Item F3149 - Miscellaneous publications of the Self-Management Group and other political organisations

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F3149

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Miscellaneous publications of the Self-Management Group and other political organisations

Date(s)

  • 1971-1980. (Creation)

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99 items ; 44 cm. or smaller.

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Self-Management Group (1971-1977). Formerly the Revolutionary Socialist Party.
Objectives - S.M.G. was unified around the essential demand for workers' councils as the basis of a real democracy. In these councils people will have equal decision-making and be paid an equal wage. The Group did not see itself as yet another leadership, merely as people in socialist struggle where they live and work.
Publicists - Sue Bissett, Bruce Doyle, Esme Garner, Greg George, Peter Kearney, Tony Kneipp, L. Beams, Brian Laver, A. Theodore, Bobby Walker.
Note: Continued as Libertarian Socialist Organization and as Self-Management Organization (the latter became defunct).

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Libertarian Socialist Organisation (1977-) (Formerly Self-Management Group).
Objectives - A self-managed society, by which is meant the abolition of the state, the abolition of private ownership of the means of production, equal wages, displacement of the consumer society, the re-organization of work, equal decision-making and direct democracy based on a federation of workers' and community councils. Human liberation not nationalism.
Note: Associated with People for Direct Democracy.

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Revolutionary Socialist Party (1970-1971). Became Self-management Group.
Objectives - A socialist humanist society based on workers' self-management in all institutions, rank and file control of unions and a staff-student self-managed university.
Publicists - Greg Adler, Cam Cunningham, Terry Cook, Brian Laver, Janita Laver, John McCarthy, Sue McCarthy, Mal Price, Diane Zetlin, Larry Zetlin.
Notes: Associated with the Workers' Management Group and Queensland Committee on Political Prisoners. The trotskyite Labour Action Group was formed after the 1971 split in R.S.P.

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Leaflets, posters, political ephemera.

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Accruals

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Organised in the following series:
(A) Askatasuma;
(B) Friends of the Earth;
(C) Libertarian Socialist Organisation;
(D) Libertarian Teachers;
(E) Libertarian Workers for a Self-managed Society;
(F) People for Direct Democracy;
(G) Self-Management Group;
(H) Revolutionary Socialist Party;
(I) War Resisters' League;
(J) Woodstock Anarchist Party;
(K) No organisation named.

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Unrestricted access.

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  • English

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991003564829703131

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Migrated

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Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.

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