Ephemera on communism in Australia : Box 1 : Pre 1990-2019

Ephemera on communism in Australia
Item Number Title Author Date Format Description
Folder 1/Item 1 The Israeli-Arab Crisis The Bridge and Outlook; the Independent Socialist Review Oct.-Nov. 1967 Folded sheet Ideology, Loyalties, Commitments'; Extracts from a statement at a Central Committee Meeting of the Israeli Communist Party by Dr Moshe Sneh.
Folder 1/Item 2 Socialist Man: Isaac Deutscher's Address to Scholars' Conference at New York Outlook [1966] Folded sheet A reprint of the opening address at the second annual Socialist Scholars' Conference in New York in September 1966 by Isaac Deutscher, biographer of Trotsky and Stalin.
Folder 1/Item 3 The Poison of Terrorism Socialist Publications, Webb & Son, Adelaide [1970] Folded sheet An article questioning whether terrorism is the way to bring about the big changes the world badly needs. From a book titled 'Worker Power' written by Canadians Charlotte and Dyson Carter, abridged for Australian publication. Includes statement by Harry Bridges, retired leader of the American West-coast Longshoremen and a note on the existence of a temporary pass, dropped by a woman at a demonstration against conscription who, on her arrest was released on production of the pass. [2 copies].
Folder 1/Item 4 A Tribute to Jack McPhillips [No author] Folded sheet Title page only of a tribute to Mr McPhillips, who gave 60 year service and dedication to the communist movement and the international working class. Includes a photo of Mr McPhillips.
Folder 1/Item 5 No Kidding ... YSL Flyer Publicity for a barbeque at the Gladstone Hotel, Chippendale, featuring 10 young tourists from the GDR.
Folder 1/Item 6 Mao At Bay Outlook publication Feb-67 Stapled pamphlet An alternate view of the cultural revolution by Isaac Deutscher, originally published in the USA's The Nation, Vol.203, No.14, Oct 31, 1966.
Folder 1/Item 7 Newsletter: Last Year's Was the Best Yet ... This Year's Will be Better Than Ever! Marxist Summer School & Festival Organising Committee Nov-85 Folded sheet Information on the 9th Festival, including a call for organisers and a radical film festival. Issues for discussion include the future of the Left and participation in the 1988 Bicentennial. Includes a registration form.
Folder 1/Item 8 White Pape or a Red Herring D. B. Young, Forest Lodge Folded pamphlet Comment on the defeat of the 1951 Referendum to abolish the Commmunist Party and opposition to a Liberal Party White Paper which is still testing public opinion.
Folder 1/Item 9 The Enemy Within Socialist Publications Stapled sheets A summary of the main points of two articles by Yi Zhilin, published in 'World Economics and Inernational Relations', questioning whether the Working Class Movement is being undermined from within.
Folder 1/Item 10 January 1990 Brigade to Cuba Australia Cuba Friendship Society [1989] Folded pamphlet Photocopy of publicity for a 'Brigade' to experience working and living in revolutionary Cuba between Dec.30, 1989 and Jan.28, 1990. Bookings through STA Travel. Includes form for further details.
Folder 1/Item 11 Commemorative Dinner SEARCH Foundation Oct. 28, 1995 Folded pamphlet Invitation to a dinner to commemorate the 75th Anniversary Foundation of the Communist Party of Australia to be held at the Trocadero Reception Room, Marrickville. Includes a program, historic cartoons and reservation form.
Folder 1/Item 12 A Message from Australian Trotskyists to Australian Communist Party Members and Supporters [Australian Trotskyists] Oct-59 Stapled sheets Short essay outlining the failure of the leaders of the Australian Communist Party to admit past mistakes and their blind support for Stalin's policies, thus their inability to put the movement back onto the right path.
Folder 1/Item 13 A Solidarity Social Night The Communist Party of Australia Dec-02 Card Invitation to a social night at Glebe High School Assembly Hall in the company of Congress delegates, who will be taking part in deciding the CPA's attitude to the New Left Party.
Folder 1/Item 14 What Should Workers' Response Be to Australia's Economic Problems? Industrial Committees of the Association for Communist Unity and the Communist Party of Australia Aug-18 Flyer Publicity for a talk by Professor Ted Wheelwright, introduced by Stan Sharkey, BWIU Assistant National Secretary, and a series of study classes designed to develop workers' abilities in analysing and organising around the problems facing the Australian working class.
Folder 1/Item 15 Joan Williams: Her Policy, Her Record Guardian Press, North Fremantle [1961] Folded pamphlet Election pamphlet, 'Vote Communist [1]', for the seat of Fremantle. Suggests voting [2] for Labor and putting the Liberals last to ensure preferences go to the Labor candidate.
Folder 1/Item 16 The Workers' Answer - To Inflation and Sackings Red Pen Publications Pty. Ltd. Folded sheet Article against capitalist profiteering at the expense of workers, provides suggestions for a workers' counter-offensive.
Folder 1/Item 17a Christian Anti-Communism Crusade Elton Wilson, Director May 1, 1964 Letter Letter addressed 'Dear Secretary' inviting members of their organisation to a series of lectures to discuss communism, commencing 7 June, 1964. Enclosing item at 17b.
Folder 1/Item 17b Communism: How it Affects the World, S.E. Asia, Australia, You Christian Anti-Communism Crusade June 7 - July 26, 1964 Folded pamphlet The aim of a series of lectures, listed, to instruct Australia citizens in the philosophy, morality, organisational structure and techniques of Communism. Enclosed with item at 17a.
Folder 2/Item 1 Communist-Labor Affiliation means .... The Prestige Printery, Ashfield Folded sheet Re-print of a State-wide broadcast by L Sharkey, President, Australian Communist Party, February 2, 1944. Provides an argument for the Communist Party to affiliate with the Labor Party. Affiliation seen as the only way to solve the perplexing problems of the post-war period.
Folder 2/Item 2 Australian People on the March Can Defeat Fascism Vanguard Nov. 20, 1975 Leaflet Essay argues the aim of sacking Prime Minister Whitlam was for the USA to impose control on Australia, thus overcoming the challenge of control by the imperialist Soviet Union. Suggests the people must struggle against both threats.
Folder 2/Item 3 Your World: And What You Can Do About It Communist Party of Australia Leaflet Series of six spring lectures related to communism to be held at the Jim Healy Memorial Hall, Sydney.
Folder 2/Item 4 Roads to Serfdom: Dangers of The Primrose Path Australian Constitutional League.The Land Newspaper Ltd, printer [Pre 1961] Leaflet Essay argues that ordinary citizens may agree to things that inevitably mean the loss of liberty; the price of freedom being eternal vigilance. Provides signals to warn people away from the road to serfdom. Back page includes an invitation to become a member of the League and to listen to 'The Voice of Freedom' on the radio; stations and times provided.
Folder 2/Item 5 Intervention Editorial Group: H Barnes, M Counihan, E Elliott, G Evans, K Good, S Macintyre, P Moore, J Playford, K Rowley & J Smchidt Single sheet Publicising the launch of a new journal intended to develop a sysematic Marxist analysis of Australian capitalism. Subscription form included.
Folder 2/Item 6 Communism and Revolution The Australian Constitutional League. Printer, The Land Newspaper Ltd. Flyer Asks and answers the question in the affirmative that the Communist Party aims to create armed revolution. Concludes in bold print 'The Communist way is, therefore, the way to chaos, civil war and bloodshed!'
Folder 2/Item 7 Australa's Front Line in Rhodesia: Canberra's Treacherous Support for Communist Mozambique The Australian League of Rights, Melbourne Folded sheet Question and answer format supporting the Rhodesian government and colonialism against communism and its communist neighbours. [3 copies]
Folder 2/Item 8 A 'Free' Parliament - Socialist Style Northern Line Printing Co. Pty. Ltd. 1974 Folded sheet Brief articles on Prime Minister Whitlam's 'infamous betrayal' of the Baltic States, forcibly ocupied and annexed by the USSR. Front page states 'Don't let it happen here!'. Includes dates of events to be held during Captive Nations Week.
Folder 2/Item 9 The Barrow Pushers Printing Industries Pty. Ltd. [1952] Leaflet Summary of a radio talk by the People's Union arguing that the ALP and the Communist Party have both adopted the communist policy of socialisation, including in the past, failed attempts to socialise cattle and sheep stations, butcher shops, trawlers and fish shops. Provides an example of failed socialism: six men who pushed a barrow from Sydney to Melbourne, arriving before a parcel consigned to Melbourne by rail.
Folder 2/Item 10 Through Socialism to Communism; Looking Ahead Leaflet No. 4 R.G. Gillies & Co. Pty. Ltd. Leaflet Article suggesting the Chifley Labor Government intends to socialise industry, production, distibution and exchange. Provides statements by Labor politicians to this end and quotes Lenin that 'Socialism is bound, sooner or later, to ripen into Communism.'
Folder 2/Item 11 Save Valentyn Moroz Federal Committee in Defence of the Politically Persecuted in Ukraine [1971] Leaflet Petition to complete and mail to the International Commission of the Red Cross expressing concern for the health and well-being of Valentyn Moroz, a Ukrainian historian and political prisoner. Front page contains poor quality photo of Mr Moroz and drawing of six hands carrying chains.
Folder 2/Item 12 Ideas to Challenge the System: Marxism Socialist Alternative Mar. 28-Mar. 31, 2013 Folded pamphlet Program for conference in Melbourne. Speakers include, amongst others, John Pilger and Gary Foley.
Folder 2/Item 13 Defend The Communist Party Realia Statement 'Defend the Communist Party' inside a border of triangles, printed on a small piece of white paper and glued to a backing of brown paper.
Folder 2/Item 14 Natural Rights P.J. Firth Pty Ltd, Sydney Stapled pamphlet Series of four lessons by A.G. Huie on natural rights 'to give children correct ideas'; The right to live is equal, the right to earn a living is equal, the rights of the community and the right of exchange.
Folder 2/Item 15 Imperialist War is On!'; Australian Submarines Sent to China League Against Imperialism, Australian Section [1931] Single sheet Call to action against the Australian submarines 'Oxley' and 'Otway' being deployed to China by the Commonwealth Labor Government. Reverse includes a letter to 'Dear Comrade', with instructions for attendance, participants expected to 'waive any other engagement in favour of this meeting'.
