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The far left in Australia since 1945 / edited by Jon Piccini, Evan Smith & Matthew Worley.

The far left in Australia since 1945 / edited by Jon Piccini, Evan Smith & Matthew Worley.
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ISBN 9781138541580 (paperback)
9781138043855 (hardback)
Title The far left in Australia since 1945 / edited by Jon Piccini, Evan Smith & Matthew Worley.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
©2019.
Description xiv, 285 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Routledge studies in radical history and politics
Bibliography 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.
Summary 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.
Subjects Communist Party of Australia
Radicalism -- Australia -- History
Right and left (Political science) -- Australia
New Left -- Australia
Australia -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Australia -- Politics and government
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Piccini, Jon (editor.)
Smith, Evan, 1981- (editor.)
Worley, Matthew (editor.)
Series Routledge studies in radical history and politics
Call number 2019.469
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