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    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...
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  • Irish artist Lance Sharkey (1898–1967), Australian trade union activist, radical journalist and communist politician Michael Sharkey (born 1946), Australian...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 1966) August 17 – Dewey Robinson, American actor (d. 1950) August 18 Lance Sharkey, Australian Communist Leader (d. 1967) Tsola Dragoycheva, Bulgarian...
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    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...
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    Higgins resigned. A new party leadership, consisting of Jack Miles, Lance Sharkey and Richard Dixon, was imposed on the party by the Communist International...
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  • Martin (UAP) George Mitchell (Ind) Paddington Labor Maurice O'Sullivan Lance Sharkey (CPA) Parramatta Labor Albert Rowe George Gollan (UAP) Petersham United...
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    Communist Party of China, while the CPA majority, led by National Secretary Lance Sharkey supported the Soviet Union. Hill was expelled from the CPA in 1963 and...
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