This collection, bringing together 14 chapters from leading and emerging figures in the Australian and international historical profession, for the first time charts some of the significant moments and interventions, revealing the Australian far left's often forgotten contribution to the nation's history. "The contributors and editors have delivered on their claims to 'begin the process of properly piecing together the far left's long-term impact on Australia' in service of activist history by heeding Walter Benjamin's bid to 'appropriate a memory as it flashes up in a moment of danger' (14). This is an indispensable resource that is essential reading for all students and would-be practitioners of activist history." - Joe Collins, Australian Historical Studies