Communist Party of Australia
Communist Party of Australia | |
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| Abbreviation | CPA |
| General Secretary | Andrew Irving or Vinne Molina |
| Founder | the Symon-Clancy group |
| Founded | 1971 (as the Socialist Party of Australia (SPA))[1], 1996 (as the Communist Party of Australia[2] |
| Headquarters | 74 Buckingham St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010, Australia |
| Newspaper | The Guardian, Australian Marxist Review |
| Political orientation |
Dengism[3] Revisionism Marxism–Leninism (claimed) |
| Political position | Far-left, Social Imperialist |
The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) is a Dengist and revisionist "Marxist-Leninist" organisation.
Ideology
The Communist Party of Australia has published works affirming the 'socialist' nature of modern China and celebrating the Communist Party of China's 104th anniversary.[4] The party is also an avid supporter of Cuban 'socialism'.[5] The CPA is party that upholds Actually Existing Socialism and supported the USSR during its revisionist era.
Splits in the CPA
The CPA was originally part of the original Communist Party of Australia(old-CPA) until it split with the old-CPA over their supposed turn towards Euro-Communism in 1971. Ted Hill, a prominent Marxist-Leninist lawyer in Australia, would be expelled from the old-CPA over the Sino-Soviet Split and Soviet imposed ideological purity in 1963 and would lead a pro-China faction to form the CPA-ML[6], which still exists today. The SPA would later form in 1971 after splitting from the old-CPA over the latter's turn to Euro-Communism and the former's adherence to Marxism-Leninism in the face of critical views of the USSR by the old-CPA party leadership resulting from the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia. The die-hard pro-Soviets would split from the old-CPA and form the SPA in 1971. The old-CPA would go defunct in 1991 after a protracted decline in party membership where the party dissolved in early March, forming the New Left Party, which disbanded in 1992. The pro-Soviet party would call themselves the Socialist Party of Australia until 1996 when they decided to take the name of the then defunct old-CPA.[7]
References
- ↑ @augustcel, 2025. New Map of the Australian Left
- ↑ CPA, 2026. About Us
- ↑ https://cpa.org.au/guardian/issue-2151/communist-party-of-china-at-104-a-force-for-peace/
- ↑ Communist Party of China at 104: A Force for Peace, June 30 2025. https://cpa.org.au/guardian/issue-2151/communist-party-of-china-at-104-a-force-for-peace/
- ↑ Greeting to the Centenary of the Communist party of Cuba, August 18 2025. https://cpa.org.au/statement/2025-2/greeting-to-the-centenary-of-the-communist-party-of-cuba/
- ↑ E.F.(Ted) Hill, 1989. Communism and Australia: Reflections and Reminiscences
- ↑ @augustcel, 2025. New Map of the Australian Left