The Guardian • anniversary
Issue #1969
South African CP: Centenary launching statement
The month of July 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the South African Communist Party (SACP) as the Communist Party of South Africa.
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The Communist Party Of China celebrates 100 years – for good reason
The Communist Party of China (CPC) commemorated its centenary on Thursday 1st July with an impressive range of memorable celebrations across the nation.
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Issue #2162
The United Nations turns 80
There is only one treaty in the world that, despite its limitations, binds nations together: the United Nations Charter. Representatives of fifty nations wrote and...
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Issue #2119
Gaza: 12 months of terror
It is now 12 months since Israel’s blood-letting in Gaza began. That awful anniversary comes as Israeli bombs rain down on Lebanon. Every day since...
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Issue #2083
Justice for TJ
This year is the 20th anniversary of the death of TJ Hickey, who died during a police pursuit in Redfern, Sydney in 2004. On Saturday...
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Issue #2097
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SOUTH AFRICA: South Africa celebrated the 30th anniversary of the end of the racist system known as apartheid on 27 April. It is marked as...
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Issue #2195
US 250th anniversary a working class history
The 250th anniversary on 4 July marks the United States Declaration of Independence from Britain in 1776. It was a bourgeois revolution that overthrew colonial...
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Issue #2129
10th anniversary of China-Australia Comprehensive Partnership
The year 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Australia and the establishment of comprehensive strategic relationship between China...
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Issue #2144
CPA greeting on the 60th anniversary of JVP
Anura Kumara Dissanayake President of Sri Lanka People’s Liberation Front, JVP Dear comrade, The Communist Party of Australia conveys its warmest greetings to the JVP...
Read moreCPC and World Political Parties Summit
The Communist Party of China (CPC) hosted the “CPC and World Political Parties Summit” on the 6th July from Beijing.
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Issue #2195
GLOBAL BRIEFS
JAPAN: The Japanese government will send specialists to Greenland to study the possibility of mining rare earth metals and other critical minerals. Japan is seeking...
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Issue #2198
Protest songs from civil rights to Trump
On 4 July 2026 the USA celebrated its 250th anniversary of independence; a constructed history built upon the greatness of the United States. President Trump...
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Issue #2158
DPRK National Liberation Day and more
Upcoming historic anniversaries are very important to the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) and its people. On 15 August the DPRK celebrates its 80th...
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Issue #2145
Second international anti-fascist forum, Moscow 22-24 April 2025
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) hosted the Second international anti-fascist forum in Moscow on 22-24 April 2025. Some 400 delegates from 91...
Read moreCPA greeting to the 99th Anniversary of the foundation of the Brazilian Communist Party
Dear comrades, On behalf of the Communist Party of Australia, please receive warmest fraternal greetings on the 99th founding anniversary of the Brazilian Communist Party....
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Issue #2104
Red Boat of History: CPC turns 103
The founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on 1 July 1921, and its subsequent role in the unfolding of world history seems like...
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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 #2168
Greetings on the 97th Anniversary of the PCP
Domingo Cabrera Toro General Secretary Peruvian Communist Party Australia 4 October 2025 Dear Comrade, The Communist Party of Australia sends warm and fraternal greetings on...
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Issue #2175
100th anniversary of the Communist Party of India (CPI)
The Communist Party of India (CPI), founded on 26 December 1925 in Kanpur under British colonial rule, is the longest continuous communist party in South...
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Issue #2118
Happy birthday People’s Republic of China!
1 October will be the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. On that day in 1949, Mao Zedong officially proclaimed...
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Issue #2198
LETTERS
Happy Birthday USA In wishing the USA a happy 250th birthday, the Guardian editorial (‘Happy Birthday’, Guardian #2197) hopes for a rapid decline of the...
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Issue #2175
29th Anniversary of Guatemala Peace Accords
29 December 2025 marked the 29th anniversary of the Guatemala Peace Accords, in which the government of Guatemala and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG)...
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Issue #2162
LETTERS
Don’t rewrite history On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the victory in the world anti-fascist war, please allow me to extend my sincere...
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Issue #2144
Battleship Potemkin at 100
This year marks the centenary of one of the greatest films of the 20th century, Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin. This great Soviet silent film influenced...
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Issue #2165
Workers’ Party of Korea turns 80
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), founded on 10 October 1945. The...
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Issue #2162
Drawing wisdom and strength from history, guiding humanity’s ship steadily forward
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. On...
