Footnotes
*The authors would like to thank the two anonymous referees ofLabour Historyfor their comments and suggestions.
1.Nick Origlass, Re: Resolution by Ex-Members Tripp, Kirby and Palley, n.d., c. 1937, N. Origlass Further Papers 1930–1992, MLMSS 7093/8/3, Mitchell Library (ML), State Library, New South Wales.
2.Leon Trotsky, “The Lever of a Small Group,” Writings of Leon Trotsky 1933–34(:Pathfinder Press, 1972), 125.
3.Stuart Macintyre, The Reds(:Allen & Unwin, 1998), 92–94;Frank Farrell, International Socialism & Australian Labour(:Hale & Iremonger, 1981), 62–64;Alistair Davidson, The Communist Party of Australia – A Short History(:Hoover Institution Press, 1969), 28–34.
4.Robert Cooksey, Lang and Socialism: A Study in the Great Depression(:ANU Press, 1971), 23–27.
5.Miriam Dixson, Greater than Lenin? Lang and Labor 1916–1932, Melbourne Politics Monographs no. 4 (:University of Melbourne, 1977), 11–12.
6.“The A.L.P. cannot be Transformed into Revolutionary Party,” Workers Weekly, no. 413 (21 August1931):1.
7.Cooksey, Lang and Socialism, 85.
8.V. I. Lenin, “Speech on Affiliation to the British Labour Party, August 6,”in hisCollected Works, Volume 31: April–December 1920(Progress Publishers:, 1966), 260–61.
9.James P. Cannon, The History of American Trotskyism(:Pathfinder Press, 1972), 39.
10.Hall Greenland, Red Hot: The Life & Times of Nick Origlass(:Wellington Lane Press, 1998), 102.
11.J. Sylvester, “The Industrialists Must Win!,” The Militant 3, no 4(August1936):12.
12.“Behind the Labour Party Disputes,” The Militant, new series, 4, no. 1(19 April1937):1.
13.“How to Fight the Lang Executive,” The Militant, new series, 5, no. 2(24 January1938):2.
14.Origlass, Re: Resolution by Ex-Members Tripp, Kirby and Palley, Origlass Further Papers, MLMSS 7093/8/3, ML.
15.E. Tripp, “The N.S.W. Labor Party Faction Fight,” Permanent Revolution 1, no. 2(14 February1938):11–12.
16.“Tripp’s Meanderings,” The Militant, new series, 5, no. 1(10 January1938):3.
17. “How to Fight the Lang Executive,” 3.
18.Greenland, Red Hot, 103.
19.“Mr. Hughes’s Jibe,” The Argus(Melbourne), 25 June1940, 5.
21. “Report of the Fourth International in Australia, 1939–1945,”n.d., c. 1946, Revolutionary Workers Party (Australia) Papers 1937–55, Microfilm CY3482, Frames 0143–46, ML.
22.Emphasis added, “Addendum on the Origlass/Roper Breakaway,”n.d., c. 1946, Revolutionary Workers Party (Australia) Papers 1937–55, Microfilm CY3482, Frames 0153–57, ML.
23.Cited byNick Origlass, presentation on Australian Trotskyism to the Sydney branch of the Spartacist League, 25 May 1975. Source not located.
25.Laurie Short, “Australian Trotskyism in the War,”9 April1946, Origlass Further Papers, MLMSS 7093/2, Folder 1942–46, ML.
27.“Letter Exposes Scab Role of Communist Party,” The Socialist, 1 March1943, 1–2.
28.Daphne Gollan, “The Balmain Ironworkers’ Strike of 1945: Part I,” Labour History, no. 22(May1972):23–41and“The Balmain Ironworkers’ Strike of 1945: Part II,” Labour History, no. 23(November1972):62–73.
29.The wartime activity and political positions of the LSG and the RWP are examined inD. J. Fullarton,S. L. Morrell,J. J. Sebesta andL. A. Smith, “World War II and the Fourth International in Australia: Political Contradictions in the Communist League of Australia, 1937–1948,”inLabour History in the New Century, ed.Bobbie Oliver(:Black Swan Press, 2009), 77–90.
31.Elwyn Spratt, Eddie Ward: Firebrand of East Sydney(:Rigby Limited, 1965).
32. “The Case for Labour Socialism,”a Labor Socialist Publication, n.d., c. April 1945, Origlass Further Papers, MLMSS 7093/2, Folder 1942–46, ML.
36.G. J. Murphy andJ. S. Sponberg, Leaflet to “Fellow Boilermakers,” 19 May 1946, Origlass Further Papers, MLMSS 7093/2, Folder 1942–46, ML.
43.“Platform of the Workers Party,” The Militant, new series, 4, no. 7(14 August1937):23.
46.Ibid.
48.Meredith Burgmann spoke of Doris Blackburn in a discussion of Aboriginal reconciliation, NSW Legislative Council, Hansard(2 December1994):6177, accessed September 2014,www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/hanstrans.nsf/V3ByKey/LC19941202?open&refNavID=HA3_1.
50.Spratt, Eddie Ward.
56.Ibid.
64.Alf Mason, Twelve Months Outside the A.L.P., October 1951; and Alf Mason toNick Origlass, 17 December 1951, Origlass Further Papers, MLMSS 7093/3, Folder 1951–52, ML.
65.Leon Trotsky, The Crisis of the French Section, 1935–36(:Pathfinder Press, 1977), 116.
66.V. I. Lenin, “In Australia,” Collected Works, Volume 19: March–December 1913(:Progress Publisher, 1963), 216–17.
68.John Percy, A History of the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance, Volume 1: 1965–72(:Resistance Books, 2005), 49, 67.