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A collection of books about our amazing history or social justice books from campaigns we have been involved in. Find out more about us by purchasing some of these wonderful books.
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A collection of books about our amazing history or social justice books from campaigns we have been involved in. Find out more about us by purchasing some of these wonderful books.
Radical Sydney Book - Only $40.00

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A collection of books about our amazing history or social justice books from campaigns we have been involved in. Find out more about us by purchasing some of these wonderful books.
Fore & Aft - Tas Bull - Only $20.00

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A collection of books about our amazing history or social justice books from campaigns we have been involved in. Find out more about us by purchasing some of these wonderful books.
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A collection of books about our amazing history or social justice books from campaigns we have been involved in. Find out more about us by purchasing some of these wonderful books.
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Voices from the Ships - $45.00
Voices from the Ships - Diane Kirkby , 9780868409023, UNSW Press, January 2009, 480pp, HB , 240×172mmAustralia’s seafarers claim a long and distinguished history of political activism and union organisation. Theirs is more than just a job. It is a way of life in which union membership is inseparable from their identity as world citizens. For more than fifty years a commitment to a socialist vision of world peace and democracy, combined with strong and continuous leadership, made the Seamen’s Union a distinctive...
Comprehensive Text of Turk's Head Knots - $20.00
Comprehensive Text of Turk's Head Knots - By James Edward Harvey‘This book demonstrates James Harvey’s lifelong dedication to the trade of seafaring and all of its diverse elements. An able seafarer was known and respected by the quality of his splicing, rigging and fancy work. At a time of international security crisis, shipping today is as essential as it is dangerous. Knots are functional as well as aesthetic and reflect seafaring life. They must hold fast, not jam up, they must be able to be let go...
Radical Sydney Book - $40.00
Radical Sydney Book - Radical Sydney: Places, Portraits and Unruly EpisodesTerry Irving , Rowan Cahill , 9781742230931, UNSWSydney: a beautiful international city with impressive buildings, harbour-side walkways, public gardens, cafes, restaurants, theatres and hotels. This is the way Sydney is represented to its citizens and to the rest of the world. But there has always been another Sydney not viewed so fondly by the city’s rulers, a radical part of Sydney.The working-class suburbs to the south and west of the city were...
Fore & Aft - Tas Bull - $20.00
Fore & Aft - Tas Bull - Fore and Aft is a book of sea stories, personal encounters and nautical history by an author who was known for the understatement of his own achievements, his anecdotal and accessible style and his inherent good humour and optimism. But this book as extra value for many as the record of someone who was prepared both to make a stand to conciliate; to mobilise people in a cause and to insist on standards and principles. Even many of his contemporary...
Fighting Films - $30.00
Fighting Films - A set of 3 DVDs Fighting Films brings together the work of the union’s celebrated 1950s union film unit – Keith Gow, Jock Levy and Norma Disher – best known for The Hungry Miles.
With these arms - CD - $10.00
With these arms - CD - Songs & Poems of the MUASelected songs & poems from many sources, emails,old LP’s,CD’s,pamphlets,magazines and books. Here for the first time are songs and poems from the picket lines and support concerts held during the Union’s historic battle to survive in 1998. There are also songs and poems spanning the last 70 years or so, most relating to the union’s struggles and campaigns.1. Right That Time – Maurie Mulheron2. The Hungry Mile – Maree Delofski3. Pig Iron...
Confessions of a faceless man - $25.00
Confessions of a faceless man - Paul Howes has been branded as one of Labor’s ‘ faceless’ men, the union boss accused of removing Kevin Rudd from the highest office in the land when the polls started to wobble, the kingmaker (or should that be queenmaker?) who installed Julia Gillard in the top job.What drives Paul Howes and why was he so passionately committed to the return of the Labor government?His diary of the 2010 election campaign is an insider’ s account of modern campaigning ALP-style....
Twenty Eight Men by Wayne Ward - $20.00
Twenty Eight Men by Wayne Ward - 28 men depicts an explosive period of endemic industrial disputation, the near general strike that crippled NSW in 1917. During this volatile period of strikes, union power, political intrigues and a world at war, there emerged from near anarchy a conservative cohesion of political forces within the australian government.
Forever Lost, Forever Gone by Paddy Hill - $40.00
Forever Lost, Forever Gone by Paddy Hill - Special edition signed copy.In 1974 Paddy Joe Hill was charged alongside five other men with the biggest mass murder on the Britih mainland – the Birmingham pub bombings. Arrested and beaten by members of the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad, Hill was condemned by false scientific evidence. He was deprived of his freedom for 16 years, three months and 23 days.;Paddy Joe rebelled against the system from the outset, enduring frequent spells in solitary confinement as the authorities tried to...
Proved Innocent by Gerry Conlan - $40.00
Proved Innocent by Gerry Conlan - Special edition, sighned copyIn October 1989 Gerry Conlon was the first of the Guildford Four to walk away from the British courts, cleared after 15 years of charges of murder. This is Conlon’s account of the episode and evokes the horror of the frame-up.
A man and his union by Harry Bridges - $20.00
A man and his union by Harry Bridges - Produced by Berry Minott and John KnoopHarry Bridges – A man and his union chronicles the life of one of America’s most important and controversial left-wing labor leader. He headed the International longshoremen and Warehouseman Union from the 1930’s to the 1970’s and was a champion of workers’ causes on the international scale
Under the Southern Cross - $20.00
Under the Southern Cross - *This story is written on behalf of the Merchant Marine of WWII. In 2008 the Australian Government proclaimed the 24 June Merchant Navy Day 63 years after WWIIToday the passage of time has dimmed the life of the unforgettable episodes of nobility, agony, despair and triumph. So little recognition is given to all who took part in the war at sea by the forgotten service for them six long years of unending war from 1939-1945 where the forgotten...
Solidarity Stories by Harvey Schwartz - $25.00
Solidarity Stories by Harvey Schwartz - The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, born out of the 1934 West Coast maritime and San Francisco general strikes under the charismatic leadership of Harry Bridges, has been known from the start for its strong commitment to democracy, solidarity, and social justice. In this collection of firsthand narratives, union leaders and rank-and-file workers – from the docks of Pacific Coast ports to the fields of Hawaii to bookstores in Portland, Oregon – talk about their lives at work, on the...
On the Global Waterfront bu Suzan Erem & Paul Durrenberger - $30.00
On the Global Waterfront bu Suzan Erem & Paul Durrenberger - Longshoremen stand at the nexus of the global economy, handling nearly every cargo container that enters or leaves any country. Even in the face of cargo “containerization” in the 70s and 80s, a development that decimated longshore unions, they have managed to win contracts that provide health benefits and high wages.“On the Global Waterfront” tells the story of how longshoremen in South Carolina confronted attempts to wipe out the state’s most powerful black organization. When a Danish shipping company began...
The Hungry mile and other poems by Ernest Antony - $10.00
The Hungry mile and other poems by Ernest Antony - In 1930 Antony published a forty-page volume of poems The Hungry Mile And Other Poems, comprising thirty-three poems, printed by in Sydney by Wright & Baker, a Dixon Street printery owned by the Communist Party of Australia. In his ‘Acknowledgement’ Antony thanked the Australian left intellectual Esmonde Higgins for “his valuable assistance in preparing this volume for publication”. The poems suggest the poet is a widely read person with a satiric, at times bitterly ironic, sense of humour and a...

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