The Guardian • Issue #2073 • October 9, 2023
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On 14th October vote and write YES!
For the last 4 months since launching a week of action in July, the CPA has actively campaigned for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
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Not alright
In arguing for a YES vote for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, we are arguing change. People who oppose the Voice sometimes say that the...
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Terrorist attack on Cuban embassy: statement in solidarity
The Communist Party of Australia condemns in the strongest possible terms the latest terrorist attack on the Cuban Embassy in Washington DC. The attack on...
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Working future? – Cancel AUKUS
Last month the Labor government released its white paper on employment, Working Future (WF). Its stated objective is “sustained and inclusive full employment.” It has...
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Campus-wide strike at Melbourne Uni
National Tertiary Education Union members at the University of Melbourne have launched an unprecedented one-week, campus-wide strike. In a significant escalation of industrial action, all...
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DINGO
Karl Marx exposed the real meaning of “free trade” in 1848. “What is free trade under the present condition of society?” he asked. “It is...
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South Australia Inghams picket
CPA members in Adelaide attended the recent United Workers Union (UWU) picket against Inghams chicken. The workers at the Adelaide worksite are almost entirely migrant...
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I’ve seen so much history
I was just 17 when the ’67 referendum gave us the right to exist and to be counted in the place we’d always called home....
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PEACE NOTES
Hannah Middleton With the escalating development of space warfare facilities in Australia, as part of the AUKUS deal, it is useful to look at how...
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Manifesto of the Communist Party, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Progress Publishers Moscow, 1977 The lasting beauty of this little book is that ever since...
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Australia-Canada – 30 years behind?
At a time when Australia is intensely debating constitutional recognition of Indigenous people, it is interesting to look at Canada. They wrote recognition of Aboriginal...
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Ideological warriors buckle on their anti-China armour
What prompted Greg Sheridan was a Chinese Communist Party reshuffle. This, in The Australian’s opinion, raises “many questions but few answers as China’s leader embarks...
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‘Dictator Dan’ – An Ode to a Slogan
Premier of an Australian State: Victoria – in the land of mates. Dictator Dan, he held sway! Nine years on Spring St – he had...
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‘The Fate of Food’ by Amanda Little
Is new technology the solution to feeding the world? In The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World Amanda Little...
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‘1000 Days of Revolution’
Following the violent coup d’état in Chile on 11th September 1973, members of the Communist Party of Chile (CPC) escaped and later wrote on the...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
POLAND: Close to a million people took part in what was called the ‘March of a Million Hearts’ in Warsaw last Sunday. The action was...
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‘Endless Holocausts: US Imperialism as the Highest Stage of Capitalism’ by David M Smith
Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire by David M Smith is an encyclopaedic overview of the atrocities and the...
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Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom history book launch
South Australia: “AUKUS – Nonsensical and may not even come to fruition!” This authoritative observation, made at the recent WILPF history book launch, was greeted...
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WEASEL WORDS
The centre Simply the half-way point of something, or the job description of a sportsperson who plays near there; ‘the centre’ enters weaseldom when used...
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Crucial role of UN
The main threat to peace comes from a raging US imperialism, which has made clear in words and actions that it has no need for...
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