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More Dairy Industry Turmoil
Duncan B.
Turmoil continues in Australia’s dairy Industry. French –owned dairy giant Parmalat has cut back production at its plant in Longwarry in eastern Victoria, with full-time jobs being reduced from 36 to nine. A shortage of milk is blamed for the closure of the cream cheese line and the ...
China Stone Leaves the Queensland Working Class Further In Doubt About Their Future
Finn G. 29 May 2019
The struggle to balance out the issues of employment and the environment has been at the front of mind for progressive movements in Australia since the LNP regained power in the recent federal ...
Over a century’s worth of history will come to a close on May 31 when transportation of grain by rail ceases on Eyre Peninsula. The move will require around 30,000 extra B-double truck movements per year along poorly maintained single ...
Defend the environment, defend culture - it’s the same struggle
Celia S.
The campaigns lead by Indigenous peoples are prolonged and ongoing. Their struggles are about their rights as Indigenous peoples, their rights as custodians of the land. This presents a direct challenge to the free market economy of the capitalist class and their need to feed an ever-expanding profit ...
More US political moves in the South Pacific to “contain” China
(Contributed) 24 May 2019
The recent US foreign policy initiative to invite three prominent Pacific Island leaders to the White House for high-level diplomatic talks, has revealed an escalation of hostilities toward China. The US remains desperate to reassert its domination ...
The outcome of the federal election has come as a shock to many. People with a deeply-felt commitment to the parliamentary process as a vehicle for progressive reforms are grieving. Right-wing and reactionary forces will ...
Millions of Australians have fond memories of Bob Hawke and millions of young people who were not even born believe that Bob Hawke was a great union leader ...
A great deal has been written and said over the past couple of days about the former head of the ACTU and Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke, following his death at the age of 89. Even as ...
The Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) mourns the passing of Jon (“Darce”) Cassidy. Darce made an important contribution to the anti-imperialist movement and many progressive people’s struggles.
Three recent reports, from Germany, the Baltic Republics and Sweden, provide a chilling picture of far-right political and terrorist organisation and US-led civil defence provision. While the three are seemingly separate developments, in ...
(Contributed) 7 May 2019 Media releases about the development of an Australian space industry have revealed just how important and strategically-placed the country is for US-led military and security provision.
Australia has become inextricably linked to the US-led wave of militarism sweeping the region; recent US-led Australian military planning, ...
For the first time in this aging writer’s memory, May 1 was marked in Sydney with a 6000 strong strike and march. The push to return May Day to its militant beginnings came from ...
Step up Change the Rules campaign – don’t let it die in a parliamentary election!
Nick G. 1 May 2019
On May Day 2019, the day of international working class struggle and solidarity, workers in Australia will show our united resolve to step up the fight to Change the Rules and continue the struggle for a fairer, more just society for working people. ...
(Vanguard has received a request to publish an article on the struggle to free revolutionary environmentalists sentenced to 40 years jail in Pakistan. The struggle took place in a part of Jammu ...
This is an expanded version of the article in Vanguard’s hard copy May Day edition. It concludes a series investigating ruptures in pro-corporate support among First Peoples.
Imagine if Tony Abbott turned up at your place, telling you how to live, like he did to Northern Territory Aboriginal ...
The recent outbreak of violence in Libya is continuing testimony to the US imperialism’s inability to put Humpty Dumpty together again. Good at pushing regimes from their place on the wall, invariably the result has been utter chaos ...
US imperialism and the Middle East: the decline of regional influence
(Contributed) 27 April 2019
After decades of US-led interference in the Middle East, Washington would appear to be losing its hegemonic presence in the region. A number of recent developments have had far-reaching implications for US imperialism.
