AUKUS Archives

Issue #1982

AUKUS is a direct threat to North Korea

While much has been said that AUKUS is a direct threat to China, little has been said that it is also a direct threat to North Korea.

Issue #2032

Plan of Action of the 22nd International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties

The 22nd International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP) held on October 27-29, 2022 in Havana, Cuba defined the following main guidelines and actions...

US soldier in Shoalwater Bay during Talisman Sabre 2011.

Issue #2058

Costly friendship: Australia and the US Civil War

With the AUKUS agreement, the United States military build-up in Australia and the upcoming Exercise Talisman Sabre war games, between the Australian Defence Force (ADF)...

Issue #1998

Resolutions of the 14th Congress of the CPA

RESOLUTION ON THE SITUATION IN UKRAINE The war between Russia and Ukraine is part of a wider conflict between capitalist powers, between Russia on one...

Issue #2045

WEASEL WORDS

(special AUKUS edition) Uncomfortable reading / əˈnkmfərtəbəl ˈrdɪŋ/ A lot of weasel words are an attempt to pre-emptively shield something awful from criticism. If something is...

Issue #2063

Call to action against war

The Australian Anti-AUKUS Coalition (AAAC) is campaigning for an Australia that is committed to peace, justice and a nuclear-free world. In Australia, this starts with...

Joon outside the Victoria Market, Melbourne

Issue #2066

“Keep Fighting AUKUS”

Joon Shik Shin’s business card gives his profession as “peace activist.” He has been a long-time worker for unions and the peace movement in both...

Albanese. Biden, Sunak, at AUKUS meeting.

Issue #2085

Silencing dissent

Such are the festering contradictions in capitalism’s deepening crisis that it is but a short reach to connect the recent actions by balaclava-wearing fascists thugs...

IPAN Conference 2024 – Sleepwalking into War? – October 4-6

Issue #2115

Nuclear weapons for a nuclear war

The United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) came into force in 2021. With its preamble on the “catastrophic consequences” of a...

Issue #1990

Australian-UK-US nuclear submarine deal exposes civilian-military links

Andy Stirling and Phil Johnstone, writing for The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, highlighted several salient points in their paper, telling us a lot about the thinking of those pushing nuclear energy.

Issue #2024

“AUKUS is about US imperialism”

The following is a contribution delivered by Dr Hannah Middleton to the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) International Conference held in...

Issue #2031

Comrade Irving’s contribution to the 22nd International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties

The following is a speech delivered by Communist Party of Australia General Secretary Andrew Irving at the 22nd International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties....

Issue #2047

“Worst deal in all history”

The recent Australia, US, and UK $368 billion deal on buying nuclear submarines has been termed by Paul Keating, a former Australian Labor prime minister,...

Part of the anti-AUKUS demo in Brisbane.

Issue #2067

GET RAUKUS NO AUKUS

The above slogan resounded on the streets of South Brisbane as the ALP conference came to town. The plans of Antony Albanese and Richard Marles...

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...

Issue #2097

ALP: A crisis of policies and ideology

Opposition from Labor Party members to the Albanese government’s AUKUS war coalition with the US and Britain emerged in Labor Party ranks, and was quickly...

Issue #2031

CPA: submission to the Defence Strategic Review

The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) is a democratic, transparent and accountable organisation. We are member led and governed by a Central Committee elected every...

Issue #2035

WEASEL WORDS

TAX tæks/ We all know what a tax is, don’t we? The government needs money, so they take a slice of your salary, or maybe...

Issue #2038

Stop the War

LONDON: The first ever Stop the War Coalition trade union conference held last weekend looked at how to build a bigger peace movement – and...

Issue #2058

AUKUS, the ranks are breaking

How good would it be if we could see headlines like these? Albanese to spend $300 billion on Public Housing or Power prices to plummet...

CPA President Vinnie Molina speaks at an AUKUS protest in Boorloo/Perth.

Issue #2150

AUKUS in trouble

There have been conniptions in Canberra after the announcement by the US government that it plans to review AUKUS. The UK is reviewing it too....

