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Monash Labor Club around 1970

Background

The relevance of the old Monash Labor Club, which was active in the early years of Monash University, is its role in material support of the secondary student underground movement. The activity of the Monash Labor Club gave Monash University a reputation of being Australia’s radical campus.

Documents

• Source documents
• It is Right to Rebel - published 1972 from the point of view of the Monash Labor Club and its allies
• The Rise and Fall of Practically Everybody - an account of student political activity at Monash University 1965-1972, published 1973 from a less sympathetic point of view
• The Yeast is Red - a history of The Bakery (off-campus centre of the Monash University Labor Club 1968-1971) from the point of view of a member
• All Along the Watchtower – Memoir of a Sixties Revolutionary - a memoir of 1967-1971 by a member of the Monash Labor Club (note that many characters are given pseudonyms, prioritising the personality over the person)
  • A Critical Review of All Along the Watchtower - outlines historical inaccuracies and the real names behind pseudonyms
• How to Capture a Prime Minister - a documentary detailing the 1975 entrapment of Malcolm Fraser at Monash University

See also

• The Student Underground - newspapers and strikes of the Vietnam era
• Monash Labor Club around 2020