The US war with Iran has carried all the hallmarks of a military debacle: Iran's prolonged use of asymmetrical warfare techniques following US attacks in February appear to be successful. Vital energy supplies have been totally disrupted, with scarcity causing escalating prices for consumers who have been left to foot the bill for a Trump-led Cold War adventure in the Middle East. The US costs of the war are proving ...

Not content with selling out Australia’s defence and foreign policy to U.S. imperialism, federal and state governments are only too willing to sign us up to U.S. big tech. So much for sovereignty. In this third and final part we will examine how Australia’s so-called political leaders have continued their abject subservience to U.S. imperialist interests in their handling of AI, datacentres and big tech.

Every year Federal, State and Territory Governments announce their Budget expenditure for the coming financial year. Budget announcements by governments are preceded by lobbying from competing sectional interests of the capitalist class. The biggest corporations, many of them foreign owned, usually engage the most expensive lobbyists to present their case to governments. Small businesses which may influence voting patterns in marginal electorates, especially in an election year, still come a ...

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.” — Karl Marx
Marx wrote those words in 1845. Nearly two centuries later they remain an indictment not merely of philosophers, but of much of what today passes for the Left.

Australian dairy farmers are unhappy with Australian supermarkets, and with good reason.

On October 6, Australian data centre company Firmus launched its initial public offering (IPO) of shares for private investors, taking the privately-owned company into the public sphere.  It valued its shares at $A11 each, in what the Australian Financial Review called, on October 6, “hottest float headed to the ASX in more than two decades”. The company is hoping to raise $A7 billion from those buying its shares.

The announcement by the SA government of the three people to head its Royal Commission into AI provides some evidence of the political and economic direction that the Malinauskas government hopes it will take.

Around the world, revisionists claim that China remains a socialist country, that it cannot be imperialist, and proclaim it as the leader of an anti-hegemonic bloc opposing US imperialism. 
This has an undoubted influence on some on the Left who naturally and emphatically oppose US imperialism and cannot wait to see it defeated once and for all.

Eleven years ago, public outrage at large local and foreign corporations engaging in tax evasion or avoidance, legal or otherwise, compelled the Australian Taxation Office to release an annual list of the largest corporations and their taxes.
The lists are compiled from companies that have an annual income of $100 million or more, so it really represents only the tip of an iceberg if all companies were represented.

British imperialism announced two days ago that it was establishing its third space squadron capable of taking offensive and defensive space missions, according to Harv Symth, UK Chief of the Air Staff.

British imperialism’s decline as the power that once “ruled the waves” has been demonstrated by what the UK Daily Mail newspaper called “an extraordinarily protracted construction process” for its latest nuclear-powered attack submarine.

Among the many new books about AI that are coming out every week, I consider this book, written by two AI insiders, to be important because it stresses the need to look at AI from a class perspective. The authors urge us to look past the “doomsday” scenarios promoted by some people in the AI industry. 

On the International Day of Peace and National Day of Action people from many walks of life and organisations across the country called for scrapping AUKUS and ending the US alliance, declaring that for the ordinary people there’s No Peace without Justice.

The proposed public float of Australian data centre company Firmus in late October is symptomatic of the speculative capital being drawn to the expansion of data centres.

Our comrades in the Nepal Communist Party (Mashal) have issued a statement which refers to a possible Australian involvement in the mining of uranium in Nepal’s Mustang region. At this stage, no Australian company has been positively identified as planning to become involved, but the possibility certainly exists. In 2025, Australia was one of the original seven signatories to the US State Department’s Pax Silica focused on securing supply chains ...

On Sunday 20 September over 300 people gathered at the Workers' Memorial at the Black Diamond Corner at Port Adelaide as part of International Day of Peace actions against AUKUS across all States and Territories capitals and major regional centres such as Port Kembla as well.

The upcoming visit of Xi Jinping to the United States, where he will meet and have talks with US President Trump, will see both imperialist powers trying to gain advantages over the other.

A CPA (M-L) discussion paper sent to the 13th Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star this September has been published on the Media & Archives/Booklets drop down menu on our website. It can also be accessed here: cpa+28m-l29+paper+for+red+star+13th+congress.pdf
The Red Star comrades asked us to address the question of a paradigm shift in the balance of power between the imperialist states.
The paper identifies the main ...

Commentary about the recent Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) has tended to highlight the seemingly dysfunctional nature of the organisation without focussing upon the underlying causal factors of the problems arising. To do so would publicise some highly questionable US-led diplomatic and foreign policy positions with implications for Canberra. Highly strategically placed in a sensitive geo-political region, the PIF countries are increasingly being drawn into super-power diplomatic rivalry; they have, however, ...

On the 54th Anniversary of the imposition of martial law in the Philippines, around 50 gathered in Sydney, before an anti-Aukus, pro-Palestine rally.