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Spring 2023

 


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Opposition to Zionism is not anti-Semitism.

 

Ever since international solidarity with the Palestinian resistance to Zionist aggression against Gaza emerged after October7, the Zionist lobby and its supporters have charged their opponents with anti-Semitism.

more...- Posted on 2023 Nov 26

 

The Factors of Production in Contemporary Australia

 

A recent Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) poll has revealed a large-scale reaction to the Australian corporate-led agenda of pushing their profits to the detriment of basic workers' rights and attempting to undermine and vandalise the Closing the Loopholes Bill passing through Canberra. The findings, together with other additional information, provide all trade-unionists with data to strengthen their bargaining power at all levels of industrial relations in workplaces across ...

more...- Posted on 2023 Nov 25

 

Zionist State Of Israel Always Dependent On Imperialist Powers

 

The theoretical founders of the political Zionist movement in Europe from the 1880s were well aware that their desire for a region in the world for exclusively Jewish people was dependent on the support of the imperialist powers. 

 

more...- Posted on 2023 Nov 25

 

Pilbara Train Drivers Take industrial Action Against BHP

 

About 400 train drivers in the Pilbara voted to take industrial action in pursuit of higher wages and better conditions. The train drivers transport iron ore from BHP owned mines to the coast for export to steel corporations in other countries, including China.

 

more...- Posted on 2023 Nov 22

 

Will US base new Typhon strike weapon in Australia?

 

According to a US report last Saturday, the US plans to deploy a new long-range missile launcher in the Indo-Pacific next year.
Known as Typhon, the land-based system is designed to launch Raytheon’s existing SM-6 missiles and Tomahawk cruise missiles to hit targets between the Precision Strike Missile’s (PrSM’s) planned 500-kilometer range and the 2,776-kilometer reach of the future Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW).

more...- Posted on 2023 Nov 21

 

How Secure Are Australia's Defence Bases?

 

There are many military bases in Australia. There are air force bases, army bases, navy bases, rocket and missile bases, signal bases and proof ranges and training bases. Since September 11, 2001 when Al Qaeda operatives used planes to target the twin towers in New York, security measures at defence bases and domestic and international airports have received more attention and resources from successive Australian Governments. 

more...- Posted on 2023 Nov 19

 

Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip continue (2006-2023)

 

The comrades at the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) have asked political parties everywhere to publicise their statement on Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip. We are more than happy to oblige - eds.

more...- Posted on 2023 Nov 17

 

Palestine will live!

 

The Palestinian people’s protracted struggle for self-determination and liberation is inspiring people the world over.   

Centuries of oppression, from slavery to Palestine today, show that the oppressed will resist, organise rebellions and revolutions for freedom, national liberation and class struggle.  

more...- Posted on 2023 Nov 16

 

Will AUKUS turn us into the world’s nuclear waste dump?

 

While Albo and Marles are confident that the US Congress will approve the sale of several second-hand nuclear-powered submarines to Australia, doubt remains in the US over the wisdom of the whole AUKUS arrangements.

more...- Posted on 2023 Nov 14

 

Book review - Missing the point: Alison Pennington's "Gen F'D"

 

To tread the dangerous path of summarising a book in one word, let’s settle on disappointing. If Pennington succeeded in one aspect, it is demonstrating just how void the mainstream Australian left is today, and how much farther we have to go before any of us can provide genuine explanation and battle against the current tumults. 

more...- Posted on 2023 Nov 14

 

Corporate management and the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship

 

A recent study of the views of Australians toward the economy has produced some interesting insights; a substantial section of the electorate has serious concerns about corporate management.

 

more...- Posted on 2023 Nov 13

 

Solidarity with the garment workers of Bangladesh

 

We have received a request from Bangladesh to support the struggles of garment workers. In the face of severe repression, including killings, they are demanding to be lifted above their poverty-level wages. According to Australian support group ActionAid, “the mainly women workers at the heart of the industry are routinely expected to work 12-to-16-hour days, six days a week in unsafe and exploitative working conditions.” Organisations such as Union Aid ...

more...- Posted on 2023 Nov 11

 

Albanese’s visit to China – a different China from the one Whitlam visited in 1973

 

Recently Prime Minister Albanese visited China and met with the Chinese Communist Party's leader Xi Jinping. Albanese and his government know they have a problem. Their political and military allegiance is with US imperialism and this has deepened through its commitment to AUKUS, nuclear submarines and an expansion of US military bases of one form or another in Australia. US imperialism's main target is China. The problem for Albanese and ...

more...- Posted on 2023 Nov 10

 

Bosses still out to undermine Awards in changing workforce

 

While the federal government in Canberra makes minor amendments and deals with opposition to their Closing the Loopholes Bill, some reports emerging about the changing composition of the Australian workforce have not raised concerns from the business-classes.  In fact, the business-classes have remained totally quiet about the massive growth of temporary work visas, which hinder security of longer-term, viable employment and permanent residency leading to citizenship status.

more...- Posted on 2023 Nov 06

 

Imperialism and the Israeli state condemned Palestinians to poverty.

 

In his book Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine , Jeff Halper provides readers with an insight into how imperialism and the Israeli state imposed their neo-liberal economic policies on the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) to impoverish the Palestinian people.

more...- Posted on 2023 Nov 05

 

Strength In Diversity - The Australian Working Class

 

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has recently released its Population By Country Of Birth Report for 2022. The Report recorded that the overseas-born people in Australia represented 29.5% of the total population. 

According to the Report, by international standards, Australia has a high proportion of overseas-born people. The USA has 15.3%, Canada has 21.3 % and France has 13.!%.

more...- Posted on 2023 Nov 03

 

For a United Front against Fossil Fuels and Feral Species

 

This week, dozens of fires have burned across Queensland. More homes have burned in the state than during the 2019–2020 Black Summer – 57 so far this year, compared to 49. 

more...- Posted on 2023 Nov 03

 

Support for Albanese, Wong and Marles declines, even within their own ranks

 

Within the governing Labor Party parliamentarians there are a range of views regarding the Palestinians struggle against Zionist state of Israel and its imperialist backers, led by the USA. 

Some in the ALP government such as Tony Bourke are more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause and are also worried about an election voter backlash in his western Sydney electorate. Others like Sue Lines from WA are strong supporters of the ...

more...- Posted on 2023 Nov 03

 

Microsoft buys into AUKUS and Australian surveillance industry

 

An announcement that Microsoft was planning joint operations with Australian security agencies has revealed higher level Cold War security provision with the military-industrial complex. It has also revealed even closer diplomatic links between Australia and the United States, and a further escalation of hostilities directed toward China across the Indo-Pacific region. While ostensibly concerned with cyber-related defence and security concerns, the move will affect every level of Australian society, directly ...

more...- Posted on 2023 Oct 30

 

Beware AUKUS expansion

 

US imperialism wants to expand AUKUS on several levels, neither of which contribute to global peace or to Australia as an independent and sovereign nation.

more...- Posted on 2023 Oct 29

 

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