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Books

  • Women in our new world, Current Book Distributors, Sydney, 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Lang, John. T, Communism in Australia: A Complete Exposure, W. Brown, [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 194?. [ | | Details... ]
  • Sendy, John, The Communist Party: History, Thoughts and Questions, CPA History Group, Melbourne, 1978. [ | | Details... ]
  • Sharkey, Lance, The trade unions; communist theory and practice of trade unionism, Australian Communist Party, Sydney, September 1942. [ | | Details... ]

Book Sections

  • 'Political Resolutions', in The Way Forward. Resolutions of the 15th Congress of the Communist Party of Australia, 1948. [ | | Details... ]
  • Gibson, R, 'Marxist study classes', in My years in the Communist Party, International Bookshop, Melbourne, 1966. [ | Details... ]
  • Gibson, Ralph, 'Struggle against war and fascism', in My years in the Communist Party, International Bookshop, Melbourne, 1966. [ | | Details... ]
  • Gould, L.H. [Llewellyn Henry] and W.A. Wood, 'Trotskyism--"the left claw of the fascist pincer"', in How Russia smashed its fifth column, Current Book Distributors, Sydney, c1943. [ | | Details... ]

Cartoons

  • Counihan, Noel?, 'Meet my big brother', Guardian; offical organ Victorian State Committee Australian Communist Party (Melbourne), 20 February 1948. [ | | Details... ]
  • Dyson, Ambrose, 'Peace', Guardian, 2 December 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • Dyson, Ambrose, '1939-1949', Guardian (Melbourne), no. 383, 4 March 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • McClintock, Herbert, 'Welcome back Bob, I've certainly missed you', Tribune (Sydney), no. 487 (new series), 22 January 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • McClintock, Herbert, 'Truth of socialist achievement', Tribune (Sydney), no. 513 (new series), 27 April 1949. [ | | Details... ]

Constitutions

  • Constitution of the Communist Party of Australia 1943, 1943. [ | | Details... ]

Journals

  • Communist Revew, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 1940. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 1940. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 1940. [ | | Details... ]
  • Australian New Writing, no. 1, Current Book Distributors, Sydney, 1943, 4-80 pp. [ | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, September 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sdyney, April 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, April 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, September 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • L. L. Sharkey (ed.), Communist Review, no. 55, Communist Party of Australia, Sydney, March 1946. [ Details... ]
  • L. L. Sharkey (ed.), Communist Review, no. 54, Communist Party of Australia, Sydney, February 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • L. L. Sharkey (ed.), Communist Review, no. 53, Communist Party of Australia, Sydney, January 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Sharkey, Lance (ed.), Communist Review 1946-1947, no. 53-76, Communist Party of Australia, Sydney, 1946-1947. [ | | Details... ]

Journal Articles

  • Henry, J.C., 'All for the fighting fund (a report to the Central Committee meeting, 18-20, 1949)', Communist Review, April 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • Hill, E.F., 'The Party as the inheritor of socialist trends in the Victorian Labor Movement', Communist Review, August 1945. [ | | Details... ]
  • Miles, J.B, 'Art for the people', Communist Review, August, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia, Sydney, 1948, pp. 260-1. [ | | Details... ]
  • Prichard, Katharine Susannah, 'Anti-Capitalist core of Australian literature', Communist Review, August, 1943, pp. 106-7. [ | | Details... ]

Newsletters

  • Socialist Comment, Socialist Party of Australia (I) [This scan courtesy of the Socialist Party of Great Britain], Sydney, February ?. [ | | Details... ]

