The Communist Party was a conspiracy controlled and financed by a hostile foreign power that recruited members for clandestine work and used that apparatus to collaborate with espionage services of that power. Communist party treason from 1939 to when Germany attacked the USSR is one of many examples.
A close contemporary analogy to the Communist Party in its heyday would be a Fundamentalist Muslim party running for elected office while partly funded by Al Qaeda, whose policies are dictated by Al Qaeda, and whose leaders and members have aided Al Qaeda via espionage activities. It is hardly clear that free speech requires a government to tolerate the existence of such a party, and that the government could not close it as a criminal conspiracy.
The Venona intercepts revealed Wally Clayton, a leading official within the Communist Party of Australia, was the chief organiser of Soviet intelligence gathering in Australia. It was Venona intercepts that led Chifley to set-up ASIO.
As Bob Carr recently recalled, Paul Keating, as president of Young Labor in 1968, always referred to the Left of the ALP as “the comms”. Important figures in the ALP Left were dual members of the Communist Party of Australia.
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