The Far Left in Australia since 1945 (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

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: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429945649
• Artikelnr.: 56840900

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: Australiäs 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