| Acknowledgments | p. viii |
| Alphabetical table of sites for maps | p. xi |
| Suburbs of Sydney map | p. xiv |
| City of Sydney map | p. xvi |
| Introduction: A different Sydney | p. 1 |
| Dawes Point: Moral dilemmas | p. 7 |
| Observatory Hill: Remembering Vinegar Hill | p. 13 |
| Touring hell: Hyde Park Barracks | p. 21 |
| Johann Lhotsky, Revolutionary | p. 28 |
| Tumult in paradise: The watch houses of Sydney | p. 36 |
| The Mutual Protection Association - The Customs House | p. 46 |
| Cabbage tree and tricolour | p. 54 |
| The 8-hour day and the Holy Spirit - Garrison and Mariners' churches, The Rocks | p. 61 |
| Lucien Henry, Communard - Victoria Street, Kings Cross | p. 67 |
| John Norton and the democratic riots of 1887 | p. 75 |
| The Henry Lawson statue: Iconic Henry and 'faded' Louisa | p. 83 |
| A 'democratic rendezvous': The bookshops of radical Sydney Bruce Scates | p. 89 |
| A convict legend of the 1890s - Bulletin Place | p. 97 |
| 'Gone bung': The terror of 1893 - The Savings Bank in Barrack Street | p. 105 |
| Defending free speech: On the stump in 1915 - Speakers' corners | p. 114 |
| The Battle of Central | p. 121 |
| Vere Gordon Childe and the pacifists - The Friends' Meeting House, Devonshire Street | p. 130 |
| Merv Flanagan, Labour martyr - The Mortuary Station, Regent Street Lucy Taksa | p. 136 |
| A nerve centre of revolution - Rawson Place | p. 144 |
| The Trades Hall Reds versus the Domain Fascists | p. 151 |
| Australia for Australians: Fred Maynard makes progress - St David's Hall, Surry Hills | p. 161 |
| Joy and rough music on the picket line | p. 168 |
| The death of The World | p. 175 |
| The Venerable Boote - The Worker Building, Castlereagh Street Peter Kirkpatrick | p. 181 |
| Defending Darlinghurst from the Reds - Angel Place | p. 186 |
| The anti-eviction war - Union Street, Erskineville | p. 196 |
| The defence of Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda | p. 204 |
| The New Theatre Michelle Arrow | p. 210 |
| The day of mourning - The Australian Hall, 150-52 Elizabeth Street | p. 216 |
| Welcoming the Nazi tourist - Sydney Town Hall, 1938 | p. 223 |
| Ken Cook and the Japanese collaborators - The Grace Building, 77-79 York Street | p. 231 |
| The Battle of Bligh Street | p. 238 |
| Fred Wong and the Chinese Seamen's Union - 175 Hay Street | p. 244 |
| 'Barging' at the GPO: Imperialism at bay | p. 251 |
| Margaret Street riot, 1947 | p. 257 |
| Dorothy Hewett and the Redfern Reds - Lawson Square | p. 265 |
| The Waterside Workers' Cultural Committee Lisa Milner | p. 273 |
| Youth Carnival defies Menzies: The city of the left in the 1950s | p. 279 |
| P&O wall fountain - Hunter Street | p. 285 |
| Nestor's cellar: Lefties in the sky with diamonds - 72 Oxford Street, Paddington | p. 292 |
| Political bolt-cutting - Sydney University's front lawn | p. 298 |
| The siege of Victoria Street - Kings Cross | p. 305 |
| The conspiracy against Ananda Marga | p. 314 |
| Combating the 'greatest social menace' - Darlinghurst Police Station | p. 321 |
| Survival Day, 26 January 1988, Koori Redfern - The Empress Hotel, Regent Street | p. 328 |
| The 'invisible' maritime worker - Memorial at the National Maritime Museum | p. 335 |
| Recommended reading | p. 348 |
| Index | p. 359 |
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