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Creator: Communist Party Of Australia. Victorian State Committee [1920 - 1991]
1991.0152 Records of the Communist Party Of Australia. Victorian State Committee 1900-1989 Access: Restricted
The material in this collection was transferred from the Communist Party of Australia Victorian Office when it closed in 1991. The collection included three broad sections of material. First, a wide range of information material and administrative files; Victorian State Committee Conference minutes; CPA Women's Collective minutes, correspondence and subject files; History Collective files; Marx S Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
1980.0162 GUARDIAN, THE 1939-1979 Access: Open
Copies of the Guardian and and the Tribune, 1939-1979. Guardian 1939-66; Tribune 1967-1979. Both incomplete Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
1976.0028 Consolidated Records of the Communist Party Of Australia. Victorian State Committee, first accession 1930-1975 Access: Restricted
Subject files regarding Dissolution Bill, elections, May Day, industrial work, industrial relations; the 1949 Royal Commission into Communism; factory bulletins; pamphlets; posters; campaign material; photographs. Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
1987.0127 Records of the Communist Party Of Australia. Victorian State Committee 1954-1975 Access: Open
"The Tribune". The official organ of the Communist Party of Australia. 1954-1958, 1961-1962, 1970, 1975. Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
1989.0122 Records of the Communist Party Of Australia. Victorian State Committee 1942-1965 Access: Open
Tribune, the official organ of the CPA, main run 1954 to 1958 with some breaks, but also editions for June 1942, 1945, 1949, 1952 and 1965. Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
1990.0014 Records of the Communist Party Of Australia. Victorian State Committee 1934-1989 Access: Open
299 posters covering local and international left-wing concerns and activities. They include posters both produced and collected by the CPA. The posters originate from both Australia (mainly Melbourne and Sydney), and overseas. The date range of the posters is Australian 1967-1987; overseas 1934-1989. Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
1990.0174 Records of the Communist Party Of Australia. Victorian State Committee 1987-1989 Access: Open
Copies of "Vanguard", a C.P.A. publication, July 1987 - January 1989. Finding Aids: No Finding Aid. Request all boxes
1995.0107 Records of the Communist Party Of Australia. Victorian State Committee 1970-1988 Access: Restricted
This acquisition consists of further material from the last decades of the Communist Party of Australia Victorian State Committee transferred following its closure in 1991. It consists of: Minutes of Victorian State Committee, c.1970s-1980s; Audio tapes of CPA members, 1970s-1980s; Filmed interview with Ralph Gibson; State conferences; newsletters from Victoria and interstate branches; New Left P Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
1998.0026 Records of the Communist Party Of Australia. Victorian State Committee 1958-1985 Access: Open
Twenty small banners collected by members of the CPA when attending festivals overseas, including the World Youth Festival, Cuba, 1978. Includes banners in Asian, Latin American and Eastern European languages, and one plate presented to the Young Communist Movement at the 11th Youth Festival, Cuba, 1978. Finding Aids: No Finding Aid. Request all boxes
1999.0076 Records of the Communist Party Of Australia. Victorian State Committee 1954-1982 Access: Open
The Guardian Festival, Tug o' War Championship Shield, with winners shields for 1954-1958 and 1981-1982 Finding Aids: No Finding Aid. Request all boxes
1979.0082 Records of the Communist Party Of Australia. Victorian State Committee 1950-1960 Access: Open
Political and trade union pamphlets and broadsheets - CPA, Vietnam War, ALP, AEU, Metalworkers delegation to USSR Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE: see consolidated list at 1976.0028
1994.0118 COMMUNISTS AND THE LABOUR MOVEMENT CONFERENCE VIDEOS 1980-1980 Access: Open, however format may prevent access
51 Videos of the Communists and Labour Movement conference: includes an almost complete set of thirteen published sessions; seven preview tapes of sessions J, D and C; one tape of assorted shots of Communist and Socialist Exhibition, 24 August 1980. Sessions include: The Eureka Youth League; Illegality of the Communist Party, 1940-42; Lang Labor; The new feminism; The 1971 split - the formation o Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
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