Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)
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Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)
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| Founder | Ted Hill |
| Founded | 15 March 1964 |
| Split from | Communist Party of Australia |
| Newspaper | Vanguard |
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Communism Marxism–Leninism Anti-Revisionism Left-wing Nationalism |
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Red Blue |
| Slogan | For an Independent Australia and Socialism |
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| http://www.cpaml.org/ | |
The Communist Party of Australia (Marxist–Leninist) (CPA(ML)) is an Australian communist organisation which describes its ideology as being influenced by the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Ted Hill. The theory of the party is unique among Australian Marxist-Leninists due to its belief that a revolution to achieve national independence from primarily United States imperialism must occur before socialism can be achieved.
The CPA(ML) was formed in 1964 as the manifestation of a split within the Communist Party of Australia which occurred largely as a result of the Sino-Soviet split. The leading figure in the breakaway group was Ted Hill, a Melbourne barrister who had been Victorian State Secretary of the CPA. Other noted figures were Paddy Malone and Norm Gallagher of the Builders Labourers Federation, Clarrie O'Shea of the Tramways Union and Ted Bull of the Waterside Workers Federation.
The party exerted sizable influence on the militant student movement in Australia during the late 1960s and early 1970s on campuses such as Monash University and LaTrobe University in Melbourne as well as Flinders University in Adelaide through their front group, the 'Worker-Student Alliance'. A notable leader of the Worker-Student Alliance at this time was veteran political activist Albert Langer.
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