Issue #2037

Peace Notes

By Hannah Middleton Welcome to Peace Notes, a fortnightly column which will cover militarisation and its impacts as well as people’s efforts to ensure peace...

Issue #2047

WEASEL WORDS

Warrior /ˈwriər/ (for) What comes to your mind when you hear the word “warrior?” Conan the Barbarian? Boadacea, with cool pagan woad painted on her...

The anti AUKUS-WA protest held at the Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle, WA.

Issue #2063

CPA’s Elly Hulm to CPUSA International Conference

Dear Comrades On behalf of the Communist Party of Australia, I thank the CPUSA for inviting us to speak and I send our fraternal greetings...

Issue #2073

GLOBAL BRIEFS

POLAND: Close to a million people took part in what was called the ‘March of a Million Hearts’ in Warsaw last Sunday. The action was...

Issue #2098

Pine Gap on red alert

In October 1973, US bases in Australia were put on ‘red alert’ in case of a nuclear war. The USA did not bother informing the...

Issue #2110

GLOBAL BRIEFS

UKRAINE: Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has led a Ukrainian delegation to Guangzhou, in China, for peace talks. Kuleba announced that Ukraine is willing and prepared...

Defence Minister Richard Marles meets US Secretary for War Pete Hegseth.

Issue #2177

Australia’s secret anti-protest force for US Department of War

As public concerns over the AUKUS alliance rise – with expanding US bases in Australia and Donald Trump’s belligerent conduct, FOI documents reveal the government...

Sydney participants in the Anti-AUKUS and Anti Bases day 21 February.

Issue #2194

Tear up the AUKUS agreement now!

The AUKUS pact is in the news now. Three items have made it prominent: the Budget, the Shangri-la Conference in Singapore, and the announcement of...

Issue #1991

Season’s greetings and for a better 2022: the people need socialism more than ever

As we approach the end of 2021, we must reflect on how almost two years of COVID-19 have changed people’s lives.

Issue #1992

Setting the context for the Anglo-Supremacist AUKUS pact

As the CPA develops its Peace fraction and seeks to build up momentum to overturn the AUKUS pact, it is useful to look behind the scenes so as to gain a fuller picture of what is going on.

Issue #1996

Brisbane branch campaign against AUKUS, casualisation, and climate change

There is no rest for the Brisbane Branch of the CPA as we continue our campaign against the IR omnibus Bill, the AUKUS nuclear submarine...

Issue #2030

Let’s rebuild the anti-war movement

There are many Australians currently opposed to the AUKUS pact with all its sinister implications for our country since it was first handed to us...

Issue #2035

DINGO

The latest cost estimate for taxpayers of Australia’s pending nuclear submarines at more than $170 billion. Don’t be surprised when Australia’s supply of weaponry to...

Issue #2046

Minnow Australia in the Anglosphere

Why does Australia want nuclear submarines at all? The 2016 Defence White Paper tell us that “the key capabilities of the future submarine will include:...

Issue #2049

Alliance against AUKUS

Since the Labor government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the funding of the $368 billion (and counting) contract to buy six nuclear submarines under...

Rally to oppose the government's nuclear submarine deal, Melbourne 2021.

Issue #2094

No Nukes, No Waste, No AUKUS!

As the Australian government continues to ramp up this nation’s commitment both militarily and financially to AUKUS, those parts of the country that will actually...

Issue #2101

Starmer is a socialist but …

There are more countries in the world than the UK, the USA, and Australia, and yet we can’t help noticing parallels between the UK and...

Issue #2206

CPA submission to the AUKUS Public Inquiry – Part One

The Communist Party of Australia welcomes the opportunity to make this submission to the AUKUS Public Inquiry. The Communist Party of Australia is a voluntary...

Issue #1985

CPA, CPB & CPUSA Trilateral Statement on AUKUS

The Communist Party of Australia, the Communist Party of Britain and the Communist Party of the USA met on 1st October to discuss the implications...

Issue #1996

Anti-AUKUS webinar provokes conservative contempt

Last week, the Sydney Anti-AUKUS Coalition (SAAC) hosted the Resisting AUKUS and War on China webinar.

