Janet Wakefield - papers, 1938-1992

MLMSS 6969

fonds

1938 - 1992

Textual Records, Clippings, Objects

404289

3 boxes - 0.39 Meters
Textual Records
Textual Records - (typescript)
Textual Records - (typescript, processed)
Textual Records - (typescript, carbon)
Clippings
Textual Records - (printed)
Objects

Janet Wakefield, a teacher, joined the Communist Party of Australia in the 1940s and remained a member until it was dissolved as a political party in 1991. She died in 1996.

1965-1982; 'Anti-conscription - Vietnam War', being mainly printed material, including issues of S.O.S. Newsletter, 1972, and letter received from Civil Liberties Defence Fund, 30 Apr. 1970 (Call No.: MLMSS 6969/1)
1958-1989; 'Anti-nuclear and Lucas Heights', including Australian Atomic Energy Commission publications (Call No.: MLMSS 6969/1)
1957-1980, 1992; Communist Party of Australia monographs and flyers, with presentation copy of The Eureka Flag (1992) by Len Fox (Call No.: MLMSS 6969/1)
197-; 'CPA Education Policies' (Call No.: MLMSS 6969/1)
1949; Flyer for Combined Unions Solidarity Rally, Sydney Domain, 24 July [1949] in support of miners' strike (Call No.: MLMSS 6969/1)
1964-1990; 'Greenpeace / Toxics (in the home)' (Call No.: MLMSS 6969/1)
1985; 'International Solidarity' (Call No.: MLMSS 6969/1)
1971, Date unknown; Song books (2): Historical Revolutionary Songs. Peking : Foreign Language Press, 1971, and Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Songbook One, Date unknown (Call No.: MLMSS 6969/1)
1938-1950; Communist and political literature buried by Janet Wakefield at her home in Fairfield, N.S.W., in 1950 when the CPA was threatened with illegality (Call No.: MLMSS 6969/2)
1945-1959; Soviet and Chinese publications (Call No.: MLMSS 6969/3)
1970-ca. 1992; Political badges, including Save Our Sons, International Women's Year 1975, Vietnam Moratorium, anti-nuclear and anti-uranium mining, and New Left Party (Call No.: MLMSS 6969/3)

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