Melbourne-based labour historian, Phillip Deery recently launched Karen Throssell's book The Crime of Not Knowing Your Crime, about her father Ric Throssell's lifelong battle with ASIO to clear his name.
Appallingly, women who have made history make up just 1% of all of Victoria’s statues. Darren Saffin argues why it is important to support a statue of feminist unionist Zelda D'Aprano.
Distinguished Kuku Yalanji woman Pat O’Shane is running for Socialist Alliance in the seat of Leichhardt. A retired barrister and a former New South Wales magistrate, she spoke to Alex Bainbridge about what fires her up and why she decided to contest the federal election.
Geroge Zangalis (left) at a protest for pensioner rights in 2019. Photo: Joe Montero / The Pen
Communist, trade unionist and class-struggle fighter for migrant rights George Zangalis died on March 25. Radicalised during the Greek civil war at the end of World War II, Zangalis remained a fighter until the end.
Despite the Communist Party of Greece leading substantial sections of the anti-Nazi Resistance movement during World War II, after the Nazi occupation of Greece ended in 1944, the British and United States military forces, with the support of pro-Nazi elements in Greece, defeated the communist government and handed back power to the right-wing royalists.