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Dystopia and the Sacrosanct Elephant
There is a great deal written about the current lack of understanding in the general population regarding what is taking place nationally and within Australia. It is a case of an overload of misinformation that is driven by political and ideological persuasions in support of powerful economic interests.
more...- Posted on 2025 May 15
A very British coup? “They have spies, we have agents”
Moves to find a suitable replacement for the outgoing MI6 chief in London have revealed serious considerations at the very centre of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), which also has implications for the elite Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network.
more...- Posted on 2025 May 14
Workers Strike at PepsiCo's Snack Foods Factory - An Example of The Leading Class In Action
About 150 Workers at PepsiCo's Snack Foods factory in Adelaide have commenced a series of strikes involving production workers, store persons and trades workers. Members of three Unions - United Workers Union, AMWU and CEPU - have united to win a better deal in a new Enterprise Agreement.
more...- Posted on 2025 May 11
Celebrate the 80th anniversary of the defeat of fascism
Eighty years ago, victory was achieved in the War Against Fascism.
The day is celebrated on either May 8 or 9 depending on which side of the international date line a country was situated at the time of signing.
Farm ownership in Australia
The farm newspaper Weekly Times has just released the results of its annual survey of farm ownership in Australia. As always, these results make interesting reading.
more...- Posted on 2025 May 05
Quadrant: Keith Windschuttle and Australian culture wars
The passing of a former senior member of the Quadrant publication has provided a glimpse of how a section of the far-right managed to hide their political associations and masquerade under a mantle of respectability in order to influence public opinion. The group aimed primarily at influencing decision-makers inside the corridors of power, academia and other related bodies. A closer study of the group, however, would tend to portray them ...
more...- Posted on 2025 May 05
ALBANESE DEFINES LABOR PARTY - "MAINSTREAM" and "REFORMIST NOT REVOLUTIONARY"
In the last days before the federal election, Anthony Albanese made it clear publicly that the ALP was "mainstream" and "reformist" not "revolutionary".
more...- Posted on 2025 May 04
May Day Greetings from CPA (M-L)
On the occasion of the 2025 May Day, the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) greets our class, the working class of Australia, and all workers and oppressed peoples throughout the world.
more...- Posted on 2025 Apr 30
ICOR: 1 May 2025: All over the world, come out on our day – long live socialism!
On May Day, the International Day of Struggle of the working class, we reaffirm our ties and solidarity with all the exploited and oppressed.
more...- Posted on 2025 Apr 29
PROLETARIAN AND INTERNATIONALIST MAY DAY - Statement by Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Parties
Against the Imperialist War, Reaction, Fascism, Repression, Poverty and Oppression
Proletarians and Oppressed Peoples of the World, unite!
We Have Nothing to Lose But Our Chains and Have a World to Win!
NSW construction workers to march on May 1
As attacks on the CFMEU continue, NSW construction workers and allies including electrical, plumbing and maritime workers will march on May 1, International Workers Day.
more...- Posted on 2025 Apr 28
On May Day we celebrate First Peoples’ revolutionary potential
On May Day we celebrate not only workers, but also worldwide revolutionary struggles for national independence from imperialism and for socialism and communism. In Australia, the CPA(M-L) recognises none of these goals can be created without the full participation of First Peoples.
more...- Posted on 2025 Apr 28
The challenge of environmentalism in modern Australia
In the 21st century, the accelerating environmental crisis both in Australia and globally has sparked increased interest among the masses in advocating for environmental preservation and protection. Notable relevant groups in Australia include the Australian Conservation Foundation, Lock The Gate, and perhaps most prominently The Wilderness Society. Unfortunately, the environmental movement in Australia has been hindered by several key flaws.
more...- Posted on 2025 Apr 28
US economy is not shipshape! It’s shipless!
The tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on other countries' goods imported to the USA has turned the spotlight on the dependency of the US economy on imports and the weakness of its manufacturing industry.
The latest industry to receive attention from the mainstream financial papers exposing this weakness in the commercial ship building industry.
US trade war with China accelerates US imperialism's decline
The rising tariffs imposed by the Trump regime on its main rival China is arguably adding to US imperialism's decline not only economically but militarily. The financial pages of the capitalist press in Australia are quite informative on this matter.
more...- Posted on 2025 Apr 20
Exercise Cope Thunder 2025 and declining US regional influence
Those following the latest United States – Philippines military exercises might like to consider other related and highly relevant factors having serious implications for US-led diplomatic relations with the wider Indo-Pacific region. The US remains desperate to reassert their traditional hegemonic position in the region; evidence would tend to indicate their position, however, has already been eclipsed by China and countries diplomatically associated with Beijing.
more...- Posted on 2025 Apr 18
The Not-So Curious Incident of Low Wages Growth - Peetz report
A recent report by David Peetz, published by the Carmichael Centre (The Australia Institute), exposes the systemic exploitation of Australia’s working class under contemporary capitalism. It highlights stagnant wages despite rising productivity, declining union power, and employer control of labour markets. While Labor’s post-2022 reforms offer minor relief and concessions for workers, the report demonstrates the limits of reform and trade-unionism, which confirms the necessity for militant class struggle towards ...
more...- Posted on 2025 Apr 17
No weapons for Outer Space
When the revisionists and capitalist roaders in the USSR formally ended the socialist era and reverted to capitalism, the US imperialists rejoiced. They entered nearly two decades in which they were undoubtedly the world hegemon, a sole superpower, and were able to declare that their aim was to achieve “full spectrum domination”.
more...- Posted on 2025 Apr 15
Will US blackmail us over AUKUS?
Kites are being flown in the US about tying the sale of second-hand Virginia class nuclear-powered submarines to Australia’s stand on a conflict between China and its off-shore province of Taiwan.
more...- Posted on 2025 Apr 13
Fleurieu Peninsula marine deaths a sign of global warming’s existential dangers
South Australians are in the grip of a “canary in the coal mines” moment, although it is not a canary and it is not a coal mine.
In early March, suffers at the popular South Coast beaches of Waitpinga and Parsons reported suffering headaches, coughing, skin rashes and blurred vision, whilst the beaches themselves began to be littered with masses of dead marine life. A sludgy thick brown foam began ...
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