Two recent selections of people to fill significant roles reflect the continuing subservience of the Australian ruling class to the needs of the US empire.

Whilst it is difficult to follow events in any country at a distance, various statements are coming out of Iran, or about Iran by external commentators. 

On 26 January 2026, the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) greets First Peoples on the front line against invasion for 238 years.
Together we celebrate resistance, mourn losses and speak truth.

Australian historian Henry Reynolds latest book, "Looking from the North - Australian History from the Top Down" is a well-researched and eye-opening account of the struggles and working lives of Indigenous Australians in Northern Australia from the 1700s to the present day.
"Northern Australia" is described as the land mass above the Tropic of Capricorn.

This January 26th, the WA branch of the CPA(M-L) would like to turn to the ongoing and pervasive suffering of koolinga (children) on Noongar Boodja (Country). The ongoing incarceration and death in custody rates of Aboriginal people remains a national shame, 25 years after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. 

The following statement in defence of the Rojava region of north-east Syria is currently being signed by affiliates of the International Coordination of Revolutionary parties and Organisations (ICOR). Our Party has signed the statement. We urge any people able to attend today's rally outside Parliament House, Canberra, at noon, to do so - eds.

Statements from leading European sources have revealed the Trump administration has been relying upon flawed intelligence assessments to justify its claims on Greenland.

The Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) supports the right of the Iranian people to rebel against the country’s theocratic dictatorship. 
Their just struggle is occurring in a complicated environment with both US imperialism and Israeli Zionism fishing in troubled waters and trying to turn events to their own advantage. 

A Boss Class Agenda restricts the scope of claims put forward by unions in their struggle to win better outcomes for the workers. Above all, it imposes a legalistic struggle around EBA negotiations (bosses always want “trade-offs”) and court appearances, with strict rules governing any form of industrial action, strikes and sit-ins especially, and harsh penalties imposed by the capitalist state against unions, officials and even individual union members.

The landslide election victory by the ALP in the 2025 election has not seen any further changes to the Fair Work Act. 
The changes made during the ALP’s first term of office such as Same Job, Same Pay and Multi Employer Bargaining, Casual Conversion and minimal Delegates Rights clauses in Awards and Agreements have enabled some sections of the working class to become stronger in the workers’ ever-present struggle against ...

After years of public pressure, on November 28 the federal government passed new laws affecting the forest and woodland habitats of many threatened species. While some good will indeed come from this, the laws have already been widely criticized by environmental groups. 

The political brawl over Net Zero has found voice. The coalition turned away from targeting net zero carbon emissions in November. 
Now Barnaby Joyce and Matt Kanavan aren’t the only dogs barking at the renewable transition passing them by. The Coalition has joined the chorus of howling canines. 

Nearly 100 of the 124 writers invited to participate in this year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week have withdrawn in protest at the Adelaide Festival Board’s decision to cancel Australian Palestinian academic Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah’s appearance at the Week.

In 2025 the conservative Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey released the Fourth Edition of his book The Causes of War . The First Edition was released in 1973. The Causes of War analyses wars between nations from 1700 to the present day. 
The Fourth Edition can be found in most mainstream bookshops.

As a low flying police helicopter roared overhead for 45 minutes to silence Sydney’s rally for Venezuela on Sunday evening, ex-high school teacher, Spirit of Eureka’s Lindy Nolan, roared back. Part of nationwide snap rallies, right now Sydney is the sharp end of fascism’s rise.

Around one hundred people from Perth’s LGBTIQA+ communities, joined by trade unionists, socialists, and allies, assembled in Northbridge on Saturday afternoon for a rapid-response protest against the Northern Territory government’s latest attack on trans youth healthcare.

Rallies are occurring around Australia to condemn US imperialism’s kidnapping of Venezuelan President Maduro. In Melbourne the rally was attended by 4-500 people who marched from the Flinders St Station to Parliament House. Speakers included the Blak Resistance Union and Palestinians. Shirley Winton, a member of the Australian Anti-AUKUS Coalition, made a copy of her speech available to us -eds.

The Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) unequivocably condemns the US kidnapping of Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife and their transfer to a gaol on US territory.
We also condemn Albanese, Wong and Marles, the most craven puppets of the US in Australia, who have failed to condemn the US actions. 

The horrific Bondi massacre unleashed a wave of ideological, political and organisational attacks on the Australian people. Such shock and grief shake people’s ability to think clearly. The vast majority of our people are potential allies, but they can be manipulated by fear and lack of knowledge by powerful imperialist warmongers and their local collaborators to blame the wrong people. 

"The New Cold War - How the Contest Between the US and China Will Shape Our Century" by Robin Niblett has an eye-catching cover picturing a potential handshake between the US and Chinese senior leaders against a background of the two countries' respective flags. 
It is an interesting book to read over the Christmas period, filled with plenty of facts about these two superpowers US and China.