Democratic Labor Party
The Democratic Labor Party (German: Democratic Labor Party) was a social democratic party in Australia that was founded in 1954.
Split from the Australian Labor Party
The Democratic Labor Party was an anti-communist splinter group of the Australian Labor Party ; first (until 1957) the group called itself the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist) . It was founded by members of the Labor Party who believed the parent party and unions had been infiltrated by the Communist Party of Australia .
Political positions
The Democratic Labor Party based on the ideas of Bartholomew Santamaria and, in contrast to the Australian Labor Party, was more center-right and worked in the 1970s with the right-wing parties ( Liberal Party , Country Party) to support Gough Whitlam's government , regardless of their own formal social democratic orientation. Because of her doctrinal anti-communist stance, she was often rated as right-wing extremist in encyclopedias from Eastern Bloc countries (including the GDR) , but this does not correspond to facts.
literature
- Michael Lyons: Defense, the Family and the Battler: The Democratic Labor Party and its Legacy. In: Australian Journal of Political Science. Volume 43, Issue 3, 2008, pp. 425-442.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Political-Economic Handbook. Berlin [Ost], 1972. p. 63: "Domestically, this party demands the ban on the Communist Party A. [australia] and pursues an open fascist course."