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#	Date	Topic/Articles
69	2018 December	Editorial 20th International Meeting Impending global debt crisis Why China needs to support communist parties Chinese characteristics and world socialism “One Belt One Road”: to initiate new globalisation Trade union work – plus! The Communist essence
68	2018 September	Editorial notes “Left” errors – opportunism in “revolutionary” camouflage Taking the Party to the People Class and class analysis How to be a Good Communist – A review Party building and the role of the youth Capitalism vs Socialism: The great debate Capitalism and its primary concepts
67	2018 April	Editorial notes CPA Contribution to the 19th IMCWP Is the legacy of the Russian Revolution still relevant? Culture and agriculture On the illegality of war Nordahl Grieg’s commitment to peace Book Review – The Blue Notebook Marinaleda, a utopia towards peace
66	2017 December	Editorial notes Caliban’s children A class analysis of political developments in Turkey On the illegality of war Ecological agriculture, and revolutionary optimism Book Review: The Undesirables – Inside Nauru Abstracts from World Socialism Research
65	2017 September	Editorial notes Why Russia? Cause and consequences: Changes in Bolshevik policy On the illegality of war The protection of nature by the Soviet government Linking theory to practice – A response to David Matters
64	2017 April	Editorial notes SYRIZA: A false left On the illegality of war Opposite directions: The NEP and China’s Opening and Reform The study of theory is necessarily linked to practice Drawing the Kafr Qasem Massacre by Samia Halaby: A review Comment on Reliable friends and The task of our time
63	2016 December	Editorial notes Reliable friends of China Several “degrees” to be grasped in the deepening of reform Ecological agriculture as policy will strengthen Marxism and promote ecological civilisation The South African Communist Party in the context of the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union The task of our time Contribution of the Portuguese Communist Party to the 18th IMCWP Contribution of Tudeh Party of Iran to the 18th IMCWP
62	2016 October	Editorial notes The myth of Soviet backwardness Hungary – reflections on European socialism Life in a socialist country Socialist Cuba Socialism NOW! Or maybe later? Socialist Alliance split Dimitrov and today’s fight against TNC dictatorship
61	2016 May	The capitalist offensive against the working class and other exploited people Editorial notes Guns, paranoia and social change Capitalist Trojan Horses: The danger of returning Chinese students The crucifixion of North Korea, The demonisation of the DPRK Rescuing the word: socialism Internationalism – past, present and future Scientific development of agricultural productivity after a socialist revolution The myth of terra nullius and Australian sovereignty Discussions – The role of Practice and Theory
60	2015 December	Communist Internationalism in an era of Capitalist Globalisation Editorial notes Alternative to global capitalist offensive: Asia’s response Opening speech of the Secretary of the CC of the Communist Party of Turkey, Kemal Okuyan, IMCWP The Third International and its place in history Opinion: Lenin’s analysis of imperialism – a pioneering work Communist cooperation: building links between fraternal parties For an International University of Marxism Speech at the 6th World Socialism Forum in Beijing The post-war Communist Party of Australia and its prospects
59	2015 October	The myth of necessity – The nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Editorial notes Operation Unthinkable – allies were bearing secret malice Was the US deterrence military doctrine aimed against the Soviet Union during the Cold War era really “defensive” and who actually started the nuclear arms race paranoia? The real reason America used nuclearweapons against Japan (It was not to end the war or save lives) The Golden Age of Black Ops GENOCIDE IN IRAQ Vol.2 – A review by Dr Vera Butler War on progress by other means The choice facing the people of Portugal
58	2015 June	Anzac Centenary – The myth revisited Editorial notes Gallipoli and forgetting Charlie Hebdo and Crisis in Capitalism New Government in Greece – The revolution that wasn’t The secret country again wages war on its own people Pacific Intervention on Demilitarisation of Indigenous Lands and Waters Thoughts on Public Housing from the 1940s Dialectics of History Contribution of the German Communist Party to the 16th annual IMCWP More on Left Unity
57	2014 December	Struggle against capitalism and imperialism Editorial notes Closing down and opening up “spaces” The US and Australia in the Asia-Pacific Region Some thoughts on constitutional recognition of the first Australians Chinese ideo-political education at the university level 16th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties, Guayaquil 2014 Vinnie Molina, President of the CPA Portuguese Communist Party Communist Party of Britain
