An official media response from a government can often be revealing about inner workings of the corridors of power; diplomatic silence, by contrast, can often be far more revealing.
Recent moves by the Japanese government to not deploy a US anti-missile system, for example, has met with blanket silence from both the Trump administration and Pentagon.

JULY 2020 VANGUARD EDITORIAL: The toppling of statues around the world representing colonialists and racists has received wide publicity in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement.

It is right that they come down. Statues of colonists, monarchs, and slave owners reflect the values of the ruling classes of the era in which they were erected. They are an affront to the people whose lands they had stolen, to ...

The appointment of Kirstjen Neilson to a Canberra-based position created to develop Australia's Cyber Security Strategy (CSS) is a worrying sign of strengthened US involvement in our parliamentary system.

Australia is trapped between two conflicting imperialist powers. On one side, subservience to the United States politically, militarily and economically in our role as regional representative of the interests of US imperialism. On the other, reliance on China as our biggest trading partner, a major export market for raw commodities, and the main supplier of manufactured goods in the global supply chain.

Stop War mongering; Settle border disputes through bi-lateral discussions! We don’t want another border war; People primarily want bread, shelter.

17 June 2020

A recent diplomatic stand-off between India and China has now included an added dimension with increased Indian naval activity in a sensitive area of the Indian Ocean, raising regional tensions and hostilities still further.

An economic assessment by the present Morrison coalition government in Canberra with projections of boosting GDP growth by an average of 3.5 per cent is not realistic under present trends.

In early June an announcement that the elite Five Eyes intelligence organisation composed of the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, had agreed to seek closer working relations 'and alliances with economic security emerging as a key strategic threat', revealed underlying problems. (1) All five countries have entered a period of prolonged economic crisis and decline.

The ruling class constantly discusses its tactics and refines its agenda in preparation for fresh attacks on the people.
Social, economic and climate crises are favoured moments for such reassessments. The Covid-19 pandemic has been one such crisis, with Morrison giving the green light to industry to “lead the way” out of the crisis with new policy frameworks designed to promote growth in the profitability of major foreign and local ...

Recent, reactionary comments from a successful scientist in my field have emphasised the continued relevance of Marx's contention that “ the weak points in the abstract materialism of natural science, a materialism that excludes history and its process, are at once evident from the abstract and ideological conceptions of its spokesmen, whenever they venture beyond the bounds of their own speciality. ”

A reader has sent us three questions.  Our responses required collective discussion with the Executive Committee of our Central Committee as there were details that are poorly remembered or were not personally experienced by some of us.  After all, the questions relate to matters that stretch back four decades. The first deals with China’s Gang of Four and our past and current views on this group. The second deals with ...

The International Coordiination of Revolutionary Parties and Organisations (ICOR) has released the following resolution on the world-wide Black Lives Matter movement. 

A reader has sent us three questions.  Our responses required collective discussion with the Executive Committee of our Central Committee as there were details that are poorly remembered or were not personally experienced by some of us.  After all, the questions relate to matters that stretch back four decades. The first deals with China’s Gang of Four and our past and current views on this group. The second deals with ...

In the wake of the coronavirus crisis, the Morrison government is taking desperate measures to restore the security and profits of the capitalist class and their foreign monopoly mates.

In the wake of the huge nationwide Black Lives Matter protests drawing together struggles here and internationally, we reprint an article published days after the inquest into David Dungay’s death in March 2019. David’s death, one of the 430-plus since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 30 years ago, was referred to at rallies around the country and has become a symbol of justice denied.

Residents of the Northern Territory should be in no doubt what the US-led wave of militarism across the Indo-Pacific means for their state and well-being. The NT is being pushed into a front-line position for real war scenarios across the region.
 

During the Covid-19 pandemic, it has become clear that frontline and public sector workers are essential to society. In fact, we know that workers in general are essential to society functioning. Without them how would the capitalist class get their profits and power? Each day since the crisis began, we have heard state and federal governments say that frontline and public sector workers are vital in getting us through this ...