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Newspaper
Sydney Communist
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 17, 1921
Page
4
The publication lists office locations in Sydney at Rawson Chambers and Rawson Place with instructions for submitting matter to the Editor. It notes money orders payable to N. Jeffery at Haymarket P.O. and directs communications on party matters to acting General Secretary C. W. Baker.
The piece defends the Russian Revolution and the dictatorship as a temporary but necessary phase that educates the population. It cites Brailsford to argue that Lenin's regime raises culture and will fade as socialism spreads. It asserts that only a proletarian state can transform society and that capitalism must yield to this new order.
A Sydney May Day demonstration is described as the first in Australian history. The piece critiques it as a holiday display lacking serious international meaning and notes a stronger reaction the following Sunday from jingoist and imperialist forces, concluding the May Day effort was a defeat for the time being.
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