Snapshots of the Communist movement in Australia (as well as other radical movements).
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"Shell: Sponsoring murder in Nigeria, Sponsoring the arts in Australia" - poster by TAG, out of 'RedPlanet Posters' ca. 1995.
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Tatiana Tarasova ponders her next move after the closure of the New Era Bookshop. For more than 20 years it was the public face of the Socialist Party of Australia in Sydney. On Christmas Eve of 1991, the New Era came to an end.
(December 13, 1991. Photo by Simon Alekna).
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"Scene at the Abattoirs" - by Noel Counihan, 1961.
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Australian Communist History retweeted
13 May 2024
Australian Communist Party (2019) banner at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Sydney NSW, 2 June 2020.
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Australian Communist History retweeted
31 Aug 2023
Strike of Builders Labourers Federation workers at the building site of River Towers apartments.
(Sydney, May or June, 1970) [1/3]
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"I Will Pay my Fare to a Tram Conductor Only"
Badge produced by supporters of Melbourne tram conductors who went on strike from Dec 1989 to Jan 1990 when the state Minister of Transport attempted to abolish conductors and replace them with a 'scratch' ticketing system.
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Australian Communist History retweeted
17 May 2024
(FTF): Al Quds Day March in Sydney NSW, July 26 2014.
(Photog.: Hugh Peterswald) [1/8]
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"Boycott Safcol products, Support the Filipino workers"
- poster by Bob Clutterbuck, for the Philippines Action Support Group, published out of Redletter Press, 1983
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Jack Mundey in The Rocks, ahead of his campaign to run as an alderman on the City of Sydney Council.
(October 28, 1983. Photo by Julian Kevin Zakaras).
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"Former "greenie" Jack Mundey, in the Rocks area, a area he hopes to represent on the City of Sydney Council where he plans to stand as Alderman. Mundey, the former builders labourers' - leader, who is credited with saving The Rocks area from the bulldozers in the early 70s..."
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"...is to stand as an independent candidate for the same district in the City Council elections. One of Australia's best-known communists, he has not forsaken his membership of the CPA. He says he will represent the interests of everyone in the fight against corruption."
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Australian Communist History retweeted
28 Sep 2024
"The Proletariat, Private Property and the State." - Front page cartoon depicting the Law and the AWU cozying up to the bourgeoisie while a worker rots in prison. From the Communist Party of Australia's newspaper "The Communist."
(28 Oct 1921)
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Turkish contingent of May Day march in Melbourne, 1982.
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Australian Communist History retweeted
7 Oct 2023
a pro-Palestine Liberation Army float at a May Day rally in Melbourne, 1982
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"Miner in Narrow Seam" - oil pastel piece by Noel Counihan, 1963
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Australian Communist History retweeted
29 Apr 2023
Mao Zedong and Ted Hill share a chuckle over the circumstances of the Prime Minister Harold Holt's death.
(Beijing, November 28, 1968)
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Young Pioneers of Ryde, NSW, during a fancy dress social, pose for a photo after raising 10 shillings for the Party Defence Fund.
(Clipping from the "Workers Weekly", 12/05/1936)
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"4th Marxist Summer School" - Poster designed by Leonie Lane (1981)
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Norm Gallagher (BLF) and Mr. B. Unsworth (Labor Council of NSW) leaving the National Economic Summit.
April 11, 1983. (Photo by David James Bartho)
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This National Economic Summit was an effort by the Hawke government to turn the accord into a tripartite agreement also involving employers.
theconversation.com/summits-…
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