/lit/ - Literature

>>1866578
start with the harlem renaissance
read some Langston Hughes and learn about the NAACP.

Black Panther Party and their approach on achieving equal rights is interesting as well.

Communism was a pretty big thing in Australia too, you know

>>1866604
did they form worker unions and a socialist party? I'm curious to know how communism panned out in other white-christian countries.

http://atlasshrugged.com/

meow

>>1866611
AFAIK, they did form unions and there was a considerable amount of scaremongering going on (just like in the US), at some point Australia *might* have seen a minor uprising but the leader was too drunk. [citation needed]

>>1866614
hah! Reminds me of the Russian president back then. He's nothing like Putin.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1215101/Drunk-Boris-Yeltsin-outside-White-House-underpants-t
rying-hail-cab-wanted-pizza.html

Watch lots of Noam Chomsky videos on Youtube. You'll be an expert on world politics after the third video (and I'm only being slightly sarcastic).

Herbert Marcuse and the Situationists.
That's all you need too start with politics.

>>1866656
*to start

>>1866641

Britfag here, OP >>1866641 is good advice if you want to start out learning about the US left imho. Chomsky is prolific and has been around a long time so you can get a long look at post WW2 US politics from him.

chomsky.info is a good.

Counterpunch.org is the big US leftist online magazine afaik, its pretty good too with a huge variety of people writing for it.

Howard Zinn is another name that pops up a lot, he wrote A Peoples History of the US which is rather good although other than that I know little about him.

Lastly Alex Cockburn. His lectures are great - he is a very interesting speaker, his Beating the Devil: The Incendiary Rantings of Alex Cockburn, was excellent and had me hooked all the way through.
He is however not leftist but a paleoconservative (something I had to look up when I saw it) but his views are non-mainstream enough to warrant attention if learning about the spectrum of US political thought outside the mainstream.

Note. People form the US can probably give you better info than I can but what I give might be a good start at least...I hope.

Communism isn't the Chinese or Soviet system just so you know. Read Marx or Engels if you want to know what communism is about.

>>1866659
Thank you so much, I will look at everything you posted and check out those people in detail. Thank you, again.

>>1866641
>>1866598
>>1866656
Thank all of you as well.

>>1866613
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Australia is single-handedly screwing up the world with its right wing politics. Go back to censoring movies and banning video games. I prefer the whole country left out of modern culture ... what was I saying, as, yes, take a university course like everyone else. trust me, your professor will be begging to teach you, unlike every liberal-conservative teacher with nothing to say