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This entry links to documents related to socialism published during the 19th century.

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Books

• Andrade, David A., Our social system, and how it affects those who work for their living., David A. Andrade, Melbourne, n.d., 13 pp. Image PDF Details
• Bellamy, Edward, Looking backward, 2000-1887, Andrade & Co., Melbourne, ?. Image PDF Details
• Gollan, Robin, Radical and working class politics: a study of Eastern Australia, 1850-1910, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1960. PDF Details
• Gosman, A, Socialism; in the light of right conduct and religion, Mullen and Slade, Melbourne, 1891, 57 pp. Image PDF Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• Lane, E. H., Dawn to Dusk, SHAPE, Brisbane, 1939. Image PDF Details
• Lane, William, The workingman’s paradise : an Australian labour novel by John Miller, Edwards, Dunlop and Co [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 1892. Image PDF Details
• Miller, John (William Lane), Workingman's paradise; an Australian labour novel, Edwards, Dunlop, Sydney, 1892. Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• Rayment, A.W., The rights of labor; and how to obtain them, Printed for the proprietor and publishe[r], H.S.Taylor, by Hutchison, Craker and Smith, Adelaide, 1891, 31 pp. Image PDF Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• Spence, William Guthrie, The ethics of new unionism, Martin and Grose, Creswick, 1892, 10 pp. Image PDF Details

Constitutions

• Australian Socialist League: Constitution and Rules, 1892, 1892. Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• Australian Socialist League, Constitution [Amended and Adopted, Easter 1898], 1898. Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details

Correspondences

• Ben Tillet Letter, 1899. Image PDF Details

Journals

• Reason: A Monthy Magazine of Social and General Philosophy, no. 2, J.A. Andrews [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 15 March, 26 pp. images PDF Details

Lectures

• Summerfield, Rose, Master and Man, Hummer, Wagga, 1892, 11 pp. Image PDF Details

Letters

• unknown, Vale! Tillett, Goodbye, Ben!, This scan courtesy of University of Warwick Modern Records Centre, 1952, 1 pp. PDF Details

Manifestos

• Manifesto of the Australian Socialist League to the People of Australia, September 1894, 1894. Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• Mellor, W.H., Manifesto of the Social Democratic Federation of Australasia, Sydney, 1895. Image PDF Details

Newspapers

• Desmond, Arthur (ed.), Hard cash: a magazine of finance, politics and religion, vol. 2, no. 4, s.n., Sydney, 1893, 4 pp. Image PDF Details
• Desmond, Arthur (ed.), Hard cash: a magazine of finance, politics and religion, vol. 2, no. 3, s.n., Sydney, 1893, 4 pp. Image PDF Details
• Desmond, Arthur (ed.), Hard cash: a magazine of finance, politics and religion, vol. 2, no. 1, s.n., Sydney, 1893, 4 pp. Image PDF Details
• Singer, Ignatius (ed.), Our Commonwealth, vol. 1, no. 1, 1886, 8 pp. Image PDF Details

