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		<title>Winning working class voters (in the US)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How can the US Democrats win working class voters? Political scientist Nicholas Jacobs tackles this question in a detailed and thought-provoking article on The Conversation. Here&#8217;s a big clue: In 1958, working-class voters and Democrats were within 5 points of each other on whether government wastes a lot of tax money. By 2024 that gap [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The answer to the rise of the far-right and One Nation in Australia?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The rise of far-right parties like One Nation in Australia is the direct result of decades of soaring inequality and neoliberal capitalism. Unfortunately, the way progressives typically respond has failed time and time again. For decades, the working class and petit bourgeoise have been immiserated by neoliberal policies. Secure jobs have been replaced by precarious [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m reading (May 2026)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Stories and links that are of interest or relevance to leaders, strategists, campaigners and organisers. Inequality and the economy Global affairs Unions Workers&#8217; rights Data, tech and privacy AI and the future of work Campaigning, communications and social media Society, media, news and culture Climate Change]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>What if &#8220;building more&#8221; won&#8217;t solve the housing crisis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 04:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why is buying a home or renting in Australia so difficult? If you read the mainstream news and commentators, the answer to the housing crisis is that we need to build more houses and we need to remove regulations stopping developers from building more. The truth however is that over decades the banks, developers and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Smugness, clicktivism and campaigning for hearts and minds</title>
		<link>https://alexwhite.org/2026/05/smugness-clicktivism-and-campaigning/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex White]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the past twenty years of my professional life as a campaigner, progressive campaigning has suffered from a serious, self-inflicted delusion. The misguided, condescending Enlightenment belief that if we simply present voters with enough facts, logic, and policy data, they will rationally reject the far-right. This deluded, &#8220;rational&#8221; obsession has utterly failed to stem the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why does Australia give away its gas for free?</title>
		<link>https://alexwhite.org/2026/05/why-does-australia-give-away-its-gas-for-free/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex White]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 22:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everyday Australians currently pay more tax on their beer and student loans than multinational gas cartels pay on the gas they extract from our shores. Australia is the world&#8217;s quarry. Our historic role in geopolitics and the global economy is to dig up our finite natural wealth to provide cheap fossil fuels to power cheap [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Democracy beyond the market</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex White]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 19:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Australian democracy is almost entirely trapped by the corporate power of foreign mining companies, supermarket duopoly, the big banks, US defence interests and global financial elites. Voting every three years does little to challenge the corporate power of this billionaire class. To genuinely break free, we need a radical democracy &#8212; more direct democracy by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How finance hurts workers and strangles the economy</title>
		<link>https://alexwhite.org/2026/05/how-finance-hurts-workers-and-strangles-the-economy/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex White]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you read the AFR, FT or Wallstreet Journal, you would easily believe that a massive, highly profitable financial sector is essential to a nation&#8217;s economy and prosperity. We are told that the finance sector creates economic growth and enables innovation. But what if the opposite is true? What if having a massive banking and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;m reading (April 2026)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex White]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Trump personifies the crisis of US neoliberalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everyone thinks Donald Trump is an anomaly. He is not. He personifies the contradictions and predation of the dying American empire and collapse of the neoliberal global order. For Australia, clinging to this venal, corrupt warmonger puts our security and national wellbeing at significant risk. As the Antonio Gramsci famously said, the old world is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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