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Title: Anti-Fascists: Jim McNeill and his mates in the Spanish Civil War Author: SAMARAS MICHAEL Format: PAPERBACK Publication date: 12/04/2025 Imprint: CONNOR COURT PUBLISHING  ISBN: 9781923224575 Hello, and welcome to this SEARCH Foundation podcast. Michael Samaras’ book Anti-Fascists: Jim McNeill and His Mates in the Spanish Civil War was published in March 2025. The book has been launched in S...

In this sixteenth, and final,  Episode of Series 2 of the Postwar Communists podcasts,  20 of the 23  interviewees talk about their political lives following the dissolution of the CPA. The other three interviewees can be heard on this topic in Episode 1. Thanks to our interviewees, currently younger-than-old-but-older-than-young (aka baby boomers).      This series can be seen as a complement to...

In this fifteenth  Episode of Series 2 of the Postwar Communists podcasts,  7  of the 23  interviewees talk about their experiences as members of the CPA. Thanks to our interviewees, currently younger-than-old-but-older-than-young (aka baby boomers).      This series can be seen as a complement to the other material produced for the centenary year of the CPA. In SEARCH's book Comrades ! Lives...

In this fourteenth  Episode of Series 2 of the Postwar Communists podcasts,  6  of the 23  interviewees talk about their experiences as members of the CPA. Thanks to our interviewees, currently younger-than-old-but-older-than-young (aka baby boomers).      This series can be seen as a complement to the other material produced for the centenary year of the CPA. In SEARCH's book Comrades ! Live...

In this thirteenth Episode of Series 2 of the Postwar Communists podcasts,  6  of the 23  interviewees talk about their experiences as members of the CPA. Thanks to our interviewees, currently younger-than-old-but-older-than-young (aka baby boomers).      This series can be seen as a complement to the other material produced for the centenary year of the CPA. In SEARCH's book Comrades ! Lives...

In this twelfth Episode of Series 2 of the Postwar Communists podcasts,  another 7 of the 23  interviewees talk about the reasons for the CPA's dissolution. Thanks to our interviewees, currently younger-than-old-but-older-than-young (aka baby boomers).      This series can be seen as a complement to the other material produced for the centenary year of the CPA. In SEARCH's book Comrades...

In this eleventh Episode of Series 2 of the Postwar Communists podcasts,  another 6 of the 23  interviewees talk about the reasons for the CPA's dissolution. Thanks to our interviewees, currently younger-than-old-but-older-than-young (aka baby boomers).      This series can be seen as a complement to the other material produced for the centenary year of the CPA. In SEARCH's book Comrades...

In this tenth Episode of Series 2 of the Postwar Communists podcasts,  6 of the 23  interviewees talk about the reasons for the CPA's dissolution. Thanks to our interviewees, currently younger-than-old-but-older-than-young (aka baby boomers).      This series can be seen as a complement to the other material produced for the centenary year of the CPA. In SEARCH's book Comrades ! Lives of...

In this ninth Episode of Series 2 of the Postwar Communists podcasts,  a further 7 of the 23  interviewees talk about their decision not to join, or to leave the ALP. Thanks to our interviewees, currently younger-than-old-but-older-than-young (aka baby boomers).      This series can be seen as a complement to the other material produced for the centenary year of the CPA. In SEARCH's book Comr...

In this eighth Episode of Series 2 of the Postwar Communists podcasts,  a further 6 of the 23  interviewees talk about their decision not to join, or to leave the ALP. Thanks to our interviewees, currently younger-than-old-but-older-than-young (aka baby boomers).      This series can be seen as a complement to the other material produced for the centenary year of the CPA. In SEARCH's book Com...

In this seventh Episode of Series 2 of the Postwar Communists podcasts,  6 of the 23  interviewees talk about their decision not to join, or to leave the ALP. Thanks to our interviewees, currently younger-than-old-but-older-than-young (aka baby boomers).      This series can be seen as a complement to the other material produced for the centenary year of the CPA. In SEARCH's book Comrades ! L...

In this sixth Episode of Series 2 of the Postwar Communists podcasts,  6 of the 23  interviewees talk about their decision to join to the CPA. Thanks to our interviewees, currently younger-than-old-but-older-than-young (aka baby boomers).      This series can be seen as a complement to the other material produced for the centenary year of the CPA. In SEARCH's book Comrades ! Lives of Australi...

