The Guardian • Issue #2203 • August 24, 2026
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Communists call on international peace movement to mobilise to stop AUKUS
The Communist Party of Australia, Communist Party of Britain and Communist Party USA held a trilateral meeting during the 24th International Meeting of Communist &...
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EDITORIAL
That was Shadow Housing minister Andrew Bragg’s answer to the question of whether low-income earners should accept substandard housing so that developers would have an...
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Lives outsourced
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) says that although the Albanese government announced changes to employment services that give public servants a greater role,...
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Statement from the Communist Party of Australia delegation
Theme: ‘Defending and honouring the legacy of the Cuban Revolution on the centenary of Fidel’s birth; deepening solidarity with socialist Cuba; strengthening our joint actions;...
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Victorian teachers’ dispute update
Members of the Australian Education Union (AEU) have voted to accept the state government’s 10 August revised Victorian government Schools Agreement offer, with further improvements...
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DINGO
Rights groups have accused Israel of carrying out a massive operation to crush, mix, and transport millions of tonnes of rubble out of the Gaza...
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CPA condemns attack on retail union
The Communist Party of Australia opposes the Associations Incorporation Reform Amendment Bill 2026. Introduced by the Victorian Labor government, this bill is an unjustifiable attack...
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Victoria: Labor moves against RAFFWU
Guardian the Workers’ Weekly spoke to Loukas Kakogiannis, secretary of the Retail and Fast Food Workers’ Union (RAFFWU) about the legislation the Carroll Labor government...
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Analysis
Victorian Labor have introduced a bill, the Associations Incorporation Reform Amendment Bill 2026, which sets out a pathway for forcibly ending the operations of unregistered...
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ADF whistleblower McBride released: what now?
Australian whistleblower and former ADF legal officer David McBride has been released on parole after serving the full non-parole period of his unprecedented five-year and...
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Queensland rolls back equality
References to gender equality have been removed from the Queensland Office for Women’s website. This includes important parts such as the government’s mission for a...
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Brisbane transgender rights protest
In early July some comrades and I went to the Transgender Rights Counter-Protest in Brisbane, where over 1,000 people showed up to protest One Nation...
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NDIS Bill slammed
The NDIS bill has passed the Senate after Labor made a deal with the Coalition. The bill is designed to cut costs by reducing budgets...
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PEACE NOTES
The Public Inquiry met in Sydney on 10 August in the NSW Parliament. The meeting was preceded by an anti-AUKUS demonstration organised by the Sydney...
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Final Declaration of the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties
‘Defending and honouring the legacy of the Cuban Revolution on the centenary of Fidel’s birth and consolidating solidarity with socialist Cuba; strengthening joint actions and...
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100 Years of Fidel
Fidel’s centenary arrives as Cuba weathers perhaps the most severe external assault in its history. Trump and Rubio’s fuel blockade has cut Venezuelan oil supplies,...
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ACTION PLAN
The Communist and Workers’ Parties participating in the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP), organised by the Communist Party of Cuba in...
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News quiz solution
Guardian 17 August #2202 1. Which police force has scanned more than 130,000 faces under a facial recognition trial? (WA) 2. Which football code has...
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Mickey and the Teamsters: A Fight for Fair Unions at Disney
Mickey and the Teamsters is a fascinating look at the labour politics behind Disney World’s costumed character performers (the actors playing Mickey, Cinderella, and Goofy)...
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Cartoon by Fiona Katauskas
Editor’s note: Introducing award-winning cartoonist Fiona Katauskas who will be cartooning for Guardian, the Workers’ Weekly for a while. You may know Katauskas from the...
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The Front at fifty
Fifty years on, The Front (1976), starring Woody Allen, is especially relevant with the Trump administration’s crackdown on freedoms taken for granted in the United...
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Iskra’s Stalin: Collected Works Vol. 5
Iskra has continued their mission of providing a modern, accessible reprinting of Stalin’s writings with the two latest volumes 5 and 6 covering 1921-1923 and...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
SOUTH KOREA: South Korea has angered President Trump by refusing to participate in the US-Israeli war against Iran. In response, the US President ordered to...
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HALF THE SKY
No matter who you are in Australia, you’ve felt the effects of the patriarchy. The system of gender-based inequity runs so deep in our society...
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Canada commemorates the Nakba
After over a decade of concerted lobbying by the Palestinian community, and four years of development with Palestinian Canadians including the Canadian Palestinian Association of...
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Trump’s annexation threat escalates crisis
The Strait of Hormuz became the centre of a new diplomatic dispute after US President Donald Trump threatened to declare the strategic waterway a potential...
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