Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 [Review] Comrades! Lives of Australian Communists
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'The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) existed from 1920 to 1991 and was the largest party to the left of the Australian Labor Party. Forged in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, it was the purveyor of worldwide socialist revolution in its early years, Marxism-Leninism from the 1930s to the 1960s, and a proto-Eurocommunism from the late 1960s onwards. The CPA had only one MP, Fred Paterson in Queensland between 1944 and 1950, but its political and social influence spread far beyond the electoral stage. The party commanded significant influence in the trade unions, and its members were involved in nearly every social movement of the 20th century, including movements surrounding Aboriginal rights, women’s liberation, anti-fascism, green bans, peace and nuclear disarmament. The party also drew in many artists, writers and cultural figures over the years, even if the official communist movement emanating from Moscow often had more prescriptive views on art and literature.'  (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Journal of Australian Studies Christos Tsiolkas and Contemporary Australia—The Outsider Artist vol. 46 no. 1 2022 24308385 2022 periodical issue

    'Christos Tsiolkas is regularly acknowledged as one of the most important writers working in Australia—indeed, the world—today. However, his proclivity for the public essay (in venues such as The Monthly), as well as his willingness to speak out on important social and political issues (such as refugees and marriage equality), casts him not only as an important writer, but also as a critical public figure in contemporary Australia. This collection of articles takes the range of Tsiolkas’s works (both fiction and non-fiction, as well as their television and cinematic adaptations) as their impetus, using these as a model to explore the significance of Tsiolkas’s intellectual contribution to Australian public life. As such, these articles work across genre, across theories, across national and international borders, and across disciplines in order to make clear Tsiolkas’s contemporary significance. Building on recent book-length studies on the author, including Andrew McCann’s Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique: Politics, Obscenity, Celebrity (2015) and my own Christos Tsiolkas: The Utopian Vision (2017), what these articles hold in common is an assertion that Tsiolkas’s fiction and non-fiction always and everywhere serve a political and social purpose. As I have argued elsewhere, Tsiolkas’s writing ultimately suggests the ways in which we can shape a better future for Australia.' (Jessica Gildersleeve : Introduction: Christos Tsiolkas and Contemporary Australia—The Outsider Artist)

    2022
    pg. 118-119
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