The Far Left in Australia since 1945

Herausgeber: Piccini, Jon; Worley, Matthew; Smith, Evan

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9781138541580
• ISBN-10: 1138541583
• Artikelnr.: 52379338

Autorenporträt

Jon Piccini, University of Queensland, Australia. Evan Smith, Flinders University, Australia. Matthew Worley, University of Reading, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The history of the far left in Australia since 1945
- Jon Piccini, Evan Smith and Matthew Worley Part 1: Organisational
Histories. 2. Australian Communism in Crisis: 1956 - Phillip Deery.
3. The Current of Maoism in the Australian Far Left - Drew Cottle and
Angela Keys. 4. Breaking with Moscow: the Communist Party of
Australia's new road to socialism - David McKnight, 5. 'The "White
Australia" policy must go': The Communist Party of Australia and
immigration restriction - Jon Piccini and Evan Smith Part 2: The
1950s and 1960s - In and out of the Cold War. 6. The Far Left and the
Fight For Aboriginal Rights: The Formation of the Council for
Aboriginal Rights (CAR), 1951 - Jennifer Clark, 7. How far left?
Negotiating radicalism in Australian anti-nuclear politics in the
1960s - Kyle Harvey, 8. "1968" in Australia: The Student Movement and
the New Left - Russell Marks Part 3: The 1960s and 1970s - The
valences of Liberation. 9. Changing Consciousness, Changing
Lifestyles: Australia's Women Liberation, the Left and the Politics
of 'Personal Solutions' - Isobelle Barrett Meyering, 10. Black Power
and White solidarity: The Action Conference on Racism and Education,
Brisbane 1972 - Lewis d'Avigdor, 11. The Australian Left and Gay
Liberation: From 1945 to 2000s - Liz Ross, 12. Beating BHP: The
Wollongong Jobs for Women Campaign 1980 - 1991 - Diana Covell Part 4:
Mainstreaming the far left. 13. Halcyon Days? The Amalgamated Metal
Workers' Union and the Accord - Elizabeth Humphrys, 14. Reading and
Contesting Germaine Greer and Dennis Altman: the 1970s and Beyond -
Jon Piccini and Ana Stevenson, 15. The Cultural Front: Left Cultural
Activism in the Post-War Era - Lisa Milner