Liam Byrne
Biographic Data
| ID | 4212368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liam Byrne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liam |
| FAMILY NAME | Byrne |
| SIGNATURE | BYRNE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8797-2480 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Social Democracy's Muted Revival
After a long malaise, social democracy is making a muted revival. What is the place of social democracy in the political and economic order that is emerging from the Covid‐19 pandemic, and the economic crisis that has followed in its wake? Patterns have begun to emerge across the party family that are indicative of how social democracy is defining itself for the period to come. This article briefly surveys the revival of social democracy in three…
How the SPD Lost the Future
In 2019, a Der Spiegel poll asked German readers which party has the best answers to the 'questions of the future?' Just two percent nominated the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), once Germany's party of progressive change. In this article, I argue that the party's malaise has been underpinned by a loss of future-imagining. The SPD has become disoriented ideologically, and structurally dislocated from swathes of its traditional constituency,…
Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin
Visions of the future
This article is a comparative study of political temporality and the concept of the 'future' in British Labour and Australian Labor. It deepens knowledge of how Labo(u)r's political culture has been forged through debates over socialism, focusing on the socialist objectives of 1918 and 1921. As a result, it allows an appreciation of phenomena such as the rise of Jeremy Corbyn and 'Corbynism'. It is focused around a reading of the major conference…
The Electoral Poetics of James Scullin's Campaign against Alfred Deakin, 1906
In the 1906 federal election James Scullin, then an unknown grocer, challenged the sitting Prime Minister, Alfred Deakin, for his seat of Ballaarat. This article examines this important event in Scullin's under‐researched life story to consider the “electoral poetics” of electioneering in the early federation. Scullin's challenge to Deakin prefigured the defining realignment of Australian politics to come, the “Fusion” of 1909, and is indicative …
How Jeremy Corbyn brought labour back to the future
Coolies or Comrades? Labor Socialism and the Contradictions of Internationalism, 1909-22
In the first decades after Federation, Australian Labor Socialist intellectuals warned that capitalists desired to reduce Australian labour’s working conditions to the “coolie standard.” Such dire predictions replicated the derogatory and racialised discourse that defined the white Australian labour standard against that of the indentured “coolie.” Yet, alongside this, these movement intellectuals explicitly argued that white labour needed to uni…
John Curtin
Between 1909 and 1914 John Curtin was a socialist intellectual and labour activist, who formulated and propagated an important theory of anti-militarism. He became leader of the trade union opposition to conscription in 1916, drawing upon this pre-war ideological heritage to campaign against the measure. Biographies of Curtin have tended to focus on how these socialist years shaped his personal development, rather than the impact Curtin himself h…
Constructing a Socialist Community
The Victorian Socialist Party (VSP) was a vital crafter of Australian labour’s political culture in the early twentieth century. It engaged in a wide array of cultural activities, most often associated in historical literature as an attempt to create a socialist ‘community’ which operated as a replacement for mainstream religion. Here, I endeavour to demonstrate the political implications of the organisations’ cultural activities and connect them…
Powered by Politics
Three big changes are reshaping the terrain of British politics. First, people are disengaging from traditional party affiliations and concerns, embracing post-material lifestyles. As patterns of work and leisure change so do people’s interest in and capacity for political participation. Second, public expectations of public services are rising, as they become better informed consumers in service-based economies. Third, the media culture is chang…
How the SPD Lost the Future
In 2019, a Der Spiegel poll asked German readers which party has the best answers to the 'questions of the future?' Just two percent nominated the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), once Germany's party of progressive change. In this article, I argue that the party's malaise has been underpinned by a loss of future-imagining. The SPD has become disoriented ideologically, and structurally dislocated from swathes of its traditional constituency,…
How Jeremy Corbyn brought labour back to the future
Powered by Politics
Three big changes are reshaping the terrain of British politics. First, people are disengaging from traditional party affiliations and concerns, embracing post-material lifestyles. As patterns of work and leisure change so do people’s interest in and capacity for political participation. Second, public expectations of public services are rising, as they become better informed consumers in service-based economies. Third, the media culture is chang…
Constructing a Socialist Community
The Victorian Socialist Party (VSP) was a vital crafter of Australian labour’s political culture in the early twentieth century. It engaged in a wide array of cultural activities, most often associated in historical literature as an attempt to create a socialist ‘community’ which operated as a replacement for mainstream religion. Here, I endeavour to demonstrate the political implications of the organisations’ cultural activities and connect them…
John Curtin
Between 1909 and 1914 John Curtin was a socialist intellectual and labour activist, who formulated and propagated an important theory of anti-militarism. He became leader of the trade union opposition to conscription in 1916, drawing upon this pre-war ideological heritage to campaign against the measure. Biographies of Curtin have tended to focus on how these socialist years shaped his personal development, rather than the impact Curtin himself h…
Coolies or Comrades? Labor Socialism and the Contradictions of Internationalism, 1909-22
In the first decades after Federation, Australian Labor Socialist intellectuals warned that capitalists desired to reduce Australian labour’s working conditions to the “coolie standard.” Such dire predictions replicated the derogatory and racialised discourse that defined the white Australian labour standard against that of the indentured “coolie.” Yet, alongside this, these movement intellectuals explicitly argued that white labour needed to uni…
The Electoral Poetics of James Scullin's Campaign against Alfred Deakin, 1906
In the 1906 federal election James Scullin, then an unknown grocer, challenged the sitting Prime Minister, Alfred Deakin, for his seat of Ballaarat. This article examines this important event in Scullin's under‐researched life story to consider the “electoral poetics” of electioneering in the early federation. Scullin's challenge to Deakin prefigured the defining realignment of Australian politics to come, the “Fusion” of 1909, and is indicative …
How Jeremy Corbyn brought labour back to the future
Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin
Visions of the future
This article is a comparative study of political temporality and the concept of the 'future' in British Labour and Australian Labor. It deepens knowledge of how Labo(u)r's political culture has been forged through debates over socialism, focusing on the socialist objectives of 1918 and 1921. As a result, it allows an appreciation of phenomena such as the rise of Jeremy Corbyn and 'Corbynism'. It is focused around a reading of the major conference…
How the SPD Lost the Future
In 2019, a Der Spiegel poll asked German readers which party has the best answers to the 'questions of the future?' Just two percent nominated the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), once Germany's party of progressive change. In this article, I argue that the party's malaise has been underpinned by a loss of future-imagining. The SPD has become disoriented ideologically, and structurally dislocated from swathes of its traditional constituency,…
Social Democracy's Muted Revival
After a long malaise, social democracy is making a muted revival. What is the place of social democracy in the political and economic order that is emerging from the Covid‐19 pandemic, and the economic crisis that has followed in its wake? Patterns have begun to emerge across the party family that are indicative of how social democracy is defining itself for the period to come. This article briefly surveys the revival of social democracy in three…
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