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Culture
Art & Photography
Diego Rivera
Frida Kahlo
Noel Counihan
O. G. S. Crawford
Picasso: Guernica
The Henson Case
Tina Modotti
Cultural History
Monopoly
The Cultural Front
The Responsibility of Intellectuals
Fiction
Australian Authors
All That I Am, Anna Funder
American Hoax, Charles Firth
Cold Light, Frank Moorhouse
Crown Jewel, Ralph de Boissierre
Our Man K, Nicholas Hasluck
Out of Ireland, Christopher Koch
Scenes of Revolutionary Life, Judah Waten
Shane Maloney
The Comfort of Men: Dennis Altman
The Love Germ, Jill Neville
The Obsession of Oscar Oswald, Frank Hardy
The People's Train, Tom Keneally
Three Dollars, Elliot Perlman
To the Death, John Bryson
Tomorrow, Ric Throssell
Nice Try
The Brush-off
Novels of French revolutions
A Place of Greater Safety, Hilary Mantel
City of Darkness, City of Light
Cosette: The Sequel to Les Misérables, Laura Kalpakian
The French Mathematician, Tom Petsinis
Other Authors
American Tabloid, James Ellroy
Barry Hines
Boris Pasternak
Fear of Mirrors, Tariq Ali
I Married a Communist, Philip Roth
Ice Road, Gillian Slovo
Leonardo Padura, The Man Who Loved Dogs
Marge Piercy
Off Side, Manuel Montalban
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror, John Mortimer
Solar, Ian McEwan
The Marx Sisters, Barry Maitland
The Sykaos Papers, E. P. Thompson
Union Dues, John Sayles
World's End, T. Coraghessan Boyle
Body of Glass
Braided Lives
Sex Wars
The Heart of it
The Price of Coal
Vida
Films & TV
Charlie Chaplin
Hollywood's Censor
Humphrey Bogart
Jane Fonda
Michael Moore
Ricky Tomlinson
Sergei Eisenstein
Tony Hancock
Walt Disney
Humour
Al Franken
Alexei Sayle
Bruce Petty
Catherine Deveny
Jeremy Clarkson
John Clarke
Kaz Cooke
Get a Grip
Get Another Grip
The Crocodile Club
Mark Dapin
Mark Steel
Reasons to be Cheerful
Viva La Revolution
Rod Quantock
Terry Jones
Literature
American Writers
Dorothy Parker
E L Doctorow
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Ernest Hemingway
Gore Vidal
Jack London
James Baldwin
John Steinbeck
Kurt Vonnegut
Mark Twain
Mary McCarthy
Raymond Chandler
Sara Paretsky
Australian writers
Christina Stead
Eleanor Dark
Frank Hardy
Henry Lawson
Katherine Susannah Prichard
Kylie Tennant
Max Harris
Tom Keneally
British Writers
Charles Dickens
Graham Greene
H G Wells
Rebecca West
Robert Tressell
William Golding
William Hazlitt
Doris Lessing
European Writers
Andre Malraux
Honore de Balzac
Jean Paul Sartre
Victor Hugo
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
George Orwell
George Orwell, 3 books
Orwell: Jeffrey Meyers
The Betrayal of Dissent, Scott Lucas
Intellectuals and the Masses
Russian Writers
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Maxim Gorky
Mikhail Sholokhov
Salman Rushdie : Joseph Anton
Music
Blues Fell this Morning
Bob Dylan
Frank Sinatra
Frank Zappa
John Lennon
Josh White
Music, Revolution & the Sixties
Pete Seeger
Richard Wagner
Satchmo Blows up the World
Shostakovich
The Jazz Scene
Woody Guthrie
Ramblin' Man, Ed Cray
Woody Guthrie, Janelle Yates
Poetry
Byron
Ginsberg
Pablo Neruda
Pushkin
Shelley
Wordsworth
Sport
Australian Football
Aborigines in Sport
Brotherboys
Football Ltd.