Issue #2021

60th anniversary of Australia’s involvement in Vietnam

This week marks sixty years since Australia entered the Vietnam war. Considered by many to be a Cold War-era proxy war, the conflict lasted almost...

Issue #2049

There is a slogan “Peace is Union Business” which remains significant today. Workers in their trade unions have a unique capacity to work for peace,...

Issue #2094

AUKUS expansion is a gift to three sets of war-mongers

“The defense ministers of the US, UK, and Australia will reportedly begin to talk about broadening the AUKUS military alliance, with Japan emerging as the...

Issue #2111

China-Ukraine talks, Western hypocrisy

China’s diplomatic efforts have been subject to largely unfriendly discussion in Western media recently, following China’s recent talks with Ukrainian officials. While most of the...

Issue #2208

GLOBAL BRIEFS

GERMANY: NATO intelligence services found no evidence of Russian involvement in a recent drone incident at Leipzig Airport and informed their authorities accordingly, the Russian...

Issue #1990

NO nuclear submarines: NO AUKUS treaty – NO war on China

New anti-AUKUS coalitions around the county are gearing up for this weekend (10th-12th December).

Issue #2006

CPA at protests around the country

The CPA fighting for aged care workers in Perth. Around 500 workers rallied at the Perth Cultural Centre demanding respect for aged care workers and...

Issue #2031

If military spending could provide peace, wouldn’t we have achieved that already?

The Labor Government plans to spend $48.7 billion on the military this financial year, in line with the policies of Morrison and Dutton. There is...

Issue #2046

GREEN NOTES

Anna Pha Humanity faces two major existential threats: climate change and nuclear war. The doomsday clock is ticking on both these threats. Ironically, the US...

Issue #2049

Road to War

As Australia’s most outstanding documentary film maker with 21 films and many awards to his credit, David Bradbury has created another monumental and relevant work...

Issue #2063

Anti-AUKUS action rocks Melbourne

Melbourne comrades gathered in Brunswick to protest the planned AUKUS commitment and the Albanese government’s plans to turn Australia into a parking lot for nuclear...

Issue #2209

North Korea-Russia bridge is not a threat to AUKUS

The new road bridge linking the DPRK (North Korea) and Russia across the Tumen River opened on 7 September 2026. The US$100 million link between...

Issue #1981

Petition: no nuclear submarines

AUKUS and a submarine fleet shows a complete disregard for the democratic process and undermines sovereignty.

Issue #1985

JOBS NOT WAR!

The AUKUS alliance between Australia, the UK and the US turns the meaning of security on its head.

Issue #2023

Nuclear submarines = uranium mines

On 15th September 2021, the AUKUS trilateral security pact was signed between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Under the pact, the United...

Issue #2025

United Nations day of peace

Today, 21st September, the United Nations Day of Peace, the Communist Party of Australia calls for the Albanese Government to save billions of tax payers’...

Issue #2027

Dumping on First Nations People

“That dump would poison the water and poison everything else, the food, the cattle, and everything else that’s gonna live off of the water.” Eileen...

Issue #2041

Housing Justice Rally

About 300 activists gathered in Sydney Town Hall on 11 February determined to make housing justice a major issue in the upcoming State election. The...

Issue #2045

Outrageous assault on peace and vulnerable Australians

The naval nuclear reactors for Australia, announced today, represent one of the lowest points in Australian democracy in living memory. Unimaginable expenditure – up to...

Issue #2071

PEACE NOTES

Hannah Middleton I recently saw a commercial TV promotion showing a a nuclear-powered submarine and a reporter saying it is invisible. This is rubbish. Since...

Anti-AUKUS protest in Perth (Wesley Corner) CBD to commemorate the 79th Anniversary of Hiroshima.

Issue #2112

Slaves to the US alliance

The next step in the AUKUS agreement will see a line of bases hosting foreign, mostly US, personnel, that will run along the Australian coast...

Issue #2128

LETTERS

On Cuba Dear Guardian Editor, Thank you for your coverage of Cuba. I went on the Southern Cross Brigade at the end of last year....

Talisman Sabre war games in Queensland – June 2005.

