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Meat…the worker!
The following statement from a meat worker was posted to the reddit internet platform. We are reposting it because it is a powerful statement about the class structure of capitalist Australia. The general resides in the particular: this one workers’ awakening is true of many workers whose next step is to find and join the revolutionary party of the working class – eds.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 14
On the death of Dr G.N. Saibaba, fighter for freedom.
The Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) joins comrades around the word in mourning the death of Comrade Dr. G. N. Saibaba, an outstanding fighter for the liberation of the Indian people.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 13
A voice from the women of Gaza
The following statement was presented at a webinar of the International Anti-Imperialist and Anti-Fascist United Front last night. There were 88 participants from 23 countries. Ours was one of the participating organisations. First speaker was Comrade Fouad Baker from the Foreign Office of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The author of the following statement, from Gaza, could not, of course, attend in person – eds.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 13
US imperialism strengthens grip on class and state power in the Philippines
Controversy surrounding members of the Duterte family in the Philippines has raised serious considerations about their longer-term viability as a political dynasty. The former president, Rodrigo Duterte, would appear to have lost much of his support and faces an uncertain future. The resurgent Marcos oligarchy, backed by the US, has returned the Philippines to its past Cold War diplomatic status as a compliant participant for 'US interests'. What the outcome ...
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 11
IPAN Conference 2024: Sleepwalking into War
The Independent and Peaceful Australia Network's (IPAN) 2024 conference took place in Perth on October 4-6. The conference, titled Sleepwalking into War, focussed on combatting the increasing subservience of the Australian political class to the military, political, and economic demands on the United States of America.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 08
Retired military leaders – “Climate, not China, is Australia’s main threat”
A group led mainly by retired military personnel has just released a new report that says climate change is the “greatest security threat to Australia and to societies around the world”.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 08
Would Albanese call Pemulwuy a “terrorist”?
Monday 7th October 2024 was the anniversary of the Palestinian Hamas attack on Israeli settlers just north of Gaza. These armed attacks by Hamas were called the acts of a "terrorist organization" by Albanese and his government, echoing the words of the USA President Biden and many other western countries.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 07
Defending the CFMEU in SA
Currently the Albo government and the Liberals (with the support of the ACTU) are rolling over to the employers and attempting to totally crush militant workers organisation, in this case the CFMEU. Through parliament they passed a bill giving extraordinary powers to stamping out strong worker organisations (CFMEU), workers’ right and conditions.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 06
Another Dairy Industry Casualty
In late September this year South Australian dairy processor Beston Global Foods was placed into administration, making it the thirteenth dairy processor to suffer the same fate since mid-2022.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 06
CPA (M-L) October 7 Statement
Power to the Palestinian National Liberation struggle!
People of the world unite and fight against Zionist Israel colonialism and US imperialism!
Condemn the Australian government complicity in the mass slaughter of people of Palestine and Lebanon!
Australia not so lucky country for migrant workers
Migrant workers have been coming to Australia since the earliest times since British colonialism first invaded the lands of First Nations people in the late 1700s. After the Second World War, new migrant workers from predominantly European countries were able to find full time jobs in government departments, large government projects or in factories in manufacturing industries.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 05
SA Ambo’s election shows workers want their unions to fight regardless of who holds office
The election of a new leader for the Ambulance Employees Association in South Australian reflects the desire of union members for their union to pursue their objectives free of any alignment with the Labor Party.
more...- Posted on 2024 Oct 03
Murdoch media’s blindness and indifference to the far-right
Two recent developments have shown just how obtuse so-called informed opinion and government departments have become when dealing with the resurgence of the far-right in Australia. Both developments reveal an intellectual blindness and indifference to violent political actors who seek to enforce their far-right ideologies upon civil society by targeting ethnic minorities, other vulnerable people and using terrorist strategies of tension. The problem is particularly important when assessed in the ...
more...- Posted on 2024 Sep 30
Workers' Struggle Goes Well Beyond "Protected Industrial Action"
Hardly a day goes by without workers somewhere in Australia taking "protected industrial action" to win unresolved claims from Enterprise Agreement negotiations with their immediate employer.
more...- Posted on 2024 Sep 27
Zionist genocide and its Nazi character
As of writing, Zionist genocidal escalation has rapidly increased its pace and has once again spread its industrialised killing of Palestinians to Lebanon. They have done this through a kind technique showing how truly advanced the Israeli Offense Force is at apartheid and genocide. The techniques used are villainous and could come out of a ridiculous over the top spy B movie.
more...- Posted on 2024 Sep 26
US, Japan and the Indo-Pacific Strategy
A big increase in Japan's defence budget can be regarded as a move by the Pentagon for allies to make substantial contributions for involvement in US-led military and security provision and the Indo-Pacific Strategy. Recent diplomatic hostility by Japan toward China, over an alleged incursion into airspace of strategic islands in the East China Sea, is best viewed in the context of the IPS as the basis of US regional ...
more...- Posted on 2024 Sep 24
"When we stand together as the working class, our victory is assured” — ‘Line in the Sand’ rally, Melbourne, 18 September.
More than just an option, defiance is our duty: we truly have a world to win. Construction Unions Dare Workers to Struggle
On Wednesday, over 50,000 construction union members walked off their worksites and onto the streets of the Melbourne CBD to mark the beginning of the ‘Line in the Sand’ fighting campaign led by the CFMEU, ETU, PPTEU and AMWU.
more...- Posted on 2024 Sep 21
All power to construction workers : CFMEU Sydney Rally
Around 7000 construction workers walked off the job in Sydney to rally against the ongoing fascistic 'administration' of their union.
more...- Posted on 2024 Sep 19
Book Review - BINA
Bina- First Nations Languages Old and New is a book everybody should read.
more...- Posted on 2024 Sep 18
Vietnam complicit in Zionist genocide
The international arms trade that helps sustain Israeli Zionism’s attempted genocide of Palestinians was recently revealed to have a surprising participant.
Surprising, that is, for the millions of people around the globe who actively campaigned for Vietnam’s defeat of US imperialism during the US War of Aggression Against Vietnam.
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