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The Far Left In Australia, Rowan Cahill
The Far Left In Australia, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
Review of The Far Left in Australia Since 1945, edited by Jon Piccini, Evan Smith and Matthew Worley (Routledge, 2019).
Staging International Communism: British And Australian Radical Theatre Connections, Lisa Milner, Cathy Brigden
Staging International Communism: British And Australian Radical Theatre Connections, Lisa Milner, Cathy Brigden
Dr Lisa Milner
Encouraged by Communist parties and left-wing trade unions, radical, or working-class, theatre groups of the twentieth century were crucial in the development of a long-lasting left-wing cultural activist impulse in a number of nations. The branches of the Unity Theatre in UK and the New Theatre in Australia had a highly conscious democratic and explicit working class orientation, and presented various combinations of mainstream and radical dra-matic genres and plays. Drawing on oral histories and archival research, this chapter explores the politics of popular culture by focusing on the degrees of mobility of ideas, dramatic texts and people and politics …