The Guardian • Issue #2169 • November 3, 2025
Issue #2169
October Revolution spirit lives
Since this edition of the Guardian – the Workers’ Weekly marks both the Party’s 105th anniversary and the 1917 October Revolution in Russia, we mark...
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EDITORIAL
Australia mostly doesn’t get sanctioned. There’s a few politicians who can’t get visas to go to Israel, but that doesn’t affect the rest of us....
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Quote of the Week
“We’ve already contributed a billion dollars to your industrial base; there’ll be a billion dollars on its way before Christmas … we want to uplift...
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CPA 105 years
30 October this year marked the 105th anniversary of the foundation of the Communist Party of Australia. It was an historic event and signalled the...
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Support for Palestine – Adelaide
Support for Palestine is more needed than ever before. CPA comrades at the State Conference in Adelaide showed up at the rally on 26 October...
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Getting ready for Congress: State Conference/AGM updates
If a state has more than one Communist Party Branch, the Branches have a state conference in the lead-up to the National Conference. This year,...
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DINGO
Did you ever write to an MP or a Senator and get an oily answer back very quickly? If so, you’ll be aware that these...
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Red October
Red October, our Party’s celebration of its 105th Anniversary was a great success. The Canberra Branch organised a meeting featuring fraternal guests as well as...
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Letter to Whitlam
In 1975, Peter Symon, the General Secretary of the Socialist Party of Australia wrote to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam about Australia’s foreign policy. As it’s...
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Whitlam replies
(Editor’s note: in his reply to Peter Symon’s letter (see Letter to Whitlam), Whitlam talks about foreign military bases on Australian soil, the rights of...
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What’s happening with rare earths?
Western imperialism, aka the ‘rules-based order,’ is supply chain dependent on its strategic rival China. This is the context for the recently announced increase in...
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PEACE NOTES
Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 has been awarded amidst overwhelming criticism to María Corina Machado, who among other things has called...
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Manifesto to the workers of Australia
The Communist Party of Australia was formed on 30 October 1920 – just 105 years ago. On 24 December 1920, the new Party published this...
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The Fascist Offensive: And the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism
This book, also published as ‘Against Fascism and War,’ is a series of speeches from August 1935 delivered at the Seventh World Congress of the...
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How are you? It’s Alan (Partridge)
“There is more mental health than there used to be” says Alan Partridge at the beginning of his latest outing. There’s more Partridge than there...
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Solutions to Crossword
Guardian 7 October 2025 #2168 Across 3 TREATY – Victoria has one 7 INTERVISION – Soviet alternative to Eurovision, recently revived 8 TARGET – Albanese’s is not...
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‘Did I scare ya?’ A look at Australian horror movies
The history of Australian horror movies is a fascinating journey, mirroring the nation’s cultural evolution, from colonial anxieties to a unique brand of modern terror....
Read moreFar-right anti-immigration riots in Dublin condemned
Following allegations of a sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl by a 26-year-old Arabic speaking man, large crowds gathered outside the International Protection Accommodation Services...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: US troops arrived in Trinidad and Tobago to conduct military exercises over several days. The first troops arrived aboard the destroyer USS...
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HALF THE SKY
It is often said that history is written by the victors. It should more accurately be said that history is written by male politicians and...
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The genocide will not end unless Palestinian leaders are free
Slowly, a full picture of the devastation of Gaza by Israel is becoming clear. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) released a report around...
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