Undesirable alien: Zuzenko and the early days of the Communist Party of Australia
Undesirable: Captain Zuzenko and the workers of Australia and the world
Kevin Windle, Australian Scholarly Press
$39.95 RRP
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Undesirable: Captain Zuzenko and the workers of Australia and the world
Kevin Windle, Australian Scholarly Press
$39.95 RRP
Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions
By Roger Burbach, Michael Fox and Federico Fuentes
Zed Books $34.95
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Directed by Mira Nair
Coming to DVD
The Company You Keep
Directed by Robert Redford
In cinemas now
Alienation: an introduction to Marx’s theory
by Dan Swain Bookmarks
“Not dead yet: Labor’s post-left future” Quarterly Essay 49
By Mark Latham, Black Inc $19.99
The Failure of Capitalist Production
By Andrew Kliman, Pluto Press $39.95
A People’s History of the Second World War
By Donny Gluckstein
Pluto Press
$35 from Solidarity
The Future of Our Schools
Lois Weiner
Haymarket Books $24
After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine
Edited by Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor
Saqi Books
The Invention of the Jewish People
By Shlomo Sand
Verso, $25
Argo, Ben Affleck’s gripping, highly entertaining and commercially successful thriller, depicts a little-known episode within the infamous 444-day hostage crisis that followed the Iranian Revolution. Without necessarily intending to be, the film is also one of the most effective pieces of US propaganda to have emerged from Hollywood in recent years.
Occupy
By Noam Chomsky
$9.95, Penguin
Occupy by Noam Chomsky is the first of the Zuccotti Park Press/Occupied Media Pamphlet Series produced by the US Occupy movement. The short book is a collection of Chomsky’s speeches made at various Occupy events and pays homage to the political significance of the movement.
Money Shot: A Journey into Porn and Censorship
By Jeff Sparrow
$29.95, Scribe
The left is tangled up in knots over the politics of pornography. Left-wing academics like Clive Hamilton are trying to fight sexist objectification by forming anti-porn alliances with pro-lifers like Melinda Tankard-Reist. In search of sexual empowerment, feminists are creating guides to encourage women to produce and consume pornography.
The Casual Vacancy
J.K Rowling
Little Brown and Company
$39.95 (Hardback)
It may not be as “socialist” as Britain’s Daily Mail thinks, but JK Rowling’s new novel lays bare the class divide in society.
Go Back To Where You Came From season two was filmed in early 2012, but the timing of its showing, two weeks after federal parliament endorsed the Pacific Solution, was perfect.
The Sapphires
Directed by Wayne Blair
In cinemas now
1835: The founding of Melbourne and the conquest of Australia
By James Boyce
$44.95, Black Inc
All That I Am
By Anna Funder
Penguin, $29.95
Dumb, Drunk and Racist
A Cordell Jigsaw Production
ABC 2, Wednesdays at 9.30pm
A Dangerous Method
Directed by David Cronenberg
Available on DVD soon
Crisis in the Eurozone
Edited by Costas Lapvitsas
Verso Books
$29.95
Why it’s kicking off everywhere: the new global revolutions
By Paul Mason
Verso Books
RRP $27.95
Revolution 2.0: The power of the people is greater than the people in power
By Wael Ghonim
Fourth Estate
RRP $29.95
Left Turn: Political Essays for the New Left
Edited by Antony Loewenstein and Jeff Sparrow
Melbourne University Publishing
$27.99
Come the Revolution: A memoir
By Alex Mitchell, NewSouth Publishing $39.95
Mad Square
Modernity in German Art 1910-1937, formerly at Melbourne NGV
The Civil wars in U.S. Labor: Birth of a New Workers’ Movement or Death Throes of the Old?
By Steve Early, Haymarket Books, $24.95
Weekend
Directed by Andrew Haigh
Out now, selected release
Review: We Built This Country
By Humphrey McQueen, Ginninderra Press, $30
Anarchist and autonomist ideas have influenced many recent movements, including Occupy. Lachlan Marshall takes a look at a new booklet that weighs up their merits.
Review: Quarterly Essay 43 “Bad News”, by Robert Manne, Black Inc, $19.95
Tony Cliff
A Marxist For His Time
Bookmarks, $30, available from Solidarity
Tamil Tigress
By Niromi de Soyza
Allen & Unwin, $32.99
Australia’s Pacific War: Challenging a National Myth
By Tom O’Lincoln, Interventions $20.00
Nagasaki: the massacre of the innocent and unknowing, by Craig Collie, Allen and Unwin, $32.99
Review: Delusions of Gender By Cordelia Fine, Allen and Unwin, $29.99
Review: All Along the Watchtower, by Michael Hyde, The Vulgar Press, $32.95.
