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Profits first, ethics second: Foreign corporations financing Russian imperialism’s war of aggression

 

A report just released by three Ukrainian organisations has revealed the foreign corporations whose taxes on earnings in Russia are helping to fund Russian imperialism’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
Non-Russian companies are contributing to Russia’s war on Ukraine through the taxes they pay, the supply chains they support and the technology and training they provide. This report focuses on one specific angle: multinational company revenue and taxes associated with ...

more...- Posted on 2025 Jan 13

 

Greenland: The United States and its isolationist path

 

With the expansion of counter-hegemonic imperialist powers, Russia and most notably China, America is rapidly on the decline and racing to fascism as it tries to consolidate its position at the top of Imperialist domination especially against its enemies in the same market of exploitation.

more...- Posted on 2025 Jan 11

 

Book Review: Juice, by Tim Winton

 

Juice is set in a bleak future, severely damaged by climate change, ravaged by fire, heat and increasingly unreliable weather. The population is largely ground down, demoralised and compliant. Meanwhile, the environmental destroyers- ruthless, profiteering corporations, gangs and clans, hole up in luxury in heavily fortified citadels. 

more...- Posted on 2025 Jan 09

 

US Biden government's parting weapons "gift" to Israel and Australian government's silence.

 

In the dying days of the Biden Democrats government, a $12.9 billion (Australia currency) weapons package has been agreed to be sent to the Israeli Government. The weapons being sent include thousands of bombs, missiles and precision munitions. This is one of the largest weapons packages sent from the USA to Israel since 7 October 2023. The $12.9 billion has to be rubber stamped by Congress.

more...- Posted on 2025 Jan 06

 

Chinese aid to Cuba: Aid as imperialism is as old as imperialism itself.

 

The UK-based and revisionist-backed Friends of Socialist China website headlined an article, "China donates 70 tons of equipment to help Cuba restore its electric system."  

more...- Posted on 2025 Jan 04

 

South Korean instability a problem for US imperialism

 

While government investigators sift through piles of evidence for use by the South Korean Constitutional Court following the impeachment of President Yoon Suk-yeon, one outstanding matter will be his agenda for attempting to implement martial law in early December.

more...- Posted on 2025 Jan 04

 

2024 in Australian Agriculture

 

2024 saw billions of dollars worth of Australian farmland and agricultural businesses change hands in a market dominated by institutional buyers, overseas buyers and wealthy individuals.

more...- Posted on 2025 Jan 04

 

Our New Year’s resolution: Keep building the revolutionary movement!

 

The Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) gladly extends greetings and welcome to all our friends and supporters on the occasion of New Year’s Day, 2025.
The new year will undoubtedly see a further expansion of the scope of people’s struggle and a growing isolation of all imperialism and all reactionary forces.

more...- Posted on 2024 Dec 31

 

Worth Reading - "NIGHT OF POWER - The Betrayal of the Middle East"

 

Some people are fortunate enough to find time over the Christmas - New Year period to read a book. For those interested in the struggles in the Middle-East, the late Robert Fisk's book Night of Power - The Betrayal of the Middle East is well worth reading. It is well researched and covers the impact of the imperialist powers of USA, western Europe and Russia in the internal affairs of ...

more...- Posted on 2024 Dec 25

 

Building a New Socialist Society

 

Each year, hundreds of thousands of Chinese flock to Shaoshan in Hunan Province.  Shaoshan is the birthplace of Mao Zedong, and the family home still stands. People go there throughout the year to show their respect for Chairman Mao, with the two peak periods being Chinese New Year and today, December 26, Mao’s birthday.

more...- Posted on 2024 Dec 25

 

CPA (M-L) extends comradely greetings to the Communist Party of the Philippines

 

Warm congratulations on the occasion of the 56th anniversary of the founding of Communist Party of the Philippines, 26 December. The Communist Party of the Philippines is the leading force in the struggles of the Filipino working people against semi-feudalism, semi-colonialism, bureaucrat capitalism, imperialist domination and the violent puppet Marcus government.

more...- Posted on 2024 Dec 25

 

A Tale of Two Pities

 

Nothing says “hypocrisy” more than a Labor politician with words in his/her mouth.
On Monday, PM Albanese uttered certain memorable words in relation to Australian man Oscar Jenkins, captured by Russian imperialist troops in Ukraine.

more...- Posted on 2024 Dec 23

 

People's Health and Safety More Important Than Nuclear Power

 

A recent article in Vanguard pointed out that the USA is busy arranging port facilities in the Indo-Pacific region where it can re-stock its warships with missiles in the event of war with China. 
Australian ports are part of its plans. The USA already use at least one Australian port, in WA, to dock nuclear powered submarines for maintenance purposes. As part of AUKUS, the USA will also have its ...

more...- Posted on 2024 Dec 22

 

Communists in North and East Syria Prepare to Defend the Revolution

 

To encourage people in Melbourne to support today's rally in defence of Rojava (4pm at the State Library) we reproduce this report from the International Bulletin of the Marxist-Leninist Party/ Turkey and Kurdistan (MLKP).  

 

more...- Posted on 2024 Dec 20

 

The “three constantly read articles” should still be constantly read.

 

December 21 is the anniversary of Mao Zedong’s statement In Memory of Norman Bethune. 
It was written in 1939 after the Canadian doctor who had gone to China to treat soldiers wounded in the War of Resistance Against Japan, died of blood poisoning contracted from the wounds of a Communist Eighth Route Army soldier whom he had been treating.

more...- Posted on 2024 Dec 20

 

Re-loading missiles on ships: further integration of Australia into US war plans

 

A scramble appears under-way by the US to secure access to port facilities across the Indo-Pacific region for sensitive re-loading of armaments.

The stated diplomatic position follows revelations about how the US Defence Department has already authorised their naval vessels in September to use Australian facilities for re-loading with cruise missiles.

more...- Posted on 2024 Dec 18

 

Two new publications to promote study and guide practice

 

At our 16th Congress earlier this year, a proposal was made by a young comrade that a collection of writings by the CPA (M-L) be collated to introduce the theoretical basis guiding our policies to members and other interested people.
At the same time, the decision was taken to compile some of the essential writings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Mao Zedong to promote study and guide our practice.
Both ...

more...- Posted on 2024 Dec 15

 

After Trump’s election in the USA - ICOR stands ready for worldwide anti-fascist, anti-imperialist united front and socialism!

 

On November 6, 2024, Donald Trump won the presidential election in the USA and will move into the White House. This means that the USA, an imperialist great power and main warmonger in the world is headed by a president who from various perspectives, is described as ultra-reactionary, right-wing populist or fascist. This increases the danger of US imperialism, which has always started and waged wars and destroyed people and ...

more...- Posted on 2024 Dec 14

 

Union membership and workers’ struggle

 

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has just released a report on the percentage of workers in Australia who are members of a Union in August 2024. 
The Report said that 13.1% of workers were members of a Union in August 2024 compared with 12.5% of workers in August 2022. The increase in membership was due to an increase in public sector union members. 

more...- Posted on 2024 Dec 13

 

Oppose Israel’s plans to annex the Occupied West Bank!

 

An important message has been received from the DFLP urging widespread opposition to Israel’s plans to annex the West Bank.  The message is reprinted below.

 

more...- Posted on 2024 Dec 12

 

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