The Guardian • A Carruthers
Issue #2083
South Africa takes Israel to the ICJ for genocide
A brilliant, sharp, and targeted presentation from South Africa has made history. Its 84-page filing to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has condemned Israel...
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Issue #2091
Paths to Palestinian statehood
Israel continues to ignore entreaties from countries around the world, and international bodies. Its plans for Rafah are still going ahead despite increasing multilateral resistance....
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Issue #2092
Palestine: Australia joins Western cruelty
The news that the Australian government decided to cancel visas for Palestinian refugees, effectively leaving them stateless, shows what kind of cruelty the West, including...
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Issue #2129
A tale of two disasters
1: China, the Xizang earthquake A catastrophic earthquake Magnitude 7.1 has hit Xizang. The scenes that have emerged from the earthquake are nothing short of...
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Issue #2117
Ho Chi Minh, 1945
Vietnam has recently celebrated its National Day, and day of independence. On 2 September 1945, Ho Chi Minh delivered the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence in...
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Issue #2112
Youth Anxiety: Roots and causes
The 2024 Australian Youth Barometer, run by the Monash Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice noted that anxiety, pessimism and insecurity are common among...
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Issue #2160
Together for peace
The world is at a crossroads. We are seeing new fractures open up along old conflict zones. The world is crying out for stability, for...
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Issue #2102
China’s ‘Shared future for humankind’
For over a decade the People’s Republic of China has established the policy framework “Shared Future for Humankind” (literally in Chinese, 훙잚 츱頓 묾谿竟, rénlèi...
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Issue #2198
Cuba’s bold new step
Reports are flowing in about the latest economic developments in Cuba, after the extraordinary Plenary Session of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee on...
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Issue #2177
What are the takeaways from the Communist Party of Vietnam’s 14th National Congress?
“Over the week of 19-25 January, the Communist Party of Vietnam convened its 14th National Congress. Against the backdrop of the current tumult in global...
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Issue #2147
We must support progressive forces in Palestine
The United States of America is a genocidal country. It’s still in the grip of white supremacism. More and more the forces of resistance in...
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Issue #2121
University rankings plummet: capitalist destruction
It’s nothing short of a catastrophe. Australian university rankings have plummeted to their lowest ever records in the latest world rankings. While rankings aren’t completely...
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Issue #2113
Tô Lâm: Vietnam and the World Revolutionary Cause
New Vietnamese leader Tô Lâm’s recent article, ‘Resolving to Build a Strong Party, and a Prosperous, Powerful, Democratic, Equal and Civilised Vietnam,’ published on the...
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Issue #2096
Palestinian Ambassador speaks
Interview with Palestinian Ambassador to Australia, His Excellency Izzat Abdulhadi: part one. Interviewer: A Carruthers AC: Your Excellency, I first want to convey greetings from...
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Issue #2110
Nguyen Phu Trong: Great Marxist-Leninist
The communist world is rattled and shaken by the death of Nguyen Phu Trong. Born in 1944, from an “average peasant” family background, Nguyen Phu...
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Issue #2122
DPR Korea: advancing production, advancing people’s lives
The DPRK, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, is one of the most misunderstood and maligned countries in the world. In the right-wing media, the DPRK’s...
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Issue #2161
Venezuela: unity, music, resistance
When a country is demonised and mainly reported on as a problem for the USA, it’s good to get an alternative view, especially one from...
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Issue #2079
The Echidna Strategy: Australiaís Search for Power and Peace
Sam Roggeveen is Director of the conservative Lowy Institute’s International Security Program, and used to work for the Office of National Assessments, Australia’s peak intelligence...
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Issue #2183
Lianghui/Two Sessions 2026: getting stuff done
To follow the events of Lianghui, Two Sessions in China, just after participating in our 15th Congress was interesting because to a large extent our...
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Issue #2110
Belt and Road: Three aspects
The ancient Silk Road thrived in times of peace, and declined in times of war. Without a peaceful and stable environment, it would be impossible...
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Issue #2173
Mamdani and the task ahead
Undoubtedly Mamdani’s victory over Cuomo to take the mayorship of New York City is progress, and the joy and momentum from it should be relished...
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Issue #2159
Corporate 4-year Plans: Capitalist Australia’s recipe for failure
Lately I have chosen to torture myself by delving deep into the world of the Australian government’s “Corporate Plans.” Since beginning this project I have...
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Issue #2153
Warwick Thornton
That Warwick Thornton, Kaytetye man from Alice Springs, has only directed two films, and that those two films are both masterpieces is astonishing. When I...
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Issue #2151
Communist Party of China at 104: A Force for Peace
On July 23, 1921, in a building in the French Concession of Shanghai, around a small table at which only 13 people were present, the...