Newspaper Articles

  • 'Women's Employment Board rates demanded at mass meeting', North Queensland Guardian, 16 July 1943. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Big increase in communist vote', Guardian (Offical organ Victorian State Committee Communist Party of Australia) (Melbourne), 16 June 1943. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Legality won for the Communist Party', North Queensland Guardian, 8 January 1943. [ | Details... ]
  • 'Unity Vital for Labour Victory in Federal Elections', North Queensland Guardian, vol. 1, no. 19, 14 May 1943. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Land armies must join air forces to smash Axis Powers in Europe', North Queensland Guardian, 11 June 1943. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Brisbane May Day celebrations great demonstration for unity', North Queensland Guardian, 7 May 1943. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'First Communist MLA: Paterson wins Bowen', Tribune (Sydney), no. 47 (New series), 20 April 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... ]
  • '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... ]
  • '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... ]
  • 'Allies mass 2 million to link with Red Army', Tribune (Sydney), 8 March 1945. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Attacks on Communists danger to all', Guardian (Melbourne), no. 288, 11 April 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Aboriginal strikers in WA seized at revolver point, put in chains', Tribune, 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Big crowd cheers Sharkey as opening of trial', Guardian (Melbourne), no. 387, 1 April 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Fascist raids, jailings, unite workers for struggle', Guardian (Melbourne), 9 July 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • ''Free Sharkey!' Call by Mass Meeting; Crimes Act Condemned', Guardian (Melbourne), no. 440, 21 October 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'KMT's downfall - New Chinese Gvt. this year', Tribune (Sydney), no. 487 (new series), 22 January 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Party is ready to give full account of aims, activity', Guardian (Melbourne), 10 June 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Party doesn't fear Royal Commission', Guardian (Melbourne), 13 May 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Menzies' ban threat first step to fascism', Guardian, 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'World's leading intellectuals appeal to Australians: "Unite for Peace"', Guardian, 20 May 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Program for peace, plenty, independence of Australia: communist Senate manifesto', Guardian (Offical organ Victorian State Committee Communist Party of Australia) (Melbourne), 11 November 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Housewives' Rally in Stirring Peace Call', Tribune, 8 June 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Act now to save innocent Rosenberg couple from the electric chair in U.S.', Guardian (Melbourne), no. 629, 4 June 1953. [ | | Details... ]
  • Carey, Kit, 'Aborigines and democracy', Communist Review, February 1945. [ | | Details... ]
  • Gould, L.H., 'Intellectuals and the party', Communist Review, October 1944. [ | | Details... ]
  • Wright, T, 'Fight for the Aborigines (Report to Central Committee meeting, 14-16 February, 1947)', Communist Review, April 1947. [ | | Details... ]

Pamphlets

  • A great day for the Australian Labor Movement, 1942. [ | | Details... ]
  • New Theatre Review, New Theatre Club., Melbourne, May 1943, 2 pp. [ | Details... ]
  • Stick together, Central Brisbane District Committee Communist Party, Brisbane, 1943. [ | | Details... ]
  • The present and the future demand more child care facilities, Women's Committee Australian Communist Party (Qld), Brisbane, February 1944. [ | | Details... ]
  • What future?, Jobs, home, peace, H.B. Chandler, Coronation Print, Brisbane, 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Reply to Maloney: the real facts about Russia, Australian Soviet House, 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Police thuggery in Brisbane, Central Rail Disputes Committee, Brisbane, 1948. [ | | Details... ]
  • Constitutional Aspects of the Royal Commission on the Communist Party, Australian Council for Civil Liberties, Melbourne, 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • In memory of Jim Healy, sn, 1961. [ | | Details... ]
  • Issued for the workers at the Brisbane Abattoir, Brisbane, c1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Blake, J.D., The great coal strike of 1949, Newsletter Printery, Sydney, August 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • Cambell, E. W., Historical background to the world labour movement, Current Book Distributors, Sydney, September, 1944. [ | | 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... ]
  • Gibson, Ralph, A Fair hearing for socialism / preface by the Bishop of Ballarat ; foreword by the Dean of Melbourne., s.n. [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1944?. [ | | Details... ]
  • Gibson, Ralph, War in Palestine, International Bookshop for Victorian State Committee, Australian Communist Party [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1948. [ | | Details... ]
  • Gould, L.H & Wood, W.A., How Russia smashed its fifth column, Current Book Distributors, Sydney, 1945. [ | | Details... ]
  • Henry, J. C., 25 years of the Australian Communist Party, Central Committee Australian Communist Party, Sydney, October 1945. [ | | Details... ]
  • Lovegrove, D, Communists and the War, Labor Call Print, 1942. [ | | Details... ]
  • Miles, J.B. (Jack), Work among women, How to organise series no. 6, Marx House, Sydney, 20 November 1943. [ | | Details... ]
  • Peel, Gerald, Two worlds in Europe: the old and the new, Current Book Distributors, Sydney, October 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • Sharkey, L. L., A reply to Father Ryan, Communist Party of Australia, Sydney, 194?. [ | | Details... ]
  • Sharkey, L. L., An outline history of the Australian Communist Party, Australian Communist Party, Sydney, 1944. [ | | Details... ]
  • Sharkey, L. L., For Australia: prosperous and independent: report by L. L. Sharkey to the 15th Congress of the Australian Communist Party May 1948, Current Book Distributors, Sydney, 1948. [ | | Details... ]
  • Sharkey, Lawrence, Australian Communist and Soviet Russia, Current Book Distributors, Sydney, 1947. [ | | Details... ]

