Interventions

02/08/2024

A new review of Hell No! We Won't Go! by Bobbie Oliver in Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies (JACANZS).
Reviewer John Piccini says:
"Bobbie Oliver’s achievement in Hell no! We won’t go is to provide a cohesive narrative that encapsulates both iterations of the National Service Act (1951-9 and 1965-72)...
A strength of Oliver’s book is her discussion of the many different experiences of national service. The well-known faces of Vietnam-era draft resistance populate Oliver’s account, but so do more elusive figures...
Bobbie Oliver’s important book should be required reading in Australian classrooms and homes."

https://acnzsn.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/jon-piccini-hell-no-we-wont-go.pdf

You can buy this book at The New International Bookshop, Red Flag Books New Morning Books and Planet Books and New Edition Bookshop in Perth. Or order from your favourite local bookstore.

20/07/2024

For those who are interested here is my speech from my book event in Berlin for The Jewish Radical Tradition.

18/07/2024

Berlin tonight! Check out venue details in the link, which also has a link for the livestream.

with co-author Janey Stone and Rachael Shapiro

04/07/2024

Sharing again due to updated venue. Please note the event is at Gottlieb-Dunkel-Straße 43/44. We’ve now sold out of tickets. Please come by 6.45 and people will be admitted on a first come first served basis including those without pre purchased tickets. The linked event gives you zoom information.

with co-author Janey Stone and Rachael Shapiro

28/06/2024

UPDATE: new venue due to so much interest that the previous venue is too small!

DETAILS HERE:
https://www.theleftberlin.com/events/book-presentation-the-radical-jewish-tradition-revolutionaries-resistance-fighters-and-firebrands/

I’m delighted to announce I will be speaking at a book event in Berlin on 18 July. My co speaker is Rachel Shapiro, an anti-Zionist American Jew. The venue is Hopscotch Reading Room, Kurfürstenstraße 14. Please let any friends know about it who might be able to come. You can also join online.

https://www.theleftberlin.com/events/book-presentation-the-radical-jewish-tradition-revolutionaries-resistance-fighters-and-firebrands/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3auD_h6uI4ftBvotd0W3B0XY0_uGeiS15jNobCXaS0wMXV35Fnucwpmec_aem_izCJSVxqYxwQuMsy3M35IA

with co-author Janey Stone and Rachael Shapiro

18/06/2024

The NIBS annual Big Red Book Fair is a great opportunity to stock up on radical books. You can get all Interventions books there plus loads of others. And interstate people- I know it’s very disappointing not to be able to go in person but you can still buy books online. Not as cheap perhaps but still cost effective when you factor in the plane fares.

THIS SATURDAY!
$3 secondhand fiction and non-fiction
10% off new books
$2 secondhand journals or 3 for $5, (like New Left Review, Socialist History, etc etc)
Plus much much more

Come down and say hi to all our incredible volunteers and score yourself some incredible books at the loowest price of anywhere in town, and support Melbourne's longest running leftist bookshop!
Bring all your comrades along, hope to see you there! x

06/06/2024

🌈 Subcultures of Friendship, Male Homosexual Lives in Mid-Century VictoriaDavid and Wayne will guide us through Subcultures of Friendship made in a Wartime ...

02/06/2024

Get your hands on a copy of Knocking The Top Off, just like Tenderfoot Ned here.

Order direct from us at the link in the bio.

Pic:

30/05/2024

You can listen to Alex Ettling, co-editor of 'Knocking The Top Off: A People's History of Alcohol in Australia', on ABC Radio National's Big Ideas tonight at 8pm. And then online at your convenience: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/bigideas/australia-s-relationship-to-alcohol-clunes-booktown/103807640

Alex was speaking on a panel with Bill Garner, Sarah MacLean and Richard Gilbert as part of Clunes Booktown Festival.

radionational .books

20/05/2024

Graham Willett: What is q***r history?
Tuesday 11 June 2024 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
narrm ngarrgu Library
141 Therry Street, Melbourne VIC 3000

In the last 40 years or so, historians have been unearthing Australia's very q***r history. Now it is time to look back on this and see where we have got to, and how we got here.

Me, at the gorgeous new Melbourne CBD library, narrm ngarrgu

Free but bookings required

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1217527?

For a very long time q***r (LGBTIQA ) people have been vilified, marginalised and criminalised. Keeping records of our lives was always dangerous....

17/05/2024

One of our favourite bookshops

12/05/2024

Here's a little task that you can all do. It's easy to request your library to order books. At least one of my friends has done this which you can see below. The NLA has a listing - why not get your own library to do this too?

12/05/2024

Review of The New Theatre in Overland Literary Journal.

I am an egregiously unlikely reviewer for this commemorative volume on the history of New Theatre: I have rarely seen any theatre. Memory is so difficult: as a child of Communist parents, I sort of recall attending with my mother a New Theatre play in Forbes Street, Darlinghurst, in Sydney, down fro...

02/05/2024

I visited Adelaide last Saturday for a book event for The Radical Jewish Tradition. What a welcome from Andy Alcock, Mike Khizam (AFOPA), Christa Christakis (MC), Helen Lawrie and Phil Davies (musicians) and Aussie Kanck (photographer). There were 77 people, we raised over $1200 for aid for Gaza and I got a standing ovation! All in all a great success and I'm looking forward to a longer visit to Adelaide maybe next year.

25/04/2024

Today on Anzac Day is as good a day as anything to think about Australia's role in war and in the Pacific region. We recommend two of our books. Australia's Pacific War by Tom O'Lincoln which you can buy here https://nibs.org.au/onlinebooks/australias-pacific-war or here https://shop.redflag.org.au/products/australias-pacific-war?_pos=1&_psq=australia%27s&_ss=e&_v=1.0.
And The Neighbour from Hell also by Tom O'Lincoln which you can buy here https://shop.redflag.org.au/collections/all/products/neighbour-from-hell-the or here https://nibs.org.au/onlinebooks/d1mz0x4dik8etcm9be7vkaqxdj8evx?rq=neighbour%20from%20hell.

Imperialism has long been the subject of sharp debates. Now Tom O’Lincoln offers an original study of Australia’s ruthless participation in the imperialist system. Left analysts have often accused Australia’s rulers of being ‘lapdogs’ for the great powers, notably the US and the UK. O’Li...

24/04/2024

A new and very supportive review from Red Ant!

The Radical Jewish Tradition, Revolutionaries, Resistance Fighters, and Firebrands by Donny Gluckstein and Janey Stone has come at what could be a turning point in world history as the Israel’s rul…

21/04/2024

For all of you who have missed one of the book events for The Radical Jewish Tradition, and for those who'd like to know more, you can tune into one of the following radio interviews with Janey Stone:

3CR Stick Together Show with James Brennan, broadcast Wednesday 17 April (see photos)
https://www.3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episode/radical-jewish-tradition

Radio Adelaide Packed Lunch with Nicky Page to be broadcast Monday 22 April
https://radioadelaide.org.au/2024/04/20/the-radical-jewish-tradition/

14/04/2024

09/04/2024

The new edition of United We Stand by Tom O'Lincoln is out! You can read an extract in the The Commons Social Change Library at
https://commonslibrary.org/rebels-in-the-workforce-women-workers-resistance-in-the-nineteenth-century/

Then you can buy the book at https://nibs.org.au/onlinebooks/united-we-stand?rq=UNITED%20WE%20STAND

Class Struggle in Colonial Australia By Tom O'Lincoln In the state-run prison that was early New South Wales, pockets of capitalism sprang up like sturdy weeds. with them came wage labour and class struggle. Australian workers were organising well before the gold rushes, and later a mass labour