Folder 2/Item 16 Internationalist Fighting Day Against Imperialist War Wright & Baker, printers Aug. 1, 1931 Single sheet Notice issued by the Central International Red Day Committe of Sydney for workers to 'Fight the War Danger and Defend the Soviet Union' by observing a one day mass strike and attending a demonstration at Central Square. Reverse includes faded, handwritten notes.
Folder 2/Item 17a Unity for Struggle! Joint Committee MM & UWM (South Coast Section) Sept. 28, 1931 Single sheet Call by the Minority Movement and its auxiliary, the Unemployed Workers Movement for the employed and unemployed of the South Coast to participate in 'the monster mass demonstration and one day strike' on 30 September to protest against Dole restrictions, against 'vicious' class justice, against the Badderly Coal Bill and against wage cuts. With 17b.
Folder 2/Item 17b Long Live Working Class Solidarity [Joint Committee MM & UWM (South Coast Section)] [Sept. 28, 1931] Single sheet Motion that members at a meeting of employed and unemployed workers of Wollongong 'recognising that the greedy Capitalist Class is attempting to place the whole of the burden of the present econmic crisis upon the backs of the working class and small farmers of Australia' pledge a program of eight demands. With 17a.
Folder 2/Item 18 Mass Demonstration Against Imperialist WAR Wright & Baker, printers Aug. 1 [1930] Flyer Call issued by the Central International Red Day Committee for workers to attend a mass demonstration against Imperialist War to be held at Martin Place.
Folder 2/Item 19 Workers! Fight Against Suppression of Free Speech Wright & Baker, printers June 8 [1930] Flyer Call issued by the Workers Free Speech Committee for workers to attend a mass demonstration outside the Capitol Theatre to demonstrate against attacks against free assembly and speech.
Folder 2/Item 20 Longer Hours and Lower Wages: Must Be Resisted By All Workers Wright & Baker, printers [1930] Flyer Metal workers asked to fight the Beeby Award which would result in 'Longer Hours, Lower Wages and Coolie Conditions'. Lunch hour meetings to be held with speakers from the Communist Party, details to be added [uncompleted].
Folder 2/Item 21 Rally to the Workers' Defense Army Wright & Baker, printers [1930] Flyer Call to organise a Workers' Defense Army in response to the capitalist attack on the living standards of the workers, resistance having been met with ferocity by the Capitalist State through its armed and uniformed police.
Folder 2/Item 22 World-Wide Demonstrations Wright & Baker, printers Feb. 26, 1930 Flyer Call for the workers of the world, in response to a call from the Communist International, to demonstrate on the International Day for the Struggle Agaist Unemployment. Statistics provided on the output of factories in Britain, USA and Australia compared to the reduction in the numbers of workers.
Folder 2/Item 23 Workers Take Your Place in the Monster March Behind the Rothbury Miners Pipe Band Wright & Baker, printers Jan. 19, 1930 Flyer March from Eddy Avenue to the Domain followed by a mass meeting, under the auspices of the International Class War Prisoners' Aid, to protest boss class brutality on the coalfields.
Folder 2/Item 24 All Out Militant Miners of the South Coast, NSW Dec. 23, 1929 Single sheet Bulletin No. 1, calling for the miners of Coalcliff and Helensburgh to remain on strike until 'the scabs are shifted and the murderers of Norman Brown are removed'. Miners of other pits asked to cease work immediately. Notes over 12,000 miners invaded the town of Cessnock on Sunday prior, arranged by the militants in the north.
Folder 2/Item 25 Hands Off China! Proletarian Press, Annandale Feb-27 Flyer Sub headings: Not one Man. Not one Gun, A Call To Australian Workers. Call by the Central Executive, Communist Party of Australia, against British warships and troops being sent to China for another blood bath to preserve the Imperialist stranglehold on the peoples of China.
Folder 2/Item 26 Hands Off China Manifesto: Stop This War! The Worker Print [1932] Folded pamphlet Sympathy expressed for the Chinese people and a call for the return of warships that are interfering with the efforts of the Chinese people to form any government they want. Names foreign bankers and British firms who benefit from war in China.
Folder 2/Item 27 To All Workers The Labor Daily Ltd., printer. Feb. 13-14, [1927] Flyer Direct Action Press Committee calling on all workers to present a united front to defeat the aims of Imperialism under the banner 'Hands Off China!', commencing with a rally in the Domain, followed by a demonstration in the Sydney Town Hall.
Folder 2/Item 28 Two Important Meetings [Australian Communist Party] 17-Jul-27 Flyer H J Moxon speaking on 'Hands Off China' outside the Central Hotel and 'The Coming War .. and How to Stop It!' in the School of Arts. All workers and citizents invited to 'Hear the Paid Liars confounded with FACTS'.
Folder 2/Item 29 The Bush Workers' Propaganda Group Industrial Press, Sydney May 1, 1922 Flyer Provision of seven aims and two immediate objectives of the Group, signed by A Rae, President, JR Sullivan, Secretary-Treasurer and Sidney T Smith, Assistant Secretary.
Folder 2/Item 30 The Bush Workers' Propaganda Group: Knowledge is Power Labor Daily, printer Dec. 31, 1925 Folded pamphlet Update of the seven aims four immediate objectives of the Group, with details of membership, finance and management. Includes the Group's manifesto.
Folder 2/Item 31 A.W.U. Rank and File [Pastoral Section] Wright & Baker, printers [1929] Flyer Request for money from members of the shearing industry to cover the printing and distribution of a paper expressing their point of view. Signed by R Morgan and G Arbuthnot.
Folder 2/Item 32 Sam Rosa Again! Sam Hallett [1923] Single sheet Article against the Bushworkers Propaganda Group who shamefully betrayed Donald Macdonell in 1894, the A.W.U. using its influence to keep the 'notorious imposter [Sam Rosa] on the political wood-heap'.
Folder 2/Item 33 Unemployed Demonstration H Cook & Co., printers May 25, [1922] Flyer the unemployed, who wish to save their women and children from starvation, are asked to roll up in their thousands to protest outside Trades Hall against their wilful crushing. Authorised by the Unemployed Committee Secretary, H Ross.
Folder 2/Item 34 The 12th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution Wright & Baker, printers Nov. 10, [1929] Single sheet Request by the Combined 12th Anniversary Rovolution Committee of the Labor Council to demonstrate sympathy and solidarity with the workers of Soviet Russia by participating in a mass demonstration in the Domain.
Folder 2/Item 35 Workers! Vote Class Against Class Wright & Baker, printers Apr. 15, 1931 Single sheet Election Manifesto of the Communist Party calling for a vote in the Annandale By-election for W J Morrison, against the 'left-social-fascists, Lang, Garden and Co'.
Folder 2/Item 36 Workers of Parkes: Vote For Your Class! C Greening, Campaign Secretary. Wright & Baker, printers. Jan. 31, 1931 Single sheet Call for the voters of Parkes to Vote Communist and vote for E Tripp. A vote for J M Martin, Labor Party, or Major C W C Marr, a Tory, would be a vote for capitalism.
Folder 2/Item 37 The Communist Voter: Organ of the Communist Party in Parkes A R Greening, Campaign Director. Wright & Baker, printers Jan. 26-30, 1931 Folded sheet The policy of the Communist Party, written by Edward Tripp, including campaign notes and a history of the actions of the Labor Party. Includes a list of speakers for the Parkes Campaign in ten Parkes suburbs and a photo of Mr Tripp.
Folder 2/Item 38 Workers ... Smash the Bruce Government! Wright & Baker, printers Sept. 20, 1929 Folded sheet A Communist Party Manifesto on the Federal Elections, reprinted from the 'Workers' Weekly'. Includes a cartoon by Jac of a top-hatted gentleman speaking the word 'arbitration' through a lawyer to the prostrated ALP.
Folder 2/Item 39 For A Real Workers Government; To End Uneployment and War Wright & Baker, printers Flyer Join and build the Communist Party, against the Bruce Nationalist and Scullin Labor Parties. Suggests Parliaments are an instrument of oppression against the working class.
Folder 2/Item 40 Away With Arbitration: Build Trade Unions for Struggle Wright & Baker, printers [1929] Flyer Argument to keep the right to strike for better wages. Compulsory arbitration restricts strikes, making the possibility of success extremely remote.
Folder 2/Item 41 Strike Time News: No 7 The Miner Aug. 5, 1926 Single sheet Issued at Broken Hill to conteract false rumours of accidents and to supply news while the printers' strike continued. Duplicated from a typed document.
Folder 2/Item 42 Don't Be Sidetracked! Choose the Path of Justice and Truth Jewish Council. L & R Shaffel, printers Flyer Anti-Semites have been active in factories and offices distributing pamphlets and repeating Hitler's lies about the Jewish people. Democracy suffers where Jews are attacked. Includes a large cartoon of an angry anti-Semite.
Folder 2/Item 43 Time is Running Out: World Protest Can Save the Rosenbergs Edwards & Shaw, printers Apr. 10, 1953 Flyer Protest meeting at Federation House, Sydney, to hear the facts about the Rosenberg's trial and death sentences based on concoted evidence. Speakers include Miss Lucy Woodcock, NSW Teachers' Federation, Mr F Paterson, LL.B. and Mr W Gollan.
Folder 2/Item 44 How To Defend Australia and Its Independence D B Young, printers Folded pamphlet States an unbridled nuclear arms race can only end in ultimate disaster, but Menzies refused the United Nations call to not test or store nuclear weapons on Australian soil. To vote Communist is to vote for peace. Read the Tribune, Guardian, 6d. weekly. Includes drawing on front page of family inside a map of Australia.
Folder 2/Item 45 Sensational Development, Hughes' Last Stand, Hands His Platform To Notorious Communist Socialist Labor Party of Australia. R J Lisle & Co., printers Oct. 11, 1929 Single sheet Statutory Declaration by John Allan Foley, Joseph Leo Reynolds, Francis Harold Langan and Ernest Edward Judd that they had observed Mr W G Jeffery speak in support of W M Hughes and that Mr Jeffery had previously sworn that he was a member of the Communist Party. [Delicate document affixed to a paper backing].
Folder 2/Item 46 I.W.W. Sensation! Rumor of Deportation Marxian Printing Works, Sydney July 31, 1920 Flyer Call to act at once and see that Unions act in the interest of organised labour and stop the deportation of men who have proven themselves to be fighters in workers' interests. A supplement to 'The International Socialist'.
