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Communist League of Australia
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History
Communist League of Australia (1972-1975). Formerly the Labour Action Group.
Objectives - The formation of a Marxist party to lead the working class to a socialist revolution.
Publicists - David Armstrong, John McCarthy, Sue McCarthy, Diane Zetlin.
Notes: In 1971 the Labour Action Group joined another Trotskyite group to form the Socialist Workers League. However the LAG left in 1972 to form the Communist League. In 1975 the Communist League merged again with the re-named Socialist Workers Party.