The Guardian • Issue #2174 • December 8, 2025
Issue #2174
2026: Rights! Peace! Justice!
In 2025 a significant shift in international relations included the growing movement amongst the global south away from the US and former colonisers. A number...
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EDITORIAL
This last issue of Guardian, the Workers’ Weekly for 2025 comes to you on the edge of the ‘silly season,’ a time when everyone is...
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Problems with Labor’s new nature laws
The Greens have agreed to back the Labor government’s legislation rewriting the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act and ending a five-year struggle to supposedly...
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Anti-women Westpac
Westpac – one of the big four banks – wants Australians to believe they are serious about gender equality. They talk about “gender strategies” and...
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For a new year of justice
2025 is leaving us with an enormous toll the peoples of the world are feeling as a result of genocide and the Zionist attacks on...
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DINGO
The Community and Public Sector Union calls reports of potential significant cuts to Australian Public Service agency budgets “extremely concerning.” The Albanese government was re-elected...
Read moreDisgraceful celebration
What do you think would be the reaction if a family fun day was held to celebrate the 7 October Al Aqsa Breakout? We’re not...
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2025: From ban to blockade
The year 2025 will be remembered not as the year global capitalism stabilised, but as the year its grand, democratic facades crumbled revealing a desperate,...
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No ban on the Communist Party of Poland!
On 1 December members of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) protested outside the Polish Embassy in Canberra against the attempt to ban the Communist...
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Queensland: teachers strike for safety
On 25 November 2025, state school teacher members of the Queensland Teachers’ Union (QTU) staged a 24-hour statewide strike across Queensland. This was the second...
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Ecocide in Gaza and Ukraine
Ecocide, the deliberate destruction of the natural environment during conflicts, should be an international crime. Advocacy groups, such as the Global Youth Statement, have called...
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GREEN NOTES
In the aftermath of COP 30 in Belem, Brazil this November it is worth considering the plight of the Guarani community in Bolivia. Climate conferences...
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Interview with Mr Molina
CPA National President Vinnie Molina was recently interviewed by the Global Times as part of a series of interviews with experts from around the world...
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Marxian Economics – A new Japanese Tradition
Marxism has a strong focus on local concrete conditions. It follows that there are many ways to apply the insights of Maxism to many different...
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CROSSWORD
We went through a years worth of Guardian, the Workers’ Weekly for our clues. Answers will be provided in the first issue of 2026, but...
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Leg Glance
Travis Head walked out to open the batting for Australia’s second innings in the first test of the Ashes series in Perth. It seemed surreal...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
BRAZIL: President Lula da Silva has announced the creation of two new higher education institutions – the Federal Indigenous University (UNIND) and the Federal University...
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WEASEL WORDS
Affinity If you feel an affinity, you feel a connection with a person or group of people. The weaselly use is that you don’t have...
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Palestine: the victim has been found guilty
The West is at it again – led by the US with the spineless backing of the other members of the UN security council, Palestine...
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Marcelo Puente, Otra día amanece: The Book of Songs
Lovers of Nueva Cançion, the revolutionary Latin American song movement born in the 1960’s, will embrace this book, a collection of stories and lyrics that...
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Canada detains 95-year-old Jewish scholar travelling to Palestine tribunal
Despite talk of a “ceasefire” in Gaza, Israel continues its deadly work against the Palestinian people, with continued support from its Western allies. Since the...
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