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Who the Nationals serve
Vanguard has previously said that the National Party serves the interests of fossil fuel companies, miners and big graziers.
more...- Posted on 2025 Feb 12
Listen to people so as to improve mass work
In December 2022, the United States Study Centre of the University of Sydney released the results of a survey of Australian attitudes towards the “US-Australia Alliance”.
more...- Posted on 2025 Feb 12
US suspension of aid an "own goal"?
The decision by the Trump administration to temporarily suspend its foreign aid program has proved controversial. It has done little to convey an enlightened, planned, balanced and well-implemented foreign policy and diplomatic position. In fact, when viewed in the context of present Cold War diplomatic rivalry with China, the decision, might, justifiably, be viewed as a spectacular own goal, with serious implications for all US allies, including Australia in the ...
more...- Posted on 2025 Feb 11
China’s anti-socialist counter-revolution
A certain organisation has commented this week on what it calls “China’s socialist revolution”.
The comment is little more than a repeat of the revisionist CCP’s rewriting of its own history.
American Empire Is Past Its Prime
It is often said these days that while America (USA) is still the biggest imperialist power, that it is in decline.
A recent article in the online news service, Pearls and Irritations, provides some facts about the American empire's decline, The article is by Les Macdonald and was posted in Pearls and Irritations on February 9, 2025.
Richard Boyle case vindictive and intimidatory
Australian Tax Office whistle-blower Richard Boyle is in the South Australian District Court today for a call-over hearing.
Boyle lost his last chance to secure immunity from prosecution when the High Court refused his application for special leave to appeal last November, after two South Australian courts previously rejected his bid.
Unions say "Don't risk Dutton" but avoid issues of substance
On Tuesday 4 February, the ACTU held an online webinar for affiliated Unions to outline the ACTU's plan for the fast-approaching federal parliamentary elections. The webinar was run by ACTU Secretary Sally McManus and President Michelle O'Neill with support from State and Territory Secretaries.
Over 700 people joined the webinar from a diverse range of Unions covering workers from many different industries and backgrounds.
Let's Embrace the Gains of the Rojava Revolution! Let's Defend the Women‘s Revolution!
The Rojava Revolution is a fire of rebellion and a torch of hope for women in the Middle East, in the midst of the most aggressive, most slavish strongholds of patriarchy in the region based on oppressive, colonialist, fascist regimes and unbridled bourgeois patriarchal states. The Rojava Revolution, which also developed as a women's revolution, is the achievement of all the women of the world.
more...- Posted on 2025 Feb 02
Behind the scenes of the plan to deport Palestinians
The Trump plan to deport the Palestinian people from Gaza and the West Bank cannot be viewed in the same way as his rhetoric about purchasing Greenland from Denmark, merging Canada with the United States, or controlling the Panama Canal and the Gulf of Mexico. The plan to deport Palestinians is presented with high seriousness, and preparations for it are taking place behind the scenes to move the residents of ...
more...- Posted on 2025 Jan 30
For the defeat of the Burmese junta and a free and independent Burma!
Very little coverage is given to events in Burma (Myanmar) by the Australian mainstream media.
However, recent developments show the military regime is increasingly besieged by a coalition of anti-regime armed forces, and has to rely on Chinese interference to maintain itself in power.
Interoperability under US direction and control
The US has an obsession with the interoperability of its military equipment and that used by its allies. It is regarded as an important factor linking the Pentagon with far-flung countries in the Indo-Pacific region. Moves by Canberra, therefore, to assess the ability of various countries across the region to challenge China, if the situation arises, carry all the hallmarks of US-led fears about the threat to their traditional hegemonic ...
more...- Posted on 2025 Jan 28
Adelaide Survival Day: with the masses and against the masses.
The Adelaide Survival Day march was a resounding success.
This was despite an attempt by SA Labor Premier to dismiss discussion of the appropriateness of January 26 as “Australia Day” as “becoming ‘tired’, and that Australians should have a chance ‘to reflect on how lucky we are to live here’”.
Melbourne rallies around Invasion Day solidarity
A militant rally in the heart of Melbourne brought together a huge crowd of First Peoples and their allies in the on-going struggle against imperialist domination with all its colonial laws and other relics, and its racist oppression.
It was led and organised by the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance (WAR) with the theme “End colonialism – Smash imperialism”.
Sydney Invasion Day march against genocide
Voices quiet and roaring, young and old, female and male, marked the January 26 Invasion Day speeches in Sydney.
The younger generations are rising and organising They began threads echoed by others, that struggle must be every day of the year, not just one, that genocide continues. They spoke of intergenerational trauma, but say, ‘We’re still here!’
Survival Day demands decolonisation
Today on the 26th January 2025, in Butchulla country as well as across all of Australia, Survival day celebrations and ceremonies were held by Indigenous Australians and their allies.
more...- Posted on 2025 Jan 26
First Peoples will never give up, nor will their allies
2025 marks 25 years since a secretly developed Business Council of Australia (BCA) agenda was put into action. Noel Pearson – who rightly saw corporations as key drivers of Australia, but wrongly saw them as allies for First Peoples – was its spokesperson.
Beyond capitalism’s state apparatus for suppression (its jails, police, military, courts) and deception (its parliaments, media, cultural and education systems) the BCA embodied ruling class organisation.
Canberra airport guards fight for job security while overseas owned security contractors compete in "race to the bottom" at privatized airports
The Canberra Times reported in their 24 January newspaper that Canberra Airport aviation security guards were fighting for job security due to a change in airport security contract services from Certis Group to MSS.
more...- Posted on 2025 Jan 24
The cars that ate suburban streets
In the 1970s, there was an Australian made film "The Cars That Ate Paris", directed by Peter Weir, which was about the prime place of cars in lives of Australians in the fictional small town of Paris, and the unexpected impact of cars on communities.
Now in 2025, Australians living in capital cities in particular are battling the consequences of cars clogging urban streets.
Trump’s inauguration – continuing US imperialism’s decline
The US Presidential election was won by the Republican Party's Donald Trump. Trump's campaign was financially supported by key sections of the US ruling class including finance capital, arms industry, some sections of the fossil fuel and gas monopolies, and information technology.
more...- Posted on 2025 Jan 19
Woolworths and Coles face working-class backlash
Within the past two months, the retail companies Woolworths and Coles have both faced serious backlash in response to decisions made by the ruling boards of both entities. Late November and early December saw more than 1500 Woolworths warehouse staff in both New South Wales and Victoria go on strike, seeking better pay and safety conditions. Unsurprisingly, government-imposed administrators of the NSW CFMEU told corporations they “wouldn’t defend any worker ...
more...- Posted on 2025 Jan 16
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