How the Communist Party of Australia Built a Mass Movement

“Communism was a political movement like no other.” This is the opening line of The Party, the second volume of the late Stuart Macintyre’s history of Australian communism, which picks up in the late 1930s, where volume one, The Reds left off. Macintyre’s observation is a fact all too easily forgotten today. For much of […]

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