Abstract: In August and September 1933, agitation by the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) led trade unions and unemployed workers’ organisations to join a national campaign for Aboriginal rights for the first time in history. Police in the Northern Territory were publicly planning a “punitive expedition” to kill Yolngu people, in response to the spearing […]

Abstract: This article discusses the concept of settler colonialism in the United States and Israel. The author shares their personal experiences and perspectives on the issue, highlighting the displacement and mistreatment of Indigenous peoples in North America and Palestinians in Israel. Settler colonialism is described as a process in which settlers establish new political orders […]

Excerpt: In 1847, John O. Meusebach was seeking to set up a peace treaty with the Native American tribe, the Penateka Comanches. Meusebach’s negotiation of a peace treaty with them was crucial to the success of the German settlement project in Texas, spearheaded by the Mainzer Adelsverein for which Meusebach served as a commissioner-general. Ultimately, […]

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Abstract: This article explores the involvement of the Australian railways in the forcible removal of Aboriginal children. Focusing on the visions and voices of Aboriginal peoples who were taken away from their families by train, the article considers how railways were used in the attempted assimilation of First Nations peoples into White society. The last […]

Excerpt: Access to land and property ownership has been racialized since the inception of the US settler colonial state, with the relocation, resettlement, and genocide of Indigenous peoples through the dispossession of their traditional homelands serving as a key origin point. Today, Alaska Natives are facing a similar process, having lost around 80% of their […]

Description: The trope of humans being ‘replaced’ by ‘AI’ is one of the most familiar examples of the rhetoric of replaceability. Not only have questions about what is unique and what is replaceable gained momentum in digital culture, but notions of ‘fungibility’ have emerged in many other contexts as well such as ecology, management theory, […]

Excerpt: During 2020, the resurgent global Black Lives Matter movement demanded a new reckoning with violent, racist, colonial histories. Across the United States and the United Kingdom statues of white colonizers and slave traders were pulled down as protestors insisted that these men—and these histories—should no longer be celebrated. Far from the United States and […]

Abstract: The ‘white replacement’ (sometimes called ‘white genocide’) conspiracy theory has become a key element of contemporary far-right racist ideology. The white supremacist terrorist who committed mass murder at two Christchurch mosques in March 2019 brought his Islamophobia with him from Australia to New Zealand. His online ‘manifesto’, posted just prior to the massacre, was […]