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Pamphlet

Author
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)
Title
Learn from the Ford Strike
Imprint
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) [This scan courtesy of Mike Williss], 1974, 16 pp
Abstract

The nine-week strike at the Broadmeadows Ford plant in May-July 1973 was one of the most militant struggles in Australian working class history. Ford workers confronted both the employer and a trade union bureaucracy unprepared to offer them leadership and support. A rank and file workers' committee gave the necessary leadership and direction. The dispute also gave practical effect to differences between the revisionist Communist Party and the revolutionary CPA (M-L) and vindicated the analysis made by founding Chairman of the latter party, E.F. Hill in Looking Backward, Looking Forward, his analysis of trade union politics. (Mike Williss)