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Being left wing in Australia

Paradigm Shift 4zzz fm 102.1 Fridays at Noon APRIL 3, 2020
We speak with Geoff Robinson, author of the book “Being Left Wing in Australia: Identity, Culture and Politics after Socialism“.

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  • Kissinger on China
  • Sea Denial
  • Australian Foreign Policy Informed By The Spooks
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Acknowledgements

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A Short History of the Australian Indigenous Resistance 1950 – 1990 by Garey Foley

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  • Covid-19: doctors, lawyers, politicians and billionaires
  • International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
  • From Australia to Cuba with love
  • Vale Stuart MacIntyre
  • Covid confusion – view from a wooden chair
  • The Proletarian
  • Coal, Uranium – minerals of menace
  • Anti-Vaxers, Racists and Fascists
  • Australia’s long march into Asia
  • Album Launch: The Heart and the Fight
  • Refugee Solidarity revisited
  • East Timor Burning 1975 – 1991
  • East Timor: remember the Santa Cruz Martyrs
  • Israeli ‘Big Brother’ in Palestine
  • Gary Foley wins Jerusalem peace prize
  • Eureka!
  • Leaky Subs
  • Australian government’s shameless wages fraud
  • Podcaster’s book launch at Avid Reader
  • Adani set to destroy cultural heritage
  • Fight for climate justice
  • Israel forced to pay Free Gaza flotilla compensation
  • Assange: the right to know
  • Save UQ Union endorses Duffield for UQ Senate
  • I’d draw the Earth
  • Palestinians are NOT terrorist, Israel IS guilty of war crimes
  • Cuba’s Energy Revolution
  • Climate Change Conference of the People – a photo essay

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    • “The Sydney Connection” by John Jiggens
    • “VUELO LAN CHILE” by Marcial Parada
    • “Vuelo Lan Chile” by Marcial Parada
    • "Liberating Pine Gap" by Jim Dowling (ed.)
    • 4PR – Voice of the People
    • Dawn to Dusk by Ernie Lane
    • Gone Tomorrow – Australia in the 80s
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    • The Wretched of the Earth
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    • You say you want a revolution
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    • Detour by Edgar G Ulmer
    • Detroit 1967
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    • I am not your negro
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    • Lox Pics
    • Paisà (Paisan) by Roberto Rossellini
    • Quicksand by Irving Pichel
    • Red Joan
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    • The Post by Steven Spielberg
    • Tribute to the Schonell
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