Lance Sharkey's “The Trade Unions - Communist Theory & Practice” was reprinted 8 times with two generations of Communist Party and union activists studying it. Containing much of relevance that is still valuable reading for union activists today

A pamphlet which is hard to put down, compiled into five well researched chapters, it details the workers movement of Australia from the late 1800’s until the late 1940s.

A complete and step by step history of the nine week long Queensland Railway Strike over wages of workers at railway workshops and locomotive depots in Queensland, Australia. A story of staunch solidarity and support from waterside workers and the general union movement.

Published as a pamphlet in 1998, Rowan Cahill tells a vivid story of labour history on the waterfronts from the early to late 1900s, centred around the renowned Communist Party member and Seamen’s Union leader E.V Elliott.

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!

Detailing the turbulent coal strike of 1949 in which 23,000 miners participated, lasting seven weeks before being betrayed by the Labor government of Chifley. It was the first time that the Australian army were used to break a trade union strike.

Produced in 1957 and published by the Waterside Workers Federation Sydney, this pamphlet is an insight into the historical growth of the WWF, Australian Workers' Political Movements, Arbitration on the Waterfront, The Wages Question, Hours of Work and much more.

Written at the height of “Big Jim” Healy’s notoriety by fellow member Rupert Lockwood. Hounded by the Menzies government, he steered wharfies through many bitter struggles to secure dignified work in an industry with an appalling history for insecure, low-paid and dangerous work.

Filled throughout with inspiring accounts of brave and fearless Australians who traveled across the world to fight fascism and lost their lives in the struggle. This booklet is a sobering reminder of the threat of fascism and the dedication and sacrifice need to effectively fight it.

This booklet from 1945 contains a warning from the ACP about the workings of reactionary trade union groups directed by the Catholic Church. They sought to prevent the Communists from leading militant defence of workers’ interests, to shore up the position of employers and to impose conservative social values. This anti-worker force continues to plague the labour movement.

Published by the Broken Hill Branch of the Communist Party in 1933, “Death and Dividends” reveals the life threatening diseases that many miners faced, the brutal deaths due to poor safety conditions and the extreme amount of profit that the mine-owners earned while the workers perished.

A brilliant pamphlet authored by Lance Sharkey explains the democratic processes of the Soviet Union, the unjustified defamatory allegations of starvation and the painting of Comrade Stalin as a dictator likening him to Mussolini and Hitler during and pre-WW2.