Short Storys

  • Prichard, Katherine Susannah, 'Communists are always young', in N’Goola and other stories, 1959 edn, Australasian Book Society, Melbourne, pp. 125-9. [ Details... ]

See also

  • The Realist Writers' Group and the Arts Council of Australia invite all teachers and students all lovers of Australian literature to leading Australian novelists Katharine Susannah Prichard and Flora Eldershaw, Melbourne. [ | Details... ]
  • 'Foreword', Australian new writing, vol. 1, Current Book Distributors, Sydney, March 1943, pp. 4-6. [ | Details... ]
  • 'Foreword', Australian new writing, vol. 2, Current Book Distributors, Sydney, March 1944. [ | Details... ]
  • 'New Willis play at New Theatre', Guardian, The Guardian, Melbourne, August 15 1947. [ | Details... ]
  • 'What's on', Guardian, The Guardian, Melbourne, 15 August 1947. [ | Details... ]
  • 'Marx School Lecture', Guardian, The Guardian, Melbourne, 15 August 1947. [ | Details... ]
  • 'Book review: 'Coast to coast'', Guardian, The Guardian, Melbourne, August 29 1947, p. 5. [ | Details... ]
  • 'Another festival of Soviet films', Guardian, February 20, The Guardian, Melbourne, 1948, p. 1. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Clifford Odets play for New Theatre', Guardian, February 27, The Guardian, Melbourne, 1948. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Junior Eureka Youth League', Guardian, The Guardian, Melbourne, 6 December 1949, p. 1. [ | Details... ]
  • 'Marx School library', Guardian, The Guardian, Melbourne, nd. [ | Details... ]
  • Brown, Max, 'Summary of the "New Masses" controversy on "What shall we ask of writers?"', Communist Review, October, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia, Sydney, 1946, pp. 315-7. [ | | Details... ]
  • Diamond, D, 'Art and the struggle', Communist Review, November, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia, Sydney, 1943, pp. 151-3. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'H.M', 'A further reply to John Reed's views', Communist Review, July, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia, Sydney, 1944, pp. 285-6. [ | Details... ]
  • Mortimer, Paul, 'Artists and the class struggle', Communist Review, February, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia, Sydney, 1948, pp. 59-60. [ | | Details... ]
  • Moston, S, 'Marx House, the first anniversary of our communist unversity', Communist Review, March, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia, Sydney, 1944, pp. 222-3. [ | | Details... ]
  • O'Connor V.G, 'Art and Fascism', Australian new writing, vol. 2, Current Book Distributors, Sydney, March 1944, pp. 47-52. [ | Details... ]
  • O'Connor, Vic, 'A criticism of Adelaide's "Angry Penguins"', Communist Review, August, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia, Sydney, 1944, pp. 302-3. [ | | Details... ]
  • Prichard, Katharine Susannah, 'Anti-Capitalist core of Australian literature', Communist Review, August, 1943, pp. 106-7. [ | | Details... ]
  • Prichard, Katharine Susannah, 'Hoax renders service to literature', Communist Review, March, 1945, pp. 457-7. [ | | Details... ]
  • Reed, John, 'Take the people to art', Australian new writing, vol. 2, Current Book Distributors, Sydney, March 1944, pp. 43-6. [ | Details... ]
  • Reed, John, 'Signs of an "infantile disorder" on the cultural front', Communist Review, July, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia, Sydney, 1944, pp. 284-5. [ | | Details... ]
  • Shaw, R. M, 'The artist in our society', Communist Review, August, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia, Sydney, 1948, pp. 258-9. [ | | Details... ]
  • Watson, Kathleen, 'Art and the individual', Communist Review, March, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia, Sydney, 1944, p. 223. [ | | Details... ]

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