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Newspaper
Sydney Communist
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 27, 1921
Page
4
The Australian Communist publishes its party address in Sydney at 119 Rawson Chambers Rawson Place with submission instructions to the Editor and guidance on formatting and payments. It lists N J Jeffery Haymarket P.O. Sydney as recipient for money orders and notes and designates W Baker as Acting General Secretary for communications on party matters.
The article argues Karl Marx supported dictatorship of the proletariat and that Bolshevism reflects Marxian theory. It cites Engels and Marx writings, cites Beer biography, and claims recent translations reveal true Marxian stance opposing legal Marxists. It asserts Bolshevism as Marxian and calls for civil war to defend it.
The piece cites an estimated seven thousand prisoners in Poland believed to be Communists, mainly trade union leaders, noting Poland lacks a legal Communist Party. It references acts used to detain Communists and cites Kommunistitcheski Trud reporting the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party claiming the grey Socialist Party was broken up and Bolshevik trade unions won over.
Pravda reports a mock trial in Voronesch where witnesses for the prosecution include a manufacturer a large Annie owner a pope and a mother of a family. The defense features the worker and the New Woman. The bourgeois judge sentences the New Woman to 20 years labor but workers storm the court and expel the judge.
Police raided a Communist branch in the East End of London recovering a quantity of literature, including material on nationalisation of mines and alleged details of a revolutionary plot in England. One arrest was made.
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