In this fifth Episode of Series 2 of the Postwar Communists podcasts,  8 of the 23  interviewees talk about their decision to join to the CPA. The other voices will be heard in subsequent episodes.   Thanks to our interviewees, currently younger-than-old-but-older-than-young (aka baby boomers).      This series can be seen as a complement to the other material produced for the centenary year of th...

In this fourth Episode of Series 2 of the Postwar Communists podcasts,  8 of the 23  interviewees talk about their decision to join to the CPA. The other voices will be heard in subsequent episodes.   Thanks to our interviewees, currently younger-than-old-but-older-than-young (aka baby boomers).      This series can be seen as a complement to the other material produced for the centenary year of t...

In this third Episode of Series 2 of the Postwar Communists podcasts,  a further 8 of the 23  interviewees talk about their decision to join to the CPA. The other voices will be heard in subsequent episodes.   Thanks to our interviewees, currently younger-than-old-but-older-than-young (aka baby boomers).      This series can be seen as a complement to the other material produced for the centenary...

In this second Episode of Series 2 of the Postwar Communists podcasts,  8 of the 23  interviewees talk about their decision to join to the CPA. The other voices will be heard in subsequent episodes.   Thanks to our interviewees, currently younger-than-old-but-older-than-young (aka baby boomers).      This series can be seen as a complement to the other material produced for the centenary year of t...

In this first Episode of Series 2 of the Postwar Communists podcasts,  a further 23  interviewees are heard.   Thanks to our interviewees, currently younger-than-old-but-older-than-young (aka baby boomers).      This series can be seen as a complement to the other material produced for the centenary year of the CPA. In SEARCH's book Comrades ! Lives of Australian Communists (SEARCH, 2020) we...

Dr Dylan Lino is Senior Lecturer at the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland, and was a member of the team that provided legal advice to the Uluru Dialogue.   Dylan spoke to us and took questions on what the Voice means for sovereignty, on why it comes first in the Voice Treaty Truth sequence, and how change to the constitution has historically led to further positive changes fo...

Bernard Collaery is an Australian solicitor and barrister who specialises in litigation in high-profile catastrophic personal injury cases. He has acted for families of victims of the Thredbo landslide, the Royal Canberra Hospital demolition tragedy, the Glenbrook rail disaster in the Blue Mountains, the fire aboard HMAS Westralia and the tragic loss of an RAAF F1-11 in the South China Sea. Throug...

Alison Pennington was Senior Economist with the Centre for Future Work. She has been quoted and published in various news outlets on the impact of the economic crisis on workers, particularly on young people and women, and has made numerous TV, podcast and radio appearances on a broad range of topics related to her areas of expertise. She talks in this Zoom forum on her articles (linked below) ‘Ho...

Bill Fletcher Jr is the executive editor of Global African Worker and the author of “They’re Bankrupting Us!": and Twenty Other Myths about Unions (2012). Having been an activist since his teen years, upon graduating from college Bill went to work as a welder in a shipyard, thereby entering the labor movement. Over the years he has been active in workplace and community struggles as well as e...

Sean Sweeney PhD is the Director of the International Program for Labor, Climate and Environment at the School of Labor and Urban Studies at City University of New York. His extensive writings, podcasts and videos on energy democracy are available on the unions for energy democracy website…: http://unionsforenergydemocracy.org/s... He is a long time leading trade unionist and climate and energy ac...

Dr Jim Stanford speaks on Wages, Prices, and the Risks of Monetary Austerity Working people are seeing their real wages decline rapidly, and governments everywhere are threatening to cut incomes and services to tame inflation. But what’s Causing It? Who’s Benefiting From It? And How Can We Solve it Without Austerity? Jim Stanford is the author of countless academic and popular articles on economic...

Alison Tate (ITUC) and April Khaing (Burmese Australian activist) talk about the situation in Burma, why it matters to Australians, and what we can do about it. Alison Tate is the Director of Economic and Social Policy of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), a body representing 207 million workers in 165 countries. Her policy work spans such areas as international trade and investme...

Fiona Reynolds, (now former) Managing Director of the UN Principles of Responsible Investment, speaks at this online public forum on the COP26 conference and its outcomes, followed by a Q&A. About Fiona Reynolds At the time of recording, in Nov 2021, Fiona Reynolds was Managing Director of the PRI, responsible to the board for the PRI’s global operations which includes more than 1350 signatori...