One hundred years ago, in October 1920, working class militants and revolutionary activists founded a Communist Party in the hopes that one day it could lead a workers' socialist revolution in Australia.
In the middle of the 1950s, many thought the world had only two political options: Western-style capitalism, or Stalinist bureaucratic "communism". When the working class of Hungary launched a workers' revolution against the Stalinist dictatorship, they proved both sides wrong.