Wealth, class split in Australia shown by tax figures
The article notes Australia’s population over five million with 45,247 people earning over £500 yearly. It argues 0.8 percent hold 90.2 percent of taxable income, while 5 million earn under £200 annually, illustrating a vast wealth gap and urging workers to unite and recruit among their class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Persis
Commonwealth
Knibbs
Commonwealth of Australia
Bess
Austerlia
Olwieushy
Means and Ends in the Proletarian Struggle
Trotzky argues that those aiming for the end must accept the means and insist on a ruthless intensity to ensure proletarian supremacy. He lauds the British working class as nearing a decisive stage, comparing it to Chartism and the Paris Commune amid an upcoming victorious revolt of the French proletariat.
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Trotzky
Paris
Russian famine appeal funds urged to aid Soviet Russia
An Australian-based appeal asks readers to donate to the Famine Fund supporting Soviet Russia. It asserts blame on Allied blockades and counterrevolutionaries, invites contributions from 5 shillings upward, and promises honor roll inclusion and prompt posting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deniken
Wrangel
Russia
Haymarket P.O
Lenin Assassination Rumor Tied to River Don Discovery
A London Sun report claims Lenin was murdered and his body cast into the River Don. The piece presents a sensational, unverified assassination tale circulating in newspapers.
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London
Sun
Lenin
Duly Rd
Don
Out of Work Organ Promotes Unemployed Army in Sydney
The Out of Work weekly issue by the Unemployed Committees in Sydney calls for the right to work and wages at the basic rate or commodity parity. It condemns past cadging, urges mass distribution, and invites readers to join at 395 Sussex Street, Sydney, to help build the unemployed army to challenge capitalist state power.
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Sydney
Sussex St
Organiser's Notes from Cuirus 1922 North Queensland
A 1922 note from J Rawstrong in Cairns outlines weekly plans for sugar mill work in Gordonvale, says many Italians and Communists arrive, and warns to control the foreign element at Goondi. It mentions anti communist lectures, desire to reach mining towns, and calls rebels to contact Cairns organizer for district meetings.
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Gordon Vale
Bahinda
Goondi
H.Q
C.P
Cgoondi
Queensland
J. Rawstrong
Cairns
United Communist Party Australia Publication Note
Printed by T. W. McCristal at the Industrial Printery Sydney for the United Communist Party of Australia and published by J. B. Garden Randwick Sydney.
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T. W. McCristal
Industrial Printery
Cunningham St
Sydney
Randwick
United Communist Party of Australia
White Guards: Terror or Crush They Refuse Persuasion
A quotation attributed to Trotzky notes the Russian White Guards resist persuasion and respond only to terror, contrasting them with German adversaries and outlining an intent to terrorize and crush rival forces.
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Trotzky
Class Wages Divide Workers and Capitalists
The wages system splits society into two classes the capitalist class and the working class whose interests are intensely opposed. Capitalists aim to extract maximum value from workers while workers seek to limit this extraction and protect their pay.
It's Up to Me and You in Sunday School Rally
A Sunday School message urges youth to organize for communism in a period tone. It promotes freedom from wage slavery and collective effort to build a classless society with equal opportunity for girls and boys while denouncing wealth disparity and war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bays
Dan
Croewing
Wei
The Wages System Debate Sparks Mass Action
A quotation from H E Boote in the Worker denounces the wages system as a robbery threatening society. The speaker asserts willingness to align with the crowd to pursue a revolution with the masses and seeks broad mobilization for dramatic change.
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Giil
H. E. Boote
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the Sunday School
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