Hidden within recently announced US defence spending lies information about highly sensitive signals-intelligence (SIGINT) facilities focussed on the Pacific, using the military facilities of allies, including Australia and Japan. The information remains well hidden. The US remains preoccupied with the changing balance of forces already taking place across the Pacific. The vast region is regarded by the Pentagon as a potential theatre of war with China; the US, therefore, monitors ...

A combination of factors including controversy about cancelling the Chinese company Landbridge’s 99-year lease of Darwin Port, and yet another battle facing the Maritime Union of Australia, this time over automation and AI operation of the stevedoring work in DP World’s four Australian container terminals, has resulted in a call by our Party for the nationalisation of Australian ports.  A new publication on this topic is available here:  Nationlise+Australian+Ports.pdf

The Australia Institute, Michael West Media, and the recent parliamentary inquiry into the taxation of Australia's gas resources have put gas corporations under the microscope regarding how much wealth they extract from the country's natural resources. Together with the ACTU, they are arguing for a 25 percent gas tax on exports.

On May 1, more than 500,000 people demonstrated in Cuba in front of the U.S. Embassy against the oil embargo imposed by U.S. imperialism since January and handed over six million signatures demanding an end to the embargo—that is roughly two-thirds of the Cuban population.

In our previous article on this topic, we compared the different strategies of US imperialism and Chinese social-imperialism, one in decline and one on the rise, and in particular looked at Chinese investment in Peru’s port of Chancay. In Part 2, we will look at Chinese investments in other ports, including Darwin’s.

As the Philippines-based and US-led Exercise Balikaton military exercises take place, other related military planning behind the scenes has also become an important consideration.

Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto writing about the class struggle of workers under capitalism said, "Now and then the workers are victorious, but only for a time. The real fruit of their battles lies, not in the immediate result, but in the ever-expanding union of the workers."

A new Party publication addresses the political economy of finance capital. 

The closing of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran has exposed for millions of working people around the world to see the fragility of "globalization" and "global supply chains". US imperialism's Trump's decision to attack Iran militarily has been a case of lifting a rock only to drop it in their own feet.

It’s a story of two imperialisms. One, trying to stave off its decline, threatens to obliterate a nation’s bridges and power plants; the other, still rising, builds ports and infrastructure.

The recently released 2026 Australian National Defence Strategy continues the government’s blind acceptance of the US imperialist stranglehold on Australia at a time when that viewpoint is being increasingly rejected in favour of a more independent and peaceful foreign policy.

A Pentagon military plan to strengthen the top end of the First Island Chain has included increased reliance upon Japan. The present Takaichi government appears only too willing to oblige; couched in misleading diplomatic terminology; however, the new South-West foreign policy has a wider arc of influence than merely islands south-west of key strategic military facilities, which serve 'US interests'. The foreign policy position has, moreover, raised questions for Australia, ...

Two separate statements issued in the past couple of weeks underline the depth of the crisis that bourgeois governments face. The first came from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and its increased demand for austerity as the world heads toward global recession. The second came from the Australian government and its announcement of increasing military spending.

This year we remember Comrade Hugo Throssell, who fought at Gallipoli in 1915 and fought the rest of his life for freedom of the working class and an end to wars.

April 9, 1948, was the date of the massacre of Palestinians in the village of Deir Yassin in occupied Palestine by one of the Zionist Far Right extremist groups, LEHI ("Freedom Fighters for Israel"). LEHI was also known as the "Stern Gang" led by Yitzak Shamir who later became Prime Minister of Israel.

In the early hours of Wednesday 8th April, anti-war activists blocked the entrance to the BAE Systems building at Edinburgh, north of Adelaide/Tarntanya, to protest the company’s manufacture and supply of titanium parts for the F-35 bomber jets used by the Israeli and US militaries. The Edinburgh precinct is one of five locations owned by the global company in Adelaide.

In May this year the Fair Work Commission will hand down its National Wage Case Decision which will determine the minimum wage rates that will apply in Awards from July 2026. The ACTU on behalf of affiliated Unions has put in claim for 5% increase in the Awards rates of pay for all classifications. Various employer organizations have argued that the Commission should determine that there be no wage increases ...

Federal legislation against hate speech, driven by Zionist and anti-Palestinian advocacy groups, had one useful consequence with the laws prompting the National Socialist Network (NSN) to disband.

Aleks Krotoski is a psychologist, academic, broadcaster and journalist who has been reporting on technology for over 25 years. In her book The Immortalists -The Death of Death and the Race For Eternal Life she takes us into a world where what was once science fiction is becoming a reality.

Plans by the US to establish a large data centre in South Korea (ROK) have provided evidence of a diplomatic operation with spurious agendas. The timing of the operation is just one consideration. The ROK has an important geo-strategic position with US regional military and security provision, a great deal of which remains highly sensitive. An attempt by former president Yoon Suk-Yeol to stage a coup in late 2024, has ...