The Guardian • Issue #2128 • December 9, 2024
Issue #2128
2024: The people, united …
As the year draws to a close, 2024 can be considered as a period of growing struggle world-wide against the voracious dominance of capital, grappling...
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EDITORIAL
It’s easy to be despondent about 2025, as we go into the holiday season. Trump will be US president next year. It’s quite possible Australia...
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For a 2025 without genocide
People around the world live in horror as witnesses to ongoing genocide in Gaza for the past 14 long months. Zionism has exposed to the...
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Asbestos Victims Association – SA memorial ceremony
On Friday 29 November a Victims Memorial Ceremony honouring the victims of Asbestos-related illness, was held in Pitman Park Salisbury South Australia. The event was...
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CPA Melbourne/Naarm branch holds successful school
Over the last weekend in November, comrades gathered at Kathleen Syme Library to increase their knowledge and practice of Marxism-Leninism. The school provided a constructive...
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‘Same job, same pay’ call from Woolies workers
More than 1500 warehouse workers across three distribution centres in Victoria and one in NSW have walked off the job on 2 December and will...
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DINGO
In 1834 the six Tolpuddle Martyrs were transported from Britain to Australia for the ‘crime’ of attempting to form a trade union. However, the idea...
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Future Fund – Dirty and deadly
Treasurer Jim Chalmers stirred the Coalition pot when he announced changes to the Future Fund (FF) with its current nest egg of more than $230...
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Sunshine Coast Branch holds AGM
The Sunshine Coast Queensland Branch of the Communist Party of Australia held its Annual General Meeting on Saturday 30 November. It has been a great...
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Victoria: VCE debacle
Over 50,000 students attempted the Victorian Certificate of Education year 12 exams this year. Supervising them is an important task for the Victorian Curriculum and...
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A look back at Eureka
In 1954, the 100th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade, the Communist Party of Australia published a portfolio of lino prints commemorating the event. The introduction...
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Marles, missiles and a Canadian alliance
Australian Minister for Defence, Richard Marles, has shown yet again that he will spare no effort in preparing Australia for war. It doesn’t faze him...
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GREEN NOTES
As the year draws to a close, corporations and their compliant governments are taking humanity closer to self-destruction. Developing countries went to the COP29 UN...
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LETTERS
On Cuba Dear Guardian Editor, Thank you for your coverage of Cuba. I went on the Southern Cross Brigade at the end of last year....
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On Cuba: Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle
On Cuba is a great introduction to modern Cuba and the problems it currently faces. Having taught Cuban history at university level, I recommend it...
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Cuba and Trump
How do the Cuban people view the re-election of Donald Trump as US President, and what does a second Trump administration mean for US-Cuba relations?...
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Trump and the coming economic crisis
A damoclean sword hangs over the head of the global economy. Its name is Trump. The president-elect’s economic policies of trade war, tariffs, and protectionism...
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COP 29’s – $300 billion insult!
The 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 29) was held from 11 to 22 November 2024. Its aim was to meet the Paris Agreement...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
ANGOLA: With less than two months to go before he is out of office, US President Joe Biden visited Angola from 2-4 December. “This is...
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Who are the Syrian Jihadist Rebels?
On 27 November, Jihadists attacked Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city. Hundreds have been killed and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said...
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Poetry for the many
No one puts their children in a boat, unless the water is safer than the land. No one would choose days and nights in the...
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WEASEL WORDS
Competent Some regular words become weaselly when they’re just what you have to say even when you know they’re not true. Former Coalition frontbencher Karen...
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The Lebanese ceasefire and the ongoing nightmare for Palestine
News of a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel captured headlines and raised hopes that the destruction of Lebanon might be coming to an end. Whether...
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