Folder 2/Item 47 To hell With Socialism! Smithson Bros., Printers Flyer The Socialist Labor Party asks 'Do you know what Socialist aim to do' and invites attendance at a forum, held every Saturday night, with a five pound reward given for any new objections to Socialism. Admission free.
Folder 2/Item 48 The Socialist Party of Australia W.G. Dixon, printer Sep-12 Flyer States the object of the Party and a series of lectures on Marxian economics in Rawson Chambers, Sydney.
Folder 2/Item 49 See and Know Australia Unlimited First: Be Australian, Think Australian, Act Australian Wright & Baker, printer [1927] Realia Two leaflets attached to one backing board. Provision of statistics by the Australia Unlimited Social and Economic Revolutionary Party on the size of Australia compared to other countries and its total assets. States 'Vote McLennan, First'.
Folder 2/Item 50 Commuism and the Social Question Northern Suburbs Social Reconstruction Committee Oct. 9, 1946 Flyer Special lecture by the Rev. Leo Dalton, MSC in North Sydney Council Chambers.
Folder 2/Item 51 Underline 2: AJA's Industrial Committee Rebuffed Red Pen Publications, Sydney May 25, 1976 Folded sheet A bulletin by and for media workers. Major articles show concern for computerisation of machinery and ignoring communiques since the first East Timor Moratoruum demonstration in Sydney. Inserted is a one-page stop press article regrding Mr Jim North and a vote to rescind a resolution banning the use of VDTs by AJA members until talks and mass meetings had been held.
Folder 2/Item 52 Public Meetings: 'Can Capitalism Survive?' Communist League and Socialist Workers League & Socialist Youth Allience Sept. 11-19 Single sheet Lecture tour of Australia by Marxist economist Ernest Mandel: Can Capitalism Survive, What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going? and The New Rise of Workers Struggles in Europe. [2 copies].
Folder 2/Item 53 Marxist Unknown [1975] Single sheet two typed articles, the first denigrating Soviet labour laws and the second reporting on Margaret Jones, Sydney Morning Herald correspondent's observation on her visit to North Korea.
Folder 2/Item 54 Containment and Revolution: The Self-Management Group Replies to the Communist Party of Australia Self-Management Group Folded sheet Reply from the Self-Management Group to an article in Semper [Queensland University student paper Semper Floreat] by a member of The Communist Party of Australia. Aims to raise the real questions involved in the division between themselves and the Communist Party of Australia and to dispute the misrepresentation of their ideas.
Folder 2/Item 55 Right On: A Young Communist Movement Bulletin L. Rendell, The Young Communist Movement Mar-72 Folded pamphlet Articles on the Women's March from Sydney Town Hall on March 11, the Young Communist Movement program of events and withdrawal of troops from Vietnam.
Folder 2/Item 56 What is Australia Worth To You! National Australian Association Folded pamphlet An anti-Commuist call to those prepared to stand up and be counted in support of democracy. Includes a questionnaire to gauge the level of support for the Governor General, the flag and National Anthem.
Folder 2/Item 57 You Can't Trust Nixon -- On Indochina, or Anything Else Red Pen Publications Pty. Ltd. Folded pamphlet A call for recognition of the revolutionary government in Vietnam and support for the peace agreement. Considers the Whitlam government's policy on Indochina is an advance on the 'stupidly reactionary' Liberal-Country Government's policy, but has not gone far enough. Provides addresses throughout Australia for joining the Communist Party. Includes cartoon.
Folder 2/Item 58 The Facts About Communism! Christian Misson to the Communist World. Jos. Bennett & Son Pty. Ltd., printer. Folded pamphlet Lists 'Red Rules for Revolution', including the breakdown of standards of morality, and 'Ten Challenging Facts About Communism', including Atheistic Communism being the greatest world threat to Christianity. Provides information on and photo of Romanian Pastor, Richard Wurmbrand and his Christian writing following three years of torture.
Folder 2/Item 59 Equality, Freedom and a Cup of Tea? Self Management Group, Federation of Australian Anarchists, Canberra Anarchists, Armidale Anarchists and Woodstock Anarchist Party [1974] Folded sheet Critique of Solildarity and an attempt to state explicitly thoughts that were only hinted at, in order to avoid ambiguities; 'As We See It' and 'As We Don't See It'. Includes cartoons.
Folder 2/Item 60 The Road to Socialist Revolution: Chile, Indochina, Portugal Spartacist League of Australia and New Zealand Apr. 17 & 24 Single sheet Meetings at La Trobe and Sydney Universities featuring George Foster, Central Committee, Spartacist Leauge of the United States.
Folder 2/Item 61 Right On! Suharto: Indonesia's Dictator L. Rendell, The Young Communist Movement Feb-72 Folded pamphlet Information on Indonesia's President Suharto and protest action at Sydney Town Hall, a Marxist study group and public meeting on Indonesia. Suggestion that New Guinea is 'Our Vietnam?' Includes Y.C.M. program of events and application form.
Folder 2/Item 62 Defend the Soviet Union: Down With Anti-Communism! Spartacist Club Sept. 13, 1976 Single sheet Considers the call for a demonstration by the Maoist-inspired Students for Australian Independence to protest against a visit by Soviet academic Uri Zamoshkin to be a criminal act of solidarity with the Australian bourgeoisie.
Folder 2/Item 63 We Lift The Curtain On 'The Iron Curtain' UNO Peace Resolution Defence Committee. Newsletter Print, Forest Lodge Single sheet Dot point facts against the film 'The Iron Curtain' with call to protest against the war propaganda of American Big Business. Includes cartoon.
Folder 2/Item 64 Against Political Exclusionism: For A United Front Against The Repression In Chile! Spartacist League Sept. 6, 1974 Stapled sheets Against the military Junta of General Pinochet and the work undertaken by the Spartacist League in defence of Chilean class brothers. In solidarity with demands of the September 11 Chile Action Committee.
Folder 2/Item 65 A Comment on Relations Between Communist Parties The Australian Communist, No. 91 Single sheet An article discussing Marxism-Leninism's continued search for the truth and relations between Communist Parties and the Communist Party of China.
Folder 2/Item 66 Captive Nations Week 1973; What Does It Mean To You? Northern Line Printing Co. Pty. Ltd. July 7-15, 1973 Folded pamphlet The 400,000 migrants in Australia who have escaped from 33 communist-controlled countries annually observe Captive Nations Week and see in Australia that which precedes a Communist takeover. Provides a program of events and a list of captive nations.
Folder 2/Item 67 The Facts About Communism Christian Misson to the Communist World. Talinga Office Supplies, printer Folded pamphlet Lists 'Red Rules for Revolution', including the breakdown of standards of morality, and 'Some Challenging Facts About Communism', including Atheistic Communism being the greatest world threat to Christianity. Provides information on and photos of Romanian Pastor, Richard Wurmbrand and his Christian writing following fourteen years of torture and solitary confinement.
Folder 2/Item 68 Joh Bjelke-Petersen - Ambassador For Free Enterprise Australia Self-Management Group For a Society Based on a Federation of Workers Councils Nov. 25, 1974 Single sheet Argues against Mr Bjelke-Petersen's defense of free enterprise against the encroaching dectatorial communism of the Australian Labor Party. However, states that the ALP also believes in the same system of capitalism.
Folder 2/Item 69 Great World Peace Assembly Soon Alf Watt, Publisher Single sheet Various articles about the World Congress of Peace Forces to be held in Moscow.
Folder 2/Item 70 How to Increase the Standard of Living: Raise Wages! Reduce Prices! Newsletter Printery, Forest Lodge Stapled pamphlet Essay on raising the standard of living by R. Dixon, Assistant Secretary of the Australian Communist Party. Includes statistics.
Folder 2/Item 71 They Fight for Peace in the Pacific: Their Fight is Our Fight R.S. Thompson, printer Folded pamphlet Critique of Prime Minister Menzies concern that demonstrations in Japan are the work of the Communist Party. Demand for withdrawal from the Seato Pact. Photo of a crowd of Japanese people on the front page.
Folder 2/Item 72 Taking a Stand to Resist Repression C. Jones, printer July 4, 1969 Flyer Article on resisting conscription for the war in Vietnam.
Folder 2/Item 73 Don't be a Sucker The Advocate Press, Melbourne Stapled pamphlet Issued by the A.C.T.S for distribution among the fighting forces, written by 'VX29579'. Begins with a letter by a soldier considered to be a 'sucker', and continues by condemning communism in Russia and rejecting it for Australia. Asks the reader to not be a sucker for communism.
Folder 2/Item 74 Communist Manifesto: Destroy Fascism! Legal Rights Committee, Consolidated Press Ltd, printer Folded pamphlet Article by the leading communists of Australia on uniting and fighting for victory over the Axis. Notes the successes against the 'Hun' and Japan and the need to render assistance to the 'galant' Chinese people.
Folder 2/Item 75 Truth and Peace are Inseparable Australian Russian Society, Sydney Flyer Appeal to Join the Australian Russian Society by Gordon Horn in a letter to 'Dear Fellow worker'. Notes his visit to Russia and denial of employment in Port Kembla on his return. Includes application form with 5/- membership fee.
Folder 2/Item 76 Lefty Spills the Beans: 'Comrades, Prepare for War!' Ironworkers' Committee for Democratic Unionism, Port Kembla, R. Sculthorpe, printer Apr. 12, 1950 Folded pamphlet Notes 'Not officially published by the Communist Party'. Provides an emotive argument for support of the 'Soviet Fatherland' against 'Imperialist Capitalism'. Provides an 8 point plan for implementing the party line. Pamphlet attached to thicker brown paper for strength.
Folder 2/Item 77 Fascism!! Before the So-called Anti-Communist Bill Becomes Law! Newsletter Printery, Forest Lodge Folded sheet Provides examples of police brutality towards people demonstrating against government policy. Calls for the defeat of Prime Minister Menzies' so-called 'Anti-Communist Bill', repeal of the Crimes Act and halt to the drive towards Fascism and war in Australia.
Folder 2/Item 78 Advance Australia E. Andrews, Newtown, printer Folded sheet Argument for a united struggle by the workers to defeat the Menzies government. Provides a list of Communist candidates to vote for and suggests second preferences to the Labor Party. Liberal and Country Party to be placed last.
