Lawrence Louis Sharkey (19 August 1898 – 13 May 1967), commonly known as Lance Sharkey or L. L. Sharkey, was an Australian trade unionist and communist...

Irish artist Lance Sharkey (1898–1967), Australian trade union activist, radical journalist and communist politician Michael Sharkey (born 1946), Australian...

involved in a successful push for leadership change in 1929 led by Lance Sharkey and Jack Miles, which brought with it a berth on the party's central...

Queensland. In the late 1920s, having risen to prominence in the CPA, he and Lance Sharkey won control on a platform of strong opposition to the Australian Labor...

veteran party leader Lance Sharkey, who had been installed by the Comintern in 1930. During the 1950s the party declined and Sharkey's leadership came under...

denied it, stating that the conference argued against such a move. Lance Sharkey, party secretary of the Australian Communist Party, informed Chin and...

May 12 – John Masefield, English poet and novelist (b. 1878) May 13 – Lance Sharkey, Australian Communist leader (b. 1898) May 15 – Edward Hopper, American...

Higgins resigned. A new party leadership, consisting of Jack Miles, Lance Sharkey and Richard Dixon, was imposed on the party by the Comintern, and remained...

politically isolated, with the Auckland district of the party, backed by Lance Sharkey of the Communist Party of Australia, leading the charge for his removal...

(d. 1991) August 15 – Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (d. 1966) August 18 Lance Sharkey, Australian Communist leader (d. 1967) Tsola Dragoycheva, Bulgarian...