Chris is a labour law researcher, specialising in China and the right to strike. He spent 27 years in the SA union movement. Chris now lives in Canberra. More →
The Best Hated Man in Australia The Life and Death of Percy Brookfield 1875 – 1921 by Paul Robert Adams Book review by Chris White During our tweedledum-dee election I read the biography of Percy Brookfield – a conviction left labour politician. Historian Dr Paul Robert Adams takes us through Brookfield’s exciting story – the [...]
Sick of this election with no conviction politics! I urge you to read this history of conviction Labor movement politician Percy Brookfield. The Canberra Labour History Society is organising a Canberra book launch for Paul Adams’ new book on the legendary Labor leader Percy Brookfield. Brookfield was a militant Broken Hill miner who fought the [...]
Throwing Down the Gauntlet: A Review of Michael Lebowitz’s Socialist Alternative by Douglas W. Greene Michael Lebowitz. The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2010. Pp 192; $15.95 Only about ten or fifteen years ago, leftist theory was in a sorry state. It seemed as if socialism had ceased to be [...]
Retired meatworker and non-retired working class militant, socialist and poet, Jim Sharp, has published a collection of his poems – Leftside. A book of poetry by an authentic australian working class voice Saturday 31st July 3:00pm – 5:00pm Qld Council of Unions Building 16 Peel St., South Brisbane Refreshments available (gold coin donation) Program includes: [...]
Book preview of a left labour activist and a conviction politician. The Best Hated Man in Australia The Life and Death of Percy Brookfield 1875 – 1921 by Paul Robert Adams They don’t make politicians like ‘Jack’ Brookfield anymore. From mining underground in Broken Hill he ‘rose like a meteor in public life’ to be [...]
Red Ink capital in few hands confines the humane soul. resources from the periphery feeds their insatiable centre. when we take the next step & organize the social continuum. use red ink! to paint ….. to write & to think. Jim Sharp Red Ink
The Circle of Silence: A Personal Testimony Before, During and After Balibo – by Shirley Shackleton “I wanted to slap his grinning face so badly that I sat on my right hand. I asked him to tell me what had happened at Balibó – I appealed to him as a Christian. He denied any knowledge [...]
I repost Andy Alcock’s writings on East Timor. Here is a book review. All Timor Leste reviews from Andy Alcock plus his constant letters to editors and on OHS and much more is on http://andyalcock.org/ How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor Geoffrey Robinson 2009. 340 pages. Princeton University Press. US$45.00 This is a book [...]
XANANA – Leader of the Struggle for Independent Timor-Leste by Sara Niner (Australian Scholarly Publishing) Reviewer: Andy Alcock Australia East Timor Friendship Association SA Inc As a person who has been involved in the solidarity movement for East Timor since the middle of 1975, I was very excited to learn that Sara Niner had written [...]
