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Books

  • Hills, John Francis, Child conscription; our country's shame, Burmeister & Co., Adelaide, 1912. [ | | Details... ]
  • Kirkpatrick, George Ross, War and the working class, F.A. Holland, Fitzroy, 1916. [ | | Details... ]
  • Marshall, Vance, World of the Living Dead & Jail from Within, Wentworth Press, 1969. [ | | Details... ]
  • Moore, Eleanor, The quest for peace, as I have known it in Australia [Extracts], Melbourne, 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • Scott, Bon & Gary David (eds.), How to Make Trouble and Influence People: A Compilation of Australian pranks, hoaxes and political mischief making, Political Hooligan Publications, Sydney, 1996. [ | | Details... ]
  • The Question Mark Collective, How to Stop Whining and Start Living, Scam Publications, Melbourne, 1998. [ | | Details... ]

Book Sections

  • Ball, Desmond, 'Australia as nuclear target', in A suitable piece of real estate : American installations in Australia, Sydney, 1980. [ | | Details... ]
  • Gibson, Ralph, 'Struggle against war and fascism', in My years in the Communist Party, International Bookshop, Melbourne, 1966. [ | | Details... ]
  • Hartley, Rev. F.J., 'Principles of the Peace Movement and other extracts', in My Pilgrimage for Peace, Australian and New Zealand Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament, Melbourne, 1965. [ | | Details... ]
  • Manton, Joyce, 'War can be prevented', in The centenary prepares war, Melbourne University Council Against War, Melbourne, 1934. [ | | Details... ]
  • Prichard, Katharine Susannah, 'The causes of war are economic; the movement against war and fascism', in Who wants war?, The Franklin Press, Perth, 1935. [ | | Details... ]
  • Rivett, K.D., 'Fundamentals of Pacifism', in Towards Peace: A Full Report of the 1947 Australian Pacifist Conference, Mt Evelyn, 1947. [ | | Details... ]

Cartoons

  • Dyson, Ambrose, 'Peace', Guardian, 2 December 1949. [ | | Details... ]

Fliers

  • Disarm the Nuclear Powers, People for Nuclear Disarmament, Melbourne, ?. [ | | Details... ]
  • Prevent a Nuclear Holocaust, Congress for International Co-opreation and Disarmament, Melbourne, 1981. [ | | Details... ]
  • Disarmament Now! East and west, 1982?. [ | | Details... ]
  • No business as usual while French nuclear tests pollute the pacific, People for Nuclear Disarmament, Melbourne, 1983. [ | | Details... ]
  • Remaking Australia: people in control of politics, the economy and the environment, March 1988. [ | | Details... ]
  • Hiroshima Day: Stop the Nuclear Cycle, Coalition for a Nuclear Free Australia, Melbourne, 5 August 2001. [ | | Details... ]
  • No Nuclear Bombs: Call for world peace and friendship, 7 August 2005. [ | | Details... ]
  • Can you help?, n.d.. [ | | Details... ]
  • Australian Labor Party, Keep Victoria Nuclear Free, 1985. [ | | Details... ]
  • Movement against uranium mining, Worried about uranium?, 1977. [ | | Details... ]
  • Movement against uranium mining, We're marching for a nuclear-free Victoria, 1981. [ | | Details... ]
  • Movement against uranium mining, What's to stop Victoria going nuclear?, 1981. [ | | Details... ]
  • Network For Peace in the Middle East, We will work together to stop this war and Australia's military involvement, Melbourne, January 1991. [ | | Details... ]
  • Network for peace in the middle-east, Coming events in the anti-war movement, February 1991. [ | | Details... ]
  • Nuclear Disarmament Party, Vote 1 for Rod Lander. [ | | Details... ]
  • People for Nuclear Disarmament, People for Nuclear Disarmament, 1985. [ | | Details... ]
  • People for Nuclear Disarmament, Palm Sunday Rally Disarm/feed the world, 23 March. [ | | Details... ]
  • People for Nuclear Disarmament, Disarm the nuclear powers, 15 April?. [ | | Details... ]
  • Rainbow Allliance, Gulf update, 1990. [ | PDF | Details... ]
  • St Kilda network for peace in the middle east, help us stop the war, february 1991. [ | | Details... ]

Journals

  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 1934. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 1935. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 1935. [ | | Details... ]
  • Australian Marxist Review, vol. 5, no. 2, Socialist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, September 1976. [ | | Details... ]
  • Australian Marxist Review, vol. 5, no. 4, Socialist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, Decmber 1976. [ | | Details... ]
  • Australian Marxist Review Special Issue Sixty Years of Struggle for Scientific Socialism, no. 4, Socialist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 1980. [ | | Details... ]
  • The Comet (ed.), , June (?) 1989, New Left Party, Melbourne, 1989. [ | | Details... ]
  • Baracchi, Guido (ed.), Communist: a journal for the theory and practice of Marxism, 1925-1926. [ | | Details... ]

