Article Title

An Early Alliance of the Left

Authors

Lloyd Churchward

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.

Recommended Citation

Churchward, Lloyd, An Early Alliance of the Left, Australian Left Review, 1(27), 1970, 32-38.
Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/alr/vol1/iss27/5