ABSTRACT
Building from the analysis in the case studies of the Communist Parties of South Africa, Canada and Australia in the study as a whole, this chapter outlines what can be learned by comparing the three parties in these British dominions. It discusses the role anti-imperialism played, the importance of racial equality, and where self-determination of nations or protecting foreign workers were key issues, and how key platforms developed, across all three parties. In this comparison, the role of the Comintern in these matters is explored, showing how its priorities led to different forms of intervention in each party and different topics being more important to Moscow than others. It calls into question which campaigns were representative of the Comintern generally, and which ones had specific local importance, while also showing the problems of looking at the Comintern itself when local conditions led to completely different developments in communist tactics, platforms and approaches to Indigenous peoples, anti-imperialism and foreign workers from 1919 to 1943.