Folder 2/Item 79 The Citizen Trainng Grounds Tolerated in Australia - Roman Schools H. Cook & Co., printer Flyer Cartoon from the New South Wales Protestant Federation. A priest stands between a teacher and her class and states 'You must teach hatred of England, lies in History, Down with Protestant Parliaments; Loyalty to the Church only.'
Folder 2/Item 80 The sectarian war has begun, by whom? Archbishop Kelly! William Wallace, Chief secretary 1922 Flyer Call to war in the 1922 election
Folder 2/Item 81 NSW Protestant federation: what does it mean? Australian Baptist prnt [1922] Flyer call for protestants to vote
Folder 2/Item 82 Protestants mobilise! Protestant federation [1922] Flyer call for protestants to vote
Folder 2/Item 83 The position to-day!! NSW Protestant federation [1922] Flyer call for protestants to vote
Folder 2/Item 84 A call to every patriotic elector! NSW Protestant federation [1922] Flyer call for protestants to vote
Folder 2/Item 85 A Jack Johnson bomb from the Australian Labor Council trenches NSW Protestant federation [1922] Flyer call for protestants to vote
Folder 2/Item 86 Be sure to vote for the approved protestant candidates NSW Protestant federation [1922] Flyer call for protestants to vote
Folder 3/Item 1 Beware! Plotters at Work E. Andrews, printer Folded pamphlet The Menzies government and its masters are engaged in a conspiracy against the Australian people in the style of American McCarthyism. Notes the government's failure to suppress the Communist party and argues against the Commonwealth Crimes Act which negates the principles of British justice.
Folder 3/Item 2 Peace, Jobs, Homes: Federal Election Program of the Communist Party R.S. Thompson, Newtown, printer [1958] Folded sheet Discussion on the policies of the Communist Party for the Federal election to be held on 22 November. Suggests giving first preference to Communist candidates, second preference to the Labor Party and putting the Liberals last.
Folder 3/Item 3 If You Are John Smith E. Andrews, printer [1950] Folded pamphlet Under the heading 'This is What Menzies Can Do To You', The Communist Party Dissolution Act of 1950 is criticised, using the example of 'Mr Smith' who has been declared to be a communist.
Folder 3/Item 4 Vote Nov 22 For Peace, Jobs, Homes: Federal Election Program of the Communist Party A. Watt, R.S. Thompson, printer [1958] Folded sheet Following criticism of the Menzies government, the Communist program is outlined; economic crisis, farmers, foreign policy and working class unity. Suggests putting Liberals last and critiques the policies of Labor.
Folder 3/Item 5 Communist Party Policy: Our Ten Point Program R. S. Thompson, printer Folded sheet Ten points under headings; There's plenty of money, wages and prices, housing, hospitals, education, transport, local government, nationalisation, farm policy and democratic rights.
Folder 3/Item 6 Jack Mundey, Pat Miller, Brian McGahen: are the Communist Party Candidates for the Senate Festival of Light Flyer Considers communism to be a sinister scourge as it supports: workers' control, women's liberation, homosexual liberation, protection of the environment, the struggle against racism and imperialism and staff-student control. Also against the legalisation of marijuana.
Folder 3/Item 7 Willis Must Go! But is a Labor Vote Good Enough? Brian Aarons, Campaign Director, Red Pen Publications Pty. Ltd., printer [1976] Folded pamphlet Election brochure for Pete Cockroft, standing as Communist party member for Balmaine. Outlines problems experienced in Balmaine, the problem with private enterprise and provides a socialist alternative, including an action plan. [2 copies]
Folder 3/Item 8 Communist Policy Speech The Forward Press Pty. Ltd., printer 18-Oct Flyer Speech at MacCabean Hall, Darlinghurst by L. Sharkey and other prominent speakers [unnamed] under the title 'Defeat Lyons: Unite the Masses, Build the Communist Party'.
Folder 3/Item 9 Election Plot? Communist Publication, Newsletter Printery, printer. Flyer Suggests power restrictions were arranged by the Liberal Party because an election was imminent. Asks the reader to think over the points made, then 'Join the Demand for a Government Enquiry'.
Folder 3/Item 10 Take Your Destiny in Your Own Hands: Struggle for Working People's Power Wilson Printery 1975 Folded pamphlet Communist Party Statement on the 1975 General Election in New Zealand. Suggests employers as a class run the country as a dictatorship with Parliament as their board room, that a working class victory is inevitable and struggle is the only way to succeed.
Folder 3/Item 11 Jock Garden at Moscow New Century Press Limited, printer Folded pamphlet Reprint of an article from the Sydney Morning Herald dated March 13, 1923 titled 'Tail That Wags Dog: Communistic Boasting'. Suggests a nuclei of communist leaders control workers. Concludes with: 'Stem the Tide of Communism: Vote National'.
Folder 3/Item 12 Hear Communist Party Policy Outlined by: Joyce Stevens, Jack Mundey, Laurie AArons [CPA Candidate for Sydney] J. B. Mundey Nov. 22, 1972 Flyer Talk at Glebe Town Hall. Three quarters of the flyer shows a drawing of Alice in Wonderland and the Cheshire cat, including a quote.
Folder 3/Item 13 Public Meeting: Hear Communist Policy Jun-24 Flyer Meeting in the Fremantle Town Hall with speakers Jim Healy, Bill Latter and Paddy Troy.
Folder 3/Item 14 Communist Party Proposals The Forward Press Ltd., printer Folded pamphlet Re-print of two unanswered letters to the ALP Executive from J.B. Miles, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Australia, requesting affiliation to the Labor Party for unity against the Lyons Government and the forces of war.
Folder 3/Item 15 Ten Reasons Why Labor Should Continue to Exclude the Communist Party and Members of that Party from the A.L.P. P.F. Loughlin, M.L.A., Deputy Leader, State Parliamentary Labor Party. 'Times' Print, printer [1925] Stapled pamphlet Suggests members of the Communist Party intend to white ant the Labor Party. Argues that members of the CP are rightly excluded from joining the Labor Party.
Folder 3/Item 16 Put a Red in the Senate Sydney University Communist Club Flyer Jack Mundey to speak on the front lawn on voting for the Communist Party.
Folder 3/Item 17 Hit the Libs Twice: Vote Communist, Return Labor Red Pen Publications Oct. 7 [1978] Folded sheet Argues the Labor Government in NSW has cushioned some of the worst effects of 'Fraserism'. Notes 'Things are in a Mess' and provides six socialist solutions. shows how to vote in Phillip, placing Judy Mundey first. Includes candidates for the Upper House.
Folder 3/Item 18 One Year After --- P. Symon, General Secretary, Socialist Party [1976] Single sheet Outlines the work done by Prime Minister Fraser since the 'Fraser-Kerr coup' on behalf of the wealthiest of the Australian and overseas monopolies.
Folder 3/Item 19 Stop Work to Stop Fraser Red Pen Publications 24 Oct. [1975] Flyer Rally to stop Malcolm Fraser and the Liberal-Country parties plunging the country into a grave political crisis following Fraser's blocking of supply.
Folder 3/Item 20 Keine Wohnungen Keine Arbeit A. Watt, Sussex Street, Sydney Flyer Cartoon of wealthy man and an immigrant ship with messages written in German.
Folder 3/Item 21 Jobs, Homes Peace H.B. Chandler, Campaign Director, Newsletter Printery 28-Sep-46 Brochure Publicity for a Communist voice in Parliament with second preferences to official Labor. Concerned about 'peace or annihilation' from the atom bomb. Includes photos of everyday Australians and Communist candidates.
Folder 3/Item 22 Symposium on Communism and Australia Liberal Party of Australia [NSW Division] Apr. 15, 1966 Folded pamphlet Program of question and answer sessions on how to recognise and beat Communism. Chairman, the Hon. Eileen Furley O.B.E., M.L.C. Includes application form.
Folder 4/Item 1 Red Tiger Inner-city Branch of the Communist Party of Australia Sept. 1978 Single sheet Bulletin with articles; Jobs or Machines?, The Communist Viewpoint and Hit the Libs Twice - Vote Communist, Return Labor. Includes a form to join the party and how to vote in Balmaine.
Folder 4/Item 2 Sydney University Socialist Youth Alliance John West, Holme Building, Sydney University Mar. 8 & 23 Single sheet A list of achievements of the Youth Alliance and its intentions over the coming year. Publicity for the first SYA Club meeting and Socialist Books. Includes a subscription form for SYA's monthly paper, the 'Young Socialist'.
Folder 4/Item 3 Which Road for Revolutionaries? Steve Haran, Sydney University Jul-30 Single sheet Advertisement for a public meeting in Carslaw 9 on 'Communist' Party Reformism versus Marxism. Speaker; Steve Haran.
Folder 4/Item 4 The Moment of Decision ... David McKnight, The Union, Sydney University [1973] Single sheet Article from a leaflet originally produced by the Self-Management Group [Brisbane] and reproduced for university students by the S.U. Communist Club: Whether to go to the next lecture or not. Although 'crapped off' there is no alternative. All disciplines are not objective, but incorporate authoritarian and exploitative values. Alienation is the inevitable result of any class society.
Folder 4/Item 5 Indochina; Dispute in Economics Gary P. Nicholls, Steve Lewis and Craig Johnston for the Sydney University Communist Group Apr. 22, 1975 Single sheet Supports success of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and close victory in Vietnam following the resignation of 'the puppet Thieu'. Discusses the 'crisis of capitalism' in the context of the Department of Economics at S.U. and welcomes support given by the economic theorist, Joan Robinson. In addition, supports the AUS motion at a SRC general meeting which challenges the opposition of homosexuality.
Folder 4/Item 6 Public Meetings: 'Can Capitalism Survive?' Communist League, Socialist Workers League and Socialist Youth Alliance Sept. 11-19, [1974] Single sheet Lectures in capital cities by Ernest Mandel on the contradictions of post-war capitalism and the prospects for the capitalist system, plus campus meetings on 'What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going?'. Includes information on Mandel.
Folder 4/Item 7 Redletter, Vol.4, No.8 Sydney University Communists Apr. 23, 1974 Single sheet Faculty of Economics to split; critique of The Australia Party as a liberal capitalist party; subscribe to the 'Gay Liberation Bookservice'; critique of mining monopolies; vote for David McKnight and Craig Johnston as representatives to the SRC; helpers needed to assist the Communist Party's Senate team and Jack Mundey, Communist Senator, to speak May 7 on front lawn.
