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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 in the ANU Archives

S19 Pan Pacific Worker Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat (Australian Edition). ACTU Pan-Pacific Relations Committee. Holdings: 1928-1932.

N57/1942 Parallel Notch Dowling St Depot CPA Unit, Sydney. Holdings: Apr 1934.

P44/2/13; P43/8/17; P3/1/176 Party Builder Monthly organisational journal of the Central Committee, Communist Party of Australia, Sydney. Holdings: 1942-1943 (incomplete)

N57/1921 Party News, The Communist Party of Australia, No.1 District Committee, Sydney. Holdings: No.1, 1935.

N57/1992 Pastoral Workers Bulletin E.W Campbell for Pastoral Workers Industrial Union of Australia, Sydney. Holdings: No.13, Jun 1934.

N57/1943 Pit Prop, The Oakley Park Mine, CPA Unit, Lithgow. Holdings: May & July 1934.

E165/10/16; N57/1944 Plod, The S.J Coombe for CPA Broken Hill District Committee, Broken Hill. Holdings: 1936, 1952 (incomplete).

S346 Political Affairs Communist Party of USA, Chicago. A theoretical and political magazine of Scientific Socialism. Holdings: 1956-1959.

N57/1945 Prime Mover, The White Bay and Ultimo Power House CPA Unit, Sydney. Holdings: 1935 (5 issues).

S127 Progress: The voice of State Labor Australian Labor Party, NSW. H.B Chandler, Sydney. Holdings: 1942-1944 (complete except Jan-Jun 1934).

S156 Proletarian Review (The) / Proletarian, (The) P Laidler (later Communist Party of Australia), Melbourne. [to Sep 1920 as The Proletarian Review] Holdings: 1920-1922 (incomplete).

S133 Queensland Guardian Communist Party of Australia, Brisbane. Holdings 1944-1954, 1961-1966 (incomplete)

S967 Rebel Worker Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation. Sydney. Holdings, 1983-1992 (incomplete).

S954 Red Leader / Trade Union Leader (The) Minority Movement (Australian Section of the Red International of Labor Unions). Holdings 1931-1936.

N57/1946 Red Message, The Communist Party of Australia, Illawarra Section, Wollongong. Holdings: No. 4, Aug 1934.


N57/1947 Red Star, The Communist Party of Australia, Illawarra Section, Wollongong. Holdings: No.3, Jun 1934.

S1071 Resistance. A magazine for radical youth incorporating Young Socialist J West & E Whelahan, Haymarket, NSW. Holdings: 1978-1983

N57/1948 Retort, The Communist Party of Australia. Elliotts CPA Unit, Sydney. No.18, 1933.

P2/17/20 Review Organ of theory and practice of the Australian Communist Party. Eurunderie, Henry Lawson Press. Holdings: Dec 1950-Mar 1951.

N57/1949 Shock, The Rozelle Tram Depot, CPA Unit, Sydney. Holdings: 1934-1935 (2 issues, incomplete).

S733 Socialist Organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Party of Australia. Sydney. Holdings: 1972-1984

S405 Socialist & Industrial Labor Advancement of Militant Trade Unionism, Sydney. 1958-1970 (incomplete).

S159 Socialist, The Monthly organ of the Labor Socialist Group, Sydney. Holdings 1946-1952.

S160 Socialist, The Socialist Party of Victoria. Melbourne. Holdings: 1907-1919 (incomplete).

S875 Socialist Affairs Socialist International. London. Holdings: 1980-1987 (incomplete).

N336/74N57/1951 Solidarity Communist Party of Australia, Townsville Group, Townsville. Holdings: Sept 1927.

S408 Soviet Literature Moscow Union of Soviet Writers. Foreign Languages Publishing House. Holdings: 1946-1959.

S409 Soviet News Soviet Embassy, London. Holdings: 1960-1979 (incomplete).

S840 Soviet News Bulletin USSR Embassy, Canberra. Holdings: 1969-1978.

