The People: Official Organ of the Australian Socialist League explained

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.^[1] 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.

Digitisation

The various versions of the paper have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program^[2] project hosted by the National Library of Australia.^[3] Digitised copies can be accessed by members of the public through Trove.

See also

• List of newspapers in New South Wales
• List of newspapers in Australia

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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Catalogue. 3 November 2017. State Library of New South Wales.
2. Web site: Newspaper Digitisation Program. National Library of Australia. 5 September 2013.
3. Web site: Trove Digitised Newspapers. National Library of Australia. 5 September 2013.