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Issue #2095
LPRP and Laos Development
In 2016, the Laos People’s Revolutionary Party formalised Kaysone Phomvihane Thought at their 10th Congress. Kaysone Phomvihane was Laotian leader from 1975 till his death...
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Issue #2127
Laos goes from strength to strength
Though headwinds are rough in the short term, the long-term health of the Laos people’s economy is stronger than ever before. Laos has the second...
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Issue #2097
Palestine and the world
Part one: ‘Palestinian Ambassador speaks’ Issue #2096 29-04-2024 Interviewer: A Carruthers AC: Thinking about the PLO and the various progressive forces in Palestine reminds me...
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Issue #2134
LETTERS
Reform and Opening Up Comrade Editor A small note on the recent editorial on China: I note that the Editorial published 10 February places China’s...
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Issue #2137
Lianghui 2025
What is China’s “Two Sessions,” or “Lianghui”? China has a socialist people’s congressional system. Liang (two) Hui (sessions) is the meeting of the two most...
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Issue #2146
Catastrophes of thought
Years ago I read a pile of books published by Verso press under the series title ‘Pocket Communism.’ They started to release them in 2010....
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Issue #2091
Cuban Ambassador Tanieris Dieguez La O
AC: Ambassador, the US blockade of Cuba has had devastating effects on the lives of ordinary Cubans. What are some of the struggles Cuban people...
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Issue #2124
LETTERS
BSW and Left Unity Dear comrades, My name is Maxim Nicola and I am a member of The Left party from Germany. A comrade of...
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Issue #2151
Three Aspects of Socialist ‘Productivity’
Given all the talk now of “productivity” in the Australian economy much of it being just vacuous nonsense, within a supposedly ‘Social-Democrat’ framework, it is...
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Issue #2124
What are you worth?
Marx wrote extensively on the relationship between wages and prices. He showed that the relationship between a worker and their employer is that of a...
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Issue #2122
Pamphlet by Humphrey McQueen
Karl Marx invites job reps and community activists to share insights from Capital into how we are exploited, how nature is plundered and how to...
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Issue #2191
20th Century socialism: a step forwards
While the Soviet Union eventually ossified and liquidated itself, recall that its Marxist-Leninist style of governance had already impacted countries from Africa to Latin America...
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Issue #2119
LETTERS
Cesspits of misinfo Dear Comrade editor, I enjoyed Alex McKinnon’s article (23 September 2024) on the complexities of banning social media for kids. While I...
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Issue #2178
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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Issue #2198
Revolutions and love
Hannah Middleton, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Australia, once said that “Revolution and love are inextricably intertwined. You can’t have one without...
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Issue #2174
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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Issue #2155
‘For the Freedom of Nations!’
The Lao Peoples’ Revolutionary Party, the Communist Party of China, the Communist Party of Cuba, FRELIMO (Mozambique), the Nicaraguan Sandanistas, the ANC of South Africa,...
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Issue #2177
The 41st Southern Cross Brigade: success in difficult times
I was pleased to co-lead the 41st Southern Cross Brigade to Cuba with Ana Borges and 10 wonderful brigadistas who were wonderful ambassadors for the...
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Issue #2117
The Universities Accord: Will it work?
The Universities Accord is the first major review of higher education policy since 2008. It comes on the back of a disastrous decade for the...
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Issue #2123
Media housing lies
Australian mainstream media has been sprouting the same nonsense on housing given by Master Builders’ Australia – that the current housing crisis is simply due...
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Issue #2123
Inflation: the workers’ burden
The RBA (Reserve Bank of Australia), the last relic of economic planning in Australia, ostensibly Australia’s central national bank, has a very limited range of...
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Issue #2126
Democracy: more than a sausage
The electoral reform Bill that Labor is right now trying to push through Parliament has some things that look good, and may look like avoiding...
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Issue #2147
Canberra hits the dance floor for Cuba
The Canberra ACFS (Australia-Cuba Friendship Society) staged a Peña (musical get-together) on Saturday 24 May. It was a fun evening that really took off. Festivities...
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Issue #2090
Government opposes Palestine ceasefire
Benjamin Netanyahu’s language has gone biblical again. In a statement issued 29 February he repeatedly called for “total victory” and God’s “vengeance,” stressing the support...
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Issue #2144
A win for the band-aid solution
A burning question, one that the Communists will be answering in the next few months, is this: can Social Democracy hold off the tide of...
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Issue #2088
Palestine, Middle East: the West is complicit
In the maelstrom of news surrounding the Palestine genocide it’s easy to forget fundamentals. One of those fundamentals is Western complicity. The United States government,...
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Issue #2140
Op-Ed: Labor vs Communism: the Socialist Budget reply
We are a land of duopolies. We seem to have two of everything: two major supermarkets, (Woolworths and Coles), two major parties (Labor and Liberal)....
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