- Born
- 1855
- Died
- 1944
- Occupation
- Editor and Journalist
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Winspear was a coalminer by origin. From 1887 he was the printer and editor of the Radical, the first Australian socialist newspaper. He edited the Australian Socialist Party's International Socialist up until the 1916 conscription referendum.
See Verity Burgmann, 'Winspear, William Robert (1859 - 1944)', Australian Dictionary of Biography Online.
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- Milner, Andrew, 'Radical Intellectuals: an unacknowledged legislature?', in Verity Bergman and Jenny Lee (eds), Constructing a culture: a people's history of Australia since 1788, McPhee Gribble/ Penguin Books, Melbourne, 1988, pp. 259-84. [
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Newspaper Articles
- Winspear, W.R., 'Plain Views', The Radical (Hamilton, Newcastle, N.S.W.), vol. 1, no. 1, 12 March 1887, p. 1. [
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See also
- 'A workman's thoughts', The Radical (Hamilton, Newcastle, N.S.W.), 20 July 1887. [ | | Details... ]
- '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... ]
- 'Voices from the workers', The Radical (Hamilton, Newcastle, N.S.W.), 1887. [ | | 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... ]
- 'Co-operation', Radical (Hamilton, Newcastle, N.S.W.), 23 April 1887, p. 35. [ | | Details... ]
- 'The advantages and benefits of co-operation', The Radical (Hamilton, Newcastle, N.S.W.), 16 April 1887. [ | | Details... ]
- Andrews, J. A., 'Australian Socialist League, Melbourne', Australian Radical (Newcastle, N.S.W.), 26 January 1889. [ | | Details... ]
- 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... ]
- Radical, 'A Plea for Unity', The Pioneer, A. Timmann., Adelaide, 1 October 1892, p. 1. [ | | Details... ]
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