Stuart Macintyre's rich history of the Communist Party of Australia recaptures a lost political world
- Written by Sean Scalmer, Associate Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne
The crimson thread of communism runs through the work of the great, lamented Australian historian, Stuart Macintyre.
He joined the Communist Party of Australia in the early 1970s as a New Leftist student of formidably theoretical tastes, and he transferred that membership to the Cambridge University branch of the British party when undertaking his...
