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Into the Mainstream: The Decline of Australian Communism - Couverture souple

O'Lincoln, Tom

 
9780648641650: Into the Mainstream: The Decline of Australian Communism
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0648641651 ISBN 13 : 9780648641650
Editeur : Interventions Inc, 2025

Synopsis

How are the mighty fallen. At the end of World War II, the Communist Party was a major force in Australian working class life. Yet by the 1980s it had diminished to a demoralised rump. And today it's only a memory. Did the party deserve this fate? Its courage and hard work brought together thousands of working class fighters. It led them in important struggles. But then it inflicted on them the bitterest of disappointments. Into the Mainstream traces the party's decline from an influential movement, plagued by its bureaucratic Stalinist politics, to a shrinking organisation trying desperately to re-invent itself as a radical force, but finally drifting into the political mainstream. The story is set against such historic events as the Cold War, the Sino-Soviet split, and the social radicalisation of the late sixties. It offers lessons for revolutionary activists today.

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À propos de l'auteur

Tom O'Lincoln (1947-2023) joined the radical student movement in Germany in 1967 and was subsequently a socialist organiser, unionist, linguist, educator and journalist. As an activist, Tom was a leading figure in the establishment and growth of the International Socialist political tendency in Australia. As a writer, Tom's work spanned several decades of commentary and analysis of government and working class politics. In longer publications, Tom's work covered political economy, Australian history and Marxist theory. His works include Into the Mainstream: The Decline of Australian Communism, Australia's Pacific War: Challenging a National Myth, The neighbour from hell: two centuries of Australian imperialism, and Years of Rage: Social Conflicts in the Fraser Era. His political memoirs, The Highway is for Gamblers, were published in 2017. Tom died in October 2023.

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Éditeur
Interventions Inc
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0648641651
ISBN 13 
9780648641650
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
3
Nombre de pages
298
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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