56	2014 July	Education Editorial notes Party education – lessons from some personal experiences Cadre training Providing better compulsory education for China’s rural children Rereading What Is To Be Done? Social Democracy Timeless advice on Party education Reviving worker’s education is a must
55	2012 March	The 13th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties
54	2011 September	Some thoughts on the history of the communist movement in Australia
53	2010 October	A critical analysis of the US causes of the Global Financial Crisis The Communist Party and the political alternative Water lies
52	2010 July	Editorial Notes The situation in Greece Rudd’s regressive health reforms More pain for devastated Haiti: Under the pretense of disaster relief Elections and the CPA — getting serious Human rights and the CPA
51	2010 March	11th International Meeting of the Communist and Workers’ Parties
50	2009 November	Editorial Notes Individual rights vs collective rights The new old atheists Why the Soviet Union collapsed Historical path of separatist politics in Sri Lanka
49	2008 November	Editorial Notes China, socialism and sustainable development: A study tour Marxism and Sustainable Development Opening Address: World Association for Political Economy Ideological struggle and the socialist market economy The Pentagon strangles our economy: Why the U.S. has gone broke
48	2008 June	Towards the new Colombia: Interview with Raúl Reyes The Women of FARC Budget 2008-09
47	2008 January	The US in the Pacific Poverty and globalisation Is there a class issue in medicine? Reflections on the Aboriginal Movement
46	2007 March	Editorial Notes Working class in Australia Dolores Ibarruri, La Pasionaria – a magnificent communist Socialism and human development today Global warming, nuclear power – DOUBLE TROUBLE What future for youth?
45	2006 October	Editorial Notes Reflections on political power Recruiting to the party — the Port Adelaide experience Some thoughts on the debate over the transition to socialism Work, workers and the working class Speech on the occasion of Fidel’s 80th birthday
44	2006 April	Editorial Notes State of emergency: The militarisation of civil society ... Materialism, idealism and the IR laws Democratic rights, social values, the Christian Right Australia and the rise of fascism Building the party, building alliances
43	2006 January	Editorial Notes CPA 10th Congress: Successful and optimistic Venezuela and the century of socialism Rereading What Is To Be Done? CPA 10th Congress: Opening Night Speech Building alliances, building the future Fighting terrorism or fighting democracy?
42	2000 November	Time for a Treaty Marxist Psychology Struggles, alliances and co-operation among communists The Search for Working Class Unity Marxist Anthropology Globalisation and Class Struggle
41	1999 November	Where Do We Go From Kosovo? Tax Reform? Do the Poor Still Pay the Rich? The US Experience. Flirting with Fascism: US Imperialism's Hidden Romance Confronting the Capitalist Crisis A Short History of Taxation in Australia Hands Off the People's Property Athens Conference on the Crisis of Capitalism, Globalisation and ... The 21st Century is the Century of Socialism
40	1998 August	The Historic MUA Struggle Some Reflections on the CPA's Participation in the MUA Dispute The Trade Union Movement in the USA Trade Unions and Day-to-Day Struggles for Socialism in South Africa Dimitrov and Today's Fight against TNC Dictatorship Dimtrov Revisited From Native Title to Land Rights Class and National Formation among the Aborigines Land Rights or Native Title (a 5 point plan) Mother Teresa: A Communist View
39	1998 February	The Birth of the Communist Manifesto Workers of the World After 150 Years Luddites, Utopian Socialists and the Class Struggle The Communist Manifesto in Australia The Communist Manifesto: 150 Years Young Keep the Workers' Children in Their Place Public Education in Australia
38	1997 November	"The rich do not know hunger" Environment, hunger and population The real causes of Somalia's famine Bread and Circuses Greenhouse gases and global warming The Communist Manifesto after 100 years Cheryl Kernot and the two-party system Communist Party and Labor Party co-operation Immunisation and public health
37	1997 April	Racism in Australia Historical Aspects of Race Relations Australian Government's Bellicose Foreign Policy Beware False Internationalism Partisanship and Objectivity in Theoretical Work Afghanistan: the lynching of a revolution Big Bangs and other Fantasies Time and Teleology: Order in the Universe Fall-out from the Big Bang I bin thinkin'
