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The Sydney publisher and distributor of the Communist Party of Australia, which issued its programmes, congress documents and pamphlets, among them the party programme Australia's Path to Socialism, and Australian editions of Soviet and British communist writing. Its imprint appears in library catalogues from 1940 to the 1960s.

Years
c. 1938–c. 1966
Location
Sydney, Australia
Affiliation
Communist Party of Australia
Languages
English
Sources
Reason in Revolt — Communist Party of Australia, 1950s

Backlist

1301930194019501960Founded 1938Closed 19661938: 1 title1940: 2 titles1942: 2 titles1943: 4 titles1944: 6 titles1945: 12 titles1946: 13 titles1947: 8 titles1948: 7 titles1949: 4 titles1950: 7 titles1951: 3 titles1952: 3 titles1954: 4 titles1955: 3 titles1956: 2 titles1957: 2 titles1958: 4 titles1959: 3 titles1961: 5 titles1962: 2 titles1963: 3 titles1964: 5 titles1965: 1 title1966: 2 titles
Titles of Current Book Distributors by year: 108 dated titles, 1938–1966, most in 1946 (13); 5 undated. Lines mark founded 1938 and closed 1966.
The figures by decade
DecadeTitles
1930s1
1940s58
1950s31
1960s18
YearTitleAuthor(s)Language
1938Daily Life in the Soviet Union✓Doris McRaeEnglish
1940Catholics and Communism✓William GallacherEnglish
1940Freedom for Malaya✓Walter BlaschkeEnglish
1942Dialectical Materialism✓ — Marxian Philosophy Collected from Works of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Plekhanov—English
1942History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)✓ — Short CourseTSK VKP(b)English
1943Japan's Heart of Wood✓Rupert LockwoodEnglish
1943Soviet Strength✓ — Its Source and ChallengeHewlett JohnsonEnglish
1943The Basic Wage✓Tom WrightEnglish
1943The Church of Rome in Society and Politics✓Harry P. ReynoldsEnglish
1944Australia in New Guinea✓E. A. H. LaurieEnglish
1944Australian New Writing✓William HatfieldEnglish
1944Economics of Private Enterprise✓ — An Introductory OutlineMaurice Herbert DobbEnglish
1944Historical Background of the World Labor Movement✓ — A Marx House Study Course
A Marx House Publication
E. W. CampbellEnglish
1944New Deal for the Aborigines✓Tom WrightEnglish
1944Socialism, Utopian and Scientific✓FreeFriedrich EngelsEnglish
1945China's New Democracy✓Mao ZedongEnglish
1945Comrades All✓ — And Other Poems for the PeopleBartlett AdamsonEnglish
1945Creative Labour and Culture✓ — Maxim GorkyMaksim Gorky (Максим Горький)English
1945Dialectical and Historical Materialism✓ — Quotations from the Works of Marx, Engels, Plekhanov, Lenin and StalinLawrence Lewis Sharkey & S. MostonEnglish
1945Hands off Indonesia✓Gerald Kingsford PeelEnglish
1945History of the Australian Labour Movement✓ — A Marxist InterpretationE. W. CampbellEnglish
1945Immigration and the "White Australia" Policy✓R. DixonEnglish
1945Indonesian Introduction✓ — What You Want to Know About the Dutch East IndiesGerald Kingsford PeelEnglish
1945Science and the Progress of Man✓James WilsonEnglish
1945The Atlantic Charter✓ — New Worlds for OldJulius StoneEnglish
1945The Truth About Spain✓ — The Spanish Struggle Yesterday, Today and TomorrowArcher RussellEnglish
1945The United Front Against Fascism✓ — Speeches Delivered at the Seventh Congress of the Communist International, August 1935Georgi DimitrovEnglish
1946Art Science & Communism✓L. Harry GouldEnglish