Southern Sky
The Call: Tom Wills
The Greatest Game
Up There Cazaly
Blowing the Whistle
Chess
Bobby Fischer Goes to War
Cricket
Cricket and Empire
Eddie Gilbert
Lance Armstrong
Olympics
Dangerous Games 1936 Nazi Olympics
Five Ring Circus
Jesse Owens
Peter Norman
The Great Olympic Swindle
Rugby
Brothers
Ian Roberts
Soccer
FIFA - the Dirty Game
FIFA Corruption
Foul! FIFA
Red Rebels of MUFC
Soccer's Super-Rich Owners
When Footballers Were Skint
Sport and Australian Culture
Theatre
Arthur Miller
Bernard Shaw
Dario Fo
Kenneth Tynan
Lillian Hellman
Vsevolod Meyerhold
War Literature
Fiction
The First Casualty
The March
The Naked and the Dead
The Regeneration Trilogy
Poetry
Siegfried Sassoon
Wilfred Owen
Economics and work
Economics
Battlers And Billionaires
Brand Capitalism
Celebrity Inc.
Enron
Gangster Capitalism
Inside Australia's Banks
Not Buying It
Panama Papers
Tax Havens
The End of Wall Street & The ABCs of the Economic Crisis
Zombie Economics
Trade Unions
Australian Industrial Relations
Class and Class Conflict in Australia
Green Bans - Jack Mundey
Green Bans, Red Union
Strikebreaking and Intimidation
Three Strikes
Unions Against Capitalism?
Which Side Are You On?
Work
Bait and Switch
Dirt Cheap
Good Times Hard Times
Hard Work: Toynbee
Nickel and Dimed
Taking Our Time
The Short Goodbye
Environment and Science
Climate Change
Big Coal
Coal Seam Gas
Coal Seam Gas & Nth Korea
Fly and be Damned
Geo-engineering
Atmosphere of Hope (Flannery)
Earthmasters (Hamilton)
How To Cool The Planet (Goodell)
James Hansen
Madlands
Oil & Honey - McKibben
Power Failure
Science as a Contact Sport
The Conundrum
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, & the Inquisition of Climate Science
Waking The Giant
Weathermakers: Flannery
Darwin & Evolution
Alfred Russel Wallace
Darwin's Origin of Species
Darwin's Sacred Cause
Thomas Huxley
Evolution's High Priest
The Devil's Disciple
Environment
A matter of Survival
Asbestos
Asbestos House, Gideon Haigh
James Hardie, Matt Peacock
Belching Out the Devil: Coca-Cola
Biospheres
Cars
Stop Signs
SUVs
Chemicals
Continent in Crisis
Eco-Business
Electronic Technolgy
Eyes of Fire
Genetic Engineering
Great Barrier Reef
Greenwash
Gunns
Last Chance to See
Lessons of the Rainforest
Merchants of Doubt
Nuclear Energy
Fukushima Fallout
Karen Silkwood
Maralinga
Radium Girls
The Radioactive Boy Scout
The State and Nuclear Power
Oil
Overdressed
Socialism and Survival
The End of Nature
The Hidden Life of Garbage
The World According to Monsanto
Transpersonal Ecology
Under Corporate Skies
Water
Bottlemania
Water Privatisation in Southern Africa
Science
Bird Flu
Eat Your Heart Out
Einstein
Galileo
Isaac Newton
Merchants of Doubt
Mobile Phones
New World, New Mind
Smile or Die
The Bell Curve Wars
Undue Risk
Stephen Jay Gould
Dinosaur in a Haystack
Eight Little Piggies
Life's Grandeur
The Millenium
Whaling
All Hearts on Deck
Blood & Guts
Harpoon
The Last Whale
Whale Warriors
Fascism & Nazism
All That Grief
Coco Chanel
German Scientists
Hans Litten
Holocaust
David Irving
Denying the Holocaust: Lipstadt
IBM
Marcel Liebman
Official Secrets
The Demidenko File
Zionism
Nazis and the West
Edward & Mrs Simpson
Hitler's Pope
Nazis and internment in Australia
Nazis on the Run
US Intelligence and the Nazis
War Criminals Welcome
Plots Against Hitler
Primo Levi
Bridges of Knowledge
If This is a Man & The Truce
Tragedy of an Optimist
The Woman who Shot Mussolini
Feminism
Mary Wollstonecraft
Socialist feminism
