Communist Party of Australia

May 9, 2018 - click here for index of articles.

A People’s Bank

Corruption, fraud and other criminal activity is endemic in banks, insurance companies and financial institutions providing investment advice and managing investments for clients. It is endemic to capitalism, to a system based on the pursuit of private profit regardless of the human and environmental toll. As long as the financial system is privately-owned and run for profit, these issues will persist. more ...

Editorial – Behind Macron’s visit to Australia

The primary purpose of French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent visit to Australia was not to commemorate the victories of Australian troops in France during the First World War. more ...

Keep the flag flying – May Day, Fremantle, WA

The main speaker was ACTU secretary, Sally McManus who delivered an impassioned speech on the Change the Rules campaign and why workers need to be organised to resist these attacks, which are oppressing workers and eroding our living standards while the big end of town is making record profits and receiving tax cuts from the Liberal government of Malcolm Turnbull. more ...

Gas protest heats up

Anti-fracking campaigners are planning to target the Northern Territory Labor conference on May 12 following the decision by the government to lift an 18-month old moratorium on fracking. more ...

Australia criminalises journalism

National security laws are being used by the Australian parliament to increase jail terms for journalists in order to stifle the public’s right to know what governments are doing in our name, writes Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) chief executive Paul Murphy. more ...

Who’s afraid of Vanuatu?

In early April, reports began emerging that China was seeking to build a military base in the Pacific. Are these reports “fake news,” or are we witnessing the early stages of a regional showdown between Western powers and China? more ...

South Africa – Land reform and expropriation

Colonial conquest, dispossession and apartheid rule in South Africa, all based on capitalist exploitation, left the historically oppressed and proletarianised majority with either no land at all or almost nothing. As the Communist Party resolved at its annual national conference held in January 1929, ratifying a resolution first adopted by the Communist International in 1928, the foundation of the South African revolution was the National Question. The practical core of the National Question was, and still is, the Land Question. The Agrarian Question was at that time paramount. However, around the Agrarian Question the issue of minerals, of finite resources, became increasingly important. more ...

Film Review – Avengers: Infinity War

Marvel’s latest blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War opened has already broke records, scoring the biggest box office opening ever. Fans rushed to theatres to get a piece of the action – an intergalactic battle featuring all of Marvel’s greatest heroes. One key player, Thanos, made his official debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), awarding fans with the ultimate showdown we have all been waiting for. more ...

Positive and active neutrality versus NATO and the EU

The decision by the government to expel a Russian diplomat as part of a co-ordinated response by EU and NATO member-countries is but another example of how far the Irish establishment has aligned this state with their military strategies. more ...

Culture & Life – The real rogue state

In 1973, the feudal ruler of Afghanistan, King Mohammed Zahir, was ousted in a palace coup and replaced by his cousin Mohammed Daoud who proclaimed himself President with the title of Khan. Only in April 1978 were the revolutionary forces of Afghanistan finally able to overthrow Daoud’s repressive feudal regime in the Saur Revolution led by the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA). more ...