Issue #2055

US Military Build-up in Australia

In the upcoming Exercise Talisman Sabre war games, between the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and United States military, an expected 30,000 military personnel will participate...

Issue #2066

Nurses against subs

NSW Nurses and Midwives Association delegates call for spending on healthcare, education, and the environment – not nuclear submarines. The NSWNMA has joined growing public...

Issue #2072

Fighting with America

In September 1951, during the Korean War, Australia and New Zealand, signed the ANZUS treaty. In Fighting with America James Curran, Professor of History at...

Issue #2083

Time to act, welcome to 2024!

2024 is here and we welcome all Party members and Guardian readers to a new year of struggle. It is time to act! It is...

Issue #2087

Australia and New Zealand’s ‘seamless’ march to militarisation

The latest step in the militarisation of the Indo-Pacific has been taken. The inaugural ANZMIN ‘2+2’ joint meeting of Australian and New Zealand foreign and...

Government building in Funafuti, Tuvalu.

Issue #2121

Neo-Imperialist Australia’s colonial interests in Tuvalu

The tiny nation of Tuvalu, formerly the British Gilbert and Ellice Islands, has a population of 11,500. Though independent since 1978, Tuvalu is strongly tied...

Issue #2136

PEACE NOTES

Thanks to AUKUS I&A Strategic Communications, we’ve learned that the USS Minnesota arrived in Western Australia on 25 February 2025. AUKUS I&A says the visit...

Issue #2197

PEACE NOTES

US BASES An article in Covert Action, “US Military Bases around the world are facing growing protest from an emboldened antiwar movement” by Jeremy Kuzmarov,...

Issue #2044

We must win the battle of ideas

Working people around the capitalist world have been hit hard from the employer class. Capitalists will always look at how to improve profit margins from...

Issue #2045

DINGO

The NSW Council of Social Service (NCOSS) welcomed the recent announcement by an increasingly desperate NSW Coalition government in election mode, after it committed to...

Issue #2047

PEACE NOTES

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has put together six years worth of work by 700 scientists. Thousands of scientific studies were...

The unmasking took place at an urgent meeting during the “coronation” weekend in Adelaide where two inspirational speakers provided insightful explanations on “AUKUS: Why we are opposed!”

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...

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...

Issue #2068

Nuclear (con) fusion

It’s increasingly evident that the reason the LNP quietly introduced the AUKUS pact into Australia just prior to the nation going into an election, was...

Issue #2085

PEACE NOTES

At a recent Gaza solidarity rally in Sydney, Communist Party of Australia members collected over 160 signatures on letters to Australia’s Future Fund chair Peter...

Issue #2092

DINGO

Who is the target of the AUKUS alliance? The answer is explicit in all the writing on the subject and what all the leaders of...

Issue #2103

Ghost shark vs AUKUS?

In a report for online outlet Pearls and Irritations, veteran analyst Brian Toohey speculates that the ‘Ghost Shark,’ might mean the end of the “deeply...

Issue #2105

Peter Dutton & the nuclear shit show

We watched in horror as Peter Dutton and a whole cavalcade of Coalition ministers rolled out their nuclear nightmare in a blatant attempt to keep...

At the gates of HMAS Kuttabul in Sydney, with banners on AUKUS and Pine Gap.

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...

Issue #2142

Socialism: the only alternative

The question is; what is the alternative to capitalism? Humanity is facing two existential threats as workers celebrate May Day: climate change and nuclear war....

Issue #2147

PEACE NOTES

Say what you like about war, at least it’s good for the economy, right? Wrong, but you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. War and...

Issue #2151

AFTER AMERICA: Australia and the new world order

This book is a well-timed look at the new world ‘disorder’ and particularly analyses the situation in which Australia now finds itself, having been subservient...

Issue #2159

NUKED: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty

Andrew Fowler’s book critically examines the decision by the Liberal Prime Minister Scott Morrison (and his failure to inform anybody else) – to enter into...

Issue #2177

LETTERS

Bases and more Thank you for your front page story in Guardian #2176, ‘Unhinged US – time to close the bases.’ There is so much...

Issue #2049

NO to AUKUS! – YES to Medicare!

