Kenneth Kenafick

Kenneth Joseph Kenafick (11 April 1904 – 26 January 1982), also known by the pen names James Kennedy and Leo Conon, was an Australian poet, writer, translator and anti-conscription campaigner.

He was the secretary of the No Conscription Campaign and the organisation's successor, League for Freedom. He was the editor of the Anti-Militarist News and Review journal.

Early life and education Kenafick was born in 1904 at Norseman in Western Australia (graduating in 1932), and studied at the University of Western Australia and Melbourne Teachers' College. In 1957, he published an autobiography under the pen name Leo Conon. and as a pacifist. He was Secretary of the No Conscription Campaign and the organization's successor, the League for Freedom, for many years.

In 1950, he edited and translated an anthology of Mikhail Bakunin's work entitled Marxism, Freedom and the State, published by Freedom Press in London, UK, which is widely cited.

Personal life and death Kenafick retired in 1968 and moved with his wife to Myrla near Wunkar in South Australia. Psyche and Eros, Romeo and Juliet, Two Poems James Kennedy, London: Arthur Barron, 1935 selected work poetry The Iconoclast, Leo Conon, Ghaziabad : Bharti, 1957 novel Newer Poems 1936-1938 James Kennedy, Melbourne : Lothian, 1939 selected work poetry Richard of Gloucester, Kenneth Joseph Kenafick, 1972 drama Maurice Blackburn and the No-Conscription Campaign in the Second World War (1948) The Australian Labour Movement in Relation to War, Socialism and Internationalism (1958) Michael Bakunin and Karl Marx, Melbourne: A. Maller (1948)