- This article is about the historical Communist Party of Australia, dissolved in 1991. For the current party, see Communist Party of Australia (current)
The
Communist Party of Australia (CPA) was founded in 1920 and dissolved in 1991. The CPA achieved its greatest political strength in the 1940s and faced an attempted ban in 1951. Though it never presented a major challenge to the established order in
Australia, it did have significant influence on the
trade unions, social movements, and the national culture.
