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.

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 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.

First published in 1939, it was the first attempt by the Communist movement at addressing the issues facing the First Nations people. It is written by Tom Wright, the president of the Sheet Metal Workers Union at the time.

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.

From a lecture by L.L Sharkey to a National Party School in 1944, detailing the history of the Communist Party from its founding in October 30, 1920. Detailing the political struggles and growth of the labour movement in Australia and the struggle against sectarianism and reformism.

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.

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.

In 1944, with many Australians still fighting in WW2, the ACP created a plan for them divided into two parts. The first, introducing more democracy into the services and improving service conditions. the second, our programme for the service men and women in the post-war period.