Not Quite White: Lebanese and the White Australia Policy 1880 to 1947
by Anne Monsour, Post Pressed, Brisbane, 2010
My book has finally been published thanks to Dr John Knight and Post Pressed.… Go to Article
Category: Books and Reviews
Books available from LeftPress and other publishers
The Painted Veil
“Lift not the painted veil which those who live
Call Life: though unreal shapes be pictured there,
And it but mimic all we would believe
With colours idly spread,—behind, lurk Fear
And Hope, twin Destinies; who ever weave
Their shadows, o’er the chasm, sightless and drear.”… Go to Article
Leftside: wavin’ on the breeze
Book Launch of jim sharp’s book of poems, ‘leftside’
Saturday 31st Jul at 3:00- 5:00pm
TLC Building 16 Peel St., South Brisbane.… Go to Article
‘Radical Legend: Humphrey McQueen in Conversation’
Humphrey McQueen on this Sunday: Writers’ Hub – UQ Centenary Celebration Day – The University of Queensland, Australia]
Sunday 18th April
UQ Fryer Library,
Level Four, Duhig Building (Building 2)
Sunday 12:00
| 12.00 – 12.30 | Radical Legend Humphrey McQueen In Conversation |
http://www.uq.edu.au/centenary/celebration/writers-hub… Go to Article
Palm Island — on the inside and out
Book Launch of Joanne Watson’s ‘Palm Island through a long lens’
Joanne Watson’s ‘Palm Island through a long lens’
“My people don’t need no introduction, we are the people you label with white dysfunction, our beauty, our pride you just don’t mention, I gotta ask, people, what’s your intention?”… Go to Article
Love Letters from the Bar Table
Notes from the author
A non-fiction book about corruption in the Australian Government, Judiciary and Federal Police.… Go to Article
20th Anniversary of Melbourne Tramways dispute
by Peter Riley and Margaret Creagh
On the night (Saturday 30th January 2010) I brought along some memorabilia: photos, documents, clippings from news media from the time (of the dispute).… Go to Article
‘Ted Kennedy: Priest of Redfern’ — a review
By Gary MacLennan
A review of Edmund Campion (2009) Ted Kennedy: Priest of Redfern: Melbourne: David Lovell Publishing
There is a thought that has haunted me for a long time…It is to portray a wholly good man.… Go to Article
How To Make Trouble And Influence People
This was a light hearted and graphic look at the history of protest in Australia.
I showed this book to some comrades and one said that there were a lot of anarchist stories but few from the rest of the Left.… Go to Article
Many Ships to Mt Isa — an autobiography of Pat Mackie
by Greg Mallory
He (Pat Mackie) sees his own needs very simply, voices them fearlessly and becomes a phenomenally effective workers’ spokesman and trade union organiser, a power to be reckoned with in the industrial world.… Go to Article
Vale Pat Mackie
I have just read in the morning paper that Pat Mackie has died at the age of 95.
Pat was a great wobbly and to pay tribute to Pat Mackie’s life I have found this story ‘Red Cap’ about Pat written by Lachlan Hurse.… Go to Article
‘Killing no Murder’
The factory-owners of the time formed a “trade union” to resist the factory legislation, the so-called “National Association for the Amendment of the Factory Laws”, based in Manchester, which collected a sum of more than £50,000 in March 1855 from contributions on the basis of 2 shillings per horse-power, to meet the legal costs of members prosecuted by the factory inspectors and conduct their cases on behalf of the Association.… Go to Article
Book Launch: Framework of Flesh – Builders Labourers’ Battle for Health & Safety
BOOK LAUNCH
Humphrey McQueen
– Australian historian and social
critic speaks on his latest book:
Framework of Flesh — Builders Labourer’s Battle for Health and Safety (click to see website).… Go to Article
Framework of Flesh
… Go to ArticleFramework of Flesh
Builders’ Labourers Battle
for Health & Safetyby Humphrey McQueen
This book takes up a 1920s challenge from a militant labourer, Charlie Sullivan:
“few ever think of the great and humble army whose sweat and blood are mingled in the concrete and bricks as surely as if the walls were built over a framework of human flesh.”
An implosion of knowledge
By Humphrey McQueen
Meanjin, March 2009.
A poor box in the foyer of the National Library of Australia invites tourists to donate to the construction of a Treasures Gallery, a project which further devalues three of that institution’s treasures – its staff, its work-a-day collections and its readers.… Go to Article
Michael Lebowitz: ‘A dialectically materialist critic of political economy’
By Humphrey McQueen
28 February
Yea! Michael Lebowitz is coming to a conference near us. At Easter, this Canadian Marxist will address the DSP’s Sydney conference, ‘World at a Crossroads: Fighting for Socialism in the 21st Century’.… Go to Article
Book Review: The Lemon Tree
The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan is narrative non-fiction, meaning it tells a personal narrative of the people affected by the occupation of Palestine and does it in the context of the history of this unresolved conflict.… Go to Article
The Recovery of Marxism — a review
Review by Humphrey McQueen
Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism by Rick Kuhn Illinois University Press, 2007, 352 pp, $60
hpk, $25 pbk.… Go to Article
Still Left Standing: Book Launch
As part of a joint effort by Zapata’s Bookshop and the LeftPress collective
“After the Waterfront – the workers are quiet” 
Written by the LeftPress Collective
is being launched at
Zapata’s bookshop
(26 Horan Street,
West End) this
Friday, 14th November at 6 pm.
… Go to ArticleBrisbane’s Radical Books
Radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root.
- Angela Davis
“These students believe in democracy and most importantly they believe in the maximum participation for the individual.… Go to Article
Hammered by the Irish
“Hammered by the Irish” by Harry Browne deals with the militarisation of Ireland’s Shannon Airport in service of the U.S invasion and occupation of Iraq.… Go to Article
Book Launch — Iraqi Icicle
“Life is murder, in and round, up and down Brisbane, between 1986 and 1992. Murder everywhere
but in the cathedral — on the racetrack, in the theatre, at the office, within halls of academia, on the streets.… Go to Article
Father Steele – a novel by Bernie Dowling
FATHER STEELE
a novel
by Bernie Dowling
For
Every Aussie comedian who makes me laugh
and
In memory of humorist
John Hepworth
Born spring, 1921
Died summer, 1995
Father Steele
Hugo XX for Women
Purchase any Hugo XX EDT 100ml $113
And receive this bonus Hugo XX towel
As your gift
Australian Myer stores 2007
hope.… Go to Article
Not Guilty
People often criticise me for living in the 1970s.
Perhaps I do dwell on the past, but that is where I was and where I come from, the 1970s.… Go to Article