A riveting speech by Jack C. Henry, the QLD State Secretary of the Communist Party, covering the struggle against the social democrats, reformism and more. Delivered at the 14th Congress of the ACP in 1945 which was held in the Sydney Town Hall.

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.

Written in 1945, this booklet brings together the more important speeches of Fred Paterson to the Queensland parliament. A member for Bowen, QLD between 1944-49. His speeches are a model for Communists on how to use the parliamentary platform to rally for a socialist revolution.

Published in 1945, this well researched pamphlet gives a clear analysis on the encroaching privatisation of public industry in Australia, from the Commonwealth Bank and the public owned Brickworks and much more.

Written at the end of World War 2, Dixon challenges the discriminatory policies of Australia, they use a class conscious analysis which provides a communist outlook and alternatives for immigration policies.

The Communist Party had a very effective electoral machine committed to victory at every level of government in Australia. The intention was always to use those platforms for advocacy of a revolutionary agenda. That’s not to say the plans were impractical or lacking in appeal to working people. Read about the Party’s successful appeal to the people in the post war years!

This booklet written after WW2 looked forward to a new way of providing cheap produce to people by the expansion of cooperative growing and marketing. It advocated a new system free of the dominance of monopolies in production and distribution. Its optimism and vision is still worth a look in the modern era of corporate control of our purchasing habits and diet.

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.

Complimented by a foreword by Rupert Lockwood, this pamphlet is aimed at dispelling the rumours of the violence of communists being propagated by the anticommunist propaganda of the time.