Common Room Editions, inspired by Overland’s trove of radical literature spanning from 1954 to today. Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange consider the asymmetrical responses to two events: the wearing of keffiyehs by three cast members during the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Anton Chekov’s The Seagull, and, on the same day in the US, the shooting of three Palestinian men wearing keffiyehs. Jeff Sparrow uncovers the Sydney Herald’s legacy of Terra Nullius, and Daniel Lopez writes on Marx, Meredith and the festival as an inversion of modern life.

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Daniel Lopez

Daniel Lopez is a recovering Hegelian, a philosophy lecturer (casual) and a Commissioning Editor for Jacobin magazine. He is the author of Lukács: Praxis and the Absolute (Haymarket, 2020). When untroubled by the demands of modern life, Daniel enjoys poetry and fishing.Astrid Lorange is a writer and teacher who lives on Wangal land. She is one half of Snack Syndicate, an editor at Rosa Press, and Senior Lecturer in the School of Art and Design at UNSW. Her most recent poetry collection is Raw Materials (Atelos Press).

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Published in Overland Issue 254 Autumn 2024 · Teaser

Meredith and Mental Life

Daniel Lopez

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8 December 20229 December 2022 · Politics

Socialist politics after the elections in Victoria

Daniel Lopez

Speculative strategy aside, the most satisfying thing about the Victorian Socialists result is that it proves there’s a mass audience for an explicitly socialist project. It’s not just that socialism is electorally viable. It’s more than that. Now, VS has made it possible to articulate a socialist answer to the systemic problems that are degrading our lives. And, if we place our bets wisely, we can back it up with numbers, both in and out of parliament.

11 August 202222 August 2022 · The university

My day at Fair Work

Daniel Lopez

I’m not saying wage theft cases are a waste of time—they aren’t. I don’t know what kind of payout I’ll receive, but something’s better than nothing. In a few cases I’ve heard of, back payments for marking have come to as much as ten thousand dollars. And the avalanche of wage theft cases have shone a spotlight on the abusive employment practices that have the become standard practice at universities.

14 December 202124 February 2022 · Politics

Anti-vaxxers and the far right

Daniel Lopez

Presuming the anti-vax movement doesn’t peter out, the only organisations with the social weight to counter it are the trade unions. This isn’t to disparage the important work being done by groups like the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism, which can build a longer-term movement. Rather, it is to say that a union rally with thousands of nurses, cleaners, teachers, retail workers, hospitality workers—and, yes, construction workers—could deny the anti-vax movement its populist mantle overnight.

5 September 202130 September 2021 · Coronavirus

Why the Left must continue to support elimination

Daniel Lopez

By denying adequate income support during the current lockdowns, Morrison is gambling that desperation will eventually undermine restrictions and pressure state governments into lifting them early. The result will be what the Liberals always wanted: endemic Covid-19 and the normalisation of thousands of deaths. Those on the Left who fight against this scenario are entirely correct to do so. Those few who have opposed restrictions and lockdowns on this or that spurious grounds have lined up on the wrong side.

19 May 202018 June 2020 · Politics

Corbyn, Sanders and the Australian left

Daniel Lopez

Encouraged by Sanders and Corbyn and spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and the greatest depression in a generation, the Australian left has started to take its first, faltering steps towards a Sanders-Corbyn style of socialism. There is a potential that socialists may, at last, return to serious politics.

15 March 20195 April 2019 · Climate change

AOC’s Green New Deal is the socialist solution the world needs

Daniel Lopez

It isn’t hard to imagine an Australian Green New Deal, or how it might help us transform moral force into political power. If it seems a long way off, consider this: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t much older than the students who are striking today.