Liam Byrne

Memory as political intervention

Liam Byrne

Book Chapter  |  2021

This chapter considers how labor activists and leaders use life writing to consolidate and construct the movements’ collective mem..

Visions of the future: political labour's temporality and socialist objectives in Britain and Australia, 1918-21

Liam Byrne

Journal article  |  2020  |  HISTORICAL RESEARCH

This article is a comparative study of political temporality and the concept of the 'future' in British Labour and Australian Labo..

How the SPD Lost the Future: The Party's Crisis as a Loss of Future-imagining

Liam Byrne

Journal article  |  2020  |  GERMAN POLITICS

In 2019, a Der Spiegel poll asked German readers which party has the best answers to the ‘questions of the future?' Just two perce..

Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin Their Early Political Careers and the Making of the Modern Labor Party

Liam Byrne

Book  |  2020

This is the story of two young men striving to better the world they had inherited, a story of optimism and hope with enduring rel..

How Jeremy Corbyn brought labour back to the future: visions of the future and concrete utopia in labour's 2017 electoral campaign

Liam Byrne

Journal article  |  2019  |  BRITISH POLITICS

Since his election to British Labour’s leadership in 2015 Jeremy Corbyn has excelled in defying expectations. Labour’s unanticipat..

The Electoral Poetics of James Scullin's Campaign against Alfred Deakin, 1906: Anticipating "Fusion"

Liam Byrne

Journal article  |  2019  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY

In the 1906 federal election James Scullin, then an unknown grocer, challenged the sitting Prime Minister, Alfred Deakin, for his ..

Translating Anti-Capitalism Throughout the Empire: Tom Mann and John Curtin as Transnational Activists, 1902-1916

Liam Byrne

Book Chapter  |  2018

In the early twentieth century, socialist activists within labour’s transnational network organised against imperialism and global..

Coolies or Comrades? Labor Socialism and the Contradictions of Internationalism, 1909-22

Liam Byrne

Journal article  |  2017  |  LABOUR HISTORY

Coolies or comrades? Labor socialism and the contradictions of internationalism, 1909-22

L Byrne

Journal article  |  2017  |  Labour History

In the first decades after Federation, Australian Labor Socialist intellectuals warned that capitalists desired to reduce Australi..

John Curtin: labour movement intellectual, 1906–1917

L Byrne

Journal article  |  2016  |  History Australia

Between 1909 and 1914 John Curtin was a socialist intellectual and labour activist, who formulated and propagated an important the..