Folder 4/Item 8 Redletter, Vol. 5, No.2 Steven Lewis and Gary P. Nicholls, Sydney University Communist Group Apr. 8, 1975 Single sheet Critique of one of a series of pamphlets on campus entitled 'The Tragedy of Vietnam'. Assertions of 'massacres and civilian bloodbaths' ring hollow, coming from those who support the napalming of villages. Promotes a meeting on April 9 on the Front Lawn on Vietnam '75.
Folder 4/Item 9 Redletter, Vol.5, No.10 Tony Press and Craig Johnston, Sydney University Communist Group July 30, 1975 Single sheet Public Transport Day, August 1 and critique of the social cost of private vehicles; Democrats Anonymous and a bogus publication called 'Democrat', and Right-Wing Landslide in SRC Elections and its Meaning for Militants. [2 copies]
Folder 4/Item 10 Redletter! Mr M Tung, The Union, Sydney University 1972 Single sheet Promotion of Red Letter, noting the first issue of 1972 will state the group's aims and dispel the notion that Communists work as 'conspirators', organising and instigating trouble in universities.
Folder 4/Item 11 Redletter, Vol.5, No.9 Sydney University Communist Group July 15, 1975 Single sheet The SPC, What's at Stake? [Student Representative Council], including a list of candidates supported by the Group, and an Open Letter to the Democrats Poofter-Bashing SRC Candidates.
Folder 4/Item 12 Red Letter Vol.5, No.4 Sydney University Communist Group May 5, 1975 Single sheet Crocodile Tears; failed attempt by some members of the Vietnamese Students Association to rally support for their bid to bring out their entire families. Right Wing Offensive; attempt by right-wing at Macquarie University to take over Students' Council. Philosophy in Crisis; wording of advertisement for a lecturer changes emphasis from social and political areas. [3 copies, one, one side only]
Folder 4/Item 13 Redletter Vol.4, No.20 Sydney University Communists Sept. 4, 1974 Single sheet Inflation and Unemployment - Total Collapse Ahead?; Political Economy Capaign Underway; Are You Interested in Chile?; Campus Confusors.
Folder 4/Item 14 Redletter Vol. 4, No.10 Sydney University Communists May 7, 1974 Single sheet Student Money for the ALP?; Communist Tyranny Exposed; The Admin Strkes Again; Communist Party of Australia - Mundey 1.
Folder 4/Item 15 Redletter Vol.4, No.14 Sydney University Communists July 4, 1974 Single sheet Reprint of the resolution passed at the CPA District Conference in Sydney in 1974 regarding the crisis in the Middle East; The Builders' Laborers Strike Again! [2 copies]
Folder 4/Item 16 Redletter Vol.4, No.7 Dave McKnight, Communist Club [Sydney University] Apr. 10, 1974 Single sheet The 'Double Dissolution'; Keep Australia Green - Put a Red in the Senate; Interested in Marxism?; Interested in Revolution?
Folder 4/Item 17 Redletter Vol.5, No.9 Sydney University Communist Group July 15, 1975 Single sheet The SPC: What's At Stake?; The SU Communist Group Supports the Following Candidates in the SRC Elections: Who's Who in the SRC Presidential Race?; Open Letter to the 'Democrats' Poofter-Bashing SRC Candidates. [2 copies]
Folder 4/Item 18 Redletter Vol.5, No.8 [Sydney University] Communist Group July 9, 1975 Single sheet Communist Takeover of the SRC?, discusses what Communists stand for. [3 copies]
Folder 4/Item 19 Redletter [Sydney University] Communist Group Single sheet ALP Continues Swing Right - insufficient forced within the ALP to prevent continuation of right-wing policies of the new Whitlam cabinet; The SRC Decapitates; Red Letter is Out for More Blood.
Folder 4/Item 20 Redletter Craig Johnston, Red Letter Collective, The Union, Sydney University June 4, 1975 Single sheet Palestine - The Debate in the Aus.; Front Lawn meeting; Communist Group Bookstall; Next Meeting of the S.U. Communist Group; Tribune.
Folder 4/Item 21 Redletter Vol.5, No.7 Gary P. Nicholls, Red Letter Collective, Sydney University July 1, 1975 Single sheet Day of Stoppage Over Political Economy - July 2; Buy Tribune; Bookstall. [4 copies]
Folder 4/Item 22 Red Letter Vol.4, No.16 Craig Johnston, Sydney University Communists July 17, 1974 Single sheet Crisis in the SRC; Public Transport Day; Special Communist Club Meeting. [2 copies]
Folder 4/Item 23 Red Letter Special Edition Red Pen Publications May-75 Single sheet Leichhardt Council Bans Free Speech and Assembly; Sign Petition.
Folder 4/Item 24 Red Letter Vol.10, No.11 Antonio Gramsci, Sydney University Communist Club Single sheet Builders Labourers Seize Building - Workers Control!; Smash The Racist Queensland Aborigines and Torres Strait Islander Act; Prison Week; Jack Mundey didn't get elected!!; The commies are already here - us!!; Honi Soit and the SRC.
Folder 4/Item 25 Red Letter No.3 Gary P. Nicholls, Steve Lewis and Craig Johnston, Sydney University Communist Group Apr. 22, 1975 Single sheet Indochina; dispute in Economics; General Meeting; Bookshop Group Meets.
Folder 4/Item 26 Red Letter Vol.3, No.1 Steve Haran, Sydney University Communist Club Feb. 28, 1973 Single sheet Communist Club Orientation Week Activities; Revolution and Repression in Fascist Spain - Spanish Communist to speak at Sydney University; summary of the establishment and disbanding of various communist/left wing club.
Folder 4/Item 27 Redletter Vol.6, No.1 Red Letter Editorial Collective, Sydney University Communist Group Feb. 23, 1976 Single sheet Welcome to Sydney University; The University and Society; Where Do Students Fit In?; Australia Today; Orientation Forum.
Folder 4/Item 28 Red Letter Steve Lewis and Gary P. Nicholls, Sydney University Communist Group Apr. 8, [1975] Single sheet Vietnam: Liberation Near; Meeting on the Front Lawn; S.U. Communist Group meeting 15 April.
Folder 4/Item 29 Marxist Vol.1, No.20 J. Kalnins, Communist Studies Group, University of Sydney Sept. 29, 1976 Single sheet Scabs - A Gastronomic Delight?; Vacation Fun; Great Genius of the Century; Legal Considerations in the U.S.S.R.
Folder 4/Item 30 Marxist Vol.1, No.2 J. Kalnins, Communist Studies Group, University of Sydney Single sheet Moral Rectitude in 'Liberated' Laos; Cambodia Back in the Victorian Era; Hang-Ups in North Korea; Make Love With Mao's Thought.
Folder 4/Item 31 Bed Wetter, Vomit 1 Sydney University Communists Oct. 14, 1974 Single sheet The Violence Concerto; recent vignettes from the Tribune - Reds in the Bed and Class and Art.
Folder 4/Item 32 An Open Letter to SAFA Supporters Peter Manning, President, Sydney University DLP Society and Denis Strangman, Federal President, Australian Young Democratic Labor Association Stapled sheets Discussion of racism in Russia. Includes a reprint of an article from the Canberra Times of 8 April 1965 and attaches an extract from a publication on Communist racialism produced by the Australian Democratic Labor Student Federation and Australian Young Democratic Labor Association.
Folder 5/Item 1 Why the Communist Party and All Militant Working-Class Organisations Demonstrate Against Lang & the A.L.P. Communist Party of Australia, No.1 District Committee, Grey & Frew, Printers. [1930] Flyer Article against the nine-month-old Lang Labor Government, considered to be anti-worker and on the side of capitalism. Flyer contains a large ink blot.
Folder 5/Item 2 The Workers' Answer - To Inflation & Sackings Red Pen Publications Pty. Ltd. [Dec. 1, 1874] Folded sheet Critiques the demand by corporations for wage constraint to control inflation and provides a working class alternative. Contains cartoons.
Folder 5/Item 3 Jack Mundey Defence Committee Pat Miller, Murray Geddes, R. Pringle, Frank Hardy, J.S. Baker, Isi Wyner, Don Meisenhelter, Evan Phillips, Laurie Carmichael, Meredith Burgman, Ken McLeod, Ron Page, Ted Noffs, Henry McCarthy, Peter Galvin, Ian Davis, D. Bhattacharya & Gloria Garton Sept. 27, 1972 Letter Call for support of Jack Mundey, NSW Secretary of the Builder's Laborers' Federation, against contempt charges brought by the NSW Attorney-General McCaw. The charge alleges Mundey criticised Judge Head for racism. Asks for support of a statement, becoming a member of the Jack Mundey Defence Committee and funds to assist with publicity and legal expenses.
Folder 5/Item 4 What About Their Future? Mrs. Stella Nord and Coronation Printery Folded pamphlet Article on the difficulty of balancing the budget, monopoly profiteering, wars and nuclear testing; 'matters that greatly concern women'. The Women's Committee invites women to join the Communist Party for social change. Front page contains photographs of a two children, a boy and a girl.
Folder 5/Item 5 Danger! Communism Australian Constitutional League and The Land Newspaper Ltd, printer. Folded pamphlet Warns of the dangers of Communism by asking, then answering, nine questions about the Communist Party's intentions internationally. Ends by suggesting Communism is 'the way to chaos, civil war and bloodshed'. Image of railway stop signal on front page.
Folder 5/Item 6 Fraser's Uraniu Confrontation Communist Party of Australia and Red Pen Publications Single sheet Prime Minister Fraser intentionally seeks confrontation and violence over wage demands to divert attention away from unemployment and inflation. Anti-uranium movement to suffer the same repression as workers and unions. Information on percentage of profits of large mining corporations compared to tax paid. Communist Party of Australia opposes mining of uranium and development of nuclear power.
Folder 5/Item 7 The Rent Racket & What You Can Do About It Social Welfare Committee, Communist Party of Australia Oct-73 Folded sheet A legal discussion suggesting a landlord cannot evict a tenant for refusing to pay an increase in rent, despite the Queensland Government's abolition of rent control.
