Author

Clancy, Pat

Title

The formation of the Socialist Party of Australia

In

Communists and the Labour Movement National Conference, Melbourne, 22, 23, 24 August 1980

Imprint

1980

Abstract

In this paper, Pat Clancy, President of the Socialist Party of Australia, describes the reasons behind the formation of the Socialist Party of Australia in 1971. He argues that the Communist Party veered away from the principles of scientific Marxist-Leninism in the 1960s, in favour of 'a hotch potch of reformism, anarcho-syndicalism, trotskyism and libertarianism'.

He then sets out the key policies of the SPA.

Related entries

Institutions

• Socialist Party of Australia (II) (1971 - 1996)

Subjects

• Communist Party of Australia - Splits
• Socialism - 1960 to 1979
• Socialism - 1980 to 1999