Medicare as a public health insurance scheme offering universal access to bulkbilling, and funded through central revenue is becoming a distant memory. GPs are fully...

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...

Issue #2105

PEACE NOTES

By the time you read this everybody will have had a gutful of Peter Dutton’s idea of building nuclear reactors around the country while crippling...

CPA member Emily, a Palestinian activist, and CPA President Vinnie Molina at the conference.

Issue #2121

Sleepwalking into War?

With the clouds of war building over the Middle East between Israel and the many enemies it is making in the region, the intractable war...

Issue #2130

PEACE NOTES

AUKUS, the euphemistically called ‘security partnership’ between Australia, the US, and the UK, is sold to the public as promoting “a free and open Indo-Pacific...

Issue #2159

LETTERS

Comrade Editor, The Channel 9 papers seem determined to push Australia into buying the hideously expensive AUKUS submarines and a war with China. So desperate...

Issue #2185

LETTERS

Cyprus, Greenland, and the US I write this in response to US President Trump’s continuing threats to take over Greenland and his comments about why...

Issue #2205

PEACE NOTES

Pacific Dragon Exercise “Working together for a strong, secure, stable Indo-Pacific region.” That’s how the public relations people of the US and Australian military reported...

International Peace Day, Walyalup/Fremantle WA, September 2025.

Issue #2207

AUKUS: our region and our lives

2. AUKUS and the submarine weapon in our geographical region In the time we will have been waiting for submarines, underwater drones will have taken...

Issue #2067

ALP Conference and the path to war

“If you’re pro-human rights, you need to be pro-AUKUS. If you’re pro-peace, you need to be pro-AUKUS. If you’re pro-advanced manufacturing, you need to be...

Issue #2073

PEACE NOTES

Hannah Middleton With the escalating development of space warfare facilities in Australia, as part of the AUKUS deal, it is useful to look at how...

Issue #2086

DINGO

Lithuania, claiming a threat from Russia, is ramping up military spending. “Everything we have we threw into Ukraine so that they will be able to...

Issue #2121

PEACE NOTES

The decision to double the Australian military budget to $100 billion a year is now an appalling fact of life. Whether Richard Marles remains the...

Issue #2151

PEACE NOTES

(In addition to being a Communist Party of Australia President, General Secretary and Guardian editor, Dr Hannah Middleton was a leading figure in the peace...

Issue #2179

PEACE NOTES

High probability of failure (AUKUS) Comments from retired rear admiral Philip Mathias, a former director of nuclear policy with the UK Ministry of Defence, have...

Issue #2181

PEACE NOTES

How many US Bases do we have? Recently there has been some internal discussion about the number of US Bases in Australia. The peace movement...

Issue #2187

An AUKUS alternative

Academic and author Clinton Fernandez, in Search for Security – AUKUS and the New Militarism, highlights better alternatives to nuclear submarines. Air-independent propulsion (AIP) submarines...

Issue #2189

PEACE NOTES

Not frugal with fuel Recently, this breathless account caught my eye: ‘US Army Soldiers with the 25th Infantry Division, alongside Philippine Army and Australian Army...

Issue #2207

PEACE NOTES

September Inevitably Sept 11 as the day that the twin towers came down in New York is remembered with solemnity and yet with no sense...

Issue #2209

PEACE NOTES

We often hear about things the government could fund if they weren’t spending money on the AUKUS pact. Thanks to a person called ‘the Tabulator,’...

Issue #2041

NATIONWIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST AUKUS

Friday 24th February 2023 Australian Anti-AUKUS Coalition (AAAC) www.antiaukuscoalition.org We say: NO to nuclear submarines NO to east coast sub base NO to AUKUS NO...

United States Air Force - McDonnell Aircraft F-101B Voodoo interceptor-fighter

Issue #2055

The Warfare State

The National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies has released an analysis of the militarised budget in the United States, titled “The Warfare...

Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles.

Issue #2082

SACK MARLES!

The US-led military buildup in Australia for war with China is like nothing this country has ever experienced before – and US sycophant, Australian defence...

The regular protests include members of the Communist Party as well as other committed peace activists.

