Join your friendly guides and comrades Christian and Tim, hosts of the People’s History of Australia podcast, for a rich and exciting journey through Newtown’s streets and back alleys.
From strikes by timber workers to communist organising, to Women’s Liberation and squatting, to Aboriginal politics, gay rights and anarchism, Glebe has seen an incredible array of radical movements and activity.
Radical Sydney is a day-long festival celebrating Sydney’s incredible history of ordinary people fighting collectively for a better life and a better world – from Aboriginal resistance to invasion, to Vietnam War era protests, to radical Chinese-Australian workers, to high school rebellions.
In the 1930s, after many years of racism, mass meetings of mainly white trade unionists and unemployed workers began declaring solidarity with Aboriginal struggles.
