success of revolution in a major industrial economy, probably Germany, is a prerequisite of an internationally successful USSR. Defeat of the german revolution was a disaster for the communists
Could you have Joh Bjelke Petersen becoming prime minister and engineering a state of emergency to clampdown on opposition and have things escalate from there?
If the threatened strike by the pit deputies had gone ahead then the government would have had to settle as every pit in the country would have been shut.
Would this have been possible though? The leadership of the French communist party weren't willing to lead a revolution and the situation had come about without their leadership