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The relevance of Marx today
CPA (M-L) presentation at a public meeting in Melbourne to mark 200 years since the birth of Karl Marx, under the theme "It's the 21st Century, Is Marxism still relevant?
In paying our respects to Karl Marx, we should also acknowledge the important role of Frederick Engels, his comrade in ...
An announcement that China was planning to gain access to dilapidated port facilities in Samoa in the South Pacific, has thrown US-led western allies into panic. The US imperialists assess the rapid rise of China as threatening traditional US hegemonic regional standing.
Universities increase profits at low-paid workers’ expense
Ned K.
Universities have become institutions whose primary aim is to make money, in particular by attracting more high paying overseas students than their competitors and cutting back on labor costs of both academic staff and support services.
"The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. You young people, full of vigour and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you. The world belongs to ...
This is the second in a series of articles investigating ruptures in a carefully fostered pro-corporate united front among First Nations Peoples. The series focuses on the wider implications of recent statements by pro-mining Aboriginal activist Marcia Langton.
The decision by Victorian Liberal MP Julia Banks to quit the Coalition government over its attitude to women, and the sexist slur against SA Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young by a Queensland Nationals senator show that issues of gender inequality are still rife under capitalism.
The NSW Government celebrated International Children’s Day, October 23, by passing legislation through the Lower House to permanently steal children. So said Greens MP and long-term campaigner against continuing stolen generations, David Shoebridge, to families and supporters outside Parliament House on Wednesday. The next day legislation passed the ...
APEC Summit and US moves to put “allies” in the front lines of conflict
(Contributed)
The recent Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit in Papua New Guinea provided the expected confrontation between US-led western allies and China. It was the outcome of months of the former engaging in high-level, tense diplomacy, toward China.
Five picket lines win first pay rises for five years
NSW construction workers at Boom Logistics and Wollongong Crane Group (WCG) have won their first pay rises in five years. The companies had not made any realistic offer despite months of negotiations.
Hidden wage theft: Another reason why we have to change the rules
(Contributed)
Decades of economic rationalism have undermined our way of life for ordinary working people.
The fetish nature of de-regulation, privatisation and liberalisation has created the conditions where the worst instincts of the business-classes have been revealed. And they still cry poor!
Farmers of the world unite, call for intensified struggle vs. foreign plunder of land, state terror
MANILA, Philippines
During the holding of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle 5th International Assembly (ILPS5thIA) in Quezon City, the ILPS Commission 6 for Agrarian Reform Concern called for intensified struggle against foreign plunder of land and state terror against people’s movements.
At the recent APEC summit in Port Moresby, the Australian Government had no hesitation in strengthening its military, political and economic ties with US imperialism with announcements of joint military and naval bases to the north of Australia.
This is the first in a series of articles investigating ruptures in a carefully fostered pro-corporate united front among First Nations Peoples. The series focuses on the wider implications of recent statements by pro-mining Aboriginal activist Marcia Langton.
The intention, by the Trump administration to reimpose sanctions on Iran, is the outcome of two inter-related factors: an attempt to strengthen a Cold War position in the Middle East and to bring developments in neighbouring Syria to a head.
Hundreds of South Australians rallied outside Parliament House on Saturday November 2 to oppose nuclear waste dumps proposed for SA. The rally was organised by the Aboriginal-led No Dump Alliance
Broken Hill rally to save the Barka (Darling River)
Nick G.
More than 400 people marched through Broken Hill to Sturt Park Reserve today in a rally to save the Barka (Darling River). The rally brought together residents of Broken Hill and the surrounding region, including Barkindji nation traditional owners and pastoralists.
Editorial: Shifting the Australian Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem
In what seems to have been an attempt to win over Jewish voters in the electorate of Wentworth in the recent by-election, Prime Minister Scott Morrison floated the idea that the Australian embassy in Israel could be shifted from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. According to Morrison, there are a number ...
Civilian surveillance and imperialist plans for war
(Contributed)
There is little ambiguity on the part of US imperialism toward its Chinese rival; it has recently been clearly defined by a leading member of the Trump administration.
The diplomatic position is not only confined to the US: Australia has been drawn into the fray through regional military alliances ...