Andrew is an Australian Marxist Leninist who was an activist in the early 1970s. In this interview, he talks about what it means to be a ‘revolutionary’ and recalls the practical steps some Marxist-Leninists took to prepare for “the revolution” in Australia.
THE …VANGUARD was the newspaper of the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist). Andrew has kept many old copies of The VANGUARD. One he presented to this interviewer was from 1973.
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Vol. 10 – No. 48 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13th, 1973 Price 10c
1973 – A YEAR OF GREAT POLITICAL IMPORTANCE
The year 1973 has been a year of tremendous political importance.
Internationally, under cover of so-called detente, the struggle and collusion between the two superpowers, U.S. imperialism and Soviet revisionism, has intensified.
The Middle East is now the scene of bitter struggle in which the Soviet Union and the U.S.A. are striving to impose their own conditions on the Arab and are trying to suppress. ..