Journal Articles

  • 'The voice of the angry dove', First strike for nuclear disarmament: fighting the system, vol. 4, February 1984, 1984. [ | | Details... ]
  • Camilleri, Joe, 'A course for the disarmament movement', Peace Studies, Aug / Sept 1985. [ | | Details... ]
  • Maclellan, Nic, 'Disarmament Politics; the election and defection of the NDP', Peace Studies, July 1985. [ | | Details... ]
  • Mansell, Ken, 'Making sense of the NDP split', Peace Studies, July 1985. [ Details... ]
  • Sinclaire, F, 'Fellowship', Fellowship: a monthly magazine of undogmatic religion and social and literary criticism (Melbourne), no. 1, September 1914. [ | | Details... ]
  • Sinclaire, F, 'The war of ideals', Fellowship: a monthly magazine of undogmatic religion and social and literary criticism (Melbourne), vol. 2, no. 8, April 1916. [ | | Details... ]
  • St John, Edward, 'The demise of the Nuclear Disarmament Party', Peace Studies, Aug / Sept 1985. [ | | Details... ]
  • Strauss, Jonathan, 'Long march to compromise', First strike for nuclear disarmament: the voice of the angry dove, vol. 5, March 1984, 1984. [ | | Details... ]
  • Warrigall, 'Open letter to fellow-citizens: to Mothers bereaved by the War', Fellowship: a monthly magazine of undogmatic religion and social and literary criticism (Melbourne), vol. 6, no. 5, December 1919. [ | | Details... ]

Lectures

  • Belinda Probert, The Rainbow Alliance reshaping the political agenca, 1989. [ | | Details... ]
  • Joseph Camilleri, A new political movement is launched, 1989. [ | | Details... ]

Letters

  • Open Letter to PND General Meeting (October 31, 1982), 31 October. [ | | Details... ]
  • Please take a minute to read this important letter from the Australian Peace Movement, People for Nuclear Disarmament, Sydney, 1990?. [ | | Details... ]
  • Australian Peace Council, Letter to Menzies, 1961. [ | | Details... ]
  • Hartley, Rev F.J., Letter to Aust. P.M., 1961. [ | | Details... ]

Manifestos

  • Rainbow Alliance a movement of people with many shades of opinion but one common aim of ending the exploitation of people and nature, 1986. [ | | Details... ]
  • Australian Peace Alliance, Election manifesto to the people of Australia, 1917. [ | | Details... ]

Newsletters

  • Peace Dossier: Medicine and Nuclear War, Victorian Association for Peace Studies, Melbourne, March 1983. [ | | Details... ]
  • Peace Dossier: Debate on the ANZUS Alliance, Victorian Association for Peace Studies, Melbourne, October 1983. [ | | Details... ]
  • First Strike for Nuclear Disarmament, Left Tendency for Nuclear Disarmament, Melbourne, March 1984. [ | | Details... ]
  • First Strike for Nuclear Disarmament, Left Tendency for Nuclear Disarmament, Melbourne, February 1984. [ | | Details... ]
  • Students United Against War, Students United Against War, Melbourne, February 1991. [ | | Details... ]
  • Rainbow Alliance, Dear friends, 14 December 1990. [ | | Details... ]

Newspapers

  • Direct Action 2, no. 2, Socialist Youth Alliance, Sydney, October 1970. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 1, no. 1, Socialist Youth Alliance, Sydney, September 1970. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 6, no. 5, Socialist Youth Alliance, Sydney, March 1971. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 8, no. 8, Socialist Youth Alliance, Sydney, July 1971. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 5, no. 6, Socialist Youth Alliance, Sydney, May 1971. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 7, no. 7, Socialist Youth Alliance, Sydney, June 1971. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 4, no. 4, Socialist Youth Alliance, Sydney, January 1971. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 9, no. 9, Socialist Youth Alliance, Sydney, August 1971. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 32, no. 32, Socialist Workers League, Sydney, 7 December 1972. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 25, no. 25, Socialist Workers League, Sydney, 24 August 1972. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 20, no. 20, Socialist Workers League, Sydney, 22 May 1972. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 19, no. 19, Socialist Workers League, Sydney, 11 May 1972. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 18, no. 18, Socialist Workers League, Sydney, 1 May 1972. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 17, no. 17, Socialist Workers League, Sydney, 17 April 1972. [ | | Details... ]
  • SPA, Socialist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 1972. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 35, no. 35, Socialist Workers League, Sydney, 8 February 1973. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 34, no. 34, Socialist Workers League, Sydney, 18 January 1973. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist, Socialist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 21 November 1979. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist, Socialist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 21 November 1979. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist, Socialist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 10 October 1979. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist, Socialist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 10 October 1979. [ | | Details... ]
  • Battler 1980, International Socialists [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1980. [ | | Details... ]
  • Battler 1984, International Socialists [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1984. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist Action 1985, Socialist Action [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, Sep - Dec 1985. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist 1986, International Socialists [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 1986. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist Action 1987, Socialist Action [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1987. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist, no. 241, International Socialist Organisation, Sydney, September 1990. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist, no. 242, International Socialist Organisation, Sydney, October 1990. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist, no. 243, International Socialist Organisation, Sydney, November 1990. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist, no. 245, International Socialist Organisation, Sydney, January 1991. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist, no. 246, International Socialist Organisation, Sydney, 1 February 1991. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist, no. 248, International Socialist Organisation, Sydney, 1 March 1991. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist, no. 249, International Socialist Organisation, Sydney, 15 March 1991. [ | | Details... ]
  • Resistance Magazine, no. 8, Resistance, Sydney, January 1991. [ | | Details... ]

