In 1949, ACP General Secretary, Lance Sharkey was asked by a journalist what the reaction would be if the USSR invaded Australia. Lance responded and would serve jail time for his comments. In this booklet, Fred Paterson, describes the sedition case.

Analysing the conditions of the party and the wider movement under illegality, it appeared in the first edition of Communist Review printed while the Party was underground, pending the High Court decision on the Communist Party Dissolution Act.

Written in 1958, this booklet by Jack McPhillips, sets out the plans of the then Menzies Liberal government to punish Australian trade unions for defending their members. Modern readers will see many parallels between the actions of the government then and in more recent time, a recommended reading for unionists everywhere!

On the 30th of May 1949, George Albert Watson, the Deputy Crown Solicitor charged the General Secretary of the ACP Laurence Sharkey. It was alleged that on the 4th of March 1949, he uttered seditious words. Sharkey would serve a total of 13 months of a 3 year prison sentence.

The Story of J.T Lang, who dominated the NSW Australian Labor Party for the majority of the 1920s-40s, is one of anti-working class treachery. This pamphlet exposes the anticommunist attitude and anti worker policy that still exists within the ALP til today.

A secret CIA memo warned of the Australian Communist Party's ability to "cripple Australian production" and “considerable power within the trade unions”. Written just months before the infamous 1949 coal miners strike, which mobilised 23,000 coal miners lasting seven months.