Alexandra Kollontai
Bolshevik Women
Women, State and Revolution
Suffragism
Constance Lytton
Sophia Singh
Suffrage Days
The Pankhursts
Adela
Sylvia
The Pankhursts
Victoria Woodhull
Vida Goldstein
Wonder Woman
History
Ancient History
Julius Caesar
Plato
Spartacus
Apartheid
Armed & Dangerous
Gillian Slovo
Australia
A New Australia
Australia's Bohemians
Dancing with Empty Pockets
Sex and Anarchy: The Sydney Push
Death or Liberty
Eureka Stockade
Henry Champion
Indigenous
Henry Reynolds: Forgotten War
Henry Reynolds: The Other Side of the Frontier
LLoyd Ross
Manning Clarke
An Eye for Eternity
Humphrey McQueen
Mannix
Nazi Deamtime
The Right Road
The Weinstraub Syncopaters
The Wobblies
Britain
English Revolution
Liberty Against The Law: Hill
The Tyrannicide Brief
Ireland the Propaganda War
Luddites
Robin Hood
The 1381 Peasant's Revolt
The British in Ireland
The English Rebel
The Profumo Affair
The Real Oliver Twist
Villains of all Nations
Web of Deceit
China
Edgar Snow and China
Zhou Enlai
Colonialism
Aung San Suu Kyi
Black Jacobins
Finding Santana
Haiti
Sri Lanka - Bracegirdle
The Kaiser's Holocaust
The Philippines
France
Alfred Dreyfus
Denis Diderot: Freethinker!
Dreyfus - Picquart
George Rude
Robespierre
Historiography
Age of Extremes, Hobsbawm
E H Carr
Historians in Trouble
Uncommon People, Hobsbawm
Windschuttle
Israel
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine: Ilan Pappe
The Unspoken Alliance
Wheatcroft
Mexico
Pancho Villa
Villa and Zapata
Spain
Into the Heart of the Fire
Spain In Our Hearts
The Abraham Lincoln Briagde
Unlikely Heroes
The Sixties
Abbie Hoffman
Richard Neville
Sheila Rowbotham
USA
American Revolution
A People's History
Founding Myths
Tom Paine
Civil War
A People's History
Drawn with the Sword
John Brown, Abolitionist
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Cuba and the US
Kennedy
Chomsky
Seymour Hersh
Martin Luther King
Red Apple
Rosa Parks
Sacco & Vanzetti
The Statue of Liberty
Marxists and anti-Marxists
American
Edmund Wilson
Australian
Aileen Palmer
All Along the Watchtower
Come The Revolution
Comrade Roberts
CPA Memoirs
Amirah Inglis
Bernie Taft
Betty Richards
Elliott Johnston
Fred Paterson
The Cold War
Fred Rose
Free Radicals
Three Men of the Left (Michael Hyde, Elliott Johnston, Phillip Adams)
V Gordon Childe
British
David Aaronovitch
E P Thompson
Hobsbawm
Isaiah Berlin
Jessica Mitford
Ralph Miliband
Ralph Miliband 2
Raymond Williams
William Morris
European
Isaac Deutscher
Koestler
Rosa Luxemburg
Victor Serge
Marx and Engels
Eleanor Marx
Love and Capital
Marx's Das Kapital
Marx, Blumenberg
Marx, Francis Wheen
The Frock-Coated Communist: Engels
Trotsky and Trotskyists
Dwight MacDonald
Shachtman
Trotsky and Serge
Trotsky as Alternative, Mandel
Politics
Australia
Airlines
Airline Safety
The Men Who Killed Qantas
Australia
Bill Shorten
Bob Carr
Labour Essays 1984
Malcolm Turnbull
Mark Latham - Political Bubble
Rudd's Way & Rise of the Ruddbot
Sideshow by Lindsay Tanner
The Latham Diaries
Transforming Labor
What Goes Up: The 2007 Election
Behind the Exclusive Brethren
Clive Palmer
Craig McGregor
Exit Right: John Howard
Humphrey McQueen
Malcolm Fraser
Mining
Dirty Money: Australia’s Mineral Boom
Gina Rinehart
Rich Land, Waste Land
Panic, David Marr
Phil Cleary
Phillip Adams
Project Republic
Richard Neville
Other
Andre Gorz
Arab Spring, Libyan Winter
Arundhati Roy
Bertrand Russell
Cruel Britannia: Cohen
Julian Assange
The Royals: What Do They Do?
