$32.99 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press / Australia
Left Turn: Political Essays for the New Left
Left Turn shows why the left should be taken seriously. The essays are passionate, relevant and radical, by voices that are dying to be heard in an increasingly barren media landscape.
The 2008 financial crisis opened the door for a bold, progressive social movement. But despite widespread revulsion at economic inequity and political opportunism, after the crash very little has changed.
Has the Left failed? What agenda should progressives pursue? And what alternatives do they dare to imagine?
Left Turn is aimed at the many Australians disillusioned with the political process. It includes passionate and challenging contributions by a diverse range of writers, thinkers and politicians, from Larissa Berendht and Christos Tsiolkas to Guy Rundle and Lee Rhiannon. These essays offer perspectives largely excluded from the mainstream. They offer possibilities for resistance and for a renewed struggle for change.
Antony Loewenstein is a Sydney-based independent journalist, author and blogger. He has written for the Guardian, The Nation, The Sydney Morning Herald, Haaretz and many others. His first book, My Israel Question (2006), was a bestseller and shortlisted for the 2007 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award. His second book, The Blogging Revolution, on the internet in repressive regimes, was released in 2008. Both titles have been re-released in new, updated editions and translated across the world. He is currently working on another book for MUP, on disaster capitalism, due in 2013 and a book in 2012 called After Zionism. Antony appears regularly in the media in Australia and overseas in print, radio and TV. His website is antonyloewenstein.com.
Jeff Sparrow is the editor of Overland literary journal, and works at Victoria University. He is the co-author, with sister Jill, of Radical Melbourne: A Secret History and Radical Melbourne 2: The Enemy Within, and the author of Communism: A Love Story (shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award) and Killing: Misadventures in Violence (a finalist in the Melbourne Prize for Literature Best Writing Award 2009). His work has appeared in a range of print and online publications and journals.
Antony Loewenstein
After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine
$24.95 – Paperback / Saqi Books
After Zionism brings together some of the world's leading thinkers on the Middle East question to dissect the century-long conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians, and to explore possible forms of a one-state... Buy or find out more→
The Blogging Revolution
$40.00 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
In many countries, internet censorship has become one of the key human rights issues of the twenty-first century. Best-selling author Antony Loewenstein conducts a searching examination of the ways the internet is... Buy or find out more→
My Israel Question: Reframing The Israel/Palestine Conflict
$24.95 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
The undeclared war in the Middle East is the abiding conflict of our era, with little apparent hope of resolution despite years of peace talks. On one side of the conflict, in the face of suicide bombings and international... Buy or find out more→
Left Turn: Political Essays for the New Left
$32.99 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
Left Turn shows why the left should be taken seriously. The essays are passionate, relevant and radical, by voices that are dying to be heard in an increasingly barren media landscape. The 2008 financial crisis... Buy or find out more→
Jeff Sparrow
Money Shot: A Journey into Porn and Censorship
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Money Shot: a journey into porn and censorship focuses on the 'hot button' issues in the censorship debate today, from the implications of the internet revolution to arguments about 'raunch culture' and its effects. Buy or find out more→
Left Turn: Political Essays for the New Left
$32.99 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
Left Turn shows why the left should be taken seriously. The essays are passionate, relevant and radical, by voices that are dying to be heard in an increasingly barren media landscape. The 2008 financial crisis... Buy or find out more→
Killing: Misadventures in Violence
$35.00 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
How hard it it to kill, as a hunter on a Kangaroo cull, as a worker in an abbatoir, as an executioner in a prison, as a soldier at war? Ninety years after World War I, police in a Victorian country town uncover the... Buy or find out more→
Communism: A Love Story
$24.95 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
"What I remember most about the communists is their passion... " For more than seventy years, idealists and rebels of all stripes saw in the Communist Party the best hope for a world remade. Who were the people... Buy or find out more→
Radical Melbourne
$39.95 – Paperback / Vulgar Press
Traces the secret history of Melbourne, through the first hundred years of political radicalism. It focuses not only on the people, but the structures, streets and public places that remain today. Buy or find out more→
Radical Melbourne Ii 1940-2000
$39.95 – Paperback / Vulgar Press
Takes a look at the radicals and rebels on the streets of Melbourne, uncovering a story of secret police and secret armies, guerilla artists and underground cells, militant unionists and intransigent peaceniks. From teenage... Buy or find out more→
