Australian communism Australian communism The 1949 Australian coal strike is notable as being the first time that Australian military forces were used during peacetime to break a Trade union strike. The strike by 23,000 coal miners lasted for seven weeks, from 27 June, 1949 to 15 August, 1949, with troops being sent in by the Ben Chifley Federal Labor Government to the open cut coal mines in New South Wales on 28 July, 1949, with the workers returning to work defeated two weeks later. ...more on Wikipedia about "1949 Australian coal strike"
Constitution Alteration (Powers to deal with Communists and Communism) 1951 sought increase the power of the government to make laws with respect to Communists and Communism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Australian referendum, 1951"
The Communist Party of Australia was founded in 1920 and dissolved in 1991. It achieved its greatest political strength in the 1940s and faced an attempted banning in 1951. Though it never presented a major challenge to the established order in Australia, it did have significant influence on the trade unions, social movements, and the national culture. ...more on Wikipedia about "Communist Party of Australia"
The Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) (CPA(ML)) is a minor political party in Australia, which advocates a form of communism based on the writings of Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Mao Zedong. The party describes its ideology as Marxism-Leninism, and does not use the term " Maoism" which is commonly applied to it by others. ...more on Wikipedia about "Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)"
The Communist Party of Australia is a minor political party in Australia. It was founded as the Socialist Party of Australia (SPA) in 1971, when a group of members of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) resigned or were expelled from that party as a result of their opposition to its policies. They took the view that the CPA should not become a left social-democratic party, and should continue as a Marxist-Leninist party. This position put them at odds with the CPA leadership. The CPA leadership had become increasingly critical of the Soviet Union, particularly over the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. The SPA was led by a group of veteran trade union officials such as Pat Clancy and Peter Symon. ...more on Wikipedia about "Communist Party of Australia (revived)"
The Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP), is a Marxist political group, which operates as the largest component of a broad Australian socialist formation, the Socialist Alliance. ...more on Wikipedia about "Democratic Socialist Perspective"
This article is about the International Socialist Organisation in Australia. See also the International Socialist Organization. ...more on Wikipedia about "International Socialist Organisation (Australia)"
The Petrov Affair was a Cold War spy drama in Australia in April 1954, involving the defection of Vladimir Petrov, third secretary in the Soviet embassy in Canberra. ...more on Wikipedia about "Petrov Affair"
Resistance is a socialist youth organisation with branches throughout Australia and its national headquarters in Sydney. Resistance works closely with the Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP), a tendency within the Socialist Alliance, though it is said to be formally independent. ...more on Wikipedia about "Resistance (socialist youth organisation)"
The Socialist Alliance was founded in 2001 as an alliance of socialist organisations in Australia, initiated by the Democratic Socialist Party and the International Socialist Organisation and founded along with 6 other socialist groups. The alliance grew to a point where most of its members were not members of any of the affiliate organisations, and successive national conferences moved to take the Alliance in the direction of becoming a united socialist party, following the model of the Scottish Socialist Party (which also started off as an alliance) rather than as a broad electoral front like the Socialist Alliance in the United Kingdom or the Anti-Capitalist Alliance in New Zealand. However, to a large extent this new direction has not been carried out in practice. ...more on Wikipedia about "Socialist Alliance (Australia)"
Socialist Alternative (SA) is a Trotskyist group in Australia with a membership of about 200, formed by a split from the International Socialist Organisation (ISO) in 1995. They are characterised by an aggressive campus focused recruiting campaign, and by the high level of activity they achieve from their student members. In recent political fall-outs within Australian Trotskyism, Socialist Alternative has been left as one of the larger and more influential organisations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Socialist Alternative (Australia)"
Socialist Democracy is a Trotskyist group in Australia and is affiliated to the United Secretariat of the Fourth International. It is a member group of the Socialist Alliance. It originated as a minority tendency within the Socialist Wokers Party when that organisation decided to leave the USFI. ...more on Wikipedia about "Socialist Democracy (Australia)"
Workers Liberty is a small Trotskyist political party in Australia. It is closely aligned with the Alliance for Workers' Liberty in the United Kingdom. ...more on Wikipedia about "Workers Liberty Australia"
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