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1. Ian Fleming's sexism and cold war primitivism

   Books & music Imperialism & war Phil Shannon James Bond Books and reviews Ian Fleming: The ... Intelligence Division during World War II fell into his lap. Despite earlier being a bit of an appeaser, ... caricatures of Cold War heroes and villains, refracted through the anti-socialist lens of Fleming, the ...

2. When radium killed women for profits

   instrumentation during World War I. Because of their nimble fingers, teenage and young women (and girls, some as ... industrial poison, unregulated by business-friendly governments, destroyed countless US women’s lives. ... their new jobs. Paid on a piece-work basis, the more dials (and thus more radioactive radium) they ...

3. How suffragette Muriel Matters fought for women’s — and working class — rights

   of “Votes for Women” leaflets on his head from a chartered air balloon trailing streamers in the ... suffragists as “those dreadful women”. Police had banned leafleting on the streets, so the WFL had taken to ... an Adelaide music celebrity when his views on women turned out to be unenlightened. In London, ...

4. The hidden struggle for women’s footy

   Books & music Media Sports Feminism Phil Shannon Play On! The Hidden History of Women ... (sport historian) in Play On! The Hidden History of Women’s Australian Rules Football. More than 100 ... against sport being played on Sundays, one of the few timeslots available for women to fit regular ...

5. A life-long fighter for women's equality

   food prices, women's health and world peace. It was tough, isolated going in the Cold War freeze ... Factory women into the union in Melbourne in the 1930s, most were fatalistic about their below-dole wage ... war and social injustice and who was a member of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA). Boyanton ...

6. Henry Reynolds’ unpicks Australia’s obsession with glorifying unnecessary wars

   war on the Australian continent against the original Aboriginal inhabitants, but Australia’s ... war, from the Boer War on. Reynolds’ book is a worthy part of the resistance to the khaki tide. ... Imperialism & war Books & music History Phil Shannon Unnecessary Wars Henry Reynolds ...

7. A soldier's fight against an unjust war

   and breaches of the Geneva Conventions, particularly the sexual abuse of women and children in war ... Phil Shannon The Deserter's Tale: Why I Walked Away From the War in Iraq By Joshua Key Text ... being however, soldier on, staying disciplined and quiet, but inside he had crossed a line, nurturing ...

8. 'Guernica': a universal symbol against war

   for peace against war." Despite Martin's strategic silence on some sources of terror from ... Phil Shannon Picasso's War: The Extraordinary Story of an Artist, an Atrocity and a Painting ... destroyed by flames, if women and children are victims of suffocating gases, if the population in open ...

9. His soul goes marching on

   climaxed his war on slavery and kickstarted the Civil War two years later with its emancipation of four ... of the American Civil War song and in the spirit of the battle against race oppression, his ... "soul goes marching on". David Reynolds' biography of Brown, John Brown, Abolitionist, ...

10. Marxist essays on the English Revolution

    was also another struggle going on. Landlords, big farmers and the newly victorious mercantile and ... limited by his dependence on royal patronage and court favour. Bunyan and Milton, writing during the ... ballads had a resurgence in the 1650s. Hill cites his historian-comrade, E.J. Hobsbawm, on social bandits ...

11. Lady Constance Lytton: A suffragette defector from her class

    parliament, and went on prison hunger-strike, for demanding women’s right to vote, she was, to prevent an ... and concentrated on the leisured class of women with wealth, power and connections. But Lytton (the ... over women’s suffrage. The winning of the women’s vote on the same terms as men eventually came in ...

12. Patty Hearst and the SLA's militarist disaster

    groups to participate in the logistics of the food distribution, but most refused on principle. They ... Enough, however, signed on to make the event a success and thus launder the SLA’s reputation. An even ... shape when it passed through the SLA. Women’s liberation, for example, degenerated into a celebration of ...

13. When the student press shook established power

    year later, purged by the Women’s Liberation Movement, On Dit became the only Australian student ... decade-demarcation lines on Australian campuses in the radical 1960s, writes Sally Wood in Dissent: The Student Press ... the knee” for the women. Their music tended to classical and jazz rather than rock ‘n’ roll. For ...

