Australian Left Review
Article Title
An Early Alliance of the Left
Abstract
THE STATE LABOR PARTY (1940-1944) is seldom remembered these days. It gets only a passing reference in James Jupp1, while Alistair Davidson in his recent history of the Communist Party of Australia seems to regard it as little more than a convenient legal party for under-cover Communists*. At a time when the CPA is actively seeking closer cooperation and alliance with various Left elements it is worth examining this earlier alliance more carefully. The following pages represent a brief and somewhat personal account of this story. I write it this way because my own political biography is a part of the story and because to tell it as a participant is perhaps better than to write it as an academic exercise.
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