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Bernard Rosen interviewed by Alex and Annette Hood in the Alex Hood folklore collection [sound recording]
Bib ID 3584610
Format AudioAudio [sound recording]
Author
Rosen, Bernard, 1924-, Interviewee
 
Access Conditions Access open for research and personal copies, written permission is required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee. 
Description 2005 
1 digital audio tape (ca. 64 min.) 
Series

Alex Hood folklore collection.

Summary

Folkloric recording. Bernard Wolfe Rosen, born 1924 in Sydney, NSW, talks about his family background; schooling; war service; becoming politically aware in 1941; attending meetings in the Sydney Domain; Ernest Judd; Rupert Lockwood; Stan Moran; Tony McGilloche; Lance Sharkey; the Communist Party; being Communist Domain speaker from May 1947-August 1970; discusses problems in the party; Jack Hughes; Hughes-Evans group; his official roles in the Party; J.B.Miles; Party life; Stalinism; Bukharin's execution; global warming; letter writing; Palestine; Zionists; Laurie Morris; 'Green Left Weekly', publication of the Socialist Alliance in Sydney; marrying in 1970, Nancy Ellen Baker, now a widower; being an avid reader; member of the Socialist Alliance and its origins; Bill Brown; refers to 'Chinese Line'; 'Cultural Revolution'; 'How to be a good Communist'; removal of Khrushchev in U.S.S.R.; Gorbachev; the new Russia; Mafia; China; Cuba; Fidel Castro; future of Socialist Alliance; Howard government; Green Party; new federal laws including Industrial Relations (IR) laws; working class; Jackie Kelly; biography of Billy Snedden; health problems; writing to the 'Green Left Weekly'.

Notes

Recorded on October 27, 2005 at Strathfield, N.S.W.

Digital master; National Library of Australia, Oral History collection;

Index/Finding Aid Note Timed summary (4 p.) 
Subjects Rosen, Bernard, - 1924- - Interviews.  |  Communist Party of Australia - History.  |  Green left weekly.  |  World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives, Australian.  |  Communism.  |  Socialism - Australia.
Other authors/contributors Hood, Alex, 1935-, Interviewer  |  Hood, Annette, 1948-, Interviewer

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    Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
    ORAL TRC 5533/3 (summary)
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    Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)

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