Proletariat : organ of the Melbourne University Labour Club. ([Melbourne :
The Club], 1932-1935) 4 v.
Contributors to Proletariat included Communist such as Ralph Gibson
and Guido Baracchi. There were many articles on life in the Soviet Union,
including one by Gibson in the first issue, "The depression and the five year
plan." The issue for October 1933 on display has as its lead article, "The world
economic crisis", by the editor, Ian C. Macdonald.
Part of the significance of the journal lies in its cover art. The issues on
display feature art by Jack Maughan, showing a worker holding aloft the world,
with the USSR high-lighted in red; George Finey showing workers toiling to lift
the world; and, by an unidentified artist a representation of a worker with a
pick striking a capitalist in a dinner suit, carrying a package which reads
"Work for the dole".
