Bob Anderson talks of social and political campaigns and organisations he has been involved in, including branches of the Labor Party, the Communist Party, the Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (QCAATI). He also talks of the activities of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) during his involvement with these organisations.
Diane Zetlin discusses the decline of organisations such as the Eureka Youth League and the decline of Communism in Queensland in relation to the radicalism of students during the 1960s.
Diane Zetlin reflects on the weakness of the Labor movement during the 1960s, and discusses the reaction to this within the more left-leaning factions of the Labor movement.
Walter Threlfall discusses the influence of Communism on trade unions in North Queensland. He comments on the decline in trade union activism and in the Communist Party in North Queensland.
Jack Hutton describes his role as an unpaid official in the Trades and Labor Council, and comments on the way in which some trade unionists would use their position to further their own political aspirations.
Jack Hutton talks about attending the World Congress of People for Peace in Vienna, Austria, in 1952. He explains the consequences this trip had on his career.