36	1996 December	The “Big Bang”, creation and materialism (PART I) The war against materialism (PART II) The Big Bang and materialism (Dr Rafael Pla-Lopez) The Big Bang and materialism (George Tsoupros) Diving into the theoretical wormhole A response to criticism on materialism and the Big Bang Build the struggle! Build the alternative! Build the Party! United State military aid and Iraqi oil The militias: armed ... dangerous … Republican
35	1995 November	The Environment: doing what is necessary, not what is possible Setbacks to Socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
34	1995 June	The Current Economic Position in Australia Party Work in the Mass Movement Some experiences of a Party member active in the trade union movement A New Arena of Struggle: The Electronic Front Singing praises to the virtues of the South African Communist Party The Character of our Party – Building the SACP in the present period Multiculturalism – ten years on
33	1994 December	The environmental crisis: past the point of no return Significance of the arts SPA critique of the Federal Government's Green Paper
32	1994 October	The Struggle for Migrant Rights The Socialist Party of Australia and the Political Alternative The anti-privatisation campaign Shared Values – Socialism and Religion Comrade Jesus Right-revisionism in Australia Russia's Revival and the World Situation
31	1993 November	Class Struggle and National Liberation – Counter-revolution in Ireland
30	1993 September	An Australian republic Should Australia become a republic? The role of the Program Australia: peace and security into the 21st Century Communism is in the best interests of the Australian people Art and Social Contradiction
29	1992 May	Tariffs, wages and unemployment Racism in Australia Modern Liquidationism Australia’s defence policy The World Scene The Meaning Of A New World Order: A Critique Different sources of the peace movement Why the Cuban professors were dismissed Left and right swings in the communist movement
28	1991 September	The Soviet Union A World to Save and a World to Win New World Order Grim Future for Farmers New Developments for the Peace Movement The Peace Movement in the 1990s Marxism and Morality Petty-Bourgeois Ideology Perestroika in the Soviet Union
27	1991 January	Our Changing World Dialectics of Nature and Weather Humour is Serious Business Racism Privatisation Media in Australia Alienation: The Worm in the Apple New Struggles for a New Decade
26	1990 September	Power and Democracy Industrial Concentration and the impact of Changed Conditions Building the Party in the Workplace The Crisis in the Socialist World Marxist theory under fire After the elections in the GDR Critical and United On certain political-ideological issues related to developments in some socialist countries
25	1990 April	Has the peace movement won? Links between peace, social justice and the environment Values The state of apartheid A turning in history Economics and politics in the era of the dictatorship of the proletariat
24	1989 November	Australion trade unions Australia’s foreign debt 40 years of socialist China Politics of the Federal elections The West’s peaceful evolution examined Harare Declaration on South Africa
23	1989 August	Good planets are hard to find Aggression against nature International communist movement Unions at the crossroad Australia’s Asia-Pacific policy 14th Congress Communist Party of India
22	1989 June	Migrant workers conference Approaches to change Responses to neo-conservatism The Australian peace movement The character of the ALP The search of Yuri Krasin Socialist revolution or evolution International Women’s Day
21	1989 March	Peace and Class Struggles What is New Thinking? Proletarian internationalism Changing consciousness Political essence of wages struggle International Women’s Day Aboriginal rights and the Bicentenary Contribution to a branch meeting
20	1988 August	Great October, Peace, New Thinking Communists in today’s world SPA at the WMR Conference Keating’s economics – deregulation Unity in the student movement ALP National Conference
19	1988 May	Problems of Unity Uruguay’s left forces Electoral experiences in Greece Principles of unity advanced by the PCPE Conflicting ideologies and common security – Statement & Interview
18	1987 December	SPA 6th Congress Principles of unity Peace movement in Australia Privatisation push Coal in crisis Local Government elections Trade unions under socialism Irangate
17	1987 September	Revolutionary essence of Perestroika GDR, Hungary, Czechoslovakia The strategy of the “New Right” The CPA and the “New Party” 1987 Mini-Budget Who we regard as allies An independent New Zealand
16	1987 April	International economic developments New problems facing the working class Australian unions move “Right” Left Unity Association of Communist Unity Queensland Parliamentary elections
15	1986 November	Australian working class movement Communist trade union work General crisis of capitalism Dismantling Victorian State Schools Communist Movement and Australia Small business shoots wrong target Southern African Revolution
