Seventy years of Left activism in Australia
Far Left In Australia Since 1945, editors Jon Piccini, Evan Smith and Matthew Worley, Routledge, London and New York, 2019.
Book review by Bernie Dowling
THIS book, written for popular as well as academic readers, is officially due out next year, so I guess this is a preview rather than a review.
Copies appear to be available now from the publisher’s website.
The site does not have a graphic of the cover and I copied the one above from the national library records. The publisher could update with a different cover but I am betting on the banner of the defunct Builder’s Labourers’ Federation – now part of the CMFEU – will fly on the front of this book.
As well as constituting a preview, my musings are largely based on background material and a review of a Beta copy by Wollongong academic Rowan Cahill.
I will stop the equivocations lest I start to appear as incredible as triple-speak lawyer Rudy Giuliani defending Donald Trump.
This book does not regard the Far Left as the inverse of the deservedly maligned Far Right, Cahill tells us in his review.
