The Guardian • anti-war
Issue #2041
PEACE NOTES
Just 80 years after the end of World War II, German tanks are again threatening Russia. At an event commemorating the 80th anniversary of the...
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Issue #2039
PEACE NOTES
Hannah Middleton We face two crises which could ultimately destroy humanity and our planet – nuclear and climate Armageddon. A report – Climate Collateral –...
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Issue #2203
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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Issue #2056
Fight Climate Change Not War speak out and march Fremantle
On Saturday 27th May, several anti-war, anti-nuclear and climate activist groups held a speak-out on the AUKUS Agreement signed in September 2021 between Australia, the...
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Issue #2135
Global Day of Action 23 February
Close US bases – Sydney Denis Doherty The US-based peace group World beyond War put out an appeal to all to host a #CloseBases day...
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Issue #2160
National Day of Action in Support of Palestine
Boorloo/Perth Vinnie Molina Tens of thousands rallied and marched for Palestine as part of the National Day of Action on Sunday 24 August 2025. In...
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Issue #2039
The power of internationalism
27th January marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, the agreement which ended the US war on Vietnam. From 1955...
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Issue #2043
Nationwide demonstrations against AUKUS
The Australian Anti-AUKUS Coalition (AAAC) co-ordinated a series of successful rallies on 24 February at the offices of Federal Ministers around the country. The rallies...
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Issue #2183
Close Bases Day – Global Day of Action – Australian section
The weekend of 21 and 22 February was chosen as the global day of action to close bases. The idea originated in the US where...
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Issue #2159
We say ‘human rights,’ they say ‘tourists’
The Communist Party in Sydney has been campaigning for the NSW government to ban Israeli arms corporations from exhibiting their wares at the Indo Pacific...
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Issue #2138
LETTERS
Unity in action Dear Editor, I was encouraged to read the lead piece in the 10 March issue of the Guardian, “Unite for Rights and...
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Issue #2111
Hiroshima Never Again
CPA members at the Hiroshima Never Again commemoration in Boorloo/Perth, 6 August.
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Issue #2209
Bombs for Peace
The Committee for International Cooperation and Disarmament held a ‘Bombs for Peace’ anti-war art exhibition on 27 September, at Melbourne’s Unitarian Peace Memorial Church. There...
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Issue #2164
Pine Gap protest activists face court
Peace activists Carmen Escobar Robinson and Tommy Walker are set to appear in Alice Springs Local Court in relation to summary offences that they were...
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Issue #2046
Cancel AUKUS! – NO TO WAR!
The Labor government’s decision to sign up to AUKUS is potentially the most costly and dangerous decision of any government since federation. It is not...
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Issue #2202
Australian unions support Palestine
Australian trade unions are one of the most prominent advocates for Palestinian rights in Australia, combining humanitarian advocacy with political lobbying and participation in public...
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Issue #2050
Fight back!
May Day is just eight days away from the federal budget. All we hear from Treasurer Jim Chalmers are attempts to soften up the electorate...
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Issue #2184
Sydney: ‘Stop the War on Iran – Scrap AUKUS’
A combination of peace groups under the banner of Sydney Anti-AUKUS Coalition (SAAC) and the Palestine Action (PA) came together on the 14 March to...
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Issue #2067
Stop AUKUS!
Labor’s war hawks succeeded in cementing AUKUS and the nuclear submarines and missiles that go with it in the party’s platform at its national conference...
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Issue #2204
CPA comrade fronts AUKUS inquiry
Graham Holton, a long-term Communist Party of Australia member and valued contributor to this paper put in a submission to the AUKUS Public Inquiry taking...
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Issue #2151
DINGO
Protests rocked the host city, The Hague in the Netherlands at the recent NATO summit, as peace campaigners protested at the militarisation of Europe. “Let’s...
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Issue #2187
WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
FIGHT GENOCIDE, WAR, AND EXPLOITATION May Day was born in struggle, forged in the fight for the eight-hour day and won through the sacrifice of...
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Issue #2150
Vale Dr Hannah Middleton
Dr Hannah Middleton served as President of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) 1993-2009, and in 2009, after the death of the long-time General Secretary,...
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Issue #2176
Unhinged US – time to close the bases!
Pine Gap, 20 kilometres southeast of Alice Springs, was established in 1968 in conditions of great secrecy. Local people were told it was a space...
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Issue #2182
STOP WAR
The Albanese government is taking Australia into the US/Israel war on Iran. Australians have every right to be angry and outraged as once again the...
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Issue #2143
Against fascism and war
Nationalism and militarism are being promoted on the election campaign trail, with Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton taking every opportunity to be seen with troops...
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Issue #2205
AUKUS Pillar 2: autonomous vehicles
Everyone knows about AUKUS and nuclear-powered submarines. What has been little discussed in the media is AUKUS Pillar 2, which deals with advanced military technologies,...
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Issue #2163
EDITORIAL
It’s been a while since the AUKUS pact was featured in this newspaper. The plan to buy nuclear-powered submarines from the USA and the UK,...
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Issue #2136
Unite for rights and against war
There is growing opposition around Australia to the authoritarian police-state attempts to silence voices of protest in support of the Palestinian people and against Israel’s...
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Issue #2203
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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Issue #2164
CPA General Secretary/President honoured in NSW Parliament
Thursday, 11th September 2025 Today I would like to honour the extraordinary life of Dr Hannah Middleton who passed away on 12 June this year....
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Issue #2117
Land Force Expo: state, capital give three cheers for war profiteers
The Land Forces International Defence Expo has shown with appalling clarity the lengths that the state will go in order to support the right of...
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Issue #2181
NO WAR ON IRAN!
When the United States and Israel began bombing Iran in an unprovoked act of war, they opened the way for conflict to escalate in the...
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Issue #2138
End US war alliance
Australia must withdraw from the AUKUS war-making alliance. In its utter subservience to its US master, the Albanese government has suggested Australia could send troops...
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Issue #2151
Joint Statement of Communist and Workers’ Parties
The Communist and Workers’ Parties signing this Joint Statement strongly condemn the US attack on Iran, which escalates the military offensive already launched by Israel....
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Issue #2151
Iran Resists
(editor’s note: this piece was written just before the US bombing of Iran) 19 June marked the seventh day of Israeli strikes against Iran, with...
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Issue #2151
Stop the war on Iran
No to the law of the jungle Respect for International Law The Communist Party of Australia condemns the unprovoked US unlawful bombing of nuclear facilities...
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