'Comrade' - Cybèle Locke & Rebecca Macfie (BWB Talks)

'I am not interested in ambition in the bourgeois sense. The only ambition I have is to make sure I'm working for a progressive policy. Communism means that much to me. And, yes, I would certainly like to see New Zealand a Communist country.' - Bill Andersen
Bill Andersen was one of the most significant figures of the twentieth-century trade union movement in New Zealand. In this biography, Cybèle Locke reveals the relationship between communism and working-class trade unionism during the Second World War and the following decades. Starting with Bill's experiences as a merchant seaman, Locke draws on over forty oral interviews, as well as Bill's unpublished autobiography, to explore what it meant to be a communist trade unionist through those years.
'Comrade: Bill Andersen - A Communist, Working-Class Life' is discussed in this BWB talk by author Cybèle Locke and journalist Rebecca Macfie.
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