Newspaper Articles

  • 'Housewives' Rally in Stirring Peace Call', Tribune, 8 June 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'World's leading intellectuals appeal to Australians: "Unite for Peace"', Guardian, 20 May 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'U.S. Launched Invasion of Korea; Press Blacks Out Truth, To Drag Us In', Guardian, 20 May 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Editorial', Peace. Journal of the Australian Peace Council, vol. 1, no. 1, April 1950. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Australian Peace Congress Greeted by Famous World Figures', Tribune, 29 March 1950. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Peace Movement Broadened by Students, Ex-Servicemen', Tribune, 1 Febuary 1950. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Congress Opening Sunday Will Voice People's Peace Demands', Guardian, 14 April 1950. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Stop War against Korea End 'Blood Loan' Plot', Tribune, 12 August 1950. [ | Details... ]
  • 'Make peace now and how to fight for peace the burning topic', Liberty, 27 October 1950. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Peace movement gathers way; plans for congress on April 16', 15 March 1950. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'The state and conscientious objectors', Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils and International Digest, J.A. Dawson, Melbourne, c1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Bottomley, William, 'Will God weary of mankind?', no. 43, Unitarian Fellowship of Australia, Melbourne, March-April 1955. [ | | Details... ]
  • CAM, 'Holiday in Narrungar', Burning Issue, no. 7, November 1993. [ | | Details... ]
  • Daddow, Newton, 'The role of U.S. Bases in Australia', Poverty Watch, 1988. [ | | Details... ]
  • Goldstein, Vida, 'Manifesto. Australian Women's Peace Army. Conscription. Vote NO.', The woman voter, 5 October 1916. [ | | Details... ]
  • Goldstein, Vida, 'Open Letter of Members of the Commonwealth Parliament', The Woman Voter, 1916. [ | | Details... ]
  • Griffiths, Phil, 'Where to now for anti-war activists?', The Socialist, no. 249, 15 March 1991. [ | | Details... ]

