Great Depression and Aftermath Cold War New Left Contemporary Active Historical James "Big Jim" Healy (22 March 1898 – 13 July 1961) was an Australian trade unionist and communist activist.

He attended St Francis of Assisi parish school and began assisting Labour Party canvassers at the age of 8.

[1] On 19 July 1919 Healy married woollen weaver Elizabeth McGowan at St Cuthbert's Catholic Church in Edinburgh.

Disappointed with the underperformance of various Labor governments in response to the Great Depression, Healy joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1934 after a tour of the Soviet Union.

In the 1949 Australian coal strike he was gaoled for contempt of court, having refused to disclose the whereabouts of money used to assist the strikers.