The Guardian • Issue #2059 03-07-2023 • July 3, 2023
Issue #2059 03-07-2023
The Housing Crisis
After decades of State and Federal neoliberal housing policies, Australia faces an exploding housing crisis. The 26th June Anglicare report on the cost of living...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
Truth-teller must be freed
There are two important dates around now. Daniel Ellsberg died on 16th June this year, at the age of 92. Julian Assange turns 52 on...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
United around the world against the criminal US Blockade on Cuba!
The Communist Party of Australia condemns in the strongest possible terms the inclusion of Cuba in the US list of countries that sponsor terrorism. The...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
The corporate state
Taxpayers are funding an inefficient system of outsourcing, wasting billions of dollars, in a process riddled with conflicts of interest that results in massive private...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
(Far from) Abhorrent
When is it good for something to be abhorrent? When it’s the title of this amusing and inspiring zine produced by our comrades at the...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
Big Welcome for Anura Kumara Dissanayake
Wow what a welcome to Melbourne for Anura Kumara Dissanayake! Over 2000 members of Melbourne’s Sri Lankan community came to Deakin University’s Burwood campus to...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
Privatised, for-profit and punitive
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has officially launched a campaign to put an end to outsourced government employment services with the creation of...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
DINGO
The Retail Supply Chain Alliance – a coalition of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association, the Australian Workers’ Union, and the Transport Workers’ Union...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
Stranded in poverty
Hundreds of refugees, mostly Afghan and Sudanese, staged protests on World Refugee Day on 20th June in cities across Indonesia to demand resettlement after years...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
PEACE NOTES
Whose Artemis? Hannah Middleton More than 50 years after the first human stepped onto the lunar surface, the moon has become a strategic asset hosting...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
Slaughter House Juneteenth
Across the US multiple shootings marred the Juneteenth weekend, leaving thirteen dead and more than 100 wounded. In Chicago at least 70 people were shot,...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SRI LANKA: Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is accused in a report of tampering with police records in a bid to hamper investigations into mass graves...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
Brexit self-harm Dear Comrade Editor, Seven years ago a few currency speculators and hedge fund owners who knew they would make a lot of money,...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
Why they’re bastards
“Robbing a bank’s no crime compared to owning one.” Bertold Brecht Private banks exist to make fat profits. Social conscience does not generate profits. If...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
WEASEL WORDS
the job (getting on with) The Labor government doesn’t have time for empty talk, you’ll be surprised to hear. That’s because they are “getting on...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
Utopia
Communists have a hard time with the word “utopia.” We are often derided as “utopian” by people who dislike communism but don’t think about it...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg, once known as “the most dangerous man in America,” died on 16th June 2023 at the age of 92. In 1969 he was...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
Starbucks ditches Pride for profit
WASHINGTON: Somebody tell Starbucks’s bosses that June is Pride Month. They’ve gone in the other direction. An internal memo, leaked to Starbucks Workers United (SWU)...
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