Childe Unbound
By Rowan Cahill What follows is in part a review, but also a commentary, and it benefits from the perspective of an insider. As Terry Irving notes in his Acknowledgements
WHAT CAN BE DONE? A RUMINATION*
By Rowan Cahill The report that God is on the side of the Big Battalions is propaganda put out by the Big Battalion commanders. They hope thereby to spread alarm
EDITING MATTERS, 1969-73
By Rowan Cahill From 1969 to 1973, I was a member of the Editorial Board, later Editorial Collective, of Australian Left Review (ALR), the Marxist journal of cultural and political
YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW
By Rowan Cahill* A review of Michael Quinlan, The Origins of Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1788-1850 (Routledge: NY and Oxon, 2018). In the tradition of E. P. Thompson, redolent of
VINTAGE RED
by Rowan Cahill There is a vast amount of material, published and otherwise, relating to the history of the Communist Party of Australia/CPA (1920-1991). Examination of the footnotes to Stuart
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by Rowan Cahill Back in the 1980s, the autodidact bookseller Bob Gould pressed a book into my hands, as was his way whenever I visited the Aladdin’s Cave rabbit warrens
North on Cusack
By Rowan Cahill When Yarn Spinners was initially published in 2001 by University of Queensland Press, it was lengthily titled Yarn Spinners. A Story in Letters: Dymphna Cusack, Florence James,
A SHELF OF REDS by Rowan Cahill and Terry Irving
A selection of some of the books by Australian radical historians that have meant a lot to us as scholars and activists writing and exploring radical history for ten years together,
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Linebaugh: metaphors, rebellion, and socialist dreaming
By Rowan Cahill A discussion of Peter Linebaugh, The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day (Oakland: PM Press, 2016). Writing in 1896, not long before his death,
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Radical History: Thinking, Writing and Engagement
By Terry Irving and Rowan Cahill Kicking away the props In recent years, in various places and on our blog “Radical Sydney/Radical History”, we have written about radical history.
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