The Guardian • Issue #2178 • February 9, 2026
Issue #2178
Fire season: Albanese adds petrol
Australia is breaking records, but not the sort to be proud of. Some parts of Australia recorded their highest temperatures ever this January. South Australia’s...
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EDITORIAL
We hear a lot about bigotry and prejudice now. Antisemitism is seldom out of the news. Islamophobia has been given a boost recently by our...
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Attorney-General’s double talk on hate speech
Responding to a complaint about the recently enacted ‘prohibited hate groups’ regime, attorney general Michelle Rowland confirmed to the Australian National Imams Council (ANIC) that...
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DINGO
Australian public school teachers are spending more than $175 million of their own money each year on basic classroom supplies, exposing the personal impact of...
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Australian brutality exposed in Perth
The attempted terror attack on the Invasion Day rally in Boorloo (Perth) has laid bare the racism at the heart of Australian media and politics....
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CPA Joint Plenary Session in NSW
On 31 January, the first of a planned quarterly series of plenary sessions in NSW was conducted between the NSW State Committee and the Branch...
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EV loans leave lower income Australians behind
Rewiring Australia, an organisation dedicated to promoting electrification as a way of reducing Australia’s carbon emissions has warned that new discounted loans for electrical vehicle...
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GREEN NOTES
Israel is sometimes portrayed as a global leader in large-scale seawater desalination, but its projects have created significant environmental problems, mainly along the country’s coastal...
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Venezuela: The cost of challenging an Empire
Hosted by Guardian, the Workers’ Weekly under the coordination of comrade MC and the Canberra Branch of the CPA, we were pleased to have filmmakers...
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Interview: Rodrigo Acuña and Nic Ford
What makes two first-time film makers chronicle Venezuela’s challenge to the US empire? Guardian editor Floyd Kermode sat down with film makers Rodrigo Acuña and...
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Iron Lung
Potential viewers of Iron Lung may be discouraged to learn that the film’s first-time director, Mark Fischbach also known as Markiplier, is a YouTuber. I...
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Worth Streaming: Alaska Daily
Alaska Daily stars Hilary Swank as Eileen Fitzgerald, a disgraced New York journalist hired by a small newspaper in Anchorage, Alaska. The series is based...
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World mourns Michael Parenti
Born in 1933 in New York City to a working-class Italian American family, Michael Parenti often said that his political commitments were grounded not in...
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Vale Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti, Phd, economist, prolific author, and unyielding educator whose orthodox Marxist-Leninist analyses illuminated the hidden workings of imperialist power for generations, died on the...
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Parenti’s work: A sampler
Callum K and C Bartholomew Blackshirts and Reds: Michael Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds remains his most popular and unyielding work. It frames the rise of...
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Workers’ Unity in Pakistan
I had the greatest pleasure of spending time amongst comrades from Mazdoor Kisaan Party (MKP), Lahore, this January. MKP comrades organised a seminar at very...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
PALESTINE: The Foreign Press Association expressed disappointment after Israel’s Supreme court postponed a ruling on a petition seeking free media access to Gaza. Journalists have...
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Greenland’s Inuit caught between Denmark and the USA
Recent protests and public campaigns in Copenhagen and Nuuk (Greenland’s capital), show Greenlanders are standing up against United States aggression, resenting the prospect of their...
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ICE still arresting Native Americans
Under US law Native Americans hold dual citizenship. They are US citizens under the Indian Citizenship Act (1924). Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not...
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WEASEL WORDS
Terrorism The Weasel Word of the week. We all know what terrorism is, but senior figures in the US Trump administration have redefined it while...
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CPA stands in solidarity with socialist Cuba!
The Central Committee condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent attacks by the Trump regime on Cuba, calling a so-called “national emergency” to designate...
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