Category: Socialist Party of Australia
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‘The Far Left in Australia since 1945’ – forthcoming with Routledge
We are pleased to announce that our forthcoming edited volume on the history of the Australian far left in the Cold War era has been put up on the Routledge website, with a Table of Contents. Unfortunately it is not available to pre-order just yet. We hope this is rectified soon! You can check out…
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Archives of political extremism in Australia: A short guide
Recently I was emailed asking about the archives of the political extremes in Australia and what archives had I come across in my research. I sent the following reply, which I think is a concise (but obviously not complete) survey of the various collections around the country. I thought others might be interested, so enjoy!…
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ASIO and surveillance of the women’s liberation movement in Australia in the 1970s
This post is an extended version of the paper that I gave recently for the ‘How the Personal Became Political’ symposium, hosted by the ANU Gender Institute. I am posting this on International Women’s Day 2017, so enjoy! In the volume of the official history of ASIO that deals with what Greg Langley has described…
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Forthcoming volume: The Far Left in Australia since 1945
I am happy to announce that Jon Piccini, Matthew Worley and I have recently signed a contact for an edited volume tentatively titled The Far Left in Australia since 1945 as part of Routledge’s Studies in Radical History and Politics. While there is no publication date yet, here is an outline of the forthcoming book…
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CFP FOR EDITED VOLUME ON HISTORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN FAR LEFT
Evan Smith (Flinders University), Matthew Worley (University of Reading) and Jon Piccini (University of Queensland) are calling for chapter proposals for an edited volume on the Australian far left in the post-war era (1945 to the present). Expanding on our work looking at the history of the British far left, we believe that a survey…
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The Communist Party of Australia’s Post-War Internationalism
Looking through documents from the National Security Archive from Georgetown University has got me thinking about the shifting allegiances of the Communist Party of Australia in the post-war era up until the mid-1970s. As I have written in another post, the CPA came out of the Second World War as quite a militant organisation and…
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Australian left-wing history online: SPA/CPA’s Australian Marxist Review
Alongside the growing collection of British left-wing historical material now online, I was very interested to see that the (new) Communist Party of Australia has uploaded a range of back issues of their theoretical journal Australian Marxist Review onto their website, going back to 1977. This version of the CPA was until 1996, the Socialist…
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