Labor Party

On January 20, 1942, fifteen men arrived for a meeting in a luxurious villa on the shores of the Wannsee in the far-western outskirts of Berlin. They came at the invitation of Reinhard Heydrich and were almost all high-ranking Nazi Party, government, and SS officials. But the beauty of the situation stood in stark contrast to the purpose of the meeting to which the fifteen had come in January 1942: the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.”

A powerful memoir of medicine, identity, and family secrets from an esteemed ob-gyn as she unravels her grandmother’s mysterious death while reimagining women’s health care from a mobile clinic—for readers of The Beauty in Breaking and The In-Between. In Labor: One Woman’s Work, Dr. Mary...

The Socialism Collection brings together nine major works from the socialist, communist, and radical political traditions. Together these works present some of the most influential and controversial arguments in modern political history.

There is an old world fading out with a new world coming in. This story represents where the two worlds meet. Steelworker, Geronimo 'Mo" Fields, is unexpectedly placed into leadership as a union steward and questions his future in the steel industry as he tries to deescalate tension between a supervisor and angry co-workers that want to strike while contract negotiations with the company are about to expire.

Brought to you by Penguin. An eye-opening journey through the secret forces shaping our opinions, this book reveals why we think what we think – and why disagreement matters Our opinions – whether we believe in God or in ghosts, our views on sex or animal rights or immigration, our basic...

For more than fifty years, working people in the United States have seen their wages stagnate, their jobs disappear, and their political influence collapse—while billionaires consolidate unprecedented wealth and power. Today, millions of voters feel politically homeless, alienated from both major parties and skeptical that either one is capable of delivering real change. In The Billionaires Have Two Parties, We Need a Party of Our Own, labor educator and political strategist Les Leopold argues that this crisis is not a failure of working people—but a failure of the political system ...

On the thirtieth anniversary of John Howard coming to power, a searing analysis of the untouchable prime minister: how the ‘great economic manager’ sold our future. John Howard is often revered as one of the great Australian prime ministers (1996–2007): economically prudent, politically...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Meticulously sourced, merciless and revelatory. It is a closely observed study of power, and how it is gained, used and lost' FINANCIAL TIMES The unmissable next instalment of Tim Shipman’s #1 bestselling Brexit quartet. To follow his bestselling books...

Paul Keating was one of the most forceful, controversial, and consequential leaders in modern Australian political history. From Bankstown to Blaxland, from the Treasury benches to the Lodge, Keating helped reshape the country’s economy, Labor’s identity, and Australia’s sense of itself. As Treasurer under Bob Hawke, he was central to the reforms that floated the Australian dollar, opened the financial system, reshaped taxation, and forced Australia out of the protected habits of the postwar order. Those reforms made the country more competitive and more exposed, more modern and more ...

Gough Whitlam changed Australia in less than three years. Elected in 1972 after twenty-three years of conservative rule, Whitlam entered office with the force of a delayed national future. His campaign slogan, “It’s Time”, captured a country ready for movement after decades of caution, deference, and political fatigue. His government ended conscription, recognised the People’s Republic of China, abolished university fees, created the foundations of universal health care, expanded legal aid, supported the arts, advanced multiculturalism, pushed Aboriginal land rights into national ...

Bloomsbury presents Protest and Power by David Kogan, read by Rupert Farley. 'A meticulously researched and balanced history' The Times 'Highly-readable and well-researched' The Sunday Times 'Faultless account of the twists and turns undertaken by the hard left of the Labour Party to retain...

Billy Hughes was one of the most forceful, divisive, and contradictory prime ministers in Australian history. Born in London poverty and remade through Australian labour politics, Hughes rose from migrant insecurity to become one of the fiercest voices of the working-class movement. He helped carry Labor from industrial grievance into national power, championing arbitration, Commonwealth authority, worker protection, and the idea that government could be used against entrenched privilege. Then came the First World War. As prime minister, Hughes became convinced that Australia had to provide...

Pete Adderley, a retired academic is confronted by a failed career and the prospect of a failing future when he is asked to investigate the disappearance of an old university friend,Andrew Lincoln. The search brings him into contact with two other old acquaintances, one an intelligence agent, the other an Aid worker in Africa, both of whom will draw him into a modern Heart of Darkness in West Africa.

Ben Chifley did not seek power for its glamour. He carried it like work. A railwayman from Bathurst, shaped by discipline, hardship, Catholic duty, and the memory of the Great Depression, Chifley became one of the most consequential Prime Ministers in Australian history. As Treasurer during the Second World War and Prime Minister in the uneasy years after John Curtin’s death, he helped build the foundations of the Australian post-war state. His politics were built around one central fear: that Australia might forget the suffering caused when governments allowed ordinary people to fall ...

How Labour took power and what they're doing with it 'Taken As Red stands out for its balance and the depth of its reporting' The Guardian 'Revelatory and insightful.' Tim Shipman In Taken As Red acclaimed political journalist Anushka Asthana takes us behind the scenes of the 2024 general...

The Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz were first published in 1932 as a classic of feminist literature. Now restored to their original form by leading Markievicz expert, Lindie Naughton, this new edition features previously unpublished letters that Markievicz sent to family members and friends, offering a unique insight into her extraordinary life. After escaping the firing squad for her part in the 1916 Easter Rising, she was sentenced to life imprisonment and transferred to Mountjoy Jail and later sent to other prisons including Holloway in London and Cork Jail. Through these letters,...

Brought to you by Penguin. We all want to know what on earth is going on. Why real wages are flatlining but taxes are rising, and public services are still collapsing. Why our children can’t afford a house and our neighbours are using foodbanks. We are all yearning for a way out of the...

'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write it than Jake Wallis Simons, both as ground-breaking Middle East security correspondent and Editor of the Jewish Chronicle. It analyses the often prejudiced coverage and intense scrutiny...

Surviving childhood sexual abuse and bullying, the author worked for the Labour party during the turbulent 70s and 80s, rubbing shoulders with future prime minsters before discovering a new life at an Oxford college. A life of real drama, facing traumas of grief and mental illness yet awash with love and contentment.

John Curtin never sought war, but war made him the most important Australian prime minister of the twentieth century. Born into hardship, shaped by the labour movement, marked by the bitter anti-conscription battles of the First World War, and nearly destroyed by personal struggle, Curtin did not look like the obvious man to lead Australia through its greatest national crisis. He was serious, anxious, morally burdened, and deeply suspicious of the easy language of war. Yet in 1941, as Japan entered the Second World War and the old British defence system collapsed, Curtin became the leader ...