Issue #2095

IPAN in Geelong

Activists from the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) in Geelong Victoria have been holding speak-outs, rallies and pickets against AUKUS, against the militarisation of...

Issue #2100

AUKUS: return to form for the World’s dumping ground

A Labor-chaired inquiry has urged the Albanese government to rewrite its proposed AUKUS laws, based on fears that Australia risks becoming the dumping ground for...

Issue #2184

Sign for peace

Australian naval personnel are now embedded in US nuclear hunter-killer submarines gaining operational training under the AUKUS Security Agreement. Three Australian submariners were on the...

Issue #2195

PEACE NOTES

US Navy Establishes NSA Stirling near Perth This announcement should send a chill down the spine of all Australians. It is time to redouble our...

Issue #2203

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...

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...

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...

Issue #2052

May Day gathers strength

May Day celebrations and protests across Australia have concluded, held across every state and territory as well as many regional centres. May Day is a...

Issue #2055

PEACE NOTES

Hannah Middleton Papua New Guinea is being pressurised by the US and Australia to join their plans for war on China. PNG’s location north of...

Issue #2105

This week’s US imperialist intervention is Germany 1950s: The CIA orchestrated a wide-ranging campaign of sabotage, terrorism, and psychological warfare against the German Democratic Republic...

Issue #2141

PEACE NOTES

At some level, everyone knows that military hardware is expensive. We know this because we hear gigantic figures quoted about it – like the $368...

Issue #2171

PEACE NOTES

Here are some stomach-turning remarks from Richard Marles, Minister for Defence in his opening address to the opening of the recent Indo-Pacific Expo/arms fair in...

Issue #2191

PEACE NOTES

Defence was listed as one of the ‘winners’ of the 2026-2027 Budget. In 2025-2026, Australia spent roughly $52.1 billion on the military. The figure varies...

Issue #2193

PEACE NOTES

Second Hand Submarines for AUKUS Australia is to accept three second hand nuclear submarines because the US says it can’t spare any new ones. You...

Issue #2200

Time to break free from the US

The Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) held a conference from July 24th to 26th, “Time to Break Free from the US.” The conference was...

Issue #2201

PEACE NOTES

Pat Conroy is the Minister for Defence Industry. He’s taken up the main role on negotiations to do with AUKUS and has just visited the...

Issue #2047

“Port Kembla, not Fort Kembla”

Last month the Maritime Union of Australia’s (MUA) Southern NSW Branch Secretary Mick Cross welcomed news that Port Kembla will become a large-scale venue for...

Issue #2047

STOP AUKUS!

A vocal and forceful protest demonstration took place at 8 in the morning of 21st March outside the Western Australian Defence Forum (admevents.com.au/western-australia-defence-forum) in Rockingham...

Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, met with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Australia, Senator the Honourable Penny Wong in Melbourne, 4 March 2024.

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...

Issue #2113

AUKUS 2.0, the end of Australian sovereignty

The final nail has been driven into the coffin of Australian sovereignty. A ‘new’ agreement between the USA, UK, and Australia, described as a significant...

Vijay Prashad holding an edition of the Guardian.

Issue #2141

AUKUS, Trump, and the Indo-Pacific – an address by Vijay Prashad

The opportunity to listen to Vijay Prashad is one not to be missed, and in Sydney and on Zoom he wowed comrades and friends once...

Issue #2044

Peace and Australia Post

Have you heard of the Peace Budget? If you’ve been reading News Corp or Fairfax publications this year, you won’t have seen any trace of...

Issue #2045

NO AUKUS

Under the appalling AUKUS plan announced by US President Biden on Tuesday (Australian time), Australia will begin hosting US nuclear-powered and armed submarines from this...

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...

Issue #2097

AUKUS boosters start to doubt

Fans of unintentional humour could do a lot worse then head over to ‘The Strategist,’ the website/journal of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), and...

Rally in support of Palestine, Perth 2024.

Issue #2103

Stop arming Israel Rally – Borloo/Perth

This rally was based on the very simple premise that if the capitalist countries of the West stopped arming Israel, peace and justice could happen...

Lavarack Army Barracks, Townsville, c 1966.

