- From
- 4 May 1887
Sydney - To
- c. 1907
- Functions
- Political Party
- Alternative Names
- ASL (Accronym)
Details
The Australian Socialist League was formed in Sydney in 1887. It is membership held a wide variety of viewpoints: state socialism, anarchism, and 'modern socialism', which lead to the collapse of the party in 1889. It reformed in 1890 and by 1893 had 15 branches and more than 9000 members in NSW, along with branches outside NSW. Its politics were predominantly reformist state socialist. It was active in the early Labor Party but fell out with the party over the party's move to the right. From 1905 it adopted De Leonite IWW politics.
See Verity Burgmann, In our time, 1985.
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Constitutions
- Australian Socialist League: Constitution and Rules, 1892, 1892. [
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- Australian Socialist League, Constitution 1901, 1901. [ | | Details... ]
Fliers
- The Australian Socialist League, 1888. [ | | Details... ]
Lectures
- Summerfield, Rose, Master and Man, Hummer, Wagga, 1892, 11 pp. [
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Manifestos
- Manifesto of the Australian Socialist League 1887/8, 1887/8. [ | | Details... ]
- Australian Socialist League,, 1890. [ | | Details... ]
- Manifesto of the Australian Socialist League to the People of Australia, September 1894, 1894. [ | | Details... ]
Newspaper Articles
- 'Socialism in Sydney', The Radical (Hamilton, Newcastle, N.S.W.), 1 October 1887. [ | | Details... ]
- 'Australian Socialist League', The Radical (Hamilton, Newcastle, N.S.W.), 15 October 1887, p. 233. [ | | Details... ]
- 'Socialism in Sydney', The Radical (Hamilton, Newcastle, N.S.W.), 22 October 1887. [ | | Details... ]
- 'Socialism in Sydney', The Radical (Hamilton, Newcastle, N.S.W.), 21 September 1887, p. 210. [ | | Details... ]
- '[The Socialist Labor Party]', The people, 18 May 1907. [ | | Details... ]
- Andrews, J. A., 'Australian Socialist League, Melbourne', Australian Radical (Newcastle, N.S.W.), 26 January 1889. [ | | Details... ]
Pamphlets
- The Australian Socialist League. Statement of principles, c1887. [ | | Details... ]
- Black, George, Are machines to be masters? Another view of the wage question., General Propaganda Committee, Australian Socialist League, Sydney, 1893, 12 pp. [ | | Details... ]
Reports
- Report of the Australian Socialist League to the International Socialist Congress at Amsterdam, August 14, 1904, 14 August 1904. [ | | Details... ]
See also
- Andrews, J. A., 'Nihilism', Australian Radical (Newcastle, N.S.W.), 10 November 1888. [ | | Details... ]
- Andrews, J.A., 'What is communism?', Australian Radical (Newcastle, N.S.W.), 17 August 1889. [ | | Details... ]
- Andrews, J.A., 'Communist-anarchism V. individualist proprietism', Australian Radical (Newcastle, N.S.W.), 2 February 1889. [ | | Details... ]
- Spence, William Guthrie, The ethics of new unionism, Martin and Grose, Creswick, 1892, 10 pp. [ | | Details... ]
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