Author

Central Committee of the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)

Title

Learn from the Ford Strike

Imprint

Central Committee of the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) [This scan courtesy of Mike Williss], 1974, 16 pp

Abstract

The nine-week strike at the Broadmeadows Ford plant in May-July 1973 was one of the most militant struggles in Australian working class history. Ford workers confronted both the employer and a trade union bureaucracy unprepared to offer them leadership and support. A rank and file workers' committee gave the necessary leadership and direction. The dispute also gave practical effect to differences between the revisionist Communist Party and the revolutionary CPA (M-L) and vindicated the analysis made by founding Chairman of the latter party, E.F. Hill in Looking Backward, Looking Forward, his analysis of trade union politics. (Mike Williss)

Related entries

Institutions

• Communist Party of Australia - 1970s
• Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)

People

• Hill, Edward Fowler [Ted] (1915 - 1988)

Subjects

• Communist Party of Australia - Criticism Of
• Police
• Strikes and lock-outs
• Trade Unionism
• Workers' control and self-management