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Marxism Today: The unfairness of a “fair day’s pay”
Danny O.
It has been the catchcry of the official trade union movement worldwide for 200 years. It’s a slogan so often heard in the labour movement that it is almost a cliché. Now we are told Australian workers have lost it and that we need to “change the rules” ...
Trump, Bolsonaro and Brazil in the service of US imperialism
(Contributed) 26 March 2019
The recent high-level diplomatic meeting with US president Donald Trump and his Brazilian counterpart, president Jair Bolsonaro, was primarily concerned with defence and security issues.
It should come as no surprise the US imperialists have sought to ...
Enforced compliance: the USA in the Asian-Pacific region
(Contributed) 25 March 2019
Recent media releases, timed to coincide with the arrival of the new US ambassador to Australia, have revealed a major US-led economic initiative in the Pacific.
Newly announced US-led diplomacy toward many countries in the region has been aimed at reasserting US imperialist domination which ...
Trump security chiefs sniff out the South Pacific as new Ambassador arrives
(Contributed) 18 March 2019
The sending of two senior United States security personnel to the South Pacific and elsewhere has shown how the Trump administration is determined to push Cold War diplomatic agendas on Australia's doorstep. The brief visit to the region was accompanied by other significant developments.
On Friday 15 March, hundreds of schools across Australia came to a halt as more than 130,000 school students and many family supporters and teachers turned out at lively rallies, demanding decisive action to protect the environment from the ravages of climate change. More than 50 rallies took place in ...
Whether it is a white supremacist or a religious extremist, the use of terrorist violence against randomly selected innocent targets is a crime. We apply the word “fascist” to such terrorist activity whether it comes from ISIS or from racists.
Stop Chinese capital’s new coal-fired plants in Australia!
Finn G. 12 March 2019
Australia’s long history of putting the wants of corporations ahead of the needs and desires of its citizens and national sovereignty is continuing with plans to build two new coal-fired plants in the N.S.W Hunter Valley.
COPE 2019 – US military prepares its Australian and Japanese “allies”
(Contributed) 12 MArch 2019
A recent US-led military exercise in the Asia-Pacific region, together with some related defence matters, has revealed a great deal about regional military planning.
Wave after wave of US-led military planning is continually sweeping the region.
The Hidden Bosses of Contract Workers - Another Reason to Change the Rules and the System
Ned K. 10 March 2019
Recently while having lunch in a food court, I was talking to two cleaners. They told me about what happened to a couple of other cleaners they work with who were on another shift.
This article continues a series that began by investigating ruptures in a carefully fostered pro-corporate united front among First Nations Peoples, including Marcia Langton.
Women fight to end exploitation, inequality, violence and imperialist war
Alice M.
The 2019 International Working Women’s Day throws a powerful spotlight on working women’s lives and struggles in a period of global resistance to the increasing burdens and exploitation of capitalism and US imperialist interventions, invasions and coups. International Working Women’s Day is taking place in an historic era ...
Indonesia, data collection and drones: US uses Australian puppets
(Contributed) 6 March 2019
A recent statement from the Indonesian government about maritime incursions into their sovereignty has revealed US-led intelligence activities operating from secretive facilities in Australia. The problem has far-reaching implications for relations with Indonesia, a country with close proximity to Australia’s northern shores.
Last Sunday, hundreds of people gathered in Walgett to mourn the death of the Namoi River. It was one of a series of protests held that day under the auspices of the Northern Aboriginal Land Council (NALC). Hundreds more gathered in Menindee, Wilcannia, Bourke, ...
Australian Marxist historian Humphrey McQueen recently explored the topic of the Reserve Army of Labour on his 3CR radio show. The following is the full transcript.
A recent Queensland report from the ABC has again highlighted the growing danger of industrial disease, in this case, Silicosis. “An audit of Queensland's manufacturing stone industry has revealed 98 workers have contracted the potentially deadly lung disease silicosis — 15 ...
US strengthens military grip: The Australian International Airshow, Avalon 2019
(Contributed) 3 March 2019
Speaking at the Avalon International Air Show at Geelong yesterday, the head of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), Air Marshal Leo Davies has predicted a "significant investment" in space for the RAAF over the next twenty years. Although he distanced this spend from Trump’s ...
(From the International Bulletin of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party Turkey/Kurdistan February 2019) 25 February 2019
With the initiative of a women's strike in Argentina and Poland, the call for an international women's strike on 8 of March has spread in more and more countries since 2017 (1). With the women's ...
Many Vanguard readers are probably aware that Ted Hill was a leader of the Communist Party of Australia in the 1940s and 1950s and initial Chairperson of the CPA -ML when it formed in the early 1960s. Vanguard readers are probably familiar ...
Vanuatu, US imperialism and the “Defence of Australia” Doctrine
(Contributed) 24 February 2019
Recent high-level diplomatic meetings between Australia and Vanuatu have received little publicity in mainstream media outlets, only a scant acknowledgement they took place and the outcome was partially successful. It is not difficult to establish why this was the case:
