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Latest Posts
Housing Bubble About To Burst?
Ned K.
The issue of housing and household debt is prominent in the media at the moment. Warning signs of a crash in the housing industry are accompanied by some pretty staggering statistics and predictions.
Two new cold storage facilities currently under construction in the western suburbs of Melbourne provide an opportunity to consider some trends in the future of work under capitalism.
“No investigation, no right to speak” was an aphorism asserted by Mao Zedong. When ignorant people act on unfounded assumptions, innocent people can be badly hurt.
Peoples' livelihoods are being crushed by capitalism's economic crisis
Max O.
Capitalist production has placed enormous pressure on ordinary peoples' lives to the extent that we are again seeing the immiseration of the working class. Corporations are ceaselessly escalating their exploitation of workers who are pressed to do more in less time.
US Crimes in Afghanistan: Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
Interview April 2017
15 years after the Western military intervention, little is heard about Afghanistan in the media in France. What is the general situation of the country? How is the foreign occupation manifested every day for Afghan men and women?
The Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) unequivocally condemns the US imperialist bombing of Syria’s al-Shayrat airbase. The unleashing of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles onto the airbase is Trump’s response to allegations that the Syrian government had gassed up to 80 of its own civilians at Idlib, currently held ...
Collective disaster efforts are a stark contrast to insurance vultures
Louisa L.
The massive and heroic efforts, and small kindnesses, from paid and volunteer workers, neighbours, family and complete strangers during the huge natural disasters across Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales have been justifiably well documented in the media.
Things have progressed tremendously since the terrible losses and hardships of epic floods past, where families sat on their roofs for weeks waiting for rescue.
The impeachment and sacking of President Park Geun-hye in South Korea (ROK) has enabled national elections to take place in early May. The elections, however, are unlikely to resolve the political crisis within the country or the problem of their diplomatic relations with the United States...
Renewable Energy Needed For People And The Planet, Not For Profiteering
Ned K
Recently the federal Turnbull Government has announced a proposal for a huge Snowy River hydroelectric scheme and funding of renewable energy schemes in South Australia. At the same time the desperate SA Labor Government has framed its solution to the electricity reliability of supply issue in terms ...
Solidarity with the heroic Maruti-Suzuki workers of Manesar, India!
Nick G.
A Japanese-Indian joint venture car manufacturer has utilised the full force of state violence to try to intimidate and coerce its Indian workforce. On March 18, 13 strike activists and trade union leaders from the Maruti-Suzuki car plant at Manesar were sentenced to life imprisonment, 4 were given five ...
Finding an affordable place to live, either renting or buying, is becoming increasingly difficult for many people. Household debt including cost of renting or buying is at record levels with small increases in interest rates the tipping point towards homelessness or selling up for many people in Australia. ...
Unions rally across the country to defend workers’ rights
Danny O.
Thousands of workers rallied around the country on Thursday March 9th. Originally called by the Construction Division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) in opposition to the Turnbull government’s re-introduction of the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) and introduction of the new 2016 Building ...
Workers employed at the Echuca (Vic) yoghurt and dessert plant of dairy processor Parmalat recently returned to work after a two month long lock-out at the plant.
Foreign mining corporations bare their teeth in the WA elections
Max O. Vanguard holds little or no confidence in whichever political party holds seats in Australia's parliaments. Marx commented 165 years ago that there is no hope of anything useful, let alone liberation or socialism, coming through parliament. He called the institution, parliamentary cretinism.
Some issues bubble away unnoticed by anyone except those directly affected. Twenty young people, working as resident doctors in NSW, suicided between 2007 and 2016, and the media was almost silent.
No shortage of gas – it’s just in the wrong hands!
Bill F.
Australia has vast reserves of natural gas, but an artificial shortage is being manipulated by foreign and local corporate monopolies to force up the price of domestic gas and push back against the wide opposition to coal seam gas fracking.
Australian farmers are set to enjoy the highest farm incomes and profits in 20 years, thanks to a bumper winter grain crop and excellent returns for wool, sheep and cattle.
Early childcare workers show how to celebrate International Women’s Day.
Nick G.
On March 8, 2017 women everywhere celebrated International Women’s Day.
Reflecting the origins of the day in the struggles of working class women, thousands of United Voice members in the 94% female early childhood workforce walked out of their workplaces this afternoon.