Folder 5/Item 8 Australians Against Communism: Why? [Mrs M Rossow and Mrs. M. Whitmore] Single sheet Three negative criticisms of Communism: Deprives people of freedom, Seeks to desroy Democratic Government and is attempting to enslave the world. Provides nine facts that should be known and how to isolate and defeat Communists.
Folder 5/Item 9 Mini-Budget Special: Would You Let This Man Plan Your Budget? Tribune [1979] Newspaper Critique of 'Howard's Horror Budget', showing Fraser as 'the greatest breaker of promises in Australian political history', responsible for inflation, taxes, wasteful spending, unemployment and health costs. Illustrated with cartoons and photos.
Folder 5/Item 10 Open Letter to Members of the Communist Party of Australia: Defend the Soviet Union The Revolutionary Workers' League Letter Comintern is dead, ignored by Stalin. The RWL is affiliated to the 4th International and calls on comrades in Australia to abandon Stalinism and assist in building a party capable of overthrowing Capitalism and leading the workers to victory, for the overthrow of Imerialism and Fascism and defence of the USSR.
Folder 5/Item 11 Communist Party of Australia: New South Wales South Coast District Committee R. Shayler May-31 Single sheet Communist Party entering New South Wales election as champion of the workers. Bureaucratic machinery of the Labor Party and Trade Unions is openly in alliance with the boss. Critique of Lang and Scullin. 'All-In' meeting at the Miners' Hall in Wollongong on May 31 to discuss plans for the campaign.
Folder 5/Item 12 Very Urgent and Important: To All Sections, Units & Party Propagandists E. Bulmer, Communist Party of Australia, Section of the Communist International, No.1 District Committee Apr. 15, 1935 Letter Addressed to 'Comrades' drawing attention to mistakes which must not be repeated in the Election Speakers' Notes.
Folder 5/Item 13 They Lie About Communists L.L. Sharkey, President, A, Coston, Secretary, Publicity Committee, ACP, Newsletter Printery Single sheet Powerful monopolies of Australia, who control the newspapers, are trying to lower living standards and destroy trade unions. Outlines five lies they tell about the Communist Party. Suggests listening to the Voice of the People, 2KY, 6.40 am every morning. [2 copies]
Folder 5/Item 14 Communist Party of Australia: A Real Peace Policy. Leaflet No.3 The Forward Press Ltd 1937 Leaflet Fascist powers menace peace. League of Nations must be strengthened and unite in a vast anti-war army to restrain Hitler, Mussolini and Japanese Imperialism. Lyons policy is militarisation. He must go. Elect a Labor Government.
Folder 5/Item 15 Communist Party of Australia: Preserve Democracy. Leaflet No.2 The Forward Press Ltd 1937 Leaflet Fascism is out to destroy democracy and provoke war. It ends free elections, abolishes free speech, freedom of the press and the right to organise. The Crimes Act and Transport Workers' Act attack democracy and encourage fascists. Out with Lyons. Elect a Labor Government.
Folder 5/Item 16 Women's Liberation & The Communist Party Queensland State Committee C.P.A. Sep-15 Leaflet Mavis Robertson, member of the National Executive of the Communist Party, to report to CPA members on the recent CPA National Committee meeting. Liberation of women was a major agenda item.
Folder 5/Item 17 Do You Want to Meet 'Mavis'?? No ... Not THAT Mavis!! Women's Collective Communist Party of Australia Sep-16 Leaflet The Women's Collective of the Communist Party to hold an 'open house' to welcome Mavis Robertson, member of the National Executive of the Communist Party of Australia, to Brisbane.
Folder 5/Item 18 Community Newsheet Communist Party of Australia, City/South Sydney Branch Single sheet Need to take the child care debate to all levels of government as well as the workplace and unions; Sydney City Council considering reducing the number of councillors from 28 to 10 is an attack on the rights of ratepayers; Outcry from consumers on the massive hike in power and water bills and 'user pays' system.
Folder 5/Item 19 City District Correspondence: To all Branches City District Secretariat [Communist Party of Australia] May 7, 1943 Letter Attention drawn to the Party Constitution under the heading 'Basic Oganisations' which deals with the election of branch committee officers in June each year.
Folder 5/Item 20 Open Letter to Members of the Communist Party of Australia: Defend the Soviet Union The Revolutionary Workers' League Letter The Chamberlain Government fears communism more than Nazism, and despite Comintern's sabotage of the working class struggle, it refuses an alliance with Stalin's Soviet Union. Whatever the lineup of the next war, unless it ends successful European revolutions, Imperialists will attempt to smash the USSR and re-introduce capitalism.
Folder 5/Item 21 Pointer: A Communist Publication in North Sydney, Milsons Point and McMahons Point A. Ogston Apr-60 Single sheet Report on a petition, deputation to the local member and Speaker of the State Parliament, Mr R.S. Maher, and a public protest meeting at North Sydney Council Chambers on 23 March, condemning an increase in the Harbour Bridge toll.
Folder 5/Item 22 Socialism: The Human Need, a Human Response [Communist Party of Australia] Mar. 27-30, [1970] Folded sheet Publicity for the 22nd National Congress, Communist Party of Australia, held in the Jim Healy Hall, Sydney. Discussion of the potential, the possibililty and the challenge of socialism. [2 copies]
Folder 5/Item 23 What is Wrong on Sydney Waterfront? Who Fights Who? Leaflet No.4 Waterfron Section of the Communist Party of Australia, Mastercraft Print, Sydney May 26, 1943 Folded sheet Certain stevedoring firms are out to smash the new gang system and the Union at all costs. Wharfies are not disloyal. Owners are on the offensive. Baroni lines up with certain shipping interests. 'We must fight back'.
Folder 5/Item 24 55 Years and Beyond: Activities Sydney University Communist Group Nov. 1-2, 1975 Folded pamphlet Program of lectures, films and displays at Stephen Roberts Theatre at the University of Sydney on the revolutionary wave since 1917 of Leninist and Marxist ideas.
Folder 5/Item 25 Communist Party Proposals: Letters to A.L.P. Executive for Affiliation Central Committee, Communist Party of Australia, The Forward Press Ltd. Folded pamphlet Two letters dated 1936 and 1937 to D.L. McNamara, Secretary, Federal Executive, ALP, indicating the Communist Party's desire for affiliation to the Australian Labor Party. No response was received.
Folder 5/Item 26 Dear .... The Communist Arts Group Sep-09 Flyer Help requested to plan a conference/festival to bring the Arts closer to all. Includes free lunch and talk by Bill Sutton on 'The Good Looking Bookseller and the Ugly Society'.
Folder 5/Item 27 Protest the Repression in France D. Holmes, for the Ad hoc Organising Committee Aug-01 Flyer A public meeting calling for the French Government to lift the ban on the Ligue Communiste, the release of Alain Krivine and Pierre Rousset and to let the Government know their repressive actions have not gone unnoticed abroad. Speakers: Tariq Ali, Dave Holmes, Jim Mulgrew, George Petersen and others to be announced. Sponsored by Australian Communist and Socialist groups.
Folder 5/Item 28 Australian Communist Party, Central Committee Newsletter Printery, Forest Lodge, Sydney Dec. 14, 1948 Letter Copy of a letter for general distribution addressed to Mr J. T. Lang, M.H.R., Commonwealth Bank Chambers, Sydney, from L.L. Sharkey, General Secretary, A.C.P. Having read Mr Lang's 'collection of lies and distortions' on Communism and repeatedly challenged him to a public debate, the letter accuses Mr Lang of treason to the Australian labour movement.
Folder 5/Item 29 Australian Communist Party, Sydney Committee Secretary, Sydney Committee, Australian Communist Party Nov-14 Letter Addressed to Tribune Readers reminding them of the A.C.P. People's Carnival at the Lower Town Hall and appealing for assistance in making the Carnival an outstanding event. Lists stalls and activities and the type of goods for sale.
Folder 5/Item 30 Why We Want a Labor Government: Federal Election Leaflet No.1 Communist Party of Australia, The Forward Press Ltd. 1937 Flyer The policy of the Lyons Government has been to favour the rich against the poor. The Communist Party wants a Labor government returned. Referenda results and the Gwydir by-election record the desire of the 'toiling people'. The Communist Party has shown its sincerity by withdrawing all but one or two of its candidates.
Folder 5/Item 31 Commuist Party of Australia J. Gillen, Secretary Dec. 7, 1939 Letter Addressed 'Dear Friend', an appeal for funds over a difficult Christmas time to keep going and issue more propaganda material; help the Russian people and the struggle of the Red Army in Finland. Call to sell the Tribune to friends.
Folder 5/Item 32 YES to Price Control: NO to a Wage Freeze C. Gifford, Fortitude Valley Oct. 10, 1973 Flyer Suggests Yes to control of prices and NO to control of income should be the labor movement's policy at the Australian Referendum on December 8. Considers Prime Minister Whitlam's position is YES/YES.
Folder 5/Item 33 To All Branches District Secretariat Feb. 11, 1944 Letter Addressed 'Dear Comrades', items discussed under headings; Red Army Week, Button Day, Branch Report and Southern Cross Hut. Two activities noted under heading 'What's On'. On very fine paper, disintegrating around the edges.
Folder 5/Item 34 Bottom Dog: Bulletin No. 3 Annandale Branch of the Communist Party of Australia 1975 Single sheet Items discussed under headings; ALP Crisis, Blind to Reality, The Alternative, Landslide Defeat, ALP Council?, Ming Outdone and Public Action. Includes form for more information and cartoons.
Folder 5/Item 35 City District Correspondence: To All Branches City District May 6, 1943 Letter Addressed 'Dear Comrades', three demonstrations arranged to celebrate the alliance between the USSR and Great Britain; a pageant to assemble at the Mitchell Library on May 26 for a rally at Martin Place, a rally at the Town Hall on the same date and a gala dance at the Town Hall on May 28. Discussion of members payments in arrears, Returned Soldiers' Conference on May 16, publication of a weekly Legal Tribune etc. On very fine paper, disintegrating around the edges.
Folder 5/Item 36 Young? Vital? Looking for a Job? The Communist Party of Australia [1976] Folded sheet Discusses mass unemployment and the blame put on the individual. Shows how the system works, how it breaks down and who it works for. Changing the rules to socialism would gurantee full employment and equal sharing of wealth. Includes strip cartoons.