Newspaper Articles

• 'Socialism in Sydney', The Radical (Hamilton, Newcastle, N.S.W.), 22 October 1887. Image PDF Details
• 'Australian Socialist League', The Radical (Hamilton, Newcastle, N.S.W.), 15 October 1887, p. 233. Image PDF Details
• 'Socialism in Sydney', The Radical (Hamilton, Newcastle, N.S.W.), 1 October 1887. Image PDF Details
• 'A workman's thoughts', The Radical (Hamilton, Newcastle, N.S.W.), 20 July 1887. Image PDF Details
• 'Socialism in Sydney', The Radical (Hamilton, Newcastle, N.S.W.), 21 September 1887, p. 210. Image PDF Details
• 'The Worker: Statement of Aims, 1890', The Worker [Queensland], vol. 1, no. 1, 1 March 1890. Details
• 'The class war', The Australian Workman (Sydney), vol. 2, no. 59, 7 November 1891, p. 1. Image PDF Details
• 'Our Programme', The Pioneer (Adelaide), 2 May 1891, p. 1. Image PDF Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• 'Editorial', The Pioneer, A. Timmann, Adelaide, 24 December 1892, p. 1. Image PDF Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• 'Socialism that is not radical', The Pioneer, A. Timmann, Adelaide, 16 April 1892, p. 1. Image PDF Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• 'The industrial outcome of socialism', Beacon (Melbourne), 1894. Image PDF Details
• 'The depotism of socialism', Beacon (Melbourne), no. 11, 1 March 1894. Image PDF Details
• 'Protection as wanted. Manifesto of the Council of the Social Democratic Federation of Victoria', The Champion (Melbourne), vol. 1, no. 3, 6 July 1895. Image PDF Details
• '[Initial Editorial]', Champion, 1895. Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• 'What We Really Want', The Worker, 14 December 1895. Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• 'Women's World. Miss C.H. Spence (of S.A.) on "The Democratic Ideal."', The Champion, 1896. Image PDF Details
• 'Editorial', The Tocsin (Melbourne), vol. 1, no. 1, 2 October 1897. Image PDF Details
• 'To Democratic Writers, Union Secretaries and Others', Tocsin, 2 November 1897. Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• 'The Tocsin's Platform', Tocsin, 2 November 1897. Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• Radical, 'A Plea for Unity', The Pioneer, A. Timmann., Adelaide, 1 October 1892, p. 1. Image PDF Details
• Winspear, W.R., 'Plain Views', The Radical (Hamilton, Newcastle, N.S.W.), vol. 1, no. 1, 12 March 1887, p. 1. Image PDF Details

Official Documents

• Maloney, W; Davies, J.R.; Corbett; W, Miller, J; Kingston, H., Australasian Knights of Labor. Preamble, Melbourne, 10 October 1883?. Image PDF Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details

Pamphlets

• Social-Democratic Federation: The gospal of discontent, Brisbane. Image PDF Details
• The Australian Socialist League. Statement of principles, c1887. Image PDF Details
• What Socialism Is., South Australian Branch Fabian Society's Tracts. No.1, Adelaide, c1891?, 4 pp. Image PDF Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• [Boote, Henry Ernest], Religion, science and socialism, Leaflets for the people no. 2, Queensland Social Democratic Federation, Brisbane, 1892. Image PDF Details
• [Boote, Henry Ernest], The catholicity of socialism; a sequel to the 2nd leaflet, Leaflets for the people, no. 3, 1892. Image PDF Details
• Alaric, The village commune; a labour poem, Leaflets for the people no. IV, 1892. Image PDF Details
• Black, George, Are machines to be masters? Another view of the wage question., General Propaganda Committee, Australian Socialist League, Sydney, 1893, 12 pp. Image PDF Details
• Seymour, Charles, What is socialism?, Leaflets for the people, no. 1, Queensland Social Democratic Federation, Brisbane. Image PDF Details

Platforms

• People's Parliamentary Platform, 1890. Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details

Poems

• 'Voices from the workers', The Radical (Hamilton, Newcastle, N.S.W.), 1887. Image PDF Details
• Kendall, F. C., 'Stand together, men, as brothers', The Australian Workman, vol. 1, no. 30, 18 April 1891, p. 1. Image PDF Details

Songs

• Andrews, J.A., Sons of the south, Barrier Socialist Songster, Broken Hill. Image PDF Details

See also

• Manifesto of the Democratic Association of Victoria, 1872. Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• Manifesto of the Australian Socialist League 1887/8, 1887/8. Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• The Australian Socialist League, 1888. Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• Australian Socialist League,, 1890. Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• Australian Labour Federation Platform, 1890. Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• Australian Labour Federation Election Platform, 1891, 1891. Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• Parliamentary Labour Party Platform, 1893, 1893. Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• Manifesto of the Parliamentary Labor Party (1894), 1894. Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• Lawson, Henry, 'Freedom on the wallaby', The Worker [Queensland] (Brisbane), 16 May 1891, p. 8. Image PDF Details
• Webb, Sidney and Beatrice, 'Extract', in Austin, A.G. (ed.), The Webbs' Australian Diary 1898, 1898. Image PDF Details