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Issue #2083
Lenin
One hundred years ago, on 21 January 1924, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known to the world as Lenin, passed away. To paraphrase Engels’ words on Marx,...
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Issue #2203
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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Issue #2202
Party self-reform and Marxist theory
Around the first of July, 2026, I was invited to participate in more than half a dozen television interviews and panels. The topic: the CPC’s...
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Issue #2196
105th anniversary of the Communist Party of China
On the 105th anniversary of the Communist Party of China we reflect on the extraordinary path taken by the CPC, changing the course of history...
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Issue #2148
CPA greeting to the Communist Party of Chile’s 113th anniversary
Barbara Figueroa Sandoval General Secretary Communist Party of Chile Dear comrade, The Communist Party of Australia conveys its warmest greetings to the members and...
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Issue #2161
PEACE NOTES
This year is quite the year for war anniversaries. It’s 80 years since the end of World War II, 110 years since World War I,...
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Issue #2063
Communist Party of Australia greetings to the heroic people of Cuba on the 70th anniversary of the assault on the Moncada barracks on 26th July 1953
Communist Party of Australia greetings to the heroic people of Cuba on the 70th anniversary of the assault on the Moncada barracks on 26th July...
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Issue #2139
CPA greeting on 70th anniversary of the LPRP
Comrade Bounleua Phandanouvong Acting Chairman of the Committee for External Relations Central Committee Lao People’s Revolutionary Party, LPRP Dear Comrade, The Communist Party of Australia...
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Issue #2179
Long live Palestine, long live the 57th anniversary of the DFLP
The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) salutes the heroic Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) on the 57th anniversary of your founding and...
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Issue #2091
Deputy sheriff fails to deliver
The four-day ASEAN-Australia Special Summit held in Melbourne from 4 - 6 March, ended with the Australian government failing to gain consensus around its aggressive stand towards...
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Issue #2120
China’s 75 years of socialist development threatens nobody
China has recently celebrated the 75th anniversary of its Revolution. The achievements have been spectacular, but just one statistic is enough. China is home to...
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Issue #2150
CPA members attend JVP anniversary Boorloo/Perth
Communist Party of Australia members attended the People’s Liberation Front of Sri Lanka (JVP) in Boorloo/Perth on 14 June. Elly Hulm represented the CPA and...
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Issue #2091
CPA greeting to the 90th anniversary of the Iraqi Communist Party
Read Fahmy General Secretary Iraqi Communist Party Dear Comrade, The Communist Party of Australia conveys its warm greetings to the members and leadership of the...
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Issue #2120
CPA greeting to the 79th anniversary of the WPK
Kim Jong Un General Secretary Workers’ Party of Korea By Email: wpkint@star-co.net.kp Dear comrade, Fraternal greetings from the Communist Party of Australia (CPA). We convey...
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Issue #2169
CPA 105 years
30 October this year marked the 105th anniversary of the foundation of the Communist Party of Australia. It was an historic event and signalled the...
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Issue #2100
Happy Birthday to us!
This is issue number 2100 of the Guardian – The Workers’ Weekly. Twenty-one (hundred) today! As editor, I am proud to be doing this job...
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Issue #2197
EDITORIAL
The United States turns 250 this year. You’d expect some epic celebrations, but they’ve been somewhat overshadowed by President Trump’s clownish behaviour. In the middle...
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Issue #2075
Communist Party of Australia anniversary
One hundred and three years of the workers’ struggle and counting. 30th October is the anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Australia....
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Issue #2195
CPA congratulatory message on the 114th anniversary of the PCCh
Bárbara Figueroa General Secretary Communist Party of Chile Dear comrade, The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) warmly congratulates the Communist Party of Chile on your...
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Issue #2198
The world celebrates CPC’s 105 Red years
On the first of July 2026 the Chinese people celebrated 105 Red years of the Communist Party of China. This important anniversary brings with it...
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Issue #2151
80th anniversary of the defeat of Japanese occupation of China
Members of the Communist Party of Australia and of the Australia-China Friendship Society WA joined a commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the defeat of...
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Issue #2161
Greeting 80th anniversary National Day of Vietnam
The Communist Party of Australia welcomes the opportunity to celebrate the 80th National Day of Vietnam with you. We send our warmest fraternal greetings to...
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Issue #2148
Sri Lankan People’s Front Party celebrates in style
Melbourne comrades attended and participated in the Jathika Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) 60th anniversary celebration on 31 May this year with enthusiastic members of the Sri...
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