Rupert Lockwood

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Rupert Ernest Lockwood (10 March 1908 – 8 March 1997) was an

communist
activist.

Lockwood was born in

invasion of Czechoslovakia
.

He wrote several books including:

The story of Jim Healy (1951)[5]
America invades Australia (1955)[6]
Black Armada (1975)[7]
Humour Is Their Weapon (1985)[8]
Ship to Shore (1990)[9]
War on the Waterfront (1987)[10]

Lockwood died in 1997.[11][12][2]

Black Armada[13]

Black Armada is an account of an Australian contribution to the making of the

Wacol
, Queensland.

The book details how these forces came together to create mutinies of Indonesian seamen and Australian boycotts at vital Australian ports, starting in September 1945 (with some shipping/waterfront strikes being broken in 1946) but continuing until 1949, affecting Dutch shipping to the Indies, and thus ensuring vital time for Indonesian nationalists to frustrate Dutch plans for post-war reimposition of Dutch colonial rule in Indonesia.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ Cahill, R. (2013) Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997): Journalist, Communist, Intellectual, Ph.D thesis, University of Wollongong. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  2. ^ a b Cahill, Rowan (2003). "The making of a communist journalist: Rupert Lockwood, 1908–1940" (PDF). Working Lives. University of Sydney. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 May 2016.
  3. Macleay Argus
    . No. 11, 130. New South Wales, Australia. 8 October 1954. p. 1. Retrieved 30 June 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. Macleay Argus
    . No. 11, 117. New South Wales, Australia. 20 August 1954. p. 1. Retrieved 30 June 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ Lockwood, Rupert (1951), The story of Jim Healy : (leader of the Waterside_Workers'_Federation_of_Australia), Current Book Distributors, retrieved 30 June 2022
  6. ^ Lockwood, Rupert (1955), America invades Australia, Current Book Distributors, retrieved 30 June 2022
  7. ISBN 978-0-86806-005-7
  8. ISBN 978-0-949290-06-9{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link
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  9. ISBN 978-0-86806-404-8
  10. ISBN 978-0-86806-300-3{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link
    )
  11. ^ Cahill, Rowan (1 June 1997), Obituary: Rupert Lockwood, retrieved 30 June 2022
  12. ^ "Papers of Rupert Lockwood". National Library of Australia.
  13. ^
    ISBN 9 09916 68 3
  14. ^ See: Labor Prime Ministers: Curtin (7/10/1941 - 5/07/1945), Forde (6/07/1945 - 13/07/1945), Chifley (13/07/1945 - 19/12/1949)
  15. ^ Indonesian Independence Committee (1946), Dutch imperialism exposed : the green hell of Tanah Merrah, Indonesian Independence Committee, retrieved 21 September 2018 Melbourne, Victoria
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