S410 Soviets To-Day, The Australian section of the Friends of the Soviet Union, Sydney. Holdings: 1931-1940 (incomplete).

P94/2/290 Spark, The Communist Party of Australia, Richmond? Holdings: Nov 1948.

N57/1926 Struggle Communist Party of Australia, No.5 District. Adelaide. Holdings: No.1, Nov 1933.

P14/13/12 Student Communist Party of Australia, University of Sydney. Holdings: Oct 1955.

P124/261 Students in Revolution Communist Party of Australia, University of Sydney. Holdings: Sep 1970-Mar 1971 (incomplete).

P124/262 Tekset Communist Party of Australia, Vic Branch, Melbourne. Holdings: Jul 1970- Feb 1971.

P2/2/1/2 Traffic Communist Party of Australia. Holdings: Sep 1953.

S81 Tribune / Workers Weekly / The Communist Communist Party of Australia, Sydney. [publication suspended May 1940-Jan 1941]. Holdings: 1922-1990 (incomplete)

S169 Vanguard Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist). Holdings: 1963-1987 (incomplete)

P2/11/98P2/3/7 Victorian Left News Bulletin Left Book Club of Victoria, Melbourne. Holdings: 1938-1940.


S446 Voice of the Countryside Agrarian Committee of the Australian Communist Party. Brisbane. Holdings: 1944-1946 (incomplete).

S457 Wharfie Communist Party of Australia, Waterfront Branch, Brisbane. Holdings: 1945, 1968-1977 (incomplete).

S458 Wharfie Communist Party of Australia, Waterfront Branch, Melbourne. Holdings: 1953-1973 (incomplete).

S456 Wharfie Communist Party of Australia, Waterfront Branch, Newcastle District. Holdings: Oct 1942.

S455 Wharfie Communist Party of Australia, Waterfront Section, Sydney. Holdings: 1939-1946, 1956-1978 (incomplete)

N336/79 Workers Art Workers Art Club, Sydney. Holdings: No.1,1933.

P2/2/6/2 Workers Interest, The Communist Party of Australia. Melbourne. Holdings: April 1953.

P2/17/26 Workers Monthly Workers Communist Party of America, Chicago. Holdings: 1924-1927.

S877 Workers News Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League, Sydney. Holdings: 1973-1984 (incomplete)

P8/2/18 Workers News Communist Party of Australia, Edwardstown, SA. Holdings: May 1936.

S649 Workers Star Communist Party of Australia, WA State Committee. Holdings: 1938-1950 (incomplete)

S1068 Workers Vanguard Marxist weekly of the working class of the Sparticist League of the USA, New York.Supplement to Australian Sparticist]. Holdings: 1973-1984 (incomplete)

S164 Workers Voice Communist Party of Australia, Victorian State Committee (No.4 District), Melbourne. Holdings 1933-1939 (incomplete)

P8/2/10N57/1931 Working Woman Communist Party of Australia, Central Women's Department, Sydney. Lindsay Mountjoy for CPA. Holdings: 1930-1936 (incomplete).

S463 World Marxist Review English edition distributed by Central Books Ltd, London, of problems of Peace and Socialism, Prague. Holdings: 1958-1960 (incomplete)

N57/1989 World Survey League Against Imperialism, Sydney. Holdings: 1932-1934.

N57/1932 Young Communist. Monthly supplement to the Communist Communist Party of Australia. Sydney. Youth section United Communist Party of Australia. Holdings: Oct 1922-May 1923 (incomplete).

S1070 Young Socialist. The paper that unites unemployed and migrant youth, students and young workers Young Socialists, Marrickville, NSW. Holdings: 1975-1983 (incomplete).

N57/1933 Young Worker, The Young Communist League of Australia. Sydney. Holdings: May 1931-May 1935 (incomplete).

S469 Youth Voice Eureka Youth League of Victoria. Organ of the Young Socialist League of Australia. Holdings:1946-1950, 1978-1983 (incomplete)