Issue #2205

Townsville military buildup

The Defence Strategic Review placed great importance on Australian defence planning on the defence of Australia’s northern approaches. In 2024, the Australian government announced a...

Issue #2050

May Day 2023: What do we march for?

1889 is a long way behind us, and the first May Day commemoration honouring the workers killed and wounded in the Haymarket confrontation in Chicago...

Samantha Power, Administrator of the US Agency for International Development meets with Penny Wong, Australian’s Foreign Minister.

Issue #2051

Cut-and-paste US world domination

“So today I want to talk to you about how we avert war and maintain peace – and more than that, how we shape a...

Issue #2052

Not a People’s Budget

Budgets involve a redistribution of wealth reflecting government priorities and serving class interests. The 2023-24 federal budget has clear priorities. The big winners are the...

Issue #2139

PEACE NOTES

By the time this paper comes out, everyone will have heard about US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s mistake. Hegseth organised a group on secure messaging...

Issue #2142

What they don’t ask If you’ve been finding the media coverage of this year’s Federal election annoying, you’re not alone. Partly, it’s the major parties...

Issue #2164

Naarm anti-AUKUS event: rock, information, inspiration

Victoria’s Trades Hall Solidarity Hall was almost full for a No AUKUS information session on Saturday 20 September. After a rousing warm up from local...

Issue #2196

AUKUS: Public hearings inquiry starts

On 11 June the first session of the public inquiry into AUKUS was held at Trades Hall in Melbourne. The inquiry is being headed up...

Issue #2068

Intergenerational Report – The march of history

A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this...

Issue #2073

Working future? – Cancel AUKUS

Last month the Labor government released its white paper on employment, Working Future (WF). Its stated objective is “sustained and inclusive full employment.” It has...

Issue #2157

DINGO

NAZI to NATO. The following is a list of members of Hitler’s Nazi regime who went on to become prominent in NATO, imperialism’s nuclear military...

Issue #2190

Unionists gather at US consulate

On 7 May, a group of trade unionists gathered outside the US consulate in North Sydney. The crowd was largely made up of trade union...

Issue #2077

A place under the table

It’s always a stressful experience meeting the boss, so perhaps we should sympathise with Anthony Albanese who has just been to Washington to catch up...

Issue #2096

MAY DAY 2024

CHANGE Congratulations to all workers taking action this May Day, the international day of working class struggle and solidarity. Actions of workers on the streets,...

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...

Issue #2100

Arms corporations win, People lose

Australians will be poorer but not more secure as a result of the massive increase in military spending in the next financial year outlined in...

Issue #2118

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“Labor gave up any pretence of being concerned about safety when they signed up to AUKUS.” Peter Dutton, defending his uncosted and indefensible plan to...

Issue #2124

Port Adelaide says NO to AUKUS

Alarming revelations about the dubious background to the one-sided AUKUS deal emerged at a packed public information forum organised by PACOA (Port Adelaide Citizens Opposing...

Issue #2131

DINGO

The United Workers’ Union (UWU) declares that “Climate change is union business.” The union notes that workers in Australia are on the frontlines of the...

Sydney Anti-AUKUS Coalition poster –Submarine and missile.

Issue #2054

Give us a Peace Budget

Decaying capitalism is turning the world upside down. Australians are sleeping in the streets and going without food and health care while half a trillion...

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...

CPA members at Hiroshima-Nagasaki March Sydney 2023.

Issue #2110

Remembering Hiroshima

As we approach the 79th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin...

Issue #2206

The Pacific Islands Forum

The 55th annual Pacific Islands Forum was held against the backdrop of a UN report warning that the world will likely pass 1.5°C global warming...

Issue #2097

EDITORIAL

Overshadowed by more important events, the Future Made in Australia plan was meant to be Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Big Idea. It sounds like a...

Issue #2128

2024: The people, united …

As the year draws to a close, 2024 can be considered as a period of growing struggle world-wide against the voracious dominance of capital, grappling...

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...

Issue #2082

EDITORIAL

This is the last issue of the Guardian – The Workers’ Weekly for 2023 (the podcast will continue through the break). It’s a time for...

