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Is this tomorrow : Australia under Communism (Melbourne, Australian Constitutional League [1949?])

via Monash University Library:

This comic is based on one published in America in full colour in 1947 by the Catechetical Guild Educational Society of St. Paul, Minnesota; the Australian version is black and white, with a colour cover. There was even a French-Canadian version, A quand notre tour? The Australian version is adapted to local conditions, e.g. references to “Congress” are replaced by “Parliament.” The opening scene even shows Parliament House in Canberra with hammer and sickle flags.

It is a truly chilling scenario beginning with strikes on the coal-fields, a feature of the Australian mining industry in the post-war period. The Communist Party plans to “engineer a total crisis”. The Minister for Home Affairs backs a proposal made by the Communists through a front organisation against “intolerance”, and the Prime Minister and his deputy are assassinated. The puppet minister is placed in charge, with the head of the Communist Party as his adviser. Elections are then changed to the “European model” with the Communist Party as the only party on the ballot paper. All dissent is brutally quashed and the Church, universities and schools are undermined. Children begin to inform on their parents and the comic ends with the CPA leader dying but the system continuing. His successor tells the press that “Communism does not depend on any one man. It is a form of government which will rule the world.”

So the Communists work behind a front organization against “intolerance” heh? Plus ça change (plus c’est la même chose)