Left Turn
Antony Loewenstein, Jeff Sparrow
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Political Essays for the New Left
Left Turn shows why the left should be taken seriously. The essays are passionate, relevant and radical, by voices that are dying to be heard in an increasingly barren media landscape.
The 2008 financial crisis opened the door for a bold, progressive social movement. But despite widespread revulsion at economic inequity and political opportunism, after the crash very little has changed.
Has the Left failed? What agenda should progressives pursue? And what alternatives do they dare to imagine?
Left Turn is aimed at the many Australians disillusioned with the political process. It includes passionate and challenging contributions by a diverse range of writers, thinkers and politicians, from Larissa Berendht and Christos Tsiolkas to Guy Rundle and Lee Rhiannon. These essays offer perspectives largely excluded from the mainstream. They offer possibilities for resistance and for a renewed struggle for change.
About the author
Antony Loewenstein is a Sydney-based independent journalist, author and blogger. His first book, My Israel Question (2006), was a bestseller and shortlisted for the 2007 New South Wales Premier's Literary Award. His second book, The Blogging Revolution, on the internet in repressive regimes, was released in 2008. Both titles have with MUP, Profits of Doom (August 2013).
Jeff Sparrow is the editor of Overland literary journal, and works at Victoria University. He is the co-author, with sister Jill, of Radical Melbourne: A Secret History and Radical Melbourne 2: The Enemy Within, and the author of Communism: A Love Story (shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award) and Killing: Misadventures in Violence (a finalist in the Melbourne Prize for Literature Best Writing Award 2009).
Author links
Visit Antony's website: antonyloewenstein.com
Follow Antony on Twitter: twitter.com/antloewenstein
Visit Jeff's website: jeffsparrow.net
Follow Jeff on Twitter: twitter.com/Jeff_Sparrow
