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Communist and Socialist Publications

A guide to Communist and Socialist publications held by the Australian National University Archives

Communist and Socialist Publications at the ANU Archives

N57/1980 Amicus Friends of the Soviet Union. Ryde. Holdings: No.1, 1933.

S173 Antidote Melbourne University Branch, Australian Communist Party. Holdings: 1946-1950 (incomplete).

N57/1986 Anti-Imperialist Youth League Against Imperialism, Australian Youth Section, Sydney. Holdings: Nos.2-3, 1932.

N57/1934 Area Worker Communist Party of Australia, Griffith, No.1 District. Holdings: No.12, 1934.

S1101 Assembly Line Communist Party of Australia, GMH? Unit, Melbourne. Holdings: May 1964 (No.79).

S759 Australian Communist, The Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist), Melbourne. Holdings: 1963-1985 (incomplete).

S206 Australian Labor Defender, The P.T. Thorne for International Labor Defence, Sydney. Holdings: 1933-1935.

S1009 Australian Socialist, The Central Committee of the Socialist Party of Australia. Holdings: Jul 1970-May 1972.

P43/8/17 Balmoral News Communists Party of Australia, Brisbane. Holdings: 1960-1963 (incomplete).

S1067 Battler. Paper of the International Socialists International Socialists Melbourne. Holdings: 1976-1984 (incomplete)

N57/1990 Call to Unity The Farmers Unity League, Sydney? Holdings No.6, 1934.

S114 Challenge. The voice of Australian Youth National Editorial Committee, Pitt Street, Sydney. Published monthly by combined efforts of young people from youth organizations and trade union who founded the paper (Eureka Youth League, Australian student labor federation, Newcastle trade and labour council etc. Holdings: 1955-1956.

P8/2/14 Citizen Soldier Communists of the fighting services, Sydney. Holdings: Aug 1942.

N117/1586 Commune, The Communist Federation Anti Parliamentary. Glasgow. An organ of the coming social revolution. Holdings: 1925-1928 (incomplete).

N57/1912 Communist Australian Socialist Party, Brisbane Branch. Holdings: No.1, Aug 1920.

S552 Communist International Executive Committee of the Communist International, Leningrad, London, New York.1920s, 1937-1940, 1992 (incomplete)

N391/99 Workshop Bulletins (Codock News; The Spanner; Poole and Steel News; Corvette; Hammer; Harvest; Production Front, and Higher Wages, Shorter Hours), Communist Party of Australia, 1942 - 1952 (incomplete).

S554 Communist Review Communist Party of Great Britain, London. Holdings: 1921-1953 (incomplete).

S210 Communist Review / Australian Left Review Communist Party of Australia. Marxist journal for the promotion of socialist ideas. Sydney. [To May 1966 as the Communist Review]. Holdings: 1934- 1992 (incomplete)

N57/1915 Communist, The Communist Party of Australia. Sydney. A theoretical magazine for the discussion of revolutionary problems. Holdings: Oct 1927- Nov 1928 (complete except for issue 2).

E183/77; E183/31 Course…Peace, Trade, Socialism, The Communist Party of Australia (A Ogston), Sydney (circulated among seamen). Holdings: 1959-1960 (incomplete).

S566 Direct Action Socialist Workers League in the interests of the working people and Socialist Youth Alliance. Holdings: Sep 1970-Dec 1983.

N57/1935 Eastern Front, The Communist Party of Australia, Eastern Suburbs Section. Holdings: No.3, 1937.

S256 Fabian Bulletin Victorian Fabian Society. Melbourne. Holdings: 1951-1953.

S257 Fabian Newsletter Victorian Fabian Society. Melbourne. Holdings1961-1975 (incomplete).

S258 Fabian Research Notes Victorian Fabian Society. Melbourne. Holdings: 1970 (issues 1-4).

S513 For a Lasting Peace for a People’s Democracy Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers Parties, Bucharest. Holdings: 1952-1956.

S118 Forward Communist Party publication. Sydney. Holdings: 1944-1949 (incomplete).

S576 Forward Socialist Publications Ltd. London. Holdings:1957-1959 (incomplete).

S1069 Free Palestine A Kazuk, Carlton Victoria. Holdings 1979-1984 (incomplete)

N57/1936 Galvaniser, The Lysaghts Factory CPA Group, Sydney. Holdings: 1934-1935 (incomplete).

P128/41 Grass Roots, Students for Democratic Action, University of Adelaide. 1968.

P2/2/1/2; P2/2/6/2; P2/2/14 Greenlight Communist Party of Australia, Jolimont Railway Workshops. Holdings: 1953-1955 (incomplete).

S149 Guardian (incorporating the Workers Voice) Australian Communist Party / Official organ of the Victorian State Committee of the Communist Party of Australia. (banned 1940-1943, incorporated in Tribute (Sydney), Jan 1967). Holdings: 1939-1966 (incomplete).

N57/1937 Hammer and Scrapper, The Ships Painters & Dockers CPA Group, Sydney. Holdings: No1, June 1934.

N57/1988 Information Bulletin: The War Crisis in China Australian Section, League Against Imperialism. Holdings: Issues 1-3, 1933-193?

N57/2229 Inprecorr. (International Press Correspondence) Comintern. English Edition, Berlin. 1922-1939 (incomplete).

S487 International (Australia) Australian Section of the Fourth International. 1960-1972.

S120 International Socialist Australasian Socialist Party. Sydney. [From 1920 as International Communist]. Holdings:1918-1919 (incomplete).

P11/2/5 Labor Review Communist Party of Australia, Frank Steele. Sydney. Holdings: Aug 1933- Feb 1934 (complete except for Vol 1, No.6).

N57/1938 Leader, The Thirroul Communist Party of Australia Unit, Thirroul. Holdings July 1934.

P119/5; P56/235 Left ACTion Communist Party of Australia, Canberra Branch. Holdings: Aug 1973, Feb/ Mar 1979.

N57/1991 Marine Worker International Seamen & Harbor Workers, Australian Section, Sydney. Holdings: No.9, May 1935.

N90/406 Maritime Bulletin Socialist Party of Australia. Holdings: No.12, March 1960.

N57/1939 Maritime Worker, The Marine Transport CPA Unit, Sydney. Holdings: No.56, 1933.

N57/1940 Melt, The Pyrmont Sugar CPA Unit, Sydney. Holdings: No.6, 1935.

S779 Militant Workers Party of Australia / NSW Branch of the Communist League of Australia. Holdings: 1933-1941 (incomplete).

N57/1941 Militant Miner, The Northern Coalfields CPA Groups, Newcastle? Holdings: No.13, 1930.

S291 Militant, The Published in the interests of working people. New York. Holdings: 1958-1969 (incomplete)

Z305/10 On the Rails Communist Party of Australia, Industrial Committee. Holdings: Feb 1978, Jul 1981

P2/2/6/2 Our Industry Communist Party of Australia, Victorian State Committee (for textile and clothing industry). Holdings: Apr 1955.