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Australian Labor Party (1891 - )

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From
1891
Functions
Political Party
Alternative Names
  • ALP (Accronym)
  • Labor Party
  • Labour Electoral League
  • Labour Party
  • Political Labor Council
  • United Labour Party
Url
http://www.alp.org.au

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The Australian Labor Party is the oldest existing political party in Australia. It emerged out of the various electoral organisations formed by trade unions and socialists across the Australian colonies. The name Australian Labor Party was adopted in 1908. It enjoyed immediate success and remains a dominant political force in Australia.

The ALP is historically committed to socialism, but has been inconsistant in both theory and practice in this regard.

See L.F. Crisp, The Australian Federal Labor Party 1901-1951 (1955); Ross McMullin The Light on the Hill (1991); Stuart Macinytre, 'Who are the True Believers?' Labour History (1996).

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Books

  • The Worker's first seventy years, Australian Workers' Union, Brisbane, 1960. [ | | Details... ]
  • Barcan, Alan, Socialist Left in Australia 1949 - 1959, Australian Political Studies Association, Sydney, 1960. [ | | Details... ]
  • Catley, Robert & McFarlane, Bruce, From Tweedledum to Tweedledee, The new Labor government in Australia, A critique of its social model, Australia and New Zealand Book Company, Sydney, 1974, 1-13 pp. [ | Details... ]
  • Childe, Vere Gordon, How labour governs, A study of workers' representation in Australia, 1923 edn, The Labour Publishing Company, London, 188 pp. [ | Details... ]
  • Ross, Lloyd, Labor in the post-war world, Sydney, 1942. [ | | Details... ]

Book Sections

  • Foster, Darryl, 'The loans affair', in Wheelwright, E.L & Buckley, K (ed.), Essays in the political economy of Australian capitalism, volume two, 1978 edn, vol. 2, Australia & New Zealand Book Company, 1978, pp. 81-6. [ | | Details... ]
  • Playford, John, 'Who rules Australia?', in John Playford & Douglas Krisner (ed.), Australian capitalism: towards a socialist critique, Penguin Books, Ringwood, 1972, pp. 108-155. [ Details... ]
  • Webb, Sidney and Beatrice, 'Extract', in Austin, A.G. (ed.), The Webbs' Australian Diary 1898, 1898. [ | | Details... ]

Correspondences

  • Letter to H.H. Champion, President, Socialist Party, Melbourne, . [ | | Details... ]

Fliers

  • Australian Labor Party, Keep Victoria Nuclear Free, 1985. [ | | Details... ]

Journals

  • Labor Militant, vol. 3, no. 6, Labor Militant [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October. [ | | Details... ]
  • Labor Militant, vol. 3, no. 2, itant [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 1983. [ | | Details... ]
  • Labor Militant, Labor Militant [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 1983. [ | | Details... ]
  • Labor Militant, vol. 4, no. 1, March 1984. [ | | Details... ]
  • Labor Militant, vol. 4, no. 2, Labor Militant [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, April 1984. [ | | | | Details... ]
  • Labor Militant, vol. 4, no. 4, Labor Militant [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 1984. [ | | Details... ]
  • Labor Militant, vol. 4, no. 5, Labor Militant [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 1984. [ | | Details... ]
  • Labor Militant, vol. 4, no. 6, Labor Militant [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 1984. [ | | Details... ]
  • Labor Militant, vol. 4, no. 7, Labor Militant [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, September 1984. [ | | Details... ]
  • Labor Militant, vol. 4, no. 8, Labor Militant [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 1984. [ | | Details... ]
  • Labor Militant, vol. 4, no. 9, Labor Militant [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, Novermber 1984. [ | | Details... ]
  • Labor Militant, vol. 3, no. 3, itant [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 1984. [ | | Details... ]

Lectures

  • Richardson, Bill, Labour Day - Its significance and the life and times of E.J. [Edward John] Holloway, 1971. [ | | Details... ]

Manifestos

  • Manifesto of the Parliamentary Labor Party (1894), 1894. [ | | Details... ]
  • Political Labor Council of Victoria Central Executive, Anti-conscription manifesto, 1916. [ | | Details... ]

Newspapers

  • Direct Action 33, no. 33, Socialist Workers League, Sydney, 21 December 1972. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 31, no. 31, Socialist Workers League, Sydney, 23 November 1972. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 32, no. 32, Socialist Workers League, Sydney, 7 December 1972. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist, Socialist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], sydney, June 1974. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist, Socialist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 1974. [ | | Details... ]

