The People: Official Organ of the Australian Socialist League
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| image = The People, 6 Jan 1906.PNG
| caption = The People: Official Organ of the Australian Socialist League, 6 January 1906
| foundation = 1898
| political = Far-left
Official newspaper of the Socialist Labor Party
| ceased publication = 1971
| headquarters = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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The People: Official Organ of the Australian Socialist League, also known as The People and the Collectivist, was a weekly English language newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
History
In 1898 the Australian Socialist League began publishing The People and the Collectivist. The paper was formed by the union of Northern People and the Collectivist.{{Cite web|url=https://primo-slnsw.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=SLNSW_ALMA21122444850002626&context=L&vid=SLNSW&search_scope=EEA&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US|title=Catalogue|date=3 November 2017|publisher=State Library of New South Wales}} On 29 December 1900 the title changed to The People: Official Organ of the Australian Socialist League. The title changed in 1919 to The Revolutionary Socialist, published by the Socialist Labor Party. It absorbed the Victorian publication One Big Union Herald and ceased around 1971.{{Citation | author1=Socialist Labor Party (Australia) | title=The people : official organ of the Socialist Labor Party of Australia | publication-date=1960 | publisher=The Party | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/7947998 | accessdate=22 December 2019 }}
Digitisation
The various versions of the paper have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program{{cite web|title=Newspaper Digitisation Program|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program|publisher=National Library of Australia|accessdate=5 September 2013}} project hosted by the National Library of Australia.{{cite web|title=Trove Digitised Newspapers|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program|publisher=National Library of Australia|accessdate=5 September 2013}} Digitised copies can be accessed by members of the public through Trove.
See also
References
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External links
- {{Trove newspaper|497 |The People : Official Organ of the Australian Socialist League |Sydney, NSW : 1900 - 1919}}
- {{Trove newspaper|748 |The People and the Collectivist|Sydney, NSW : 1900)}}
Bibliography
- Looking good : the changing appearance of Australian newspapers / by Victor Isaacs, for the Australian Newspapers History Group, Middle Park, Qld. : Australian Newspaper History Group, 2007.
- Press timeline : Select chronology of significant Australian press events to 2011 / Compiled by Rod Kirkpatrick for the Australian Newspaper History Group
- Australian Newspaper History : A Bibliography / Compiled by Victor Isaacs, Rod Kirkpatrick and John Russell, Middle Park, Qld. : Australian Newspaper History Group, 2004.
- Newspapers in Australian libraries : a union list. 4th ed.
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Category:Defunct newspapers published in Sydney