1946Art, Science and Communism✓Bentley GilbertEnglish
1946Australian Systems of Voting✓ — The Ballot and the Scrutiny: Transferable Preferential Voting; Senate System; Multiple Preferential System; Proportional Preferential Voting; Informal and Exhausted Ballot Papers; Arrangement for ElectionsE. D. SeniorEnglish
1946Blood on the Coal✓ — And Other Poems for the PeopleJohn GrahamEnglish
1946Communists in Congress✓ — The 14. Congress of the Australian Communist Party, August, 1945Communist Party of AustraliaEnglish
1946Labor Betrayed!✓L. L. SharkeyEnglish
1946Labour Betrayed!✓L. L. SharkeyEnglish
1946Marxist Glossary✓FreeL. Harry GouldEnglish
1946Quit India!✓ — Why Australians Should Support This DemandGerald Kingsford PeelEnglish
1946Soviet Workers and Their Unions✓ — A Reply to the British Iron and Steel Trades' ConfederationErnest ThorntonEnglish
1946The Social and Economic Roots of Newton's 'Principia'✓Boris Mikhaĭlovich HessenEnglish
1946Vicious Old Lady (Sydney Morning Herald)✓ — A Century of Progress Against the PeopleKit HesyEnglish
1946Wealthy Men✓Len FoxEnglish
1947American Expansion✓ — Past and PresentLev Abramovich Leont'evEnglish
1947Australian Communists and Soviet Russia✓Laurence L. SharkeyEnglish
1947Communist Morality✓V. N. KolbanovskiiEnglish
1947Frederick Engels, Lewis Morgan and the Australian Aborigine✓Jagara pseudEnglish
1947Isles of the Torres Straits✓ — An Australian ResponsibilityGerald Kingsford PeelEnglish
1947Isles of the Torres Straits, an Australian Responsibility. Drawings by Roderick Shaw✓Gerald Kingsford PeelEnglish
1947Raise Wages! Reduce Prices!✓ — How to Increase the Standard of LivingR. DixonEnglish
1947Wall Street Attacks Australia✓Rupert LockwoodEnglish
1948Australians in Spain✓Nettie PalmerEnglish
1948Bankers Backed Hitler✓Rupert LockwoodEnglish
1948Battle-Song of Change✓ — A Peom of ChallengeRed BardEnglish
1948Control Prices and Rents✓Herbert Bovyll ChandlerEnglish
1948For Australia, Prosperous and Independent✓ — The Report of L.L. Sharkey to the 15th Congress of the Australian Communist Party, May, 1948Laurence L. SharkeyEnglish
1948Freedom for Malaya✓Walter BlaschkeEnglish
1948Resolutions of the 15th Congress of the Australian Communist Party✓ — May, 1948Communist Party of AustraliaEnglish
1949Keep the Unions Free✓J. R. HughesEnglish
1949Political Charge Against Sharkey✓Fred PatersonEnglish
1949The Trial of L.L. Sharkey✓ — Speech by R. Dixon to Sharkey Protest Meeting Held in Sydney, October 21, 1949R. DixonEnglish
1949Two Worlds in Europe, the Old and the New✓ — An Eyewitness AccountGerald PeelEnglish
1950American Armed Intervention in Korea✓—English
1950An Elementary Course in Philosophy✓George.* PolitzerEnglish
1950Defend Your Freedom✓R. DixonEnglish
1950Guilty Men Again✓Len FoxEnglish
1950H.G. Wells' Interview with J.V. Stalin✓ — Marxism v. LiberalismHerbert George WellsEnglish
1950On the History of Philosophy✓Andreĭ Aleksandrovich ZhdanovEnglish
1950Why I Am a Communist✓Katharine Susannah PrichardEnglish
1951Malaya Must Cost No More Australian Blood✓Rupert LockwoodEnglish
1951Persian Oil✓Rupert LockwoodEnglish
1951The Militant Materialism of I.P. Pavlov✓S. A. PetrushevskyEnglish
1952Crisis in Egypt✓Rupert LockwoodEnglish
1952Programme of the Communist Party of Australia✓ — Sixteenth Congress, August 1951—English
