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 ...

Regrettably, self-defence preparation is a necessity due to the existence of capitalism.  This is because in order for capitalism to expand, one capitalist must procure resources that another capitalist also wants to get hold of. Inevitably this leads to wars. One capitalist kills many, as the saying goes – as well as populations of innocent people.

The Philosopher in the Valley. Alex Karp, Palantir and the Rise of the Surveillance State is written by Michael Steinberger, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. The book tells the story of the rise of the software company Palantir and its co-founder and CEO, Alex Karp. 

With many years of being sold out by Labor governments more teachers and parents know that they must rely on their own united mass struggle on the ground, not on parliamentary parties.

Trump’s illegal war on Iran is hurting Australia’s farmers, workers and consumers. Australia’s farmers are facing shortages of petrol and diesel fuel in many rural areas at a time when they are normally getting ready to sow this season’s grain crops.

The foreign takeover of Australia’s farmland, water and the supply chain linking farmers to consumers continues.

US imperialism is the greatest enemy of the world’s peoples. We hail the heroic Iranian people in their struggle to defeat it. A second enemy, acting in concert with US imperialism, is Israeli Zionism. Netanyahu and others in the Zionist leadership are openly committed to the goal of Greater Israel, which includes expansion into and occupation of parts or all of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait. 

We have received news of the death of a respected Chinese proletarian revolutionary, Comrade Zheng Huilin, and have sent his comrades our condolences. We provide a brief introduction to Comrade Zheng and the keynote speech at his memorial service by Comrade Xiang Guanqi – eds.