Newspaper Articles

  • 'What We Really Want', The Worker, 14 December 1895. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'To Democratic Writers, Union Secretaries and Others', Tocsin, 2 November 1897. [ | | Details... ]
  • '[Initial Editorial]', Labor Call; Official Organ of the Political Labor Council of Victoria, 1 November 1906. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Communist-Labor affiliation; will guarantee promise of Teheran Pact', Guardian; offical organ Victorian State Committee Australian Communist Party (Melbourne), no. 133, 17 March 1944. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Labor unity spells victory; why Communist Party seeks ALP affiliation', Guardian; offical organ Victorian State Committee Australian Communist Party (Melbourne), no. 127, 4 February 1944. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Why we seek unity with Labor Party', Guardian; offical organ Victorian State Committee Australian Communist Party (Melbourne), no. 1944, 28 January 1944. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'The Tocsin's Platform', Tocsin, 2 November 1897. [ | | Details... ]
  • Dyson, Edward, 'The Political Progressive League', Bull-ant (Melbourne), 11 June 1891. [ | | Details... ]
  • Kerr, George and Barber, George P., 'The 'Statement' of 1905', The Worker [Queensland], 1905. [ | | Details... ]
  • Norman, Leslie A., and McKain, A, '[Initial Editorial]', Boomerang (Melbourne), 1884. [ | | Details... ]
  • Radical, 'A Plea for Unity', The Pioneer, A. Timmann., Adelaide, 1 October 1892, p. 1. [ | | Details... ]

Pamphlets

  • Challenge - Mr. Holman, Political Labor League, Sydney, 1916. [ | | Details... ]
  • Why not a referendum on prices?, Worker Print, Brisbane, 1951. [ | | Details... ]
  • The moral and political issues involved in Vietnam and conscription…, Australian Labor Party, Melbourne, 1966. [ | | Details... ]
  • Dr. Cairns, J. F., Vietnam: Is It Truth We Want?, Victorian Branch of the Australian Labor Party, Melbourne, August 1965. [ | | Details... ]
  • Blake, J.D., The great coal strike of 1949, Newsletter Printery, Sydney, August 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • Dickie, Rev. A.M.; James, Rev. V.; Hartley, Rev. F.J., You can't ban peace! To the Victorian Executive of the ALP, Australian Peace Council, 1950. [ | | Details... ]
  • Holland, Harry, `To the Electors': West Sydney Federal Election: The International Socialist Party, 1910. [ | | Details... ]
  • Labor Anti-war Committee, Labor's case against war and fascism, Industrial Print, Melbourne, c1935. [ | | Details... ]

Photographs

  • Women's Organising Committee of the Political Labour League, Sydney, 1905. [ | | Details... ]

Platforms

  • Australian Labour Federation Election Platform, 1891, 1891. [ | | Details... ]
  • Parliamentary Labour Party Platform, 1893, 1893. [ | | Details... ]
  • Labour's Objective, Fighting Platform and General Programme, 1913, 1913. [ | | Details... ]

Policy Statements

  • Evatt, H.V., Labor's plan for World Peace; declarations and discussion of the Hobart Conference, Sydney, 1955. [ | | Details... ]

Posters

  • Conscription and Vietnam: a public discussion with Ray Taylor, Jim Cairns, Glen Tomasetti and Ian Turner, May 1966. [ | | Details... ]

Statements

  • Cairns, Jim, Some Results and Tasks of the Vietnam Moratorium, 1970. [ | | Details... ]

See also

  • Australian Labour Federation Platform, 1890. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'The class war', The Australian Workman (Sydney), vol. 2, no. 59, 7 November 1891, p. 1. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Dog eats dog', New Order (Sydney), 23 June 1894, p. 4. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Editorial', The Tocsin (Melbourne), vol. 1, no. 1, 2 October 1897. [ | | Details... ]
  • Kendall, F. C., 'Stand together, men, as brothers', The Australian Workman, vol. 1, no. 30, 18 April 1891, p. 1. [ | | Details... ]
  • McDougall, The Trend of the Ages and Other Verse [extracts], Labor Call Print, Melbourne, 1922. [ | | Details... ]
  • Spence, William Guthrie, The ethics of new unionism, Martin and Grose, Creswick, 1892, 10 pp. [ | | Details... ]
  • Walshe, R.D., The Eureka Stockade, 1854 - 1954, Current Book Distributors, Sydney, 1954. [ | | Details... ]

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