1952The Labour Party Crisis✓L. L. SharkeyEnglish
1954Act Now to Defend Living Conditions✓Jack McPhillipsEnglish
1954Political Economy✓ — A Simple OutlineE. W. CampbellEnglish
1954The Eureka Stockade, 1854-1954✓R. D. WalsheEnglish
1954The Soviet Way of Life✓ — An Inside ViewRalph GibsonEnglish
1955Art✓ — Its Origins and Social FunctionsPaul MortierEnglish
1955Australia on the Eve of Crisis✓J. R. HughesEnglish
1955Programme of the Communist Party of Australia✓ — Seventeenth Congress, 1955—English
1956Australia's Fight for Independence and Parliamentary Democracy✓ — Centenary of Responsible Government, 1856-1956R. D. WalsheEnglish
1956The Petrov Conspiracy Unmasked✓Wilton John BrownEnglish
1957Socialism in Australia✓ — Communist View on Democratic SocialismLaurence Lewis SharkeyEnglish
1957The Labour Party Crisis✓L. L. SharkeyEnglish
1958China's Great Leap✓ — As We Saw ItPete ThomasEnglish
1958Farmers and Workers Together for a Better Life✓ — Agrarian Programme of the Communist Party of AustraliaCommunist Party of Australia. CongressEnglish
1958Program✓Communist Party of Australia. CongressEnglish
1958Programme of the Communist Party of Australia✓ — 18th Congress, April, 1955—English
1959Builders of Communism✓ — A Report on the on the [Sic] 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionE. F. HillEnglish
1959Party of the Working Class✓ — Organisational Principles and Methods of Work of the Communist Party of AustraliaLaurie AaronsEnglish
1959The Trade Unions✓FreeL. L. SharkeyEnglish
1961Congress of the Communist Party of Australia✓Communist Party of AustraliaNot recorded
1961Germany peace or war?✓Edward RobertsonGerman
1961The People Against Monopoly✓ — 19th Congress of the Communist Party of Australia, 1961Communist Party of Australia. Congress. 19th, Sydney, 1961English
1961The Steel Octopus✓ — The Story of the B.H.P.Eric AaronsEnglish
1961Today's Wages Fight✓ — [The Way Forward]Jack McPhillipsEnglish
1962Australia's Oil for Australia✓E. W. CampbellEnglish
1962Danger NCC at Work✓ — By Paul MortierPaul MortierEnglish
1963Differences in the Communist Movement✓ — Views of the Communist Part of AustraliaCommunist Party of Australia. Central CommitteeEnglish
1963The 60 Rich Families Who Own Australia✓E. W. CampbellEnglish
1963The Fraud of "Soviet Anti-semitism"✓Herbert ApthekerEnglish
1964Australia's Way Forward✓ — Program of the Communist Party of AustraliaCommunist Party of AustraliaEnglish
1964How to Make Australia Safe — A Policy for Peace and SecurityW. E. GollanEnglish
1964Rebuild Trans-Tasman Communist Unity✓ — Documents on Relations Between the Communist Parties of New Zealand and Australia—English
1964The Rage for Life✓ — The Work of Katharine Susannah PrichardJack BeasleyEnglish
1964The Rage for Live✓ — The Work of Katharine Susannah PrichardJack BeasleyEnglish
1965Soviet Jewry✓ — A Reply to I. LeiblerIsi LeiblerEnglish
1966The Challenge of New Guinea✓Jim CooperEnglish
1966The Vietnamese Nation✓ — Contribution to a HistoryJean ChesneauxEnglish
n.d.An Introduction to Marxist Political Economy
The World We Live in -- No. 2
—English
n.d.Culture, Democracy and Australia
Marx House Publication -- No. 1
—English
n.d.Foundations of LeninismFreeJoseph StalinEnglish
n.d.Lenin, Father of Soviet RepublicsStan MoranEnglish
n.d.Slave Society in Imperial RomeKarl KautskyEnglish