Thursday, November 26, 2015 New International Bookshop, 54 Victoria St, Trades Hall 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM NIBS will host a public screening, in the book shop, of the new film 'This Changes Everything,' - the documentary inspired by the release of Naomi Klein's new book. Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five … Continue reading This Changes Everything – Film Screening @ NIBS
NIBS Underground
NIBS Underground – Jeremy Salt – Turkey in turmoil: Is Erdogan’s bubble about to burst?’
When: Thursday, October 29 at 7:00pm Where: NIBS Jeremy Salt, long time expert commentator on the Middle East, will discuss the rise of the AKP since 2011 and the increasingly authoritarian role of Erdogan in shaping his 'new Turkey' - a country radically different from the secular democratic state envisioned by the republic's founder, Mustafa Kemal ('Ataturk'). … Continue reading NIBS Underground – Jeremy Salt – Turkey in turmoil: Is Erdogan’s bubble about to burst?’
NIBS Underground – Book Talk – Decolonizing Solidarity
Clare Land, long-time supporter of Indigenous struggles, will give a talk about her new book decolonizing solidarity. When: 7pm, Tuesday 22nd September Where: New International Book Shop In this highly original and much-needed book, Clare Land interrogates the often fraught endeavours of activists from colonial backgrounds seeking to be politically supportive of Indigenous struggles. Blending … Continue reading NIBS Underground – Book Talk – Decolonizing Solidarity
NIBS Underground – Book Talk – Breaking Out: Memories of Melbourne in the 1970s
Susan Blackburn will give a talk about a new book she has edited, Breaking Out: Memories of Melbourne in the 1970s. When: 7pm Thursday 1st October Where: New International Book Shop This book celebrates Melbourne in heady times. The turbulence of 1970s Australia stretched far beyond the Whitlam era and the level of national government. … Continue reading NIBS Underground – Book Talk – Breaking Out: Memories of Melbourne in the 1970s
Film Premiere!! – Marxists Cowboys
The curious tale of the Labor Review. organ of the Labor College A Communist magazine which owed its 50 issue history to the generosity of Big Business. Not possible you say, but then you haven’t spoken to Karl Marx or a certain con-man. Based on a true story over 38 years and made in Melbourne’s … Continue reading Film Premiere!! – Marxists Cowboys
NIBS Underground – Book Launch – Fighting on all fronts: Popular Resistence in the Second World War
August is the anniversary of the end of World War 2. Official events are celebrating the victory of “democracy” and “freedom” over fascism and tyranny. But for the rulers of the Allied nations the war was never about de-mocracy or freedom. In some ways there were parallel wars: apart from the clash of imperialisms, there … Continue reading NIBS Underground – Book Launch – Fighting on all fronts: Popular Resistence in the Second World War
NIBS Underground – Book Talk – The 1% and the Rest of Us
Tim Muzio, senior lecturer in international relations and political economy at the University of Wollongong in Australia, will give a talk about his new book "The 1% and the Rest of Us". In the book Tim explores what it means to be part of a socio-economic order presided over by the super-rich and their political … Continue reading NIBS Underground – Book Talk – The 1% and the Rest of Us
NIBS Underground: Recession and Austerity in Greece: Can Syriza Solve the Crisis?
Petros Constantinou is a long-term socialist activist from Greece. As a member of the anti-capitalist coalition Antarsya, the Greek socialist organisation, SEK, and a councillor for Athens, Petros has been a part of the momentous struggle of Greek workers against austerity in the midst of capitalism’s greatest crisis since the Great Depression. Now, as the newly-elected left … Continue reading NIBS Underground: Recession and Austerity in Greece: Can Syriza Solve the Crisis?
