Socialist Labor Party (Australia)

Socialist Labor Party
Founded4 May 1887 (4 May 1887), (as Australian Socialist League)
Dissolvedc. 1940
Headquarters107 Liverpool Street, Sydney, New South Wales
NewspaperThe People
Membership (1893) <9,000
Ideology
Political positionFar-left

The Socialist Labor Party was a socialist political party of Australia that existed from 1901 to the 1970s. Originally formed as the Australian Socialist League in 1887, it had members such as George Black, New South Wales Premier William Holman and Prime Minister Billy Hughes.