The Guardian • Issue #2119 • October 7, 2024
Issue #2119
A calculated step to war
The 940 kilogram ‘bunker-buster’ bombs that killed Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah have been applauded by US leaders and celebrated by Netanyahu. The murder has been...
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End Israel’s war
The Communist Party of Australia condemns Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people. For 76 years Israel has committed crimes against humanity and the world...
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EDITORIAL
It’s official, but not surprising: our two biggest supermarkets Coles and Woolworths have been deceiving customers through fake ‘sales.’ It’s a pretty simple trick; you...
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Curry night – Melbourne
Melbourne comrades enjoyed a curry afternoon and AFL Grand Final day, on 28 September 2024.
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Housing: speculators clean up
The controversy around Labor’s ‘Help to Buy’ Bill (see explainer below) has brought to the fore the question of capital tax gains concessions and negative...
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Bridges of Love – Perth
Australia Cuba Friendship Society Perth participated in the international campaign Bridges of Love on Sunday 29th September 2024 at Elizabeth Quay, Perth, Western Australia, with...
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DINGO
United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres has vented his frustration at the security council’s failure to end wars in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, and the Middle East....
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Australian capitalist crisis
A quiet desperation is gripping Australia’s bourgeois economists and political leaders. The economy, virtually flatlining, is about to be hit with the effects of a...
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Good news for sexual harassment victims
The union movement has welcomed the Senate’s passage of the government’s Costs Protection Bill, which will make it easier for victim-survivors of workplace sexual harassment...
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Indigenous health
More than a year after the release of Coroner Wilson’s findings regarding the deaths of three Aboriginal women in the remote Queensland town of Doomadgee,...
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The Battle for Cumberland Council
Local government elections have just been held across New South Wales and many seats remain undecided. The biggest controversy was the failure of the Liberal...
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The homeless are not just statistics
Geelong is a depressed city. Among its least affluent suburbs are two of the poorest in the country. It gets cold in the winter and...
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PEACE NOTES
That was the slogan of the Young Pioneers a scouts-like club in the socialist German Democratic Republic, also known as East Germany. Communists like to...
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LETTERS
Cesspits of misinfo Dear Comrade editor, I enjoyed Alex McKinnon’s article (23 September 2024) on the complexities of banning social media for kids. While I...
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Tenacity in these times
Like Roger Waters, other artists from different regions have joined the campaign to end the massacre, but their voices have been overshadowed Oni Acosta Llerena...
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CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Answers to crossword Guardian 23 Sept, #2117 Across: 3 Submarines (What cost tax payers hundreds of billions for no positive return) 4 Unipolar (International system...
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Chinese modernisation in the service of the people
China’s advances are almost universally slandered and slighted by our ‘democratic’ media, by ‘learned’ commentators and by bourgeois governments around the world. We’ve come to...
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Green development on the Yellow River
The Yellow River or Huang He feeds 12 per cent of China’s population, irrigates 15 per cent of arable land, and provides water to more...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
GERMANY: The co-leaders of the Greens, one of the three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholtz’s troubled coalition, are to step down after the latest in...
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Europe’s economic ‘existential challenge’
Marxists often speak of the crisis of capitalism. The European Union commissioned a report to look into the future of the European economy. Economist and...
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US Congress funds propaganda campaign
The US House of Representatives approved 25 anti-China laws in just one week in September this year. US website geopoliticaleconomy.com calls this “a clear sign...
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HALF OF THE SKY
It is school holidays where I live, and the usually quiet rural commuter bus has become a theatre of Gender War. On one route, a...
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Gaza: 12 months of terror
It is now 12 months since Israel’s blood-letting in Gaza began. That awful anniversary comes as Israeli bombs rain down on Lebanon. Every day since...
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