William Briggs

• Dr William Briggs is a political economist whose special areas of interest lies in political theory. He has been, variously, a teacher, journalist, and political activist.

  He returned to full-time study in 2013, completing a MA in International Relations from Deakin University and a PhD in 2018.

  Since then he has authored three books, Classical Marxism in an Age of Capitalist Crisis (Routledge 2019), Removing the Stalin Stain (Zero Books 2020) and A Cauldron of Anxiety (Zero Books 2021). He has has just completed a new book, China, the USA and Capitalism’s Last Crusade.

  Decades later he completed a PhD that defended classical Marxist theory. He lives in Melbourne, Australia, where he is affiliated to Deakin University.

Articles written by William Briggs (39)

• 11 September 2023 | Sovereignty mocked in Ukraine 'proxy war'
• 27 August 2023 | The ALP National Conference and the march to war
• 3 August 2023 | U.S. aggression against China ignores lessons of Hiroshima
• 21 June 2023 | U.S. dashes hopes after China meeting
• 12 June 2023 | War propaganda machine silencing voices of truth
• 21 May 2023 | Quality of life in U.S. in freefall, China's rising
• 12 May 2023 | The loathsome cult of King Charles III
• 14 April 2023 | Fourth Estate or weapon of the state
• 2 April 2023 | U.S. 'coercion' and stage-managed democracy summits
• 22 March 2023 | Putin's arrest warrant an act of political hypocrisy
• 19 March 2023 | AUKUS cements U.S. interests and endangers Australia's security
• 17 March 2023 | Australian economy first casualty of AUKUS pact
• 8 March 2023 | China less of a threat to democracy than the mainstream media
• 3 March 2023 | China’s peace plan shot down by Western propaganda machine
• 24 February 2023 | ASIO boss stirs anti-China campaign with spy report
• 16 February 2023 | Defence minister determined to aid U.S. in war drive against China
• 6 February 2023 | U.S. prediction of war 'in 2025' with China imperils global security
• 31 January 2023 | Chalmers’ fantasy of making a ‘better’ capitalism is absurd
• 11 December 2022 | China and Iran protestors fighting for real democracy, not capitalist capture
• 4 January 2022 | Great power rivalry: The Cold War returns
• 17 December 2021 | Coalition pumps more money into keeping Australia 'safe'
• 4 December 2021 | All capitalism 'can do' is destroy our planet
• 21 September 2021 | China and how America lost peer competition
• 7 September 2021 | Afghanistan, ‘anarchy’ and confecting a China threat
• 26 August 2021 | Biden's Summit for Democracy an opportunity to attack China
• 13 August 2021 | China pushes for a cleaner climate
• 22 July 2021 | U.S. continues bullying tactics against Cuba
• 14 July 2021 | Academic essay used as latest weapon against China
• 17 June 2021 | The G7, NATO and the demonising of China
• 2 June 2021 | Military a winner in Biden's Budget
• 26 April 2021 | Taiwan could be the trigger for a catastrophic war
• 13 April 2021 | Not sleepwalking but marching with eyes wide open to war
• 18 January 2021 | The USA, CIA and a poor night’s sleep for the world
• 7 January 2021 | Australia, China and the weaponising of trade
• 19 December 2020 | Australia caught in the middle of a diplomatic stoush
• 18 November 2020 | Don't bet on Biden to help our relations with China
• 3 October 2020 | Mainstream media chastises China, ignoring U.S. crimes
• 29 August 2020 | Anti-China narrative hits fever pitch
• 9 August 2020 | Australia sides with U.S. in South China Sea dispute