Three Intellectuals of the Left (Said, Sontag, Hobsbawm)
USA
Bradley Manning
Chomsky
Deterring Democracy
World Orders Old and New
Year 501
Donald Trump
Gore Vidal
Greg Palast
Lewis Lapham
Gag Rule
Pretensions to Empire
Theatre of War
Waiting for the Barbarians
Rogue State: William Blum
The Koch Bros.
Washington Babylon
Social Issues
Death and Dying
A Good Death, Syme
Damned If I Do: Nitschke
Killing Me Softly: Nitschke
The American Way of Death, Mitford
Education
Exams
Religion
Universities
Staff
Students
The student press
Eugenics
War Against the Weak
Gambling
The Pokies
Health
Prescription Games
Prostate cancer
Selling Sickness
Homelessness
Down to This
Immigration
US Immigration Prisons
Outlaws and Bandits
Bandits, Hobsbawm
Race
Black Like Me
Religion
George Pell
God's Bankers
Scientology
Soviet Union
Russian Revolution
Arthur Ransome
Inessa: Lenin's Mistress
Lenin: Robert Service
Romantic Exiles
Small Comrades
The Race to Save the Romanovs
The Romanovs
Stalinism
Lenin Lives!
Magnetic Mountain
On Stalin's Team
The Black Book of Communism
The Forsaken
The Great Terror, General Zhukov, Agent Dimitri
The Stalinist Legacy
The Victims Return
Spies and Spooks
Australia
ASIO: a History
Australia's Spies
Dirty Secrets: Our ASIO Files
My Father's Son
Sheila Fitzpatrick
The Family File
Writers Defiled (ASIO)
Britain
Anthony Blunt
Donald MacLean
George Blake
Guy Burgess
Klaus Fuchs & Kim Philby
The Defence of the Realm: MI5
USA
CIA Torture
Edward Snowden & NSA
Einstein and the FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
The FBI burglary
The Rosenbergs
Who Paid the Piper?
The Media
Alexander Cockburn
Australian media
Alan Jones
Fairfax
John Pilger
Rupert Murdoch
This is the ABC
Censored
Flat Earth News
I. F. Stone
Keith Windschuttle
Martha Gellhorn
Ryszard Kapusinski
Target Iraq
Unspeak
War and Peace
ANZAC
ANZAC Mutiny
ANZAC The Biography
ANZAC's Dirty Dozen
ANZAC's Long Shadow
ANZAC: The Brand
ANZACs in Arkhangel
Bad Characters
Bad Characters
Boer War
Inside Pine Gap
Sacred Places
What's Wrong with ANZAC
Arms Trade
As Used on the Famous Mandela
Battle
A History of Bombing
Lethality in Combat
Stripping Bare the Body
Iraq
Blackwater
The Gulf Between Us
The Occupation
The Scourging of Iraq
The Three Trillion Dollar War
Weapons of Mass Deception
Nuclear war
Atomic Diplomacy
Britain's Pacific H-bomb Tests
Confronting the Nuclear Age
Daniel Ellsberg: Nuclear War Planner
Hiroshima Nagasaki
Mullahs Without Mercy
Nuclear accidents
Oppenheimer
Taking Australia Off the Map
The CND Story
The Nuclear Crisis Reader
The Politics of Euromissiles
Terrorism
Amerikan Psycho
Arundhati Roy
Bio-terror
Bringing the War Home
Buda's Wagon
Drone Warfare
Guantanamo
Guantanamo, David Hicks
Haneef
It's A Free Countrty
The Real Terror Network
Weather Underground
Vietnam War
Deserters
Harvest of Fear
Kampuchea
The Killing Fields
Vickery
M.I.A.s
Media Representations
From Hanoi to Hollywood
The Viet Nam War, the American War
Vietnam and Other American Fantasies
Robert McNamara
The First Wave
The Pentagon Papers
Vietnam Days
Vietnamese Voices
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace
The Sorrow of War
War and politics
Howard Zinn
Phillip Knightly
Robert Fisk
War Resisters
Bradley Manning
Camilo Mejia
Hugo Throssell
Malalai Joya
Margaret Holmes
Ten Reasons
The Deserter's Tale
We Will Not Fight
WW1
Australia's entry
Blindfold and Alone
Silent Night
WW2
Commando to Colditz
Factories of Death
Yamashita's Gold
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