Tatiana Tarasova ponders her next move after the closure of the New Era Bookshop. For more than 20 years it was the public face of the Socialist Party of Australia in Sydney. On Christmas Eve of 1991, the New Era came to an end.
(December 13, 1991. Photo by Simon Alekna).
"I Will Pay my Fare to a Tram Conductor Only"
Badge produced by supporters of Melbourne tram conductors who went on strike from Dec 1989 to Jan 1990 when the state Minister of Transport attempted to abolish conductors and replace them with a 'scratch' ticketing system.
"Boycott Safcol products, Support the Filipino workers"
- poster by Bob Clutterbuck, for the Philippines Action Support Group, published out of Redletter Press, 1983
"...is to stand as an independent candidate for the same district in the City Council elections. One of Australia's best-known communists, he has not forsaken his membership of the CPA. He says he will represent the interests of everyone in the fight against corruption."
Jack Mundey in The Rocks, ahead of his campaign to run as an alderman on the City of Sydney Council.
(October 28, 1983. Photo by Julian Kevin Zakaras).
"Former "greenie" Jack Mundey, in the Rocks area, a area he hopes to represent on the City of Sydney Council where he plans to stand as Alderman. Mundey, the former builders labourers' - leader, who is credited with saving The Rocks area from the bulldozers in the early 70s..."
"The Proletariat, Private Property and the State." - Front page cartoon depicting the Law and the AWU cozying up to the bourgeoisie while a worker rots in prison. From the Communist Party of Australia's newspaper "The Communist."
(28 Oct 1921)
Young Pioneers of Ryde, NSW, during a fancy dress social, pose for a photo after raising 10 shillings for the Party Defence Fund.
(Clipping from the "Workers Weekly", 12/05/1936)
This National Economic Summit was an effort by the Hawke government to turn the accord into a tripartite agreement also involving employers.
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