Industrial Socialist Labor Party
The Industrial Socialist Labor Party (German: Industrielle Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei ) was a short-lived socialist party in Australia in the late 1910s and early 1920s . The Socialist Party was founded by members of the industrial wing of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), which then forces the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the movement One Big Union (OBE) (German: One Big Union ) dominated.
politics
This party was founded at a conference in August 1919, at which candidates for the national elections in Australia in 1919 were nominated. These applicants stood for election in the election campaign against the candidates of the ALP and received 10% of the first votes. The Socialist Party only won one seat through Percy Brookfield in the constituency of Sturt in New South Wales in the general election in New South Wales in 1920 . Brookfield was able to decide on majorities in parliament with his vote: A year after this election he fell victim to a murderer. Michael Considine , a member of the ALP in the Barrier constituency in the Australian House of Representatives from 1917, switched to the Industrial Socialist Labor Party in 1920 and after he was expelled in 1920, he ran unsuccessfully in Darling in 1922 for the ALP in the Barrier constituency. Donald Grant , one of twelve Australian IWW members, ran in the constituency of Sturt in 1922 and received only 2.8% of the first votes. He was later successfully elected to parliament as an ALP member. Other members of this socialist party known in Australia were John Garden and Jack Baddeley .
resolution
Support for the Socialist Party declined when the ALP took over the so-called Socialist Objective from it in 1921 . At that time, the term Socialist Objective was understood in the Australian labor movement under the impression of the Russian October Revolution as the social radicalization of political platforms and programs and the unity of the labor movement. At the All-Australian Trades Union Congress of June / July 1921, the national leadership of the ALP indicated that it would focus more on the unions and on unity and accepted the following resolution text:
"(A) That the Australian Labor Party proposes collective ownership for the purpose of preventing exploitation and to whatever extent may be necessary for that purpose.
That wherever private ownership is a means of exploitation it is opposed by the party, but
(c) that the party does not seek to abolish private ownership even of any instruments of production where such instruments are utilized by their owners in a socially useful manner and without exploitation ".
After this decision, numerous members of the Industrial Socialist Labor Party switched to either the ALP or the Communist Party of Australia and the party disbanded.
Web links
- reasoninvolt.net.au : The Unity Question: Report of Debate between EE Judd (SLP) & AS Reardon (ASP) , Socialist Labor Party of Australia (ed.), Sydney, 1917 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ adbonline.anu.edu.au : Brookfield, Percival Stanley (1875-1921) , in English, accessed June 11, 2011
- ↑ parliament.nsw.gov.au : Antony Green: New South Wales Parliament , in English, accessed June 11, 2011
- ^ The Age of October 15, 1921, by Brian McKinley in his Documentary History of the Australian Labor Movement, 1850-1975 , pp. 91f. N. Cit. Takver.com : Socialist lenses , in English, accessed 11 June 2011