Against the Stream

This second volume of The History of the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance covers the exciting and turbulent 20-year period that opened with the election of the Whitlam government in 1972. It was a time of change and struggle: “Kerr’s coup” sacking the Labor governmentBattles between the Fraser government and unions trying to protect wages against surging inflationThe ALP’s Prices and Incomes AccordThe Hawke government’s deregistration of the militant BLF and airline pilots’ unionThe ris