The Guardian • Adelaide
Issue #2073
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom history book launch
South Australia: “AUKUS – Nonsensical and may not even come to fruition!” This authoritative observation, made at the recent WILPF history book launch, was greeted...
Read more
Issue #2022
Urgent aid for Cuba
A combined celebration of the Cuban Revolution and Fidel’s birth, ninety-six years ago, after the horrific events of 5th August virtually became a plea for...
Read more
Issue #2137
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of IWD
First Nations artist and writer, Tabith Lean, an eloquent advocate for criminalised women, recounted not only her own devastating personal experiences on first being incarcerated,...
Read more
Issue #2026
Why are we having this day of mourning?
On the 22nd September as thousands of people took to the streets in other capital cities around Australia to protest the monarchy, I sat at...
Read more
Issue #2029
Anti-poverty protest – Adelaide
Poverty is about people struggling, and becoming sick, less employable and ultimately homeless, especially if survival on “jobseeker” is involved. These were the stories of...
Read moreStriking aged care workers take on Southern Cross Care SA
Striking aged care workers are taking their fight direct to Southern Cross Care headquarters in inner suburban Adelaide today, the latest in a series of...
Read more
Issue #2015
Curry with comrades night – a CPA SA tradition
Through a close association with the Port Adelaide United Workers’ Club, the CPA Port Adelaide branch has access to two fine venues for celebrations and...
Read more
Issue #2053
Adelaide National School
Comrades from all around Australia gathered at Fidel’s Bar in Adelaide for two and a bit days of camaraderie, music and learning. Sessions included “Collective...
Read more
Issue #2039
Invasion Day rallies demand “Treaty before Voice”
As many as 100,000 people took to the streets with rallies and marches in every state and territory on Invasion Day, 26th January. Protestors held...
Read more
Issue #2014
Assange rally – Adelaide
CPA members in Adelaide attended the recent rally in support of journalist and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. In light of British Home Secretary Priti Patel’s...
Read more
Issue #2140
ACFS Consultation 2025: Solidarity, learning, action, and dance
The 2025 Australia-Cuba Friendship Society Consultation, in Fidels clubhouse in Adelaide, brought together delegates from all over Australia for learning and solidarity. Delegates learned in...
Read more
Issue #2129
GREEN NOTES
In many parts of the nation, First Nations working with non-Aboriginal Australians has emerged as a sustainable way of dealing with the environmental challenges posed...
Read more
Issue #2125
PEACE NOTES
Here in Adelaide at the Workers’ Library there is a special section devoted to peace while the venue itself, now known widely as Fidel’s, has...
Read more
Issue #2140
Solidarity on display in South Australia
Comrades in the South Australian Communist Party Central Branch and the Port Adelaide Branch joined in a meeting with the Party president, Vinnie Molina, Party...
Read more
Issue #2078
November 7 – Why we celebrate
On or around 7 November Communists in Australia and around the world commemorate the October Revolution, also known as the Russian Revolution. The October Revolution...
Read more
Issue #2052
AUKUS unmasked
With an ultimate price tag of over half a trillion dollars, AUKUS represents a huge attack on the Australian way of life, on the environment...
Read more
Issue #2096
Anti-AUKUS Forum, Port Adelaide
A coalition of Anti-AUKUS, peace and community activists organised a public forum on the dangers of the planned involvement of Port Adelaide in the nuclear...
Read more
Issue #2189
May Day – time to celebrate, time to organise!
May Day was celebrated around the country, as it is around the world. It’s a international day for workers around the world to unite. It’s...
Read more
Issue #2156
GREEN NOTES
A massive, toxic algae bloom has spread to more than 4,500 square kilometres of South Australia’s coastline spreading from the Southern Fleurieu Peninsula to Coorong...
Read more
Issue #2140
Final declaration of the 40th National Consultation of the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society
This meeting of participating delegates to the 40th National Consultation of the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society meeting in Adelaide, South Australia: Focused on the constant struggle...
Read more
Issue #2115
AFOPA doubles membership
At the 2024 AFOPA (Australian Friends of Palestine Association) annual general meeting, a doubling of membership was reported along with growing support at rallies and...
Read more
Issue #2093
Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue AC MBE DSG 1932-2024
On 4 February 2024, in Tartanya, (Adelaide), on Kaurna country, a great Aboriginal leader and highly honoured Australian, Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue, passed away. Her state...
Read more
Issue #2124
Cuba night at the Semaphore
As the home of progressive music and thought in Adelaide, the Semaphore Workers Club was the ideal venue to highlight Cuban culture and values. The...
