AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF LABOUR HISTORY (MELBOURNE BRANCH)
Via Carmel Shute: There is a lot happening! BOOK: This collection of biographies of 100 Australian communists celebrates the foundation of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) a century ago. Watch
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A new anthology of American hobo writing edited by Melbourne historian Iain McIntyre will be launched on Sunday November 11th from 3pm to 6pm at the Old Bar (74-76 Johnston
Continue readingBOOK LAUNCH: ON THE FLY! HOBO LITERATURE AND SONGS, 1879–1941
South of the border, Queensland may be better known for the reactionary Joh Bjelke-Petersen regime of the 1970s and 1980s, and more recently as the centre of Pauline Hanson’s racist
NO WAY BUT THIS: IN SEARCH OF PAUL ROBESON by Jeff Sparrow To be launched by TONY BIRCH Venue BELLA UNION Cnr Victoria St & Lygon St Carlton Date THURSDAY
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a special issue of Labour History (no. 106, May 2014) The May 2014 issue explores how workers, unionists and Labor politicians engaged with the meaning and legacy of the Great
Thursday, 14th August, 2014 at 8.00 pm Jewish Museum of Australia, 26 Alma Road, St Kilda. The Australian Jewish Historical Society invites you to a panel forum and launch of
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Launch of Red Apple: & Silvertown – 5.30 for 6.00pm, Wednesday 5 March, 2014 – Victoria University Bar, Building M at the VU Footscray Park campus on Ballarat Road, Footscray
Saturday, 23 November 2013 Longtime socialist, former tram conductor, 3CR City Limits co-presenter, and now labor historian Douglas Jordan has written a pioneering study of how the Communist Party of
Paul Strangio’s new book Neither Power Nor Glory: 100 Years of Political Labor in Victoria, 1856-1956 (Melbourne University Press, 2012) is being launched on Thursday 7 June by the Hon
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