The Show (ePub)
another side of Santamaria's Movement
(Sprache: Englisch)
In 1942, on the recommendation of 26-year-old Bob Santamaria, Australia's Catholic bishops created a clandestine church organisation to smash the Communist Party's massive trade union base. Soon, The Movement, working closely withASIO, became a...
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In 1942, on the recommendation of 26-year-old Bob Santamaria, Australia's Catholic bishops created a clandestine church organisation to smash the Communist Party's massive trade union base. Soon, The Movement, working closely withASIO, became a sophisticated intelligence agency that would influence every corner of politics.Santamaria based his Movement (also called The Show) completely on the Communist Party, copying its spectacularly successful union-organising machinery. Within a decade, it had defeated communist power in many major unions. He also adopted the communists' strategy of infiltrating the Labor Party, and embarked on an aggressive program to transform it into a Catholic political machine, helping spark the great Labor Split of the mid-1950s.Ironically, in modelling the Movement on his enemy, Santamaria imported its most odious characteristic: Stalinism. He rapidly embraced the characteristics of a Stalinist leader, actively cultivating his own 'cult of personality'. Over time, this infected The Movement, as it adopted authoritarian practices and imposed anti-democratic policies on the unions it controlled, mirroring the communists' modus operandi. As in the Communist Party, this inevitably caused internal battles and catastrophic splits that undermined and, eventually, destroyed The Movement.Weaving together a rich story from previously secret archives of both The Movement and the Communist Party, ASIO's massive files, and extensive oral history interviews, The Show exposes a previously unseen side of Santamaria's Catholic Movement.
Autoren-Porträt von Mark Aarons, John Grenville
Mark Aarons was an investigative reporter on ABC Radio National for 20 years, and was the founding executive producer of Background Briefing. He is the author or co-author of six books, including investigations of war criminals in Australia and the Vatican's role in smuggling mass killers, and works on Israel, Western intelligence, and East Timor. His most recent book was The Family File, an account of four generations of the Aarons family (who were members of the Communist Party of Australia over seven decades), based on the largest single collection of ASIO files in history.John Grenville joined the National Civic Council (NCC, also known as The Movement and The Show) in 1957, and operated as an influential but secret NCC member in the trade union movement for a decade. A committed Catholic, he was a senior official of the Victorian Trades Hall Council in the 1960s and 1970s, and federal secretary of the Federated Clerks' Union from 1973 to 1975. He resigned from the NCC and his union position in 1975 in the midst of a bitter faction fight that ultimately tore the organisation apart in the early 1980s. He continued to work for the labour movement, as a freelance industrial advocate for many small and medium-sized unions.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Mark Aarons , John Grenville
- 2017, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1925548449
- ISBN-13: 9781925548440
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.07.2017
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