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No country for revolutionaries

May Day 1961. ASIO photograph of Italian CPA members marching behind the Italian flag.

May Day 1961. ASIO photograph of Italian CPA members marching behind the Italian flag. Source: ASIO

A book by historian Gianfranco Cresciani looks at a period when the Italian Communist Party endeavoured to mobilise Italian migrants in Australia.


The establishment by the Italian Communist Party of an ‘autonomous’ Federation in Sydney resulted in a troubled relationship with the Communist Party of Australia and in grassroots surveillance of Italian migrants by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.

Gianfranco Cresciani's book, No Country for Revolutionaries, looks at this phase of Australian history.

The book will be launched at Melbourne's COASIT on Tuesday 19 February 2019.


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