Read more
Issue #2048
Palm Sunday Peace Rally 2023 Adelaide
A gathering of dedicated peace activists met on the steps of Parliament House in North Terrace (Adelaide) in advocacy for peace which seems so fragile...
Read more
Issue #2187
Make Santos pay
As gas giant Santos held its annual general meeting in Adelaide, new polling revealed nearly three in four South Australians believe gas companies should be...
Read more
Issue #2182
Adelaide: Anti-war protest
More than 200 demonstrators assembled in Adelaide when the Coalition Against the United States Empire held a rally in opposition to the US and Israel’s...
Read more
Issue #2090
Maritime Union’s Quadrennial National Conference
The Maritime Union’s Quadrennial National Conference, from 26 February to 1 March, took place at the Adelaide Convention Centre with 500 delegates from around Australia...
Read more
Issue #2073
South Australia Inghams picket
CPA members in Adelaide attended the recent United Workers Union (UWU) picket against Inghams chicken. The workers at the Adelaide worksite are almost entirely migrant...
Read more
Issue #2127
PEACE NOTES
Recently in Tarndanyangga, or ‘red kangaroo place’ (Adelaide) on Kauna Land, the South Australian government took delight in sponsoring a huge defence conference at the...
Read more
Issue #2149
Yitpi Yartapuultiku Cultural Centre Opening
Thousands gathered at Port Adelaide for the opening of the Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Yitpi Yartapuultiku, (Kaurna for Soul of Port Adelaide). Yipti is situated on...
Read more
Issue #2071
Port Adelaide for Yes
Unionists and Yes supporters gathered in the historic Waterside Workers Hall in Port Adelaide on Thursday, 7th September to show their solidarity with First Nations...
Read more
Issue #2176
Venezuela: Adelaide rally report
Following the brazen illegal invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro & his wife, Cilia Flores, a coalition led by the CPA...
Read more
Issue #2159
Curry With Comrades
South Australian comrades came together for an evening of comradeship, curry, and inspiration for advocating peace and support for socialism. Fidel’s, the CPA hub in...
Read more
Issue #2189
Adelaide transport blues
Adelaide has a significant rail history going back to the 1850s, but over the decades the system has become increasingly outdated to the point where...
Read more
Issue #2146
IUF work stoppages at PepsiCo Adelaide
More than 150 workers of the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF), an affiliation of the United...
Read more
Issue #2098
May Day 2024
Victory Day Celebrations. May 9 defeat of fascism commemorated With all the recent celebrations of May Day, let’s not forget May 9, the anniversary of...
Read more
Issue #2169
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,...
Read more
Issue #2118
Beryl Miller’s 98th Birthday
One of the Party’s longest serving members, Beryl Miller, recently turned 98 and is still a keen reader of the Guardian – Workers’ Weekly. Over...
Read more
Issue #2162
Adelaide’s tram service publicly owned again
The South Australian government announced a deal in 2023 to scrap the privatisation of Adelaide train and tram services. The Labor state government had signed...
Read more
Issue #2169
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...
Read more
Issue #2202
Cuban solidarity in Adelaide
Australia-Cuba-Friendship Society members in Adelaide are determined to support the Cuban people in their stand against the world’s mightiest war machine. ACSF recently held a...
Read more
Issue #2195
South Australia: CAUSE and effect
Early this year, the formation of the Coalition Against the United States Empire (CAUSE) was announced in Tarndanya (Adelaide), a coalition of groups and individuals...
Read more
Issue #2177
Invasion Day
Boorloo (Perth) CPA comrades joined the crowd of nearly 2,000 protesters at the Boorloo invasion day rally. The speakers were impassioned and engaging, but 40...
Read more
Issue #2106
Fidel’s Centre
Fidel’s Centre was officially opened on 13 August 2016 to commemorate Fidel’s birthday with comrade Hannah Middleton as the guest speaker. Prior to that, it...
Read more
Issue #2188
DINGO
Musicians from the West Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO) have flagged growing concern over management’s refusal to stop a six-year-old recording of the ballet Dracula being...
Read more
Issue #2121
Preparing for a stronger SA Party
CENTRAL COMMITTEE MESSAGE After the acknowledgement that the Conference was taking place on unceded Kaurna land, proceedings opened with a message from the Party President,...
Read more
Issue #2138
IWD Luncheon Adelaide
First Nations artist and writer, Tabith Lean, an eloquent advocate for criminalised women, recounted not only her own devastating personal experiences on first being incarcerated,...
Read more
Issue #2122
Australia and Norway marching as one to a martial drum
Australia and Norway have a lot in common. At least that’s the claim being made by the defence ministers of the two countries. Norwegian Defence...
Read more