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Free Palestine rally leads Melbourne May Day march

 

Highlight of this year’s May Day in Melbourne was the extended march through the city streets led by Free Palestine supporters who had already marched up to Trades Hall from the usual Sunday rally at the State Library.

more...- Posted on 2024 May 07

 

Free Palestine Rally Puts University of Adelaide in Spotlight

 

On Sunday, 5 May, supporters of Palestinian peoples struggle against Zionist Israeli government and its imperialist backers once again rallied on steps of Parliament House in Adelaide.

more...- Posted on 2024 May 06

 

How the Australian state machine breeds terrorism

 

In 2003, when Australia joined the US invasion of Iraq, Coalition politicians were obsessed with terrorist threats. 
They ignored the fact that imperialist war is terrorism at its worst. They ignored that Sadam Hussein was an enemy of Al Qaeda. They knew Iraq would become another wartime training ground for terrorists to overflow from the US war on Afghanistan declared just two years earlier, after 9/11.

more...- Posted on 2024 May 06

 

May Day rally in Adelaide – strength in diversity in action.

 

On Saturday 4 May, about 2000 people rallied at Tarntanya Warma (Elder Park) and in high spirits marched to Tarntanyangga (Victoria Square)

The rally and march was a "sea" of flags of different colours from the Aboriginal flag to many union flags to Palestinian flags, carried by unionists in their equally colourful union t-shirts.

more...- Posted on 2024 May 05

 

Organisation is the central aspect of the revolutionary question of arming the masses

 

There has been recent media coverage of the creation of a National Firearms Register with accompanying images of the destruction of firearms surrendered under the Permanent National Firearms Amnesty which began on 1 July 2022. Nearly 30,000 firearms and other weapons have been surrendered under the Amnesty. When these measures were first suggested, in 2018, we discussed the issue in the following article, which we thought it timely to reproduce ...

more...- Posted on 2024 May 03

 

May Day Solidarity - Victory for Palestine!

 

Palestinian Resistance Isolates Zionism and US imperialism
By Alice M.
Palestine’s fight for liberation is turning the US imperialist dominated world upside down.

 

more...- Posted on 2024 Apr 30

 

May Day – unite to lift the level of struggle

 

We are reprinting the font page of the paper Vanguard to be distributed free of charge at May Day rallies. The entire paper can be downloaded by clicking the link "Latest Publications" on the left hand side of our homepage. Our Party's statement follows:

 

more...- Posted on 2024 Apr 30

 

ICOR May Day statement

 

Our Party is an affiliate of the International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organisations (ICOR). The ICOR May Day statement was drafted by us and based onour own May Day statement which is the lead article on the hard copy of Vanguard which will be distributed at May Day rallies. We will post our statement tomorrow - eds.

more...- Posted on 2024 Apr 30

 

Civil defence and the imperialist agenda

 

The release of a report from a right-wing defence and security lobby organisation with strong links to the military-industrial complex was timed to coincide with the release of the government’s 2024 National Defence Strategy in Canberra. Military planners appear to be considering a return to civil defence provision along similar lines to that used in the previous Cold War. Sensitive military documents from the period, which were subsequently declassified, have ...

more...- Posted on 2024 Apr 28

 

Congratulating the DFLP on the success of its eighth national conference

 

We recently received the good news from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) about the successful conclusion of their eighth national conference. We immediately sent them the following congratulatory message for which Comrade Fouad Baker at the DFLP's Foreign Office has thanked us. A message of congratulations to the DFLP was also sent by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - eds.

 

more...- Posted on 2024 Apr 27

 

A workers’ party of a new type

 

If you ask people what comes to mind when you ask them the question "what political party, if any, do you support?" many people will say the Liberal Party or Nationals or Labor Party or the Greens or even "the Teals". An increasing number of people will say " None, they're all the same!"

 

more...- Posted on 2024 Apr 24

 

Before Sydney stabbings, capitalism’s cupboard was bare for mental health

 

The tattered remnants of public mental health care in NSW are held together by family members and volunteers. 
The week before six people were fatally stabbed in Bondi, and a mentally ill 16-year-old stabbed a priest, two Uniting Church psychiatric hospitals were closed in Sydney, because they were losing money.

more...- Posted on 2024 Apr 24

 

Productivity Commission wonks still pushing discredited economic rationalism

 

Commentary from right-wing economic figures about the failure of globalisation to provide sustainable growth have revealed their sense of denial about the main cause of the problem. 

Their failure to also provide a satisfactory explanation for the increasingly dysfunctional state of economic affairs has provided further insights into their peculiar mind-sets.

more...- Posted on 2024 Apr 23

 

Honour the Past, Fight for the Future

 

With May Day fast approaching, we reprint the editorial from the 8-page Vanguard newspaper that will be distributed at rallies and marches. It is free of charge, so look out for our distributors and take your own copy – eds.

On May Day, class conscious workers come together to express solidarity with comrades across the world in their struggles for liberation, peace, justice and a decent life.  

 

more...- Posted on 2024 Apr 23

 

Swissport CEO shows contempt for workers

 

Recently, Australia was graced by a visit from Warwick Brady, who is the President and CEO of Swissport, which is a giant Zurich-based airline ground handling company.

more...- Posted on 2024 Apr 23

 

Book Review: SLOW DOWN

 

Slow Down. How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth , by Kohei Saito is the second recently-released book which we are reviewing. Kohei Saito is a Marxist scholar and an associate professor at the University of Tokyo. He is a member of the MEGA project which aims to publish the complete works of Marx and Engels, including many works never previously published. 

more...- Posted on 2024 Apr 23

 

Book Review: VULTURE CAPITALISM

 

Vulture Capitalism. Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom by Grace Blakeley is the first of two recently-released books which we will be reviewing. Grace Blakely is a staff writer at the English magazine Tribune, and is a political and economic commentator for the BBC.

more...- Posted on 2024 Apr 23

 

ADSTAR: Info-wars and the military, Canberra, 2024

 

The organisers of the Australian Defence Science, Technology and Research (ADSTAR) summit in Canberra in September have already publicised their provisional agenda. Representatives of key US allies and defence and security partners are already registered to attend. One of the listed items has far-reaching implications for Cold War Australia; it is doubtful, however, that conference delegates will be discussing the item in the context of a recent US legal decision ...

more...- Posted on 2024 Apr 23

 

ACOSS survey and the need for a revolutionary class analysis

 

Everyday life is getting harder for the average person. This is disproportionately the case for First Nations people, Immigrants, Precarious workers and Pensioners, who are being impacted the hardest in these hard times. 
History continues to show us that under capitalism the poor stay poor while the rich get richer. Time and time again history continues to show us this fact. The fundamental issue in this is Class. 

more...- Posted on 2024 Apr 23

 

Rail workers strike for a living wage

 

Rail workers including suburban train drivers in Adelaide are taking strike action to win a 20% pay rise over four years. 

In their way stands multinational corporation Keolis Downer who operates the suburban train services under contract to the SA Government.

more...- Posted on 2024 Apr 20

 

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