Joyce Stevens
Joyce Stevens was a Sydney activist.
The Reds launch
Dr Lowitja O'Donoghue, former head of the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Commission, helped launch The Reds in Sydney on May Day 1998. Over 400 attended the event in the Trades Hall auditorium. Joyce Stevens was the MC, and other speakers were Elliott Johnston, and the author, Stuart MacIntyre. The SEARCH Foundation hosted the launch. [1]
SEARCH Foundation departeds
SEARCH Foundation members Rob Durbridge, Hans Lofgren, Enid McIlraith, Joyce Stevens, Zara Splayford, Grant Evans, Wally Stubbings, Ted Wilshire, Ernie Broad and Rachel Makinson all died before the November 30 2014 AGM.
SEARCH
Joyce Stevens submitted an apology to the SEARCH Foundation 2002 AGM.
SEARCH Committee
SEARCH Foundation committee members as of February 1994:
Rob Durbridge, Adrian Shackley, Judy Gillett, Brian Aarons, Adam Farrar, Joyce Stevens, Eric Aarons, Bev Symons, Josie Moynihan.
MINUTES OF THE SEARCH FOUNDATION AGM
HELD IN SYDNEY ON OCTOBER 22, 1994.
Adam Farrar, Cliff Willard, Vic Slater, Eric Aarons, Judy Gillett, Peter Murphy, Greg Giles, Richard Archer, Chas Begg, Jack Vernham, Graham Drew, Laurie Aarons, David Baker, Vern Moffitt, Jack Wright, Bill Whiley, Jack Cambourn, Peg Hewett, Ray Harrison, Joan Harrison, Albert Laird, Bert Heinemann, John Brunskill, Gwyneth Regione, Pat Ranald, Rob Durbridge, Vera Deacon, Pat Elphinston, Norma Nord, Gloria Garton, Evelyn Healy, Kevin Healy, Hal Alexander, Bev Symons, Joyce Stevens, Brian Aarons, Roger Milliss, Jack Mundey (afternoon).
Chairs Judy Gillett (am), Greg Giles (pm) Adam Farrar (am), Brian Aarons (pm)
Apologies: Evan Phillips, Carol Aarons, Josie Moynihan, Adrian Shackley, Jim Endersby, Pat Ranald (afternoon), Adam Farrar (afternoon), Rob Durbridge (part morning).
"Lightening the Load"
In 1991 Joyce Stevens released the book "Lightening the Load". It was launched by Meredith Burgmann.
New Left Party
Circa 1990 Joyce Stevens, Ken McLeod and Rick Mohr were New Left Party contacts in Stdney.[2]
"It's time to act"
"It's time to act" was a 1991 statement calling for the formation of the New Left Party.
Sydney sponsors were : Brian Aarons, Allan Ashbolt, Charles Bowers, Christine Brunt, Jack Cambourn, Peter Cantrill, Denis Fitzgerald, Larry Hand, Beverley Hewett, Robin Hopwood, Betty Hounslow, Sonia Laverty, Carol Matthews, Peter McClelland, Audrey McDonald, Daren McDonald, Tom McDonald, Brian McGahen, Stacey Miers, Jack Mundey, Warwick Neilley, Cristina Pastore, Wally Pritchard, Pat Ranald, Tanya Ritchie, Noeline Rudland, Stan Sharkey, David Simpson, Joyce Stevens, Frank Stilwell, Jenepher Surbey, Dom Syme, Margaret Thornton, Ted Wheelwright, Juana Zepeda, Jorge Zepeda, Tom Zubrycki.
Sydney Broad Left meeting
Humphrey McQueen, Laurie Carmichael, Kate McNeil, Mike Mansell, Tricia Caswell, George Campbell, Pat Clancy, Joyce Stevens, Di Zetlin, Jon Hawkes, Bruce Childs, Ted Wheelwright, Frank Walker, Pat O'Shane, Etta Rosales, Bob Connell, Chris Westwood, Bill Hartley, Dr. Andrew Theophanous.
"Moving Left"
Brian Howe with David McKnight at launch of "Moving Left: The Future of Socialism in Australia" - contributors Tricia Caswell, Jim Falk, Joyce Stevens...
National Committee, CPA
CPA Gay Collective
In the 1980s Geoff Evans was aware of gay activists in the CPA – Lance Gowland, Brian McGahen. Evans then became organiser for the Sydney District of the CPA. He was interested in supporting communists in the gay movement and the CPA Sydney Branch had formed a homosexual collective. Geoff joined the group to provide support for a central human rights struggle, but as a straight man. His friend and housemate, Marilyn McCormack and Kim Back, an ex-lover were members, plus Lance Gowland, Brian McGahen, Barry Power, Graham Chuck and Peter Murphy. The collective was relatively small – about 8 – 10 people. It discussed politics in the gay movement, sexism among gay men, the politics of lesbian separatism. Perhaps Joyce Stevens, Margo Moore attended – there was an overlap between the gay and women’s collectives.[3]
Delegation to China
In 1986 Julius Roe was part of a Communist Party of Australia delegation to China, with Joyce Stevens.
"Challenging the Bicentenary"
Joyce Stevens, Adam Farrar and Gary Foley.
Marrickville CPA
Betty Hounslow was a socialist feminist and a member of the Socialist Lesbians, later Socialist Lesbians and Male Homosexuals. She was briefly a supporter of the Trotskyist Communist League, then joined the Communist Party of Australia from the 1980s until it was wound up in 1991. Betty was an original member of the Marrickville Branch of the CPA and along with Joyce Stevens, Margo Moore and others, engaged and furthered socialist feminism activism within and outside the party.
The Feminist Forum
Joyce Stevens, Sue Wills, Jane Inglis.
CPA
In 1984 Joyce Stevens was an activist and writer In the women's movement and a member of the Communist Party of Australia National Committee.[4]
Broad Left Conference panel
Speakers at The Broad Left Conference Political options for the left session were:
- Frank Panucci (NSW)
- Joyce Stevens (NSW)
- Lindsay Tanner (Vic)
- Kathryn Shain (NT)
"STATEMENT REGARDING ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS"
In April 1986 several hundred attendees of The Broad Left Conference in Melbourne signed an add in the National Times "STATEMENT REGARDING ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS".
Signatories included Joyce Stevens.
The Broad Left Conference
The Communist Party of Australia, Association for Communist Unity and others organized The Broad Left Conference, which was held 1986 28th-31st March, at the NEW SOUTH WALES INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Broadway, Sydney.
Joyce Stevens was among the list of sponsors.
Marx and Beyond
- Laurie Carmichael
- Frank Stilwell
- Jennie George
- Bob Connell
- Arthur Gietzelt
- John Button
- Claire Gallagher
- Joyce Stevens
- Brian Howe
- Leonie Sandercock
- John Alford
Eureka Youth League
The Eureka Youth League was formed in 1941 to replace its illegal forerunner, the League of Young Democrats, which had replaced the Young Communist League of Australia. Audrey Blake became national secretary, one of many women leaders, including Joan Clarke, Joyce Stevens, Wendy Lowenstein, Mavis Robertson and Rivkah Mathews.[5]