The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould
By Richard York and Brett Clark, Monthly Review Press $16.95
From Little Things Big Things Grow
Exhibtion developed by National Museum of Australia, touring nationally see website for details
Mark Goudkamp takes a look at the SBS series Immigration Nation and its history of the White Australia policy
The Best Hated Man in Australia: The Life and Death of Percy Brookfield 1875-1921
By Paul Robert Adams, Puncher and Wattmann, $34
Review article: Power Crisis, by Rodney Cavalier, Cambridge University Press, $34.99 and
All That’s Left: What Labor Should Stand For, Edited by Nick Dyrenfurth and Tim Soutphommasane UNSW Press, $29.95
Review: The Social Network
Directed by David Fincher, in cinemas now
Review: The Pacific Solution
By Susan Metcalfe, Australian Scholarly Publishing, $24.95
Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism
By Natasha Walter
Virago, $35
Amy Thomas reviews Hannah Dee’s The Red in the Rainbow, an essential look at why fighting homophobia means fighting the system
Review: Made in Dagenham, directed by Nigel Cole
In cinemas October 28
Review: Goodbye to all that: The failure of neoliberalism and the urgency of change
Edited by David McKnight and Robert Manne, Black Inc, $32.95
Review: What’s Wrong with Anzac? The Militarisation of Australian History
Edited byMarilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds, University of New South Wales Press, $29.95
Review: Border Crimes
By Michael Grewcock, The Federation Press, $49.95
Review: The Hurt Locker
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, In cinemas now
Review: The Idea of Communism
By Tariq Ali, University of Chicago Press, $22.95
Review: Storms of my grandchildren
By James Hansen, Bloomsbury, $35
Conservative Indigenous leader Noel Pearson uses his new essay Radical Hope to argue for a neo-liberal agenda in Aboriginal education, argues Shannon Price
Review: The Politics of Suffering
By Peter Sutton, Melbourne University Press, $34.95
Review: Capitalism: A love story
Directed by Michael Moore, In cinemas now
Review: The People’s Train
By Tom Keneally, Vintage Books, $32.95
Balibo
Directed by Robert Connolly, In cinemas now
Review: Framework of Flesh
By Humphrey McQueen, Ginninderra Press, $30
Review: The frock-coated communist By Tristram Hunt
Allen Lane $59.95
Review:Climate action By Mark Diesendorf
UNSW Press, $34.95
Review: Possession
By Bain Atwood, Melbourne University Press, $54.99
Review: Bruno
Directed by Larry Charles, in cinemas now
Review: The Baader-Meinhof Complex Directed by Uli Edel
In selected cinemas now
Review: Samson and Delilah, Directed by Warwick Thornton
In selected cinemas now
Review: Wasteland
Illzilla, Out now through Shock
Review: The Reader
Directed by Stephen Daldry, In cinemas now
Review: The Combination
Directed by David Field, In cinemas now
Review: Quarterly Essay “Quarry Vision: coal, climate change and the end of the resource boom”
By Guy Pearse, Black Inc, $16.95
I was born in 1970 in small town New Zealand. I grew up in the 80s in country NSW. I was in a closet inside a closet. I came out in 1995 in Sydney. My family coped. Nearly all my friends stayed friends. I can be open at work. I owe a lot to the previous generations of sexuality and gender rights activists for making my life so easy.
We survived the Howard years, and now you want us to watch it on Monday night prime time!
Infamous Victory: Ben Chifley’s Battle For Coal
ABC1, November 6
Watch online at www.abc.net.au/tv/iview
Review: “Now or never”, Quarterly Essay 31
By Tim Flannery
Black Inc, $15.95
Review: The Land of Plenty
By Mark Davis
Melbourne University Publishing, $36.95
Review: The Henson Case
By David Marr
Text Publishing, $24.95
Review
Bookmarks, 2008, $30.00 from Solidarity
Review: Waltz With Bashir
Directed by Ari Folman, Limited cinema release
Review: The Wire
WHEN US presidential candidate Barack Obama was asked his favourite TV show and character, his answers were The Wire and Omar Little (more on him later).
Review: Australians At War: A Pictorial History
By A. K. MacDougall, The Five Mile Press, RRP $39.95, 2008 edition
Review: On Rage
By Germaine Greer, Melbourne University Press, $19.95
Directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, Now showing
By Christine Jackman, Melbourne University Press, $34.95
Review: A People’s History of the World
By Chris Harman, Palgrave Macmillan $39.95
AUSTRALIA’S ENERGY [R]evolution is a useful tool for the climate movement. Greenpeace researchers have drawn together the best science and technology to build a concrete and achievable vision of a viable transition to a low-emission society.
By Chloe Hooper, Hamish Hamilton, $32.95
CHLOE HOOPER, a novelist whose first book won international praise, recently released The Tall Man, a book on the Palm Island inquest into the death in police custody of Cameron Doomadgee.
Review: Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq
By Patrick Cockburn, Allen and Unwin $29.95
Review: A Military History of Australia
Jeffrey Grey, Cambridge University Press, RRP $39.95
Who is Australia’s fastest sprinter ever? At which Olympic Games did he win the silver medal? Why is he a hero for many US track athletes? Don’t know, don’t care? Well watch Salute and you will.
THE WIDESPREAD acclaim for The Australian journalist Paul Toohey’s Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention (Quarterly Essay 30, June 2008), demonstrates just how deeply racist attitudes to Aboriginal people are embedded in Australian politics and culture.
Review of Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders
Jason L. Riley, Penguin USA
Review of Sex and the City, directed by Michael Patrick King
Coming to DVD
IN LATE February Alex Gibney’s Taxi to the Dark Side won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Of all the articles, features, memoirs and books devoted to 1968, “The Fire Last Time: 1968 and After”, by Chris Harman, the editor of International Socialism journal, is still, by some distance, the best.
ONE HUNDRED years ago the United States was the biggest oil producer in the world. California alone accounted for 22 per cent of global output.