The Guardian • Issue #2067 • August 28, 2023
Stop AUKUS!
Labor’s war hawks succeeded in cementing AUKUS and the nuclear submarines and missiles that go with it in the party’s platform at its national conference...
Read moreWhen rent freezes over
Rent is in the news lately, for several reasons. There is a national housing crisis. The Albanese Labor government, always keen to be seen as...
Read moreStatement in solidarity with the Communist Party of Venezuela, PCV
The Communist Party of Australia has growing concerns at the increasing actions against the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) by the use of the judiciary...
Read moreDr John Patrick Berwick
John Berwick was born in 1951 in Sydney, His family was working class, and his Aboriginal father was a professional boxer. The eldest of six...
Read moreWage theft costing workers nearly $850m a year
A fresh analysis of wage theft by the McKell Institute has revealed Australian workers are being underpaid nearly $850 million a year, ripping more than...
Read moreDINGO
The increasing concentration of wealth and power among mega-corporations, facilitated in no small part by rigged rules of the global economy, is undermining democracy, economic...
Read moreALP Conference and the path to war
“If you’re pro-human rights, you need to be pro-AUKUS. If you’re pro-peace, you need to be pro-AUKUS. If you’re pro-advanced manufacturing, you need to be...
Read moreMore War Games
Australia has just hosted the Malabar Exercises which were held in Sydney and across the NSW south coast from 10th to 21st August. The naval...
Read moreMonopoly capital
As families struggle to put food on the table and keep up with rental and mortgage payments, profits are soaring. Inflation was running at six...
Read moreChina’s good momentum
The good momentum of China’s economic development is conducive to the economy of Australia and the world. Achieving modernisation is a dream that the Chinese...
Read moreGLOBAL BRIEFS
SPAIN: Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s candidate for the speaker of the Congress of Deputies won the vote for the position in Sanchez’s first trial in...
Read moreMarx and Robinson Crusoe: British Imperialism and the slave trade
Marxist literary criticism explains a literary work, a novel, through an analysis of the human-social relationships which reflect the economic base of the story, rather...
Read moreWEASEL WORDS
Nuclear energy Wait a minute, nuclear is just a thing, isn’t it? How can that be a weasel word? Nuclear energy is a way of...
Read moreGET RAUKUS NO AUKUS
The above slogan resounded on the streets of South Brisbane as the ALP conference came to town. The plans of Antony Albanese and Richard Marles...
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