Nellie Wong is a citizen of the world. An off-hand comment by her boss, a skin irritation, a homeless person on the street, the smell of food cooking or tanks in Tiananmen Square . . . all these scenes from working class life are her inspirations. Her work is complex, evocative and rich with imagery.
Book Review
Say It Loud: Male, Feminist and Proud! A Social Feminist Critiques Men and Sexual Politics
Bob Pease’s Men and Sexual Politics: Towards a Profeminist Practice is an important record of the anti-sexist men’s movement in Australia. Pease himself has at least 20 years’ experience in raising men’s consciousness about gender injustice. He helped form Men Against Sexual Assault (MASA) in Melbourne in 1989 and has been involved in its sexism awareness education program for men. Since 1989 Pease has taught a course called “Men, Masculinity and Anti-Patriarchal Practice” to women and men Social Work students at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).
Exposing the greedy bastards who prey on poor people
The coronavirus pandemic has thrown the sharp inequities in the U.S. into sharp relief. But they have always been there, and this book explains the role of business and government collusion.
Book review: Oil Under Troubled Water — how Australia exploited Timor-Leste
“Oil Under Troubled Water” explores Australia’s dirty deals with Timor-Leste. It’s an education every working person needs.
Book Review: The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia
Bill Gammage documents the real history of Australia.
The Unexpected: an unflinching fable about slavery and race
Helen Collier exposes the pain and degradation of slavery and the need for African American and white women to unite against racism today.
New insights into Marx’s environmentalism
Based on revelatory findings in Marx’s unpublished notebooks, Kohei Saito identifies the author of Capital as the first ecosocialist.
No Friend but the Mountains
A Kurdish refugee from Iran lays bare Australian detention cruelties.
Book review: Revolution, She Wrote
“Fighting injustice is full of hope and joy when it is viewed as a slice of an ancient reaching out for universal fulfillment.”
Book review: Dark Emu
Rich history of agriculture hiding in plain sight.
