This collection of essays covers a wide range of topics, but each is explored in great depth.

Ben Hillier looks at the origin of the Australian Greens and the contradictions which have plagued them from even before their official founding (including an indefensible anti-immigration policy) . Diane Fields looks at the racism inherent reasons the liberal left gave for the military intervention into Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. Sandra Bloodworth explores the radical Marxist history of fighting the oppression of women and sexual minorities, from Marx and Engels through to the Russian Revolution. Mick Armstrong discusses the confusion of the far left in Britain and Australia in the 1990s and how that lead to the formation of Socialist Alternative, now Australia's largest far left organisation. Finally, Rick Kuhn outlines the responsibility of socialists to be active participants of propaganda groups and mass parties, and argues against intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky that all that is necessary to change the world is to write about "the truth".