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Conference Paper

Author
Clancy, Pat
Title
The formation of the Socialist Party of Australia
In
Communists and the Labour Movement National Conference, Melbourne, 22, 23, 24 August 1980
Imprint
1980
Abstract

In this paper, Pat Clancy, President of the Socialist Party of Australia, describes the reasons behind the formation of the Socialist Party of Australia in 1971. He argues that the Communist Party veered away from the principles of scientific Marxist-Leninism in the 1960s, in favour of 'a hotch potch of reformism, anarcho-syndicalism, trotskyism and libertarianism'.

He then sets out the key policies of the SPA.