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CPA Policies

Mutual respect policy

INTRODUCTION The CPA opposes discrimination and harassment and is committed to creating an environment free from victimisation, intimidation, bullying or harassment. Among Party cadre there...

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Social Media

Social Media Guidelines for CPA comrades

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Youth

A progressive, healthy and capable youth are the basis of a sustainable socialist society, but Australian youth is facing increasing barriers to their aspirations after...

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Women

A socialist society aspires to enhancing the position of women in society, particularly those women who form part of the working class. Female workers make...

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Transport

Provision of adequate public transport to services to all communities is a social and environmental imperative. Private road transport is a major contributor to carbon...

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On trade unions

CPA members are active members of their trade unions and seek to play an active role in their union in the workplace and at all levels of the union.

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Temporary visa workers

Globalisation has brought about a massive restructuring of economies and new international divisions of labour. The global expansion of trade in commodities was followed by...

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US Imperialism in Asia

After World War II, British colonialism was replaced by US imperialism in Australia as the dominant economic, political and military power. Today, Australia’s military forces...

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Public sector

The public sector of the economy consists of all that is owned and run by government, including industrial enterprises, infrastructure and the services provided by...

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Military spending

Australia’s military spending is close to $30 billion per annum and set to rise in coming years to $40 billion. The Defence Minister claims Australia...

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Manufacturing industry

The Communist Party of Australia sees the development of the manufacturing sector as critical for the future development of the Australian economy and for the...

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Living wage

The Communist Party of Australia is committed to not only stopping the attacks on and erosion of the living standards of the Australian working class...

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LGBTQI rights

LGBTQI is an acronym referring to a group of identities that includes, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans/transgendered, queer and intersex people, encompassing other sexualities and gender...

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Internet

The Internet has become an integral part of Australian people’s lives. Since the beginning of the 21st century it has been steadily replacing television and...

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International solidarity

The Communist Party of Australia is internationalist in its outlook and considers international solidarity a duty. Capitalism is a globalised system of oppression and exploitation...

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Housing

Housing is a basic human right enshrined in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. In a modern, industrialised and relatively wealthy nation like Australia...

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Health

Universal access to medical care is fundamental to building a healthy socialist society. Medical expertise, medical institutions, and medical research are part of Australia’s social...

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Environment

A socialist society is a society that recognises humanity’s place in nature and lives with nature on the basis of sustainability. This means the provision...

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Employment

The right to employment is a basic human right. However, capitalism to survive keeps wages in competition creating and promoting unemployment. Capitalists are only interested...

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Education

The Communist Party of Australia supports an education system which promotes collective and democratic values, co-operation not individualism, equality not discrimination, multiculturalism not racism, and...

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Indigenous rights

In 2007, Operation Outreach involving 600 Australian Army soldiers was launched against Indigenous communities to implement the Howard Coalition Government’s Northern Territory Intervention policy. The...

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Mutual respect policy

INTRODUCTION The CPA opposes discrimination and harassment and is committed to creating an environment free from victimisation, intimidation, bullying or harassment. Among Party cadre there...

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CPA Statements

CPA congratulatory message 2024

CPA congratulatory message

The Communist Party of Australia conveys its warmest congratulations to comrade Anura Dissanayake Leader of the JVP and National People’s Power, NPP for his expected win in the presidential election held in Sri Lanka on Saturday 21st September 2024.

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CPA greeting to the TKP 14th National Congress 2024

CPA greeting to the TKP 14th National Congress

The Communist Party of Australia conveys its warmest greeting to the leadership and membership of the Communist Party of Turkey on holding its 14th National Congress on September 7-8, 2024.

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The CPA welcomes the election of Nicolás Maduro as president of Venezuela 2024

The CPA welcomes the election of Nicolás Maduro as president of Venezuela

In a recent meeting with Venezuelan Chargé d’affaires, His Excellency Luis Laya at the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Embassy in Canberra, we listened to his report on the election result that, as part of the democratic process, elected President Nicolás Maduro.

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Vale comrade Nguyen Phu Trong – Condolences 2024

Vale comrade Nguyen Phu Trong – Condolences

It is with great sorrow that we received the sad news of the passing of Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong, the General Secretary of the Communist...

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Statement in solidarity with Cuba 2024

Statement in solidarity with Cuba

No to Washington’s hypocrisy and misinformation

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CPA greeting to the XVII Congress of the PCOE 2024

CPA greeting to the XVII Congress of the PCOE

The Communist Party of Australia conveys its warmest greetings to the delegates of the Spanish Communist Workers’ Party (P.C.O.E) on the XVll National Congress to be held in the city of Seville on May 11, 2024.

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International Aid Workers  – including an Australian  – Killed in Israeli airstrike 2024

International Aid Workers – including an Australian – Killed in Israeli airstrike

The General Delegation of Palestine is shocked and grieved by reports that an Israeli airstrike killed four international humanitarian aid workers with the World Central Kitchen charity and their Palestinian driver after the group helped to deliver desperately-needed humanitarian aid to northern Gaza. One of the casualties has been identified as Australian aid-worker Ms Zomi Frankcom.

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Drop the charges! Repeal the NSW anti-protest laws 2024

Drop the charges! Repeal the NSW anti-protest laws

The Communist Party of Australia has followed the events that took place at Sydney’s Port Botany on Sunday 24 March in which 19 protestors were arrested and charged under the state’s draconian anti-protest laws. These laws are a disgrace and must be repealed.

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Open letter to Foreign Minister Penny Wong 2024

Open letter to Foreign Minister Penny Wong

Re: Urgent call to Act against genocide. Demand an enduring ceasefire and the recognition of an independent Palestinian state.

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CPA greeting to the 90th anniversary of the Iraqi Communist Party 2024

CPA greeting to the 90th anniversary of the Iraqi Communist Party

Read Fahmy General Secretary Iraqi Communist Party Dear Comrade, The Communist Party of Australia conveys its warm greetings to the members and leadership of the...

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Palestine and the ICJ’s interim decision and orders 2024

Palestine and the ICJ’s interim decision and orders

The Communist Party of Australia welcomes the International Court of Justice (ICJ) interim decision and orders, and sees them as a framework for activists to...

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Cuba – 65 years of victories! 2024

Cuba – 65 years of victories!

On 1st January 2024, the Cuban people will be celebrating 65 years of revolution. These have been 65 years of victories, sacrifice for their right...

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