Papers on Australian Radical Politics [manuscript].

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Papers on Australian Radical Politics [manuscript].

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Personal papers and manuscripts of Rawling, E. M. Higgins and Guido Baracchi; research files on Australian agitators such as W. H. McNamara, and on radical organisations from the 1880's to the 1940's. Includes material on the Australian Socialist League, the Australian Socialist Party, the Communist Party of Australia, the Movement Against War and Fascism and fraternal organisations, the peace movement, unemployed workers' movement and Trotskyist organisations, together with a considerable collection of related press cuttings, leaflets, serials, pamphlets and illustrative material.

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Australian Socialist Party

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Australian Socialist League

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Baracchi, Guido, 1887-1975

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Son of Pietro Baracchi, Victorian Government Astronomer, educated at Melbourne Grammar School and Melbourne University. Active opponent of conscription, jailed 1918, joined I.W.W., edited International Industrial Workers paper Industrial solidarity, and with Percy Laidler in 1920-1921, the Proletarian Review. Foundation member of the CPA from which he was twice expelled (1925 & 1940). See Sydney Morning Herald, 1 Jan. 1976 and A. Davidson, The Communist Party of Australia 1969, p. 19, no. 45...

McNamara, William Henry Thomas, 1857-1906.

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Higgins, E. M. (Esmonde Macdonald)

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Movement Against War and Fascism

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Normington-Rawling, James

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Rawling joined the Communist Party in Newcastle in 1925 and became a full time functionary in 1932. He was involved in the formation and operation of several anti-war organisations during the 1930's. Rawling was expelled from the Party in 1939, resuming a teaching career in 1945. He was a key witness against the Party during the Victorian Royal Commission on the Communist Party. His biography of Charles Harpur was published in 1962. From the description of Papers on Australian Radica...

Communist party of Australia

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The Communist Party of Australia has been interested in a range of issues from its inception in 1920 until it ceased to be a political party in 1991. These interests are reflected in its files on women's issues, trade unions, election campaigns, the environmental movement, peace and disarmament, unemployment and Aboriginal issues. From the description of Records [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225816752 The Communist Party of Australia was founded in...