Folder 5/Item 37 Boneheads and Trib Sellers Alan Ryan, for Sydney District, Communist Party of Australia Dec. 19, 1979 Flyer Brian McGahen arrested by railway police for selling the Tribune outside Sydney's Central Station, charged and taken to Central Police Station. Defends the right to read the other side of the news and to stop attacks on Tribune and Tribune sellers. Includes photo of Mr McGahen.
Folder 5/Item 38 Liberation on the March! Australia Hails Red Army Day Australian Communist Party, Prestige Printery Feb. 23, 1944 Folded pamphlet February 23 is the twenty-sixth birthday of the Red Army, born in battle against the German Army of Kaiser Wilhelm. Australia salutes the all-victorious army of her great ally. Four dot points on why the Red Army is winning. Advertises a Red Army Dance at Sydney Town Hall on February 19. Includes illustration of soldier and flag. [2 copies]
Folder 5/Item 39a Memento of the Opening of the Communist Party's New Headquarters in Queensland and the Max Julius Memorial Hall [Communist Party] Apr. 24, 1965 Folded pamphlet Officially opened by R. Dixon, National President, Communist Party of Australia. Includes biography of Mr Julius and the voluntary work undertaken on the Hall. Includes a photo of Mr Julius and the unfinished hall. With 39b and 39c.
Folder 5/Item 39b Programme: On the Occasion of the Opening of the Max Julis Memorial Hall [Communist Party] Apr. 24, 1965 Flyer Program of events. Master of Ceremonies: J. B. Henderson. With 39a and 39c.
Folder 5/Item 39c Pledge to Assist [Communist Party] Flyer Subscription form to assist to complete and fully furnish the Max Julius Hall and Party headquarters. With 39a and 39b.
Folder 5/Item 40 Action Fund National Committee, Communist Party of Australia [1968] Folded pamphlet An appeal for $150,000 for the movement towards socialism in Australia. Funding for the Australian Left Review, the Tribune, A Book of Essays by Australian Marxists and the production of pamphlets, posters and leaflets etc. [2 copies]
Folder 5/Item 41 They Fought Fascism now They're 'Disloyal' Newsletter Print Folded pamphlet Liberal'-dominated ex-service organisations are attacking the Labor movement, falsely labelling Australian Communists as disloyal. Includes a list of Communist servicement killed during the Second World War. Provides an example of the actions in Germany for suppressing labour and a photo of Corporal Bill Wright, killed in New Guinea.
Folder 5/Item 42 You Can't Trust Nixon -- on Indochina, or Anything Else Red Pen Publications Pty. Ltd. Folded pamphlet Critique of the alliance between Australia and the United States in view of the Nixon Administration's actions in Indochina. Suggests those who support the struggles of the Indochinese people against U.S.imperialism join the Communist Party. Includes form for further information and cartoon 'The Evolution of the Presidency'.
Folder 5/Item 43 Coal Crisis! Communist Party Policy for the Coal Mining Industry R.S. Thompson, Newtown, printer Folded sheet Weekly reports of the sacking of coal workers by owners concerned only with profits. The grip of monopoly capitalism must be broken. The Communist Party supports nationalisation of the industry and defeat of the Menzies Government.
Folder 5/Item 44 Open Letter to Members of the Communist Party of Australia: Defend the Soviet Union The Revolutionary Workers' League Stapled sheets Addressed 'Dear Comrades', Stalin's non-aggression pact with Hitler has caused mistrust about the U.S.S.R. for all militant workers. Comintern is dead. It remains for sincere revolutionary socialists to build new revolutonary parties and a Fourth International based on the principles of Marx and Lenin. [2 copies attached to a backing paper].
Folder 5/Item 45 Bottom Dog: Bulletin Annandale Branch of the Communist Party of Australia Nov-75 Single sheet Crisis Issue: Whitlam Sacked! Governor General Sir John Kerr has sacked the democratically elected Labor Government and opened the way for the right wing Liberal Fraser to become Prime Minister. Editors of major daily newspapers contacted by Fraser to ensure favourable editorials to enable claims he had 'the peoples backing'. Fraser has declared war on workers. A massive setback for the women's movement. Struggle by students at Fort Street High School. Includes cartoons.
Folder 5/Item 46 A Reply to 'Tribune' The Australian Section, Fourth International [1960] Stapled sheets Response to an article in the Tribune of 6 April 1960 attacking Trotsky and Trotskyists. Includes view that those in the party who criticise policy incompatible with Marxism must be labelled Trotskyists and are therefore suspect. Tribune's policy towards Evatt critiqued as is sectarianism within the party. Suggest reading 'The Fourth International'.
Folder 5/Item 47 A Programme for the People from the Party of Peace Newsletter Printery 1949 Folded sheets When considering the forthcoming Federal election, ask who the parties and their policies really represent. Discussed under headings: Federal Election 1949; Part 2, The Tory Reaction; The True Face of the Fed. Govt.; Keep Our Independence; Combat Econiomic Crisis and We Are a Party of Peace. Vote 1 Communist: 1. Ross, 2. Ogston, 3. Bailes, 4. Brown.
Folder 5/Item 48 Why Be Scared By Red Bogeys? A. Ogston, Campaign Director, [Communist Party of Australia], Patterson and Beck Pty. Ltd, Printer [1943] Folded pamphlet Answers questions: Does Communism Break Up Families? No; Are Communists Opposed to Private Property? No; Do Communists Propose to Introduce Socialism by Force? No; Are Communists Loyal to Australia? Yes; Are Communists Opposed to Religion? No; What are the Aims of the Communist Party? Successful prosecution of the war, complete smashing fo Facism and return of the Curtin Government. Send Communists to Canberra.
Folder 5/Item 49 Yes or No? E, Andrews, Newtown, printer [1951] Folded sheet Menzies government to try to take unlimited, dictatorial powers under the guise of a referendum 'to alter the Consitution ... to make laws with respect to Communists and Communism.' Arguments for a 'No' vote provided in short paragraphs with cartoons included.
Folder 5/Item 50 The Vanguard, Vol 12, No.35 Communist Party of Australia Sept. 18, 1975 Newspaper Articles regarding the working class struggle, the independence of Papua New Guinea, the Soviet Union using trade as an instrument to create better international relations, need for demarcation between trade union politics and revolutionary politics, etc.
Folder 5/Item 51 Red Letter Red Pen Publications Pty. Ltd. July 31 - Aug. 6, 1973 Newspaper A Tribune supplement compiled by Sydney University communists. Front page article regarding a succesful strike over the refusal of the Professorial Board to appoint two academics to teach the course 'The Philosophical Aspects of Feminist Thought'. Other articles include Car Politics. The Steel Cans, Self-Managed Education and Revolutionary Change, Workers' Control, etc. Includes photos.
Folder 5/Item 52 Statement by the National Executive, Communist Party of Australia National Executive, Communist Party of Australia July 17, 1968 Single sheet Article renewing support of the Australian Communist Party for the Action Program adopted by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia which proposes a great expansion of socialist democracy etc. aimed at overcoming past economic, social and political mistakes.
Folder 5/Item 53 Will Earth Week Weaken the Earth? M. Tubbs, Sydney District Committee of the Communist Party of Australia Single sheet Earth Week considered a farce as the NSW Minister for Environmental Control, Jack Beale and Premier Robert Askin aim to blame pollution on the individual rather than on the real polluters, big monopolies. Lists the names of directors of the six major polluters, most of whom live in America or Britain.
Folder 5/Item 54 1944 Membership Card Reissue Campaign City District Secretariat, [Communist Party of Australia] Nov. 15, 1943 Single sheet A national re-issue of membership cards for the years 1944 and 1945 to be conducted by the Central Organisation Department. The purpose of the re-issue is discussed.
Folder 5/Item 55 Australian Communist Party, Central Committee L.L. Sharkey, General Secretary Dec. 14, 1948 Letter Copy of a letter sent by the Central Committee of the Australian Communist Party to J.T. Lang, M.H.R. calling for Mr Lang to meet representatives of the Australian Communist Party to discuss his 'collection of lies and distortions' about communists. Letter glued to a backing sheet.
Folder 5/Item 56 To All Committees & Branches of the Communist Party & A.L.P., State of N.S.W. J.B. Miles, General Secretary, Communist Party of Australia and H.B. Chandler, General Secretary, A.L.P., State of N.S.W. June 17, 1943 Letter Decisions made at the NSW Official Labor Conference represent a victory for progressive forces within the Labor movement, paving the way for unity. Expulsion of Lang and endorsement of Curtin's militia plan brings the OLP into line. Attached is the press statement of the Joint Consultative Committee Communist Party and ALP, State of NSW.
Folder 5/Item 57 Lenin Inspired the Russian Workers Central Executive, Communist Party of Australia, The Proletarian Press, Annandale 1927 Flyer Lenin Enrolment Week 1927, Leaflet No. 1. Lenin is the embodiment of theory effectively translated into action. Call for those who believe in emancipation of their class from wage slavery to join the party and side by side with parties of other lands, work for the emancipation of workers.
Folder 5/Item 58 Lenin Dead! Leninism Lives! Central Executive, Communist Party of Australia, The Proletarian Press, Annandale 1927 Flyer Lenin Enrolment Week 1927, Leaflet No. 2. Third anniversary of the death of Lenin marked by ever-increasing antagonisms between decadent rival Imperialisms which drive them to world slaughter. In no country is found reformist leaders like Thomas MacDonald attempting to organise workers to meet the attack. Call to join the party today. Hand written notes on the reverse.
Folder 5/Item 59 Workers! demonstrate on Thursday Communist Party of Australia Dec. 19, [1929] Flyer One-day general strike at Belmore Park against the murder and shooting of miners at Rothbury by the Police and the vicious batoning of workers at Hyde Park on Tuesday night.
Folder 5/Item 60 All-Out! In the Metal Industry! Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Australia, Wright & Baker, printer Mar-30 Flyer Strike-breaking Arbitration Court, backed by corrupt trade union leaders, used to attack metal workers. Findings known as the Beeby Award to operate from May 1, 1930 which worsen the wages and conditions of workers in the metal industry. Communist Party calling for metal workers to prepare for a general stoppage. Four demands listed.
