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Newspaper
Sydney Communist
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 23, 1921
Page
3
A hostile column attacks mine owner Baron Brown for threatening to shut a Northern coalfield mine amid worker discontent. The piece denounces the capitalist class and church involvement, calls for revolutionary action, and warns of mobilizing the proletariat against exploitation.
The front page maps the famine area as distant from Moscow and Petrograd, arguing the belt aligns with Kornilov, Krassnoi, Denikin, and Wrangel control. It claims Bolshevik rule would have produced better economic organization, while European capitals feign relief.
The text praises Russian workers for enduring famine and outwitting surrounding governments. It asserts the peasant starvation serves to provoke a Bolshevik uprising, while emphasizing the workers’ proven power to defeat both internal and external enemies and to protect Old Russia from capitalist restoration.
A Cairns scribe quotes a Labor debate on socialism. The piece argues socialism seeks collective ownership of production, condemns wage disparity, and says capitalism creates a master class and unemployed masses. It envisions a Proletarian Dictatorship leading to Communism and unified society.
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