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The Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) has officially affiliated to the International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organisations (ICOR). The decision to affiliate was debated and approved by the 15th National Party Congress held in June earlier this year.
The 15th Congress of the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) was recently concluded. The Congress began with the circulation of documents to all members and some close supporters.
Greetings to all for 2019 - a year of expanding class struggle and political advances for the revolutionary working class.
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Big multinationals still dodging tax
Latest figures from the Australian Tax Office (ATO) show that big multinational corporations are continuing to evade their obligations to pay tax on their Australian earnings. They have been doing this for many years, but the ATO has only made data available since the 2013-14 financial year.
Papua New Guinea assessing options as regional tensions grow
An increased aid budget from Canberra to PNG together with a further loan, has highlighted the continued importance of the South Pacific country for Australia. In recent years, however, the neo-colonial relationship has become tense and problematic; Canberra can no longer take their hold over PNG for granted.
The domestic situation in Australia is characterised by growing distrust of the main parliamentary parties, and by increasing repression and secrecy on the part of the Morrison government. The economy is sluggish at best and increasing numbers of workers are faced by no wage growth and by long-term precarious employment. ...
China, the US, the S-W Pacific and “critical mineral” projects
It is always important to monitor how decision-makers in Canberra and the business classes think.
A recent briefing paper about the South-west Pacific, for example, followed an almost set pattern of pushing the US-led Cold War agenda by highlighting the rise of China and attempting to formulate superficial hypothetical military ...
Anti-Adani activists at a rally on Thursday night told representatives of German Siemens AG, the largest manufacturing company in Europe, not to facilitate the Adani coal mine project.
A large crowd carrying placards denouncing Siemens’ involvement in the project gathered outside Luna Park in Sydney where delegates to a rail ...
Korea, Guam and Manus Island: US adjusts to manage its declining power
The speed by which the Pentagon demanded a major South Korean (Republic of Korea) media outlet retract a statement that the US was considering a troop withdrawal from the country has shown sensitivities surrounding issues on the Korean peninsula.
US imperialism has long had its troops stationed in the ROK ...
Most organised workers do not need reminding about the levels of dishonesty within business circles, or how downright deceit and trickery can be accompanied with glib terminology about 'best business practice'.
A recent parliamentary submission by the Australian Industry Group (AIG), however, has revealed new levels of dishonesty, with the ...
When the USSR collapsed in the late 1980s, there was one superpower remaining, the USA. Not for long though. Fast forward to 2019 and there are now two superpowers, the USA and China. One is in decline and one is rising.
Recently we published an article on the political economy of Uber and the gig economy by Marxist historian Humphrey McQueen. A couple of days ago, the Victorian/Tasmanian branch of the Transport Workers Union supported Uber Eats and Deliveroo drivers when they rallied outside Deliveroo HQ in Melbourne to demand the ...
(Australia is burning. Please check https://www.facebook.com/StrikeClimate/ or other sources for local information on events planned for Friday November 29 – Editors.)
Urgent questions face the workers of Australia. We have seen our defensive organisations, the unions, lose much of their freedom of action. We have seen rising unemployment disguised as precarious work: work that is irregular, at the whim of the employer, and often coupled with spurious “self-contractor” arrangements that deprive ...
The Victoria Cross (VC) has a long and bloody history. It was created by the British Monarch, Queen Victoria in 1856 and first awarded on 26 June 1857. The initial purpose was said to commemorate acts of bravery during the Crimean War, but it was primarily an act of propaganda. ...
Recently, at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Defense Ministers’ Meeting-Plus in Bangkok, Thailand, which was held last week, Australian ‘Defense’ Minister Linda Reynolds met with her counterpart, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, and pledged to provide greater support for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), though the so-called “Enhanced ...
As protests against the police murder of young Warlpiri man, Kumanjayi Walker spread, Warlpiri Elders have reminded us all of three other mass violations of human rights inflicted on First Nations.
The first is the ongoing massacre of First Peoples, like Kumanjayi Walker, in custody. Whether by deliberate or casual ...
Warlpiri lead from strength in Country and culture after Kumanjayi Walker’s murder
Over four hundred First Peoples have died in custody since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Every commission recommendation is routinely ignored.
Why then has the death of Warlpiri man Kumanjayi Walker ignited such a big response that a policeman has been charged with murder for the first ...
Organisations and parties active in the fight against fascist Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria/Rojava have honoured two females comrades recently killed by the invaders.
The Marxist-Leninist Party of Turkey/Kurdistan wrote: Comrades Ceren Güneş of DKP (B) and Aynur Ada of DKP-BÖG fell martyr in the great resistance against the invasion ...
Protests erupt across the country over Kumanjayi Walker murder
Just days before 19-year-old Warlpiri man Kumanjayi Walker was murdered in Yuendumu, Kurnai, Gunditjmara, Wiradjuri, and Yorta Yorta writer Nayuka Gorrie spoke about deaths in custody on Q&A, “It’s not just racism and white supremacy. It’s wanting to disappear Indigenous people and for our sovereignty not to be upheld.
Bourgeoisie only has one answer to effective dissent: repression
We are witnessing an upsurge of popular action around the world.
In 2011, there were the massive actions of the Arab Spring. In the decade since, there have been the Occupy, Me Too and Black Lives Matter movements originating in the US. The French workers created the Yellow Vests ...
The Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) condemns the US-instigated coup that has forced the resignation of democratically-elected Indigenous Bolivian President Evo Morales.
Morales and other senior leaders of his government have been forced to flee the country. Mexico has provided them with asylum and protection.