Pamphlets

  • Inside South Africa. [ | | Details... ]
  • French Nuclear Tests; Australia in Danger. [ | | Details... ]
  • How the war came : with a chronicle of events compiled from all the official papers published by the European governments, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 1915?. [ | | Details... ]
  • They want to conscript out youth of die for them!, Brisbane, 12 May 1950. [ | | Details... ]
  • Australian Peace Congress Programme, 1950. [ | | Details... ]
  • International songs: youth carnival for peace and friendship, Youth Carnival for Peace & Friendship Committee, Sydney, 1952. [ | | Details... ]
  • Australian Convention on Peace and War; a gathering of citizens to discuss and promote international goodwill and peace, Sydney, 1953. [ | | Details... ]
  • Australian Convention for Peace and War; Programme and Participation, Sydney, 26-30 September 1953. [ | | Details... ]
  • The Hydrogen Bomb; the World in Danger, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1955. [ | | Details... ]
  • Report on Peace by the Queensland Branch of the Australian Assembly for Peace, 1957. [ | | Details... ]
  • Peace is Trade Unioin Business, Amalgamated Engineering Union, 1960. [ | | Details... ]
  • The Bomb; its threat and its challenge, 1961. [ | | Details... ]
  • Defend world peace, Act now against US threat to humanity, E.A. Bacon at Coronation Print, Brisbane, 25 October 1962. [ | | Details... ]
  • March with your mates on May Day, Newsletter Printery, Sydney, 1963. [ | | Details... ]
  • National Conference for an Independent and Non-aligned Australia, Congress for International Co-opreation and Disarmament, Melbourne, 1,2,3 October 1976. [ | | Details... ]
  • Ban nuclear weapons: Give our children a chance, Socialist Party of Australia, Sydney, 1979. [ | | Details... ]
  • How can I oppose the nuclear threat?, November 1981. [ | | Details... ]
  • For a world free of nuclear weapons; Congress for International Co-operation & Disarmament, 1982. [ | | Details... ]
  • Project Iceberg, People for Nuclear Disarmament, Melbourne, July 1984. [ | | Details... ]
  • Peace File: Why didn't the US ratify the comprehensive test ban treaty?, Campaign for International Co-operation and Disarmament, Melbourne, November 1999. [ | | Details... ]
  • PEACE...and the German Problem, Queensland Peace Committee for International Co-operation & Disarmament, Brisbane, c1951. [ | | Details... ]
  • Peace is your business, c1961. [ | | Details... ]
  • Nuclear-fre zones in the Pacific and the World; a nuclear-free Southern Hemisphere, c1963. [ | | Details... ]
  • Unions warn: danger of total war, Sydney, c1965. [ Image | | Details... ]
  • Don't celebrate Peace Fight the Bases, c1985. [ | | Details... ]
  • Peace Quest Forum, n.d.. [ | | Details... ]
  • What is CICD?, n.d.. [ | | Details... ]
  • An extract from the statement on Vietnam adopted by the Cenral Committee of the World Council of Churches, n.d.. [ | | Details... ]
  • Better to fight them over there than here, Brisbane, n.d.. [ | | Details... ]
  • H-Bombs IN Australia means H-Bombs ON Australia, R. Gould, Sydney, n.d.. [ | | Details... ]
  • Foreign Bases in Australia, n.d.. [ | | Details... ]
  • Remember this? The men at the TOP must make peace now, Sydney, n.d.. [ | | Details... ]
  • Facts about military conscription, Federal Pacifist Council of Australia, Brisbane, n.d.. [ | | Details... ]
  • 3000 more Australians for Vietnam, Brisbane, n.d.. [ | | Details... ]
  • Alice Springs peace group bases campaign, Pine Gap: closed by the people, 1986. [ | | Details... ]
  • Australian Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament, Message to educationalists, Australian Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament, Sydney, 24 October 1964. [ | | Details... ]
  • Australian Peace Council, The truth about Korea, 1950. [ | | Details... ]
  • Australian Peace Council, Our policy and programme, Australian Peace Council, 1956. [ Details... ]
  • Glover, Rev. Neil, Why I went to gaol, Coronation Press, 1957. [ | | Details... ]
  • Holloway, E. J., The Australian Victory over Conscription in 1916-1917, Anti-Conscription Jubilee Committee, Melbourne, 1966. [ | | Details... ]
  • Judd, E. E., Judd's speech from the dock, Socialist Labour Party of Australia, Sydney, 1919. [ | | Details... ]
  • Labor Anti-war Committee, Labor's case against war and fascism, Industrial Print, Melbourne, c1935. [ | | Details... ]
  • McKellar, John, Maurice Blackburn and the struggle for freedom, Anti-Conscription Campaign, Melbourne, 1945. [ | | Details... ]
  • Movement against uranium mining, Uranium mining in Australia, July 1984. [ | | Details... ]
  • Nuclear Disarmament Party, there are millions of us, 1984. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist Workers Party, For peace and jobs! Disarm the warmongers!, Socialist Workers Party, 1984. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist Workers Party / Resistance, Say no to war, Socialist Workers Party, Sydney, 1984. [ | | Details... ]
  • Suter, Keith D., Nuclear Free Zones: Some Basic Questions, Australian Nuclear Free Secretariat, 1985. [ | | Details... ]
  • Temple, Frederick, War Finance and the Worker, Holland Print, Adelaide, 1916. [ | | Details... ]
  • Victorian Peace Council, Germ War in Korea [extracts]. [ | | Details... ]
  • Victorian Peace Council, Geneva Conference of the Three Great Powers to Discuss Ending of Nuclear Tests, 1958. [ | | Details... ]
  • White, Paul, WAR in the GULF!, Partisan Press, Melbourne, 1990. [ | | Details... ]

Policy Statements

  • Evatt, H.V., Labor's plan for World Peace; declarations and discussion of the Hobart Conference, Sydney, 1955. [ | | Details... ]
  • M. Munro, Nuclear Free Australia Party, 1987?. [ | | Details... ]
  • Peace Pledge Union, Statement of Principles - Peace Pledge Union. [ | | Details... ]

Press Releases

  • Dickie, A.M., Co-operation and Disarmament, 1959. [ | | Details... ]

Reports

  • Australian Peace Council, Summary of reports to a meeting at Nicholas Hall, Melbourne, Monday 12 September, 1949, attended by 112 representatives of 49 organisations, 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • Victorian Peace Council, Summary of decisions on the initiation of State peace work in 1956, 1956. [ | | Details... ]

Songs

Statements

  • Canberra Citizen's statement of War in Indo-China, 1954. [ | | Details... ]

Created: 19 July 2005, Last modified: 12 September 2006