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Newspaper
Sydney Communist
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 05, 1922
Page
3
A fiery verse warns of looming trouble and calls workers to act now. It contrasts rich elites and enslaved labor, urging poor to seize their heritage and power, to resist oppression and defend freedom. The piece cites class conflict and mass solidarity in a period voice.
The Communist Party starts a Sunday School at its new hall with opening services on April 2. Twenty five children attend the first session led by Mrs Allison and Mrs Fellows who organize two classes for younger and older pupils. The children mold birds and animals in plasticine and show interest in drawing and modeling.
Comrade D Healy led three Sunday lectures for elder children, contrasting theological worldviews with Communist science. He traced science against clerical ignorance, noted Magellan da Gama and Columbus, described the solar system, evolution, and class struggle, and encouraged advanced pupils to join the Communist platform.
A Workers movement voice declares that imperial war cannot be avoided as long as capitalism endures. It cites Lloyd George and Genoa Conference rhetoric as proof that economic laws will drive Europe into renewed bloodshed, and that workers hold the power to end all wars.
The passage reviews British exploitation in Ireland India and Egypt and critiques the working class in Britain and Australia. It notes The Communist as a vehicle for exposing the universal aim of the proletarian struggle toward Communism.
A wartime poem published in The Sun on 28 March 1922 mocks Greek and Australian wartime aims. It blends Gallipoli imagery with nautical and seafood imagery, praising Allied force while satirizing postwar treaty hopes and national pride.
The capitalist class finds the reform movement strongest opposition in Australia while the revolutionary movement is largely ignored. It warns that reform leadership preserves capitalism and that only a social revolution can end worker exploitation, with the Communist party advocating unified worker organization to achieve this end.
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