Introduction. - PART 1: ORIGINS. - 1. From helpless natives to revolutionary heroes: An evolving ethic of solidarity. - 2. Turning over Marx and Mao and intently lengthening their hair: Writing, debating and living the global. - PART II: COMINGS AND GOINGS. - 3. Revolutionary tourists: Australian activists, travel and 1968. - 4. Our unpolluted shores: Radical arrivals and the politics of the border. - PART III: POSSIBILITIES AND DISILLUSIONMENT. - 5. Wider horizons: Indigenous Australians abroad and the limits of global activism. - 6. A dangerous disease to catch: Overseas students, transnational policing and the passing of an idea