Folder 5/Item 61 International Day for Struggle Against Unemployment: Draft Resolution of Sydney Aggregate Meeting Sydney District Membership of the Communist Party of Australia Mar. 8, 1930 Single sheet Record of the Sydney membership's part in the partial failure of a demonstration during [International Unemployment Day]. Sydney District membership declares itself loyal to the Comintern and will show on May 1st what can be done. The names of two participants have been cut out of the document.
Folder 5/Item 62 What Means Anzac Day? Down With Imperialist Slaughter: On to Working Class Victory! Sydney District Committee, Communist Party of Australia, Wright & Baker, printer Flyer The forces of British Imperialism will celebrate the 15th anniversary of Anzac Day and make it another preparatory step for the coming imperialist war. The Scullin Labor government is preparing for the attack on workers' Russia. The Soviet Republic stands as a challenge to international capitalism. 'To Hell With Imperialist War', 'Down With Capitalism', 'Forward To Communism!'
Folder 5/Item 63 Communist Party Challenges: Labor Daily to Show Who Finances It Central Committee, Communist Party of Australia, Gray & Frew, printer Flyer Brisbane St. Slander-Sheet Wants Communists Gaoled. Editor of the Labor Daily knows Communists will not appeal to capitalist courts, but we will arraign the liars before the masses. The Labor Daily and the ALP function in the interests of capitalism to aid Scullin, Theodore and Lang to slash wages.
Folder 5/Item 64 Communist Party of Australia No.1 District Committee, Communist Party of Australia [Aug. 1, 1931] Letter Letter in the form of a circular to ask 'How long it is going to be before you realise your duty to your class by joining up with the one revolutionary party in the world?' The situation in Poland and Germany, India, China and other colonial countries indicates the complete break up of capitalist stabilisation. The Labor Party acts as the lackey of capitalism. Includes list of 4 publications with the price.
Folder 5/Item 65 Communist Party of Australia Number One District Secretariat, Communist Party of Australia Letter Welcome and acknowledgement of an application for membership. New members must become serious revolutionary leaders. They must not only accept the theory, but study and accept the theory and policy. Suggested reading is included and the cost of membership listed.
Folder 5/Item 66 To Every Rating on the 'Australia' Communist Party of Australia [1931] Letter Submarines Oxley and Otley under orders from the 'Labour' Government to leave Australia at once for China to participate in the MASS MURDER OF WORKERS. Will soon be asked to turn arms against the workers of the Soviet Union. As workers, ratings can fight against capitalism. Uses words such as 'nincompoops' and 'snotty' to define the 'officers and gentlemen'.
Folder 5/Item 67 Communist Party Bulletin No. 4, Special War Edition Communist Party of Australia Sept. 25, 1931 Single sheet Compares 'decaying' capitalist system with the successes of the Socialist Soviet Union. Promotes a one-day strike on September 30 with a procession and mass demonstration. Includes brief articles on free speech, letter from Secretary of the U.W.M, social news and further interventions.
Folder 5/Item 68 Communist Bulletin: Slash the New Guard Murderers [Communist Party of Australia] Sept. 18, 1931 Single sheet Militant workers have responded to the call made by the Communist Party to 'Disarm the new guard' and 'smash Fascism'. Workers have learned from the new guard 'murderers' themselves that they are 'out for blood'. Fascism is not inevitable. Workers have a duty to raise the question everywhere, at meetings, lodges etc.
Folder 5/Item 69 Railway Workers: Communist Party's Call for Active Struggle Communist Party of Australia Apr. 6, [1930] Single sheet In response to the attack on the 44 hour week proposed by [Edward] Cleary, [member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly], and lack of support from the Trade Union Bureaucracy, railway workers must stop work on April 6, the day a 48 hour week is to commence. Must also struggle for better conditions.
Folder 6/Item 1 What Is Communism? Victorian State Committee, Australian Communist Party, International Bookshop Pty. Ltd., Federal Press Pty. Ltd., printer 1948 Stapled pamphlet Authored by Dr. G.P. O'Day, M.D., an essay on the theory and policy of the Australian Communist Party. Includes lessons of Hitler's fate, the future of peoples of the British Empire and what of Germany and Japan?
Folder 6/Item 2 For Peace, Higher Living Standards, Democracy: The People Against Menzies and Monopoly D. B. Young, Printer Nov. 3, [1961] Stapled pamphlet Communist Party Policy speech [abridged], delivered at Trades Hall, Sydney, by L. Aarons. Notes no Labor Government has ever taken one step to socialism. Includes statistical analyses.
Folder 6/Item 3 Menzies & Bolte - Homebreakers: Wanted, A New Housing Policy for Victoria Communist publication, G. Bird, printer Stapled pamphlet The Bolte Government's enquiries into the Housing Commission and the Landlord and Tenant Act are smokescreens to hide the harsh reality of the housing policies of Bolte and Menzies. They are cutting down finance for Housing Commission building, handing out lucrative contracts to big private firms, rich oil companies are permitted to destroy sound houses for factory extensions and householders are cheated in slum reclamation schemes.
Folder 6/Item 4 The Crisis in the Unionist Party Irish Communist Organisation 1969 Stapled pamphlet Essay on the confusion in the working class movement in Ireland and Britain about the political crisis within the Unionist Party; the direct result of the political policies of the civil rights movement. Discusses the two faces of Unionism, the basis of sectarianism in the north and the politics of Paisley and O'Neill. Lists publications and the price.
Folder 6/Item 5 Soviet Foreign Policy Yesterday and Today Australia Soviet Friendship League, Melbourne, Ruskin Press Pty. Ltd. Stapled pamphlet A pamphlet to clear up some of the misunderstanding about Soviet foreign policy. Provides a history of the policy from 1914 to post 1941. Conclusions provided in the Introduction.
Folder 6/Item 6 Develop Struggle Agaist Fascist Measures Challenge Press Pty. Ltd., Coburg Stapled pamphlet A Communist Publication about the growth of Fascism NOW, an example being arrests at the Springbok demostration and attacks on Universities. With the tide of people's struggle, reactionaries' response is to lash out in fury. Discusses the gaoling of Albert Langer. Price 5 Cents.
Folder 6/Item 7 Congress of Restoration of Capitalism and Social Imperialism Challenge Press, Coburg Sep-71 Stapled pamphlet A Communist Publication. The full text of an editorial entitled 'Congress of Restoration of Capitalism and Social-Imperialism' published in the Albanian newspaper 'Zeri/Popullit'. Discusses the report delivered by Brezhnev at the 24th Congress of the revisionist party of the Soviet Union - March 30 to April 9 - to be boring repetition of revisionist thesis. Price 5 Cents.
Folder 6/Item 8 Combating Wrong Tendencies is a Marxist Principle [Communist Party of Australia] May-74 Stapled pamphlet Two articles, one from Vanguard and the other from the Australian Communist, to be studied together to overcome wrong tendencies. They are: 'Struggle Against Bad Practices is Mass Question' about Lin Piao and the Chinese Communist Party and 'A Communist Comment on the Recent ACTU Congress' about the bourgeoisie speaking of politics solely in parliamentary terms.
Folder 6/Item 9 Struggle at La Trobe Brings Victory [Communist Party of Australia] Dec-71 Stapled pamphlet On behalf of Marxist-Leninist students at La Trobe University, discusses the struggle against University authorities' exclusion policy; excluding students expelled or suspended from other universities regardless of academic qualifications, and the forced resignation of the Chancellor, Sir Archibald Glenn of Imperial[ist] Chemical Industries [Australia].
Folder 6/Item 10 The Road to Women's Emancipation A Communist-Marxist-Leninist-Publication Feb-73 Stapled pamphlet Essay on the liberation of women, the family and capitalism. Concludes that women will not be liberated until private ownership of the means of production is done away with. Provides some statistics. Price 10 Cents.
Folder 6/Item 11 Traitor Press is the Enemy of the People A Communist [Marxist-Leninist] publication Jan-78 Stapled pamphlet Essay on the purpose of the press being defence of foreign imperialist domination. Discusses headlines about strikers being against fellow workers but fail to mention the selfish pursuit of maximum profit by multi-nationals through lower real wages and unemployment.
Folder 6/Item 12 The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution Ravachol, Strawberry Press printer. 1974 Stapled pamphlet Reprint of an address delivered in Paris by Pierre Kropotkin, translated by Henry Glasse. Discusses the wealth of the rich resulting in everyone else's misery. Communist Anarchism to be the goal of the evolution of the 20th century. Includes a drawing of Kropotkin on the last page.
Folder 6/Item 13 On Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, or What Has Communism Got? & Ask Any Communist! Children of God Trust Apr-73 Stapled pamphlet Two articles. The first a numbered list of responses to ideas in Tolstoy's War and Peace. The second a poem on communism and religion. [2 copies]
Folder 6/Item 14 How German Monopoly Uses Fascism and Social Democracy Challenge Press Sep-71 Stapled pamphlet A more detailed response to exerpts reprinted in Vanguard of documents produced by German monopolies prior to the Hitler regime. They show how both parliamentarism and orthodox trade unionism pave the way for fascism.
Folder 6/Item 15 A Fourth International Publication A. McLean, Balmain [1957] Stapled sheets Newsletter with contents: In Moscow, the International of the Bureaucrats Wants to Put an End to the De-Stalinisation; Workers' Councils to Power; The Workers of Ceylon; Long Live the Indonesian Revolution!; No Launching Ramps!; The New Class of M. Djilas; In Bolivia the Masses Mobilise Against the Special Powers and To the Aid of the Hungarian Evolutionaries - H-Bombs in the Sky.
Folder 6/Item 16 Is the West Ripe for Communism? Andre Gorz [1971] Stapled sheets From an article about a split in the communist party of Italy: 'Communisme et Gauchisme en Italie, part 2', Le Nouvel Observateur, no. 315, November 1970. p. 57ff. Translated and adapted by Broennimann and Ron Saunders.
Folder 6/Item 17 Constitution of the British and Irish Communist Organisation - 4th Edition British and Irish Communist Organisation [1971] Stapled sheets Includes aims, membership, voting and meetings.
Folder 6/Item 18 Red The Sydney University Communist Group Sept. 1, 1975 Stapled sheets Documents the politics of the group under the headings: Capitalism and Revolution; Internationalism; The Liberation of Women; Revolution in the University and The Communist Group, the Communist Party. Includes a list of further reading.
Ephemera on communism in Australia