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Name	Leslie Thomas Barnes
Born	17 December, 1905 Brunswick, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	6 July, 1994 (aged 88) Brunswick, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation or Descriptor *	communist (1932-1950) Victoria, Australia printer (1940-1965) Victoria, Australia historian (general) (1946-1980) Victoria, Australia
Key Organisations *	Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (NSW) (member, ?-1994) Workers' International Relief (member, 1931) Tom Mann Society (member, 1946)
Political Activism *	ALP (Vic) (member, 1931-1931) Communist Party (Vic) (member, 1932) ALP (Vic) (member, 1964-1980)

* Dates are approximate

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