14	1986 March	The Accord Left Unity Lessonsfrom SEQEB dispute Communist morality More consequences of the Accord Third World Debt Global problems – global co-operation Rizospastis: voice of the truth
13	1985 October	European social revolutions SEQEB dispute Marxist parties and trade unions Working class intellectuals Our cultural heritage Dialectics vs eclecticism Internationalism
12	1985 January	SPA Programs of Action Transnationals Role of the state France – “class peace” South Africa – “legal Marxism” Part-time work Anti-fascist Chilean Catholics
11	1984 July	US imperialism Foreign capital in Australia Australia and world imperialism “Self management” and socialism Engels’ Origins of the Family ... Left sectarianism
10	1984 March	Development of the party Foreign capital in Australia Why a prices and incomes policy? Wage restrictions not the solution The arms race 25 years of the World Marxist Review 4th YSL Congress The socialist economies The STR in Australia Accelerated Christian Education
9	1983 August	Karl Marx – Berlin International Conference Marx and revolutionary organisation Proletarian Internationalism Bourgeois propaganda Class struggle or class collaboration 4th YSL Congress New education policy Palestinian Revolution Australian Literature Building the party Left sectarianism
8	1982 December	Special Issue Contributions to a seminar on the problems of the women’s movement Party Work Among Women (CC Resolution) Character of a Communist Organisation
7	1982 October	Social wage – “prices and incomes” policy The Wornen’s movement Nationalism and internationalism Bourgeois Arts – a survey Dimitrov – 100th anniversary Left Sectarianism Peace and stability in Southeast Asia
6	1982 May	Lenin and petty bourgeois ideology Wages – a critical review 10th World Trade Union Congress Resources boom fizzles out Marxism-Leninism and Opportunism The party spirit “Superpowers” theory
5	1981 July	26th Congress of the CPSU Fourth Congress of the SPA Unions in struggle for peace Politics of the struggle forr peace and disarmament Party press in struggle for scientific socialism Marxism – and Australian history
4	1980 October	Editorial: Left unity and the struggle for peace The Sixtieth Anniversary The united front, essential feature of communist work A Party of Communist science reborn Sixty years of struggle by Communist women Marxist-Leninist science and youth The Communist movement and the national question in Australia Do we need a worker-farmer alliance
3	1980 March	60 years of struggle for scientific socialism CIA-Peking subversion of Afghanistan revolution The renaissance of Australian realism International Women's Day – an inspiration for 70 years Role of petty bourgeois ideology in China A rabbit-sized imperialism The destiny o f the world – Socialist shape of things to come (Book review)
2	1979 November	Social democrats historic dialogue in Moscow The agrarian problem today World Peace Council - its 4th Decade Socialism - Australia's essential alternative Significance of the World Marxist Review Collective strength of the communists
1	1979 June	Australian imperialism Marxist science and history Women and Socialism Class struggle defined Existing Socialism and its international significance Forces shaping the world Philosophy Course
7/3	1979 March	SPA on China Essence and form of working class power CPA's 1979 draft program Lenin on imperialism Worker-farmer alliance – Some modem problems On the Australian Labor Party Australia and struggle against opportunism
7/2	1978 December	Capitalist and socialist world contrast Stages in the general crisis of capitalism Soviet psychiatry and the struggle for peace Eurocommunism New feature on Study Classes The scientific and technological revolution Prospects under socialism Problems under capitalism
7/1	1978 September	On the Australian Labor Party Building a revolutionary Party World position of Australian nation Party organisation and action Women and the 3rd Party Congress Unemployment and poverty Struggle for scientific socialism in Australia (historical notes)
6/3	1978 April	On Democratic and Bureaucratic Centralism How Peking policies imperil world peace The Politics of an Economic Policy Party Building and the Role of Youth Dictatorship of proletariat – and democracy Power is always the power of a class Chilean Communist view on State Power
6/3	1977 December	USSR and 60 years of Socialism The ASIO sbake-up Key issue in crises Human rights In Africa China, enemy of African liberation Two "Communist" Parties or Greece Marxism and bourgeois economists
6/2	1977 August	For International Solidarity, against opportunism. Job democracy and Socialism Whither the Australian Union of Students? The fastest growing economic area in the world Labor and the Socialist Alternative
6/1	1977 March	Root Problem In Monopoly Growth Petty Bourgeois Ideology Petty Bourgeois Ideology – and Its Advocates Role of Fraser Government Talk with Phillipine Party The Ethnic Australian