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The far left in Australia since 1945 / edited by Jon Piccini, Evan Smith and Matthew Worley.
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Language
English
Published/Created
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
©2019
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xiv, 285 pages ; 25 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HN850.Z9 R34 2019
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Subject(s)
Radicalism
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Australia
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History
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20th century
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Right and left (Political science)
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Australia
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New Left
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Australia
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Australia
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Social conditions
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20th century
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Australia
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Politics and government
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1945-
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Communist Party of Australia
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Editor
Piccini, Jon
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Smith, Evan, 1981-
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Worley, Matthew
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Series
Routledge studies in radical history and politics
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Summary note
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, anarchists and others - also created parties and organisations and led movements. All of these different far left parties and movements changed and shifted during time, responding to one political crisis or another, but they remained steadfastly devoted to a better world. This collection, bringing together 14 chapters from leading and emerging figures in the Australian and international historical profession, for the first time charts some of these significant moments and interventions, revealing the Australian far left's often forgotten contribution to the nation's history.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : the history of the far left in Australia since 1945 / Jon Piccini, Evan Smith and Matthew Worley
Australian communism in crisis, 1956 / Phillip Deery
The current of Maoism in the Australian far left / Drew Cottle and Angela Keys
Breaking with Moscow : the Communist Party of Australia's new road to socialism / David McKnight
The "white Australia" policy must go : the Communist Party of Australia and immigration restriction / Jon Piccini and Evan Smith
The far left and the fight for aboriginal rights : the formation of the Council for Aboriginal Rights (CAR), 1951 / Jennifer Clark
How far left? : negotiating radicalism in Australian anti-nuclear politics in the 1960s / Kyle Harvey
1968 in Australia : the student movement and the New Left / Russell Marks
Changing consciousness, changing lifestyles : Australia's women liberation, the left and the politics of "personal solutions" / Isobelle Barrett Meyering
Black power and white solidarity : the Action Conference on Racism and Education, Brisbane 1972 / Lewis d'Avigdor
The Australian left and gay liberation, from 1945 to 2000s / Liz Ross
Beating BHP : the Wollongong jobs for women campaign 1980-1991 / Diana Covell
Halcyon days? : the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union and the accord / Elizabeth Humphrys
Reading and contesting Germaine Greer and Dennis Altman : the 1970s and beyond / Jon Piccini and Ana Stevenson
The cultural front : left cultural activism in the post-war era / Lisa Milner.
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ISBN
9781138043855 (hardcover)
1138043850 (hardcover)
9781138541580 (paperback)
1138541583 (paperback)
LCCN
2018004351
OCLC
1007058242
Other standard number
40028356619
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