Resources
CPA documents
Party Statements
CPA Policies
CPA Constitution – Adopted 1992 and amended 1996, 2005, 2013
CPA Program
– adopted 2005
CPA Political Resolution – adopted 2013
CPA Industrial Relations system for working people – published 2011
How the CPA works
Comments on an Infantile Disorder in Australia – Central Committee November 2012
Hot Earth – The case for planning and regulation to deal with the climate crisis. (Published 2011)
A Proposal for a people’s government – a CPA discussion paper
Migrants and refugees – a CPA policy statement
Peace Action Kit
CPA National Congress
Resolutions, Guardian articles, photos, what delegates had to say can be found on our CPA Nation Congress page. It covers the 2013, 2009, 2005, and 2001 Congresses.
CPA presents
How the Steel Was Tempered by Nikolai Ostrovsky
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This classic book has been transferred from an edition translated by R Prokofiev from the Russian original.
It includes the illustrations by A Reznichenko.
It comes in two parts in PDF form.
Part 1 Part 2
It is free to download, although any contributions to Press Fund would be greatly appreciated. |
Australian politics
Militarising Australia
A Brief history of Australian unionism and the role of the Communist Party by Warren Smith
The strategy and tactics of the MUA dispute by David Matters
Good Planets Are Hard to Find by Dr Hannah Middleton and Erna Bennett
How Super is Super? by Anna Pha
The rush to privatisation by Anna Pha
The DSP's attempt to dress Trotsky in Lenin's clothes by David Matters
Howard's Way: destroying Medicare, feeding insurance companies by Dr Con Costa
Howard's 1996 Industrial Relations Legislation by Anna Pha
Award stripping by Anna Pha
Classics
Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels
Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism by V I Lenin
Socialism and Religion Marx, Engels, Lenin
Global
Fidel Castro talks to Intellectuals – Our Duty is to Struggle by Fidel Castro and left intellectuals on world politics.
The importance of alternative media – talks given by Anna Pha and Jake Lynch
The US war on terrorism — what is the real agenda? by Dr Hannah Middleton
What you should know about Star Wars – A topical study guide by Dr Hannah Middleton
Out of their mouths: planning the New World Order by Anna Pha
The Failed States Doctrine
what you should know about Star Wars — a topical study guide
Was the war in Afghanistan planned before September 11?
A Dialogue between Islam and Communism
TNC Dictatorship by Anna Pha
The TNCs' New World Order by Anna Pha
ENRON: Capitalism in a nutshell by Anna Pha
Perestroika — a balance sheet by Peter Symon
National
The heroic legacy of the Iraqi Communist Party by Prakash Karat
Recolonising the Solomon Islands
ZIMBABWE: The struggle for land, the struggle for independence by Rob Gowland
BOUGAINVILLE: The long struggle for freedom by Moses Havini
Australia’s history
A book about Australia’s radical history – Free digital edition of Bertha Walker’s 1972 book Solidarity Forever!
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The book provides detailed accounts of many of the radical and socialist struggles in Australia in the early 20th century.
Go to the web site solidarityforeverbook.com or download PDF version (Approximately 10 MB so it may take awhile to download. Preface includes background material from website.) |
Resources – archival material
CPA documents
CPA Political Resolution – adopted 2009
CPA Political Resolution – adopted 2005
CPA Political Resolution – adopted 2001
CPA Political Resolution – adopted 1996
CPA Program – adopted 1992 & 1996
SPA Constitution – adopted 1981, amended 1984, 1988
CPA Constitution - adopted 1992 and amended 1996, 2005
National
Democratic rights
Are you a terrorist?
Peace
No War Fair! – Stop APDSE! – Leaflet put out by CPA South Australia (2008)
Defence White Paper proforma (2008)
Missile Defence proforma (2008)
Maternity leave
Paid maternity leave – some notes (2008)
Medicare
Howard's way on health: Destroying Medicare & Feeding Insurance Companies
Medicare – save it! – leaflet
Privatisation
Power to the people! NO privatisation of electricity (NSW)
Transnational corporations
NO TO MAI! A Charter of Rights for TNCs – This special report by Anna Pha outlines some of the key features of the draft Multilateral Agreement on Investment and what they would mean in practice. It appeared in The Guardian on April 15, 1998.
Global
Peace
Against the US war of conquest - list of Guardian articles and Party statements
The real reasons for the upcoming war in Iraq
The enemy within - Gore Vidal (27/10/2002)
Darfur: statement by Communist Party of Sudan
Bomb by Bomb, Japan Sheds Military Restraints (23/07/2007)
Cuba
The present international situation, the economic and world crisis and its impact on Cuba – Fidel Castro (02/11/2001)
Russian base closure – Official note of the Government of The Republic of Cuba (17/10/2001)
25th anniversary of a terrorist attack on a Cubana airliner in 1976 – Declaration by the National Assembly of People’s Power of the Republic of Cuba (04/10/2001)
May Day
South Ausrtralia
2013 – Pamphlet from SA May Day Collective
CPA Election Campaigns
Federal Election Campaign 2001
Statement by CPA – Building the People's Movement: A response to the Socialist Alliance
For a People's Alternative
Meet the candidates, part I: Warren Smith
Meet the candidates, part II: Michael Perth
Meet the candidates, part III: Geoff Lawler
Meet the candidates, part IV: Dora Anthony
CPA electoral policies: A government in the interests of the people
Election result: The race card wins
Change but no change — the post-election manoeuvrings
Communist Youth
Bright Red
A magazine that was put out by Communist Youth in Australia, 2001-2003.
No 1: Autumn 2001
No 2: Winter 2001
No 3: Autumn 2002
No 4: Winter 2003
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