Communist Party of Australia

Guardian – August 24, 2020 – click here for index of articles.

Unemployment disaster

The official number of unemployed workers in Australia continues on its upward trend reaching more than one million in July, and is set to rise further this month. But this figure, shocking as it is, only tells a part of the story. more ...

What the hecs? Tehan’s proposal a big mistake!

Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan has been spending this year ensuring that universities are becoming completely inaccessible to poor and working class students. No less than two months ago, Tehan “announced that the Morrison government would double student fees for courses in the arts and humanities, as well as in commerce and law.” more ...

In solidarity with the Haft Tappeh & Oil industry workers

The Communist Party of Australia is concerned at reports that the Haft Tappeh & Oil industry workers have not been paid their wages forcing them to strike for their basic rights and against the privatisation of essential services that would affect the Iranian people in general. more ...

Against the fees hike for Arts and Humanities degrees

In the wake of the announcement on 19th June 2020, by Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan that the government would halve the fees of some STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) courses whilst doubling student fees for courses in the arts and humanities, the Communist Party of Australia WA Branch decided to hold a Politics in the Pub on the proposed fees hike. more ...

Port Jackson talk US marines out of Darwin!

I don’t have an especially long memory, but it seems to me that when your country is taken into a pointless, disastrous, and costly war, like the Iraq war, on the basis of lies told to you by your supposed friend and ally, that is something you should commit to memory. more ...

US bullying towards Chinese tech companies

In Trump’s latest attack on China, the US government has issued a ban on Chinese-owned apps such as Tiktok and WeChat, sparking an Australian parliamentary committee to investigate the apps’ potential to interfere in Australian politics. In a seemingly unbiased move, US-owned companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter are also being investigated under this committee. This decision poses many more questions about Australia’s ever increasingly difficult relationship with both the US and China. more ...

Communists and the struggle for peace

In the darkest days of World War I, it was the new Soviet Government that made an appeal for peace in November 1917, a full year before the armistice. more ...

Palmer vs. WA – A man against the people

The WA branch of the Transport Workers Union (TWU WA) reported online that they have been “inundated with messages from transport workers who want to refuse to load trucks and refuse to deliver” to the Sino Iron mine in Cape Preston owned by Clive Palmer’s company Mineralogy. This is in response to Palmer pursuing two major court cases against the Western Australian government: one to force the WA government to open its borders to the other states, and the other a claim for over $27b (potentially over $30b) of lost profits due to a WA government decision in 2012 to reject his proposal for a different mining project. more ...

Not everyone getting a fair chop with JobKeeper

Meat-workers working at the JBS Dinmore abattoirs are facing a grim and uncertain future as the plant readies itself for another 2-week shut down starting on 24th of this month. more ...

Renters organise eviction defence

On Wednesday, 12th August, the Renters and Housing Union (RAHU) held its first Eviction Defence forum. Speakers from Brisbane and Sydney shared ideas and experiences resisting eviction. A resident spoke from the public housing towers, which were placed into hard lock-down, and a presentation was given by a RAHU member on the political and economic position of landlords, real estate agents and renters. These efforts are part of the preparations for what is looking to be a very bleak October. more ...

Govt, plan to widen attack on democracy

(1965) The Federal Liberal Party’s call for a “White Paper on Communism” last week was strongly condemned by public figures in Sydney as a threat to all who actively oppose the government’s policies in south-east Asia and on national economic questions. more ...

Will Japan become Five Eyes’ “Sixth Eye”?

Wang Guangtao Japan’s prospects of becoming a member of the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing alliance have been hotly debated. With strategic competition between China and the US intensifying, the US is hoping to contain China in terms of intelligence and information. The “Five Eyes” is traditionally an intelligence-sharing alliance consisting of five “Anglo-Saxon” countries. It played a vital role in the confrontation between the US and the UK against the Soviet Union and other socialist countries during the Cold War. And yet today, Japan evokes memories of the deeply condemned Cold War by sending the message that it could possibly join this nefarious alliance. more ...

Israel continues bombing Gaza

Israeli jets continued their assault on Gaza this morning, (16th August) with the latest round of air strikes injuring at least six Palestinian civilians. more ...

Kamala Harris is not a “left radical” or a “Marxist”

Within moments of Joe Biden announcing Kamala Harris as his running mate, the Trump campaign and the American right-wing propaganda machine began portraying the California senator as a “far-left radical” of the “Marxist” variety. more ...