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Geelong rally builds solidarity with Palestine, slams war industries
Building industry and parliamentary squabble over how best to exploit construction workers
Last week the extreme right wing think tank H.R. Nicholls Society held a conference in Melbourne. At the conference one of the Liberal Party leaders, Angus Taylor said if the Liberals won the next federal election in 2025 it would deregister the CFMEU as a way of controlling construction workers.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 27
Port Adelaide Community Opposes AUKUS
More than 120 residents of the Port Adelaide area attended a meeting yesterday, called by the Port Adelaide Community Opposes AUKUS (PACOA).
The meeting began with MC and local resident Eileen Darley introducing former WA Senator Jo Valentine by video link. Jo expressed solidarity from WA opponents of AUKUS and gave a detailed account of developments over there.
Fight Against Inequality Forum – 16 October 2024
We reprint a talk given by Shirley Winton at a public forum in Melbourne on 16 October, Fighting Inequality. Shirley's talk addressed military spending in Australia and the US Alliance.
Shirley spoke as a member of No AUKUS Coalition Vic and Independent and Peaceful Australia (Vic).
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 25
Support Rojava – condemn Erdogan’s attacks on the liberated region
With the world focussed on the continuing atrocity of Zionist Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the West Bank, and its aggression against Lebanon, the Turkish authorities have resumed intensive bombing of the mainly Kurdish stronghold of Rojava in neighbouring north-eastern Syria (NES).
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 25
The US, UK and the sufferings of the Chagos Islands
An intelligence-type assessment and report about the Indian Ocean region has revealed just how close Australia has been drawn into US-led regional military provision.
In early October the Starmer government in Westminster announced that Britain was ceding sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius; a new 99-year lease for Diego Garcia, however, was also part of the package thereby allowing the US to continue to use the island for its ...
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 25
Urgent Appeal from the DFLP
The CPA (M-L) has received an urgent request for assistance from the Foreign Office of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP). No doubt ways will be found to support this request. Smash Zionist aggression! – eds.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 24
Book Review: Nature, Culture and Inequality
Thomas Piketty, the author of Nature, Culture and Inequality is a French economist who specialises in the study of global inequality in its various forms. He was an editor of the World Inequality Report 2022 , issued by the World Inequality Database.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 21
Support for Palestinian people's struggle continues to grow.
The recent assassination of Palestinian leader Yahya Sinwar by the Israeli Defense Force has not dampened the spirits of the Palestinian people, nor the level of support across the world for the Palestinian people in their struggle against the Zionist Israeli regime and its imperialist backers.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 20
Meat…the worker!
The following statement from a meat worker was posted to the reddit internet platform. We are reposting it because it is a powerful statement about the class structure of capitalist Australia. The general resides in the particular: this one workers’ awakening is true of many workers whose next step is to find and join the revolutionary party of the working class – eds.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 14
On the death of Dr G.N. Saibaba, fighter for freedom.
The Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) joins comrades around the word in mourning the death of Comrade Dr. G. N. Saibaba, an outstanding fighter for the liberation of the Indian people.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 13
A voice from the women of Gaza
The following statement was presented at a webinar of the International Anti-Imperialist and Anti-Fascist United Front last night. There were 88 participants from 23 countries. Ours was one of the participating organisations. First speaker was Comrade Fouad Baker from the Foreign Office of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The author of the following statement, from Gaza, could not, of course, attend in person – eds.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 13
US imperialism strengthens grip on class and state power in the Philippines
Controversy surrounding members of the Duterte family in the Philippines has raised serious considerations about their longer-term viability as a political dynasty. The former president, Rodrigo Duterte, would appear to have lost much of his support and faces an uncertain future. The resurgent Marcos oligarchy, backed by the US, has returned the Philippines to its past Cold War diplomatic status as a compliant participant for 'US interests'. What the outcome ...
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 11
IPAN Conference 2024: Sleepwalking into War
The Independent and Peaceful Australia Network's (IPAN) 2024 conference took place in Perth on October 4-6. The conference, titled Sleepwalking into War, focussed on combatting the increasing subservience of the Australian political class to the military, political, and economic demands on the United States of America.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 08
Retired military leaders – “Climate, not China, is Australia’s main threat”
A group led mainly by retired military personnel has just released a new report that says climate change is the “greatest security threat to Australia and to societies around the world”.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 08
Would Albanese call Pemulwuy a “terrorist”?
Monday 7th October 2024 was the anniversary of the Palestinian Hamas attack on Israeli settlers just north of Gaza. These armed attacks by Hamas were called the acts of a "terrorist organization" by Albanese and his government, echoing the words of the USA President Biden and many other western countries.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 07
Defending the CFMEU in SA
Currently the Albo government and the Liberals (with the support of the ACTU) are rolling over to the employers and attempting to totally crush militant workers organisation, in this case the CFMEU. Through parliament they passed a bill giving extraordinary powers to stamping out strong worker organisations (CFMEU), workers’ right and conditions.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 06
Another Dairy Industry Casualty
In late September this year South Australian dairy processor Beston Global Foods was placed into administration, making it the thirteenth dairy processor to suffer the same fate since mid-2022.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 06
CPA (M-L) October 7 Statement
Power to the Palestinian National Liberation struggle!
People of the world unite and fight against Zionist Israel colonialism and US imperialism!
Condemn the Australian government complicity in the mass slaughter of people of Palestine and Lebanon!
Australia not so lucky country for migrant workers
Migrant workers have been coming to Australia since the earliest times since British colonialism first invaded the lands of First Nations people in the late 1700s. After the Second World War, new migrant workers from predominantly European countries were able to find full time jobs in government departments, large government projects or in factories in manufacturing industries.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 05
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