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AUKUS: “Full steam ahead” to nowhere?

 

US con artists Pete Hegseth (Minister for War) and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, meeting with Australian puppets Penny Wong and Richard Marles, have reiterated Trump’s assurances that AUKUS is “full steam ahead”.

more...- Posted on 2025 Dec 11

 

China winning the economic war with USA

 

Donald Trump's Make America Great Again is largely about trying to keep its spot as the world's biggest imperialist power on the economic front as well as military front.
On the economic front it is being outpaced by its main rival China.

more...- Posted on 2025 Dec 11

 

Snap SA protest targets arms manufacturers

 

On Monday December 8, a protest organised by Disrupt Arms Traders and supported by Qakers, IPAN-SA and Port Adelaide Community Opposing AUKUS (PACOA), targeted the offices of SA Defence and the SA Premier MalinAUKUS.

more...- Posted on 2025 Dec 10

 

Dangers in multinational corporations’ drive to establish Space-based data centres

 

The dividing line between legitimate intelligence-gathering and the accumulation of vast troves of personal data accessed through questionable means has always been blurred. The problem now, however, is set to escalate, if recently announced plans are ever implemented: western intelligence services, and their associates, will be able to operate in a totally non-regulated and unaccountable manner. Further considerations also arise about spurious tax-payer funded research programs designed, specifically, for other ...

more...- Posted on 2025 Dec 09

 

Palestinian people's struggle not forgotten

 

On Sunday 7 December about 1,000 people turned out to a rally and demonstration through the main street of Adelaide to continue their show of support for the Palestinian people.

more...- Posted on 2025 Dec 07

 

Talk at Eureka Rebellion Anniversary and 50 years since Gough Whitlam's dismissal commemorative meeting

 

On Saturday 29 November, 2025, Spirit of Eureka (Victoria) held a commemorative meeting for the anniversaries of the Eureka Stockade rebellion and the sacking of the Whitlam government.
The meeting was held at the premises of the Victorian branch of the Maritime Union of Australia. Speakers at the meeting were Gary Foley representing Indigenous Liberation, Sarah Baarini representing Palestine Liberation, Dave Ball from the MUA and Shirley Winton from Spirit ...

more...- Posted on 2025 Dec 04

 

8000 Rising Tide protesters enforce Newcastle Port shutdown

 

For three years, Rising Tide has brought thousands to Newcastle to blockade the world’s biggest coal loader. This year, over six days, 8000 people stood firm against police and government threats. They demanded the immediate cancellation of all new fossil fuel projects; a 78 percent fossil fuel tax to fund a just transition for workers in the fossil fuel sector and to pay for climate loss and damage; and an ...

more...- Posted on 2025 Dec 03

 

Adventurist Class War Rejecting the Working Class

 

There have been some activists putting forward adventurist strategies for direct action, for class war today.

more...- Posted on 2025 Dec 01

 

Farm Numbers Down - Farm Debt Up

 

The number of farm businesses in Australia has been falling for many years. In fact, since 1974, almost 100,000 farms have gone.

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 30

 

Criminalising Lenin - Putin’s attempts to stifle dissent

 

On 25 November2025, Russian state prosecutors surprised no-one by demanding 20 to 24 years in a high-security penal colony for the members of a Marxist study circle in the city of Ufa, accusing them of “terrorism” and “conspiracy to overthrow the government.”
 

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 30

 

Modern slavery contributes to Supercars championship profits

 

The last weekend of November has seen the Grand Final of the Repco Supercars Championship held in the Adelaide Street Circuit and Victoria Park which in a previous life was a horse racing track.
 The Supercars Championship event in Adelaide was the consolation prize when the Grand Prix moved to Melbourne several years ago.
The Supercars event in Adelaide is a popular event among local car racing enthusiasts. It also ...

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 30

 

Pegasus: US and Israel strengthen connections

 

The appointment of a top US spook to a high-level corporate position with an Israeli-based business entity has revealed far more than meets the eye of a casual observer. The US diplomatic relationship with Israel has many highly secretive links. The appointment has also shown the linkage between the military-industrial complex remains an important defence and security consideration; the former use business entities as front companies for a variety of ...

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 25

 

Japan’s new PM drives tension in our region

 

Less than a month after being sworn in as Japan’s new Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi has ratcheted up regional tensions by declaring that any Chinese attempt at reunification with Taiwan Province would be a "survival-threatening situation" for Japan, implying that Japan would need to intervene militarily on the side of Taiwan.

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 24

 

Book Review: Turbulence

 

The author Clinton Fernandes is Professor of International and Political Studies in the Future Operations Research Group at the University of New South Wales. He is the author of several books about Australia’s foreign relations. 

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 23

 

Book review: Empire of AI: the reckless race for total domination

 

Karen Hao is a journalist who has won awards for her coverage of the impacts of artificial intelligence on society. Her book Empire of AI. Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination tells the story of Open AI, the company founded in 2015 by Sam Altman, Elon Musk and others to develop what they called “artificial general intelligence.”

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 23

 

Building struggle around an independent working class agenda is the key

 

Journalists for the ruling class media are excited to have found internal dissension within another important union.
They are digging deep into the internal affairs of the United Workers Union amidst allegations of an official’s links to what they call an “electoral slush fund”.

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 20

 

Indian Maoists reject capitulation and surrender

 

Roughly three months ago, several leaders of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) issued a statement calling on their guerilla units to lay down their arms and accept a ceasefire with the Modi and several state governments.
Sonu, a member of the Central Committee and Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), and Satish, who is a member of the Dandakaranyam Special Zonal Committee (SZC), created a faction that ...

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 20

 

AUKUS prompts razor gang cuts to science and health

 

The Albanese government has been forced to announce electorally unpopular funding cuts to areas including science and health as it struggles to allocate resources to support commitments to fund AUKUS and related arms acquisitions.
AUKUS is estimated to require $368 billion over 30 years.  Broken down into a daily average that is just more than $30 million per day for 30 years.

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 19

 

Labor hire warehouse workers and government support service workers win through struggle

 

Labor hire warehouse workers and government support services workers such as cleaners, orderlies and food service workers have won significant wage increases and improvement in working conditions in 2025.
With the support of their Unions, workers have adopted the correct strategies and tactics appropriate to the specific conditions of their workplaces and industries to win.

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 19

 

Vale Ron Owens

 

On November 3, 2025, the working class lost an outstanding leader, and our Party lost an outstanding member.

 

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 14

 

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