Australian Communist Party (2019)

The Australian Communist Party (ACP) is a communist party in Australia. It was founded in 2019 as a split from the Communist Party of Australia. The party currently publishes a newspaper, Militant Monthly.

This article is about the party formed in 2019. For the party founded in 1964, see Communist Party of Australia (Marxist–Leninist). For the party founded in 1971, see Communist Party of Australia (1971). For the defunct party once known as the Australian Communist Party, see Communist Party of Australia.
Australian Communist Party
FounderBob Briton
Founded28 June 2019
Split fromCommunist Party of Australia (1971)
Preceded byCommunist Party of Australia
NewspaperMilitant Monthly
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism–Leninism

History

In March 2019, Bob Briton resigned as general secretary of the CPA in March 2019. Briton came into conflict with the central committee (CC) due to ideological differences between himself and others on the central committee, being accused of taking a defeatist position. This accusation was made after Briton attempted to work with the youth outside party structures. Briton deleted most of the party's social media outlets in response, and formed the ACP alongside other former CPA members.[1][2]

In August 2021, a street soup kitchen set up by the ACP in Adelaide's Whitmore Square achieved media attention when it was told it would have to relocate to a different part of the city to give food to homeless people.[3]

The ACP associates itself with the former Communist Party of Australia, which was itself known as the Australian Communist Party from 1944 until 1951.[4]

References
  1. Secretariat, CPA (27 March 2019). "Secretariat Statement 27th March 2019" (PDF). Solidnet. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  2. "Our History". Australian Communist Party. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  3. Lee, Stacey. "Cold war breaks out between soup kitchen communists and department chief over 'conflict of interest' claim". ABC News.
  4. "Historical Documents". Australian Communist Party.
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