Rallies are occurring around Australia to condemn US imperialism’s kidnapping of Venezuelan President Maduro. In Melbourne the rally was attended by 4-500 people who marched from the Flinders St Station to Parliament House. Speakers included the Blak Resistance Union and Palestinians. Shirley Winton, a member of the Australian Anti-AUKUS Coalition, made a copy of her speech available to us -eds.

The Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) unequivocably condemns the US kidnapping of Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife and their transfer to a gaol on US territory.
We also condemn Albanese, Wong and Marles, the most craven puppets of the US in Australia, who have failed to condemn the US actions. 

The horrific Bondi massacre unleashed a wave of ideological, political and organisational attacks on the Australian people. Such shock and grief shake people’s ability to think clearly. The vast majority of our people are potential allies, but they can be manipulated by fear and lack of knowledge by powerful imperialist warmongers and their local collaborators to blame the wrong people. 

"The New Cold War - How the Contest Between the US and China Will Shape Our Century" by Robin Niblett has an eye-catching cover picturing a potential handshake between the US and Chinese senior leaders against a background of the two countries' respective flags. 
It is an interesting book to read over the Christmas period, filled with plenty of facts about these two superpowers US and China.

In the year 2000, the Western Australian Liberal government, led by Premier Richard Court, sold off the state’s freight rail network. This act of privatisation marked yet another transfer of collectively built public infrastructure into private, capitalist hands—where it would be exploited not for social need, but for profit.

The CPA (M-L) has signed the following call to action in support of Venezuela. The call was issued by the International Coordiation of Revolutionary Parties and Organisations (ICOR). It was drafted by comrades of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Uruguay.

At the end of 2025, the CPA (M-L) sent the following meeting of solidarity and support to the Communist Party of the Philippines on the 57th anniversary of its re-establishment.

The Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) greets the New Year with expectations of rising people’s struggles against capitalist economic crisis, attacks on democratic rights and imperialist wars.

The present diplomatic stand-off between the US and Venezuela is about oil, and its availability at a steady price without undue fluctuations.

Further revelations about planning for AI data-centres in outer space have revealed a fierce power struggle for what is considered a potentially lucrative corporate sector business. It will remain outside the jurisdiction of law enforcement agencies; serious questions, therefore, arise including that of control: the space-based systems, potentially, will possess vast troves of data for the uses and abuses of power.

It is now six days since the December14 massacre of Jewish Australians at Bondi Beach.
The Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) condemns this event, acknowledges the grief of those affected, and offers its condolences to the Australian Jewish community.

When 42-year-old Ahmed al-Ahmed tackled and disarmed one of the two attackers at Bondi on Sunday evening it was not just an act of incredible bravery. His heroism also made an anti-Muslim backlash more difficult. 
But he was not the only one. Lifeguards and lifesavers, other first responders including police, ambos and firefighters, ran towards danger and set to work while others were fleeing. 

The ACTU web site "Australian Unions" opens with the inspiring words of "Strength In Numbers, Power in Solidarity, We Are Unstoppable".
It is followed by a quote from ACTU Secretary Sally McManus, "The Australian union movement has always worked towards big, important and permanent changes that benefit all workers."

On December 4, 2025, the Trump administration published its 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS).

The paper should be read by all: it is a manageable 32 pages.

It is a revealing document.  Although it does not refer to the decline of the US as a global hegemon, it is clearly articulating what needs to be done for the US to strengthen its choke-hold on the peoples and nations of the world. ...

US con artists Pete Hegseth (Minister for War) and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, meeting with Australian puppets Penny Wong and Richard Marles, have reiterated Trump’s assurances that AUKUS is “full steam ahead”.

Donald Trump's Make America Great Again is largely about trying to keep its spot as the world's biggest imperialist power on the economic front as well as military front.
On the economic front it is being outpaced by its main rival China.

On Monday December 8, a protest organised by Disrupt Arms Traders and supported by Qakers, IPAN-SA and Port Adelaide Community Opposing AUKUS (PACOA), targeted the offices of SA Defence and the SA Premier MalinAUKUS.

The dividing line between legitimate intelligence-gathering and the accumulation of vast troves of personal data accessed through questionable means has always been blurred. The problem now, however, is set to escalate, if recently announced plans are ever implemented: western intelligence services, and their associates, will be able to operate in a totally non-regulated and unaccountable manner. Further considerations also arise about spurious tax-payer funded research programs designed, specifically, for other ...

On Sunday 7 December about 1,000 people turned out to a rally and demonstration through the main street of Adelaide to continue their show of support for the Palestinian people.

On Saturday 29 November, 2025, Spirit of Eureka (Victoria) held a commemorative meeting for the anniversaries of the Eureka Stockade rebellion and the sacking of the Whitlam government.
The meeting was held at the premises of the Victorian branch of the Maritime Union of Australia. Speakers at the meeting were Gary Foley representing Indigenous Liberation, Sarah Baarini representing Palestine Liberation, Dave Ball from the MUA and Shirley Winton from Spirit ...