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The Inter-war Period The third part of our history of working class struggle and organisation in Australia since European settlement.
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Jump To Comment: 1"formation after the war of the Australian Communist Party by former members of the IWW and other radicals"
I do not think that this is accurate. The Communist Party was founded by an amalgam of the old Australian Socialist Party and the Sydney "Trades Hall Reds" group around Jock Gardner.
In times when any real news about what was happening in the Soviet Union was hard to come by Tom Glynn wrote an introduction to Zinoviev's "Appeal" to the IWW and appears to have been swayed by its arguements, which indeed would have been very strong had they any real bearing on what was actually happening on the ground in "red" Russia or anywhere else. He was at the CPA founding "conference", and with King and Larkin (members of the IWW 12 framed and jailed during the world war one conscription referendums) joined and were used by the party to establish its credentials.
The relationship was never very satisfactory to either side however. As Verity Burgmann puts it in her history "Revolutionary Industrial Unionism": "Many of the small number of Wobblies who joined the Party did not stay members for long. Coming from an elaborately democratic and open organisation, they were astounded by their reception within the Party as it began implementing the authoritarian and hierarchical forms or organisation for which it became renowned."