The Guardian • history
Issue #1998
Brisbane Branch Education class on Sharkey’s History of the Communist Party
Lawrence (Lance) L Sharkey (1898-1967) joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1922 and was later elected to the executive of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers’...
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Issue #2022
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic: socialist construction 1921-1941
This is part two of a series on the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which was a founding republic of the Soviet Union (founded in 1922)....
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Issue #2103
HALF THE SKY
Skye Dannaher In the shadow of Australia’s colonial history, the voices of First Nations women resonate with a profound urgency, particularly in the realm of...
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Issue #2142
Trump attacks Black history to ‘Make America White Again’
President Donald Trump continues to attack African American rights, heritage, and history in his desire to Make America White Again. On 27 March 2025, Trump...
Read moreCommonwealth pushes to rework national curriculum
Federal Education Minister Stuart Robert has gone public with his belief that school curriculums should be teaching our kids “what it means to be Australian.”...
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Issue #2169
HALF THE SKY
It is often said that history is written by the victors. It should more accurately be said that history is written by male politicians and...
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Issue #2197
The 50-year struggle – documenting American unions
The history of labour movements in the United States is complex, achieving victories after tough struggles in the workplace and on the picket lines. Over...
Read more50th anniversary of the founding of the Socialist Party of Australia
The 5th December is an important date for us at the Communist Party of Australia (CPA).
Read moreWhat value has the country’s keeper of our history?
It says a lot about the values and priorities of the Morrison government when the body responsible for protecting Australia’s historical records is forced to go to the public with a begging bowl to save hundreds of thousands of important historical records.
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Issue #2189
Tiwi Islands at war
Tiwi Story: Turning History Downside Up Tiwi Story: Turning History Downside Up (2023), by Tiwi historian Mavis Kerinaiua and co-authored with Laura Rademaker, covers the...
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Issue #2093
History is a class question
When US journalist John Reed called his account of the October Revolution in Russia Ten Days That Shook the World, he was not exaggerating. The...
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Issue #2151
GLOBAL BRIEFS
USA: The Supreme Court has avoided constitutional questions to defend Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care. Chief Justice Roberts said that the Court did not need...
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Issue #2205
Denial: David Irving vs Deborah Lipstadt
Denial is directed by Mick Jackson, starring Rachel Weisz as Deborah Lipstadt, and Timothy Spall as David Irving. The film covers the 1996 - 2000 lawsuit of...
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Issue #2074
CPA Qld Party School
The Brisbane and Sunshine Coast branches of the Communist Party of Australia jointly hosted this year’s Queensland Party School, held the Waterloo Bay Hotel. Presenters...
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Issue #2195
Gaming: History games and Benin
Graham Holton It’s fun to speculate about counterfactuals – who hasn’t wondered how the world would have turned out if things had been different? For...
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Issue #2205
Communism: The long game
Australia had one of the largest Communist Parties in the Anglophone world in the middle of the last century. That this didn’t continue is not...
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Issue #2162
Drawing wisdom and strength from history, guiding humanity’s ship steadily forward
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. On...
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Issue #2037
CPA History Website
The party has a website dedicated to its 100-year history. It is called www.100redyears.org. During the Party’s centenary an exhibition was planned. However, the COVID...
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Issue #2118
Racked off with ‘Revs’
I am a year 12 student doing my final year of the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE). I am currently doing the Revolutions subject which...
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Issue #2148
Silent films and the rise of unionism in Hollywood
The moving picture industry was based originally in New York and then moved to California in 1903, where labour costs were cheaper. By 1913 the...
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Issue #2139
Australia: An Unofficial History
Australia: An Unofficial History is an uncomfortable watch in an important way. This may seem odd for a documentary series which presents itself as a...
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