Collection 04: Communist Party of Australia further records, ca. 1919-1991

MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131

sub-fonds

ca. 1919-1991

Textual Records, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Clippings

152947

Digitised

0.51 metres of textual material (3 boxes) - manuscript, computer printouts, typescript, typescript, carbon, typescript, processed, and printed
Clippings
Sound Recordings

Series 1: National Congress
1974-1984; 28th (Special) National Congress - Include minutes, credential reports and documents (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/1(3))
1987; 29th Congress - Include rough minutes, financial records, work book, and Credentials Committee documents and reports (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/1(3))

Series 2: National Executive
17 Oct. 1986-2 Mar. 1990; Incomplete rough minutes (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/2(3))

Series 3: National Committee and National Executive
1978-1983; 'Tribune - Dave Davies', being correspondence mainly with Dave Davies and Denis Freney (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/2(3))
1984-1989; 'Resignations - Leave of Absence' (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/2(3))
1985-1989; 'Membership Disputes & Appeals' (Call No.: MLM SS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/2(3))

Series 4: National Committee
1985-1986; Rough minutes, 23-24 Feb. 1985-12 July 1986 (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/2(3))
1987-1990; Incomplete rough minutes, 1988; attendance list, 30 Sep. 1987; and notice of meeting of Metal Branch, 2 May 1990 (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/2(3)
1968-1978; 'C.P.S.U.', being correspondence and printed material (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-0N 2131/2(3))
ca. 1987; 'Correspondence - General', being completed information sheets by applicants for National Committee positions (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/2(3))
1988-1990; 'CPA Financial Members for 1989 Congress (30th) and for 1990' (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/2(3))
1983-1984; Income/expenditure (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/2(3))
1986-1988; 'Finance' (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/2(3))
1972-1977; 'Lists', of, among others, National Committee members (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/2(3))
1960-1961, 1984-1990; Membership file and membership cards (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/2(3))
1982-1990; 'Party - Job Applications' (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/2(3))
1988; File concerning Socialist Renewal and Commission on Inner-Party Democracy (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/2(3))

Series 5: Subject files
1990-1991; 'Anti Gulf War Movement', concerning Bring the Frigates Home Coalition and Network for Peace in the Middle East (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/3(3))
1982-1989; 'B.L.F.', being papers concerning the Builders' Labourers' Federation (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/3(3))
1977-1986; 'Uranium' (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/3(3))

Series 6: Miscellaneous Reocrds
ca. 1919, 1979-1988; Include papers concerning the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia - Sydney Branch, 1988; photocopied draft minutes of National Telephone Hook-Up of CPA - ACOA National Fraction Meeting, 15 Jan. 1985; and MS. notes on back of Industrial Workers of the World Defence Committee leaflet, We Fought for Freedom, ca. 1919 (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/3(3))

Series 7: Tribune Collective
1984-1987; Include letters received from subscribers and report for National Committee on Tribune Circulation, 11 July 1986 (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/3(3))

Series 8: C.P.A. City/South Sydney Branch
1985-1986; Include correspondence and newsletters (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/3(3))

Series 9: Printed material
1942; Publications during period of illegality, i.e. between June 1940 and Dec. 1942: Forward by the Left, Nos. 1 & 2, 13 Feb. 1942; No. 3, 13 Mar. 1942; No. 5, 10 Apr. 1942; No. 7, 8 May 1942. Printed by A. Smedley, Queen Street Brisbane [for] Communist members of the Australian/Queensland Armed Forces; The Soldiers' Guardian, ca. 1942, published by The Soldiers' Committee of the Communist Party; Spark: Official Organ of the Queensland State Centre, Communist Party of Australia, No. 44, 6 Mar. 1942; No. 45, 20 Mar. 1942; No. 50, 29 May 1942; Tribune, No. 67, 22 Apr. 1942; and Organise for Victory, ca. 1942 [Inscribed: 'Local publication for Toowoomba showground camp. Edited by soldier communists in Showground plus local party branch'] (Call No.: MLMSS 5021 ADD-ON 2131/3(3))

Series 10. Sound Recordings
Consult the Curator of Oral History for issue of the two cassette tapes after written permission has been obtained from SEARCH Foundation (Call No. MLOH 281)

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The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017, of the Library's oral history collections.