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Benny Wenda: West Papua’s path to liberation
Our near neighbours, the heroic and long-suffering peoples of West Papua, are continuing their fight for liberation from the Indonesian colonising regime. Their struggle has our ongoing support. We are posting a statement from May by their leader Benny Wenda – eds.
more...- Posted on 2024 Jun 06
We swim in a toxic sea of capitalism. But we needn’t drown: Humphrey McQueen’s powerful new pamphlet on Capital launched
Marking our party’s 60th anniversary, Vanguard invited Marxist historian Humphrey McQueen to Sydney to lead a discussion of his new pamphlet, on Karl Marx’s ‘Capital’.
The pamphlet’s cover ‘invites job reps and community activists to share insights from Capital into how we are exploited, how nature is plundered and how to put an end to both.’
Veteran comrade Lindy Nolan introduced the discussion.
US company to design Osborne submarine shipyard
US company Kellogg Brown Root (KBR) has been selected to provide concept design services for the new nuclear powered submarine construction yard at Osborne in South Australia.
Profits from the deal will further enrich the pockets of wealthy US shareholders.
Protest Modi government’s genocidal killing of tribal peoples
Today, May 30, 2024, is a day of protest in India against the fascist Modi government’s war on tribal communities and fighters of the Communist Party of India (Maoist)’s Peoples Liberation Guerilla Army.
Since 1st January 2024, the Indian state has rapidly mobilised more and more paramilitary personnel into the 6 military camps established in the Abujmarh region of Chhattisgarh, a land-locked state in Central India, under a new Operation ...
US looks to drag Australia into space preparations for war with China
Brig. Gen. Anthony Mastalir, head of US Space Forces, Indo-Pacific, told a conference in Sydney yesterday, that the US is “working very closely with Australia” to develop the ability to crack a Chinese space-based defensive line designed to keep US forces at bay.
more...- Posted on 2024 May 28
May Day Talk 2024
We have had requests for the text of Shirley Winton’s speech at the Melbourne May Day event on May 5. Shirley was speaking on behalf of No AUKUS Victoria – eds.
more...- Posted on 2024 May 27
For peace and an end to inter-imperialist wars!
It has become a truism in contemporary politics that you cannot believe anything until you’ve heard it denied by a US spokesperson.
A case in point was last week’s denial by US General Stephen Sklenka at the National Press Club that Australia would automatically be dragged into any US war with China over Taiwan.
Freshwater sawfish: Iconic species threatened by capitalist development
Gina Rinehart should stop obsessing about destroying an unflattering portrait of herself byacclaimed Western Aranda artist Vincent Namatjira, and concentrate on how to stop destroying the Martuwarra Fitzroy River and the critically endangered freshwater sawfish!
more...- Posted on 2024 May 22
Free Georges Abdallah!
At the request of our French comrades, the CPA (M-L) has signed an appeal for the release of imprisoned Lebanese communist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (born 2 April 1951), the longest held prisoner in Europe.
more...- Posted on 2024 May 20
Book review: A View from the Horizon, Peter Duncan, Wakefield Press 2024
One evening in 1970, a tall, sandy-haired young man came down the stairs to the basement of the Adelaide Revolutionary Socialists building in Dequetteville Terrace, Kent Town. It was surprising to see him there as he was not a revolutionary but a well-known member of the Labor Party and of the pacifist-aligned Campaign for Peace in Vietnam.
more...- Posted on 2024 May 20
Albanese Government Facing Charges of "Supporting War Crimes"
Last week ALP Senator Fatima Payman broke ranks with the official Party line when she spoke up in the Senate against Israel's acts of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. She also defended the supporters of Palestinian people's struggle using the chant, "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free."
more...- Posted on 2024 May 18
Workers Take Action at Osborne Naval Base in South Australia
AMWU and CEPU members employed by the federal government's Australian Submarine Corporation (ASC) have been taking industrial action against ASC to win better pay and conditions.
more...- Posted on 2024 May 18
Ukraine: Comic actor, serious scenarios
Russian military advances in the Ukraine have been viewed with alarm in Kiev and the western backers of the Zelensky presidential administration. Ukraine is faced with a long, drawn out military struggle it is unlikely to win in a straightforward manner. The development has also been accompanied by a classic Cold War spy scandal as Zelensky seeks to consolidate a reliable power-base of support with declining popularity amongst many Ukrainians ...
more...- Posted on 2024 May 17
For the independence of Kanaky/New Caledonia: no to unfreezing the electorate! no to recolonization!
The events in New Caledonia, to which France has just sent some two thousand police, are both a legacy of French colonialism, and an extension of France’s alignment with the US imperialists against the growing influence of China in the region.
The US wants to strengthen France’s capacity to deny independence to the Kanaks, fearing that an independent Kanaky might seek closer ties with China.
The legacy of Soviet revisionism: the view from Russia today.
Our Party has good relations with several groups of comrades in Russia. We won’t identify the source of the following description of conditions in Russia because of the danger its authors are in under the rule of the Russian imperialist bourgeosie and Putin’s government. Unfortunately, there are some on the Left in Australia who praise Putin for his rivalry with US imperialism and the NATO bloc. There are no grounds ...
more...- Posted on 2024 May 13
Inflation hits Interest Rate Relief: The Crisis Grows!
Price inflation increased from October to March by 1.6% . That was after a drop in the previous 6 months which had government ministers and economists cheering and carrying on about a series of interest rate cuts coming right up.
On 7 May, the Reserve Bank swept those hopes aside and locked in the current rate, way higher interest rates than any in the last decade. Now talk is of ...
Rival imperialists and their Ukraine agendas
A huge US-led military assistance package for the Ukraine has left little ambiguity in what the Pentagon appears to have assessed as a viable option for prolonging hostilities.
more...- Posted on 2024 May 11
What is this economic crisis?
The capitalist economic system and US imperialist domination of Australia is very destructive for this country and the working class.
more...- Posted on 2024 May 11
Free Palestine rally leads Melbourne May Day march
Highlight of this year’s May Day in Melbourne was the extended march through the city streets led by Free Palestine supporters who had already marched up to Trades Hall from the usual Sunday rally at the State Library.
more...- Posted on 2024 May 07
Free Palestine Rally Puts University of Adelaide in Spotlight
On Sunday, 5 May, supporters of Palestinian peoples struggle against Zionist Israeli government and its imperialist backers once again rallied on steps of Parliament House in Adelaide.
more...- Posted on 2024 May 06
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