Ronald Alexander Maxwell (1908 – 27 October 1982) was an Australian trade unionist who was one of the first two communists to sit on

Sydney City Council The City of Sydney is the local government area covering the Sydney central business district and surrounding inner city suburbs of the greater metropolitan area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established by Act of Parliament in 1842, th ...

. Maxwell was born in Balmain North to Percival and Eveline Maxwell. He was a wharf labourer and held a prominent role in the Wharf Labourers' Union. In 1953, in a surprise result, he was elected to

, being narrowly elected from the

Communist Party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A ...

ticket headed by Tom Wright. Maxwell and Wright were the first two communists elected to serve on the Council. Maxwell served on the Works Committee and the Health and Recreations Committee, but was defeated for re-election in 1956. He died in 1982.

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