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Πολιτικά Κόμματα της Ελληνικής Κοινότητας Νέας Νότιας Ουαλίας – Political Parties of the Greek Community of NSW

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Αrchive includes newspapers, magazines, correspondence, photographic material, political flags The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) was founded in 1920. The White Australia policy did not allow ethnic groups to contribute to the labour movement, thus they were very few people involved with the communist party of Australia, who were primarily workers at restaurants and coffee shops. The end of the White Australia policy allowed Greeks to work in factories, thus this encouraged the dynamics of the left wing presence. Although the left wing beliefs of some Greeks in Australia were there, it was only in 1939 that Atlas League was founded by 3 young Greek members, and gained its left wing character straight after the Greek Civil War. As in 1968 the Communist Party of Australia disagreed with the Soviet Union Policy in Czechoslovakia, which caused its division, and the majority of left wing Greeks followed the Socialist party of Australia – which was established within this division. The Socialist Party of Australia had more non-english speaking background members, while the Anglo-Saxon members followed mainly the Communist Party of Australia. The Socialist Party of Australia created some Greek political brunches (c.1975), one of them was Nikos Βelogiannis, Saint George and others, which were socially close to the Communist Party of Greece. As the workers started to gain more rights, the left wing parties in Australia got weakened. The strongest political parties in Greece (New Democracy and Pasok) wished to have a strong presence in the Greek Diaspora in Australia. Pasok had offices in several big cities across Australia with a strong presence in Sydney. These Pasok associations published at least 2 journals by title ” Allagi” and “Nea Genia” (c. 1980s) Pasok got involved with Atlas League, and the Greek Orthodox Community in Sydney (since 1974). New Democracy party also created some brunches across Australia, and they published a magazine titled “Nea Dimokratia”. Cyprus also published some issues of the “Cyprus Democratic Rally Party” (Dimokratiko Sinagermos) magazine which focused mainly on Cypriotic ethnic issues. source: Anna Ioannidis, volunteer at Hellenic Historical and Cultural Centre
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Greeks in Australia
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Period of reference
1918 to 1980
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Newspapers
Letters
Photographs
Date accessed
2023-04-27
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