The vast Micronesian area of the Indo-Pacific region is rapidly becoming a potential flashpoint in Cold War hostilities between the US and China. As China has emerged as a serious competitor, the traditional regional hegemonic position of the US has been challenged. The US has responded with defensive positions and preparations for 'real war scenarios'. A number of defence and security considerations pushed by the US have also been played-out ...

The Australian Army, Navy and Airforce – collectively the Australian Defence Force – constitute the core of the ruling class machinery of state.
Institutionally, they will never forego that role. They have been deployed time and again to serve the interests of whichever imperialism has the dominant position of influence within the Australian ruling class. At times they have been used to break strikes and deployed against the Australian working ...

US imperialism can act illegally, with impunity, in Australia aided and abetted by the national traitor class of politicians, public servants and their big business backers.
This is the only conclusion that can be drawn from the decision by the NT Government, and corresponding silence from Canberra, to exempt 11 massive US military fuel tanks built unlawfully on Darwin Harbour from needing occupancy certification.

The recent accepted invitation of a number of countries' heads of state (including Russia, North Korea and Iran) to China's commemoration of the defeat of Japan in China in 1945 and the huge military parade in Beijing has made headlines in all the mainstream capitalist media in Australia. 

We have been contacted by the Free German Youth and publish below a report on the activity of opponents of Rheinmetall, a German-based armaments manufacturer. Rheinmetall is the largest German and fifth largest European arms manufacturer. In 2023, 66% of Rheinmetall AG shares were held by institutional investors, 48 % of which came from North America. Rheinmetall is embedded in the supply of war materials to Australia, and is headquartered ...

The present manhunt for Dezi Bird Freeman, has once again, provided publicity about the so-called Sovereign Citizens movement. A recent Weekend Australian feature spread, for example, used nearly 300 hundred column centimetres about the movement, complete with factual errors and downright misleading information and disinformation. (1) But then, that was to be expected; the article, along with numerous others in mainstream media, did not address the real nature of the ...

High level diplomatic controversy surrounding the forthcoming Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in Honiara is best viewed in the context of rivalries taking place with the present Cold War.
The US imperialists are also experiencing serious diplomatic problems with a steadily changing balance of forces across the Pacific with far-reaching hegemonic considerations. Chinese social-imperialism is gaining leverage. Other players, likewise, have been hovering in the wings of the controversy, seeking to ...

On the initiative of the International Coordination of Revolutionary Organizations and Parties (ICOR), Section America, ICOR condemns the repression of the Panamanian government under José Raúl Mulino against the country's workers, especially those in the construction, education, and banana industries.

‘Never trust anyone over thirty.’ (1960-70s half-joking advice by some young US-influenced hippies and ‘left’ activists.)   
‘Oldies’, ‘fossils’ supposedly caused all the world’s problems.
Divide and conquer as a strategy, whether by race, gender, religion, class or age, has helped every ruling class in history to maintain its rule.

The violent Nazi attack on the First People's Camp Sovereignty following yesterday's racist March for "Australia", has been condemned by Victorian Senator Lidia Thorpe. We reprint her statement as an act of solidarity - eds.

The degree of the concentration of foreign ownership of the Australian dairy processing industry is about to intensify with the announcement by New Zealand-owned Fonterra that they are to sell their Australian operations to the giant French dairy company Lactalis in a $3.5 billion deal.

On the 24th August in a National Day of Action for Palestine, massive crowds of over 350,000 marched in Australian cities and regional towns, with growing demands for strong government action against Israel.

Proposals by the Pentagon to expand the defence and security provision of their Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS), have far-reaching implications for Australia. The hidden agenda behind the proposals is particularly revealing; if implemented, it is likely to foist a huge financial burden with increased diplomatic and military responsibilities upon Australia at the behest of the United States.

The meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, between Presidents Trump and Putin was a setback for the arrogant and boastful US leader.
It came just 9 days after a 10-day deadline for a ceasefire by the Russians, demanded by Trump, had expired without any cessation of hostilities.

This week the federal government held its Productivity Round Table talkfest in Canberra.

Various proposals are circulating in relation to the recognition of a Palestinian state.
On the one hand, the Australian government’s decision is a welcome break from the slavish following of US protection of Israel at the United Nations where the US has used its Security Council veto 49 times to block resolutions critical of Israel. That veto, together with billions of dollars of arms and cooperation between the US and ...

The Australian American Leadership Dialogue (AALD) currently meeting in Adelaide has brought two US congressmen to Australia to try and breathe life into the ailing AUKUS arrangements.
The AALD was established in 1992 by comprador capitalist Phil Scanlon as a “private diplomatic initiative” bringing together Australian and US leaders from a range of backgrounds.

Last week I went for a short walk along Seacliff Beach, one part of the unbroken stretch of suburban Adelaide beaches just kilometres form the CBD.
Every step of the way was littered with the washed-up bodies of dead marine life.

The Anti-labour Party administration is holding a Productivity gabfest in Canberra 19-21 August. Humphrey McQueen sets ‘productivity’ as a driver for the structured dynamics of how the exploitation of every wage-slave must be intensified if the rule of capital is to persist. 

Political controversy between the two major parties in Taiwan has carried all the hallmarks of classic US-led Cold War rivalries. The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which managed to form a minority government following presidential elections last year, has recently attempted to challenge the main opposition nationalist Kuomintang (KMT).