14. Dissenting look at militaristic myth

    Anzac Day as a springboard and feminists protested rape in war on the holy day. In 1973, reflecting the ... Imperialism & war Phil Shannon Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) ANZAC day What’s ... Press, 2010, 183 pages, $29.95 (pb) On April 25 in Australia, it is humanly impossible to escape the ...

15. The secret history of Wonder Woman's conflicted feminism

    the importance placed on women’s physical appearance and its middle-class individualism in which only ... Marston saw the US as the home of freedom and democracy and not just because there was a war on against ... in love with after rescuing him from his plane crash on her woman-only, feminist island utopia. As ...

16. Royal spin can’t hide the stench of unearned privilege

    War, for example, not on anti-war or anti-imperialist principle but because of his Arabism (a creed ... bases and Navy destroyers. On the contrary, she felt “very, very blessed” to support the US war machine. ... on commercial airflights are “so uncomfortable”. The prince’s self-pitying outbursts reveal his lack ...

17. Malalai Joya: her struggle is our struggle

    of all men and 80% of women are illiterate. The US alone spends $100 million a day on the war butt ... — in most places it is still not safe for women to appear in public uncovered or to walk on the street ... most analysis and reporting on the West's war in Afghanistan. It's also valuable for her ...

18. Pine Gap insider: a trumpet-blower, not whistle-blower

    Imperialism & war Democracy Phil Shannon Inside Pine Gap: The Spy Who Came in from the Desert ... true. The intelligence “eyes and ears” of a modern army are essential to its war-fighting capabilities. ... military operations”. In other words, supporting a horrendous war by “supporting the troops”. The CIA ...

19. China Mieville’s inspiring account of Russia’s revolution is a book for our times

    (including socialist and feminist Muslims). They adopted 10 principles on Muslim women’s rights, including ... Socialist-Revolutionary-Maximalists) on the left. These outshine the main political species to their bourgeois and landowning right ... women, for example, found their voice. An All-Russian Muslim Women’s Congress hosted 59 delegates ...

20. Memoir of a soldier of conscience

    treatment were squashed, however, as was Mejia's hope to put the morality of the war on trial as well. ... Mejia's decision to quit the war. Mejia's case resolved to whether he got on a plane on a certain ... against war, speaking out, with the authority of experience, against the hard men and women, the brutal ...

21. Arthur Miller: a principled playwright

    anti-communist Cold War orthodoxy that turned the war-time alliance with the Soviet Union on its head and ... (hb The FBI reviewers had no qualms about judging Arthur Miller's plays solely on their political ... FBI's disdain, and to our good fortune, the federal agents were indeed on to something, as Christopher ...

22. Understanding Iraq

    $49.95 (hb) President George W. Bush's premature declaration on May 1 2003 that the Iraq war was ... soon scaled up from sporadic attacks on US soldiers to an organised insurgency. As in the Vietnam War ... conquest — Iraqi women sex-workers had written in lipstick on large mirrors above their hand basins anti-US ...

23. How Big Money corrupted the people’s game

    – while only 13 imports across all teams took to the field on day one of the season just 25 years ago, now ... players pull on the jersey. What, asks the British journalist, James Montague, in The Billionaires’ Club: ... billion on top quality international players and the silverware has duly followed. Other EPL clubs have ...

24. Oppenheimer: father of the Atomic bomb

    Boy" and "Fat Man", the first atomic bombs to be used in war, to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... on Jewish scientists in Germany (Oppenheimer was of German-Jewish origin), the fascist menace in the ... Spanish Civil War, the economic depression in the US, and Oppenheimer's romantic involvement with ...

25. The state of Israel's bloody foundations

    and deadly pogroms of late 19th century in Europe, had finally settled on Palestine, fraudulently ... costly and unruly colonies after World War II, handed over Palestine to the UN in 1947, the Zionists ... expulsion of the Palestinians were the statesmen and women of the subsequent Jewish state — including prime ...

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