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  • Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia

    by Jon Piccini ...
    Series series Human Rights in History
    This groundbreaking study understands the 'long history' of human rights in Australia from the moment of their supposed invention in the 1940s to official incorporation into the Australian government bureaucracy in the 1980s. To do so, a wide cast of individuals, institutions and publics from across the political spectrum are surveyed, who translated global ideas into local settings and made ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Far Left in Australia since 1945

    Edited by Evan Smith, Jon Piccini, Matthew Worley ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics
    The far left in Australia had significant effects on post-war politics, culture and society. The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) ended World War II with some 20,000 members, and despite the harsh and vitriolic Cold War climate of the 1950s, seeded or provided impetus for the re-emergence of other movements. Radicals subscribing to ideologies beyond the Soviet orbit – Maoists, Trotskyists, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Transnational Protest, Australia and the 1960s

    by Jon Piccini ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Australia is rarely considered to have been a part of the great political changes that swept the world in the 1960s: the struggles of the American civil rights movement, student revolts in Europe, guerrilla struggles across the Third World and demands for women’s and gay liberation. This book tells the story of how Australian activists from a diversity of movements read about, borrowed from, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Quarterly Essay 43 Bad News

    Murdoch's Australian and the Shaping of the Nation

    by Robert Manne ...
    Series Book 43 - Quarterly Essay
    This year has seen unprecedented scrutiny of Rupert Murdoch’s empire in Britain. But what about in Australia, where he owns 70 per cent of the press? In Bad News, Robert Manne investigates Murdoch’s lead political voice here, the Australian newspaper, and how it shapes debate.Since 2002, under the editorship of Chris Mitchell, the Australian has come to see itself as judge, jury and would-be ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Reds

    The Communist Party of Australia from origins to illegality

    by Stuart Macintyre ...
    The only large-scale comprehensive account of an intriguing part of Australia's past.In 1920, 26 men and women met in a dingy hall in Sydney to create a new political party. They expected the overthrow of capitalism and the emancipation of humanity - here, and all around the world.Two decades later, when Australia joined the Second World War, the Commonwealth government suppressed the Communist ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Australia’S Unthinkable Genocide

    by Colin Tatz ...
    We are a moral people and the very notion that Australians could have anything to do with genocide is unthinkableso claimed parliamentarians when Australia was asked to ratify the UNs Genocide Convention in 1949. The reality is that even decent democrats and people who consider themselves good colonists are capable of doing just thatkilling people because of who they were, forcibly removing their ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Party

    The Communist Party of Australia from heyday to reckoning

    by Stuart Macintyre ...
    The long awaited second volume in Stuart Macintyre's definitive history of the Communist Party of Australia.Communism was unlike any other political movement Australia has ever seen. At its peak in the 1940s, unions led by communists could call a strike that paralysed the nation, and communists influenced the highest level of government, and commanded the unswerving loyalty of thousands. It showed ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Bad News for Labour

    Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief

    by Greg Philo, Mike Berry, Justin Schlosberg, Antony Lerman, David Miller ...
    During the summer of 2018, numerous members of the Labour Party were accused of anti-Semitic behaviour by their detractors. The controversy reached fever pitch amid claims that the Labour Party had become 'institutionally racist' under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, and that the prospect of a Corbyn-led government posed an 'existential threat' to Jewish life in Britain. Shrouded in confusion, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We’re Going to Run This City

    Winnipeg's Political Left after the General Strike

    by Stefan Epp-Koop ...
    Stefan Epp-Koop’s We’re Going to Run This City: Winnipeg’s Political Left After the General Strike explores the dynamic political movement that came out of the largest labour protest in Canadian history and the ramifications for Winnipeg throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Few have studied the political Left at the municipal level—even though it is at this grassroots level that many people participate ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • What Did You Do in the Cold War, Daddy?

    Personal Stories from a Troubled Time

    Edited by Ann Curthoys, Joy Damousi ...
    The Cold War was a turbulent time to grow up in: family ties were tested, friendships were torn apart, and new beliefs forged out of the ruins of old loyalties. In this book, through 12 evocative stories of childhood and early adulthood in Australia during the Cold War years, writers from vastly different backgrounds explore how global political events affected the intimate space of home, family ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fate of Labour Socialism

    The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the Dream of a Working-Class Future

    by James Naylor ...
    Almost a century before the New Democratic Party rode the first “orange wave,” their predecessors imagined a movement that could rally Canadians against economic insecurity, win access to necessary services such as health care, and confront the threat of war. The party they built during the Great Depression, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), permanently transformed the country’s ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • An Immigration History of Britain

    Multicultural Racism since 1800

    by Panikos Panayi ...
    Immigration, ethnicity, multiculturalism and racism have become part of daily discourse in Britain in recent decades – yet, far from being new, these phenomena have characterised British life since the 19th century. While the numbers of immigrants increased after the Second World War, groups such as the Irish, Germans and East European Jews have been arriving, settling and impacting on British ... Read more

    $55.99 USD