Issue #2141

They Really Said That: Quotes from the Coalition

Peter Dutton: “The prime minister has been weak and missing in action. That’s why we find ourselves in the position we’re in today.” This was...

Issue #2192

DINGO

A few thoughts on where the money for the funding of Medicare, education, and other services to the people could come from. Address tax avoidance...

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...

Issue #2162

AUKUS: Who pays?

People with disabilities, the aged, the sick, the unemployed and other social security recipients, the most vulnerable in the community and those who capitalism sees...

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...

Issue #2193

AUKUS inquiry announced

Former environment minister Peter Garrett has announced he’ll lead an independent inquiry into the so-called ‘defence pact’ known as AUKUS. The inquiry has been launched...

Issue #2205

AUKUS and the ALP National Conference: Buying off the union movement

AUKUS remains one of the biggest flashpoints in the labour movement. The 2026 ALP National Conference demonstrated the ALP’s ability to use state mechanisms to...

Issue #2164

International Peace Day in Walyalup/Fremantle WA

Some 500 people gathered to commemorate the International Peace Day at Pioneer Park in Walyalup/Fremantle WA on Sunday 21 September 2025, focussing on Gaza and...

Melbourne – outside of the State Library.

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,...

Issue #2134

TWO-PARTY POWER GRAB

In a move reflecting the common ground in policies between the government and Coalition, and to sideline the Greens and independents, the Albanese Labor government...

National campaign to defeat the WorkChoices legislation, Sydney, 2006.

Issue #2160

A DANCE WITH THE DEVIL

The Albanese government’s much-heralded Economic Reform Roundtable last month revealed the government and employer agenda to use class collaboration as a shackle on organised labour...

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,...

Issue #2200

EDITORIAL

Australia is independent and our sovereignty is important. Or is it? A couple of incidents from the last week have cast doubt on that assumption....

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 &...

Issue #2146

EDITORIAL

77 years ago, the people of Palestine suffered ethnic cleansing, murder and dispossession. It’s documented on page 16 of this paper. That’s the Nakba –...

Issue #2205

ASIO powers for repression

“This legislation is without precedent … its provisions potentially allow for the mistreatment of ethnic minorities, the suppression of dissent and the detaining and investigation...

Issue #2138

EDITORIAL

As we come closer to a May election, there’s a lot of talk of military spending. Our mainstream news outlets assume this country needs to...

Issue #2145

How’s your posture?

Not so long ago, we heard a lot about AUKUS. It’s a pact under which Australia signs up for more than $360 billion in order...

Issue #2181

EDITORIAL

According to polls, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation (PHON) party is doing well. We’ll see what happens at the South Australian election, but the polls say...

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...

Issue #2152

EDITORIAL

You’re being lied to, but they’re being smart about it. Nobody is saying that nothing is happening in Palestine. Nobody is saying that AUKUS isn’t...

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...

Issue #2206

Marles and Hegseth talk AUKUS

On 2 September Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister, Richard Marles, met with US Secretary of Defence, Pete Hegseth, at the Pentagon in Washington, DC,...

Issue #2149

Australia-US ‘alliance’

The alliance with “our great and powerful friend” the USA comes at a human and financial cost to Australians, currently demonstrated by the Albanese government’s...

Issue #2144

Labor has no mandate

The Albanese government has no mandate to implement its anti-people agenda. Behind the swing to Labor in terms of seats in the Lower House, the...

AUKUS

The Guardian • AUKUS

AUKUS is a direct threat to North Korea

Plan of Action of the 22nd International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties

Costly friendship: Australia and the US Civil War

Resolutions of the 14th Congress of the CPA

WEASEL WORDS

Call to action against war

“Keep Fighting AUKUS”

Silencing dissent

Nuclear weapons for a nuclear war

Australian-UK-US nuclear submarine deal exposes civilian-military links

“AUKUS is about US imperialism”

Comrade Irving’s contribution to the 22nd International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties

“Worst deal in all history”

GET RAUKUS NO AUKUS

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom history book launch

ALP: A crisis of policies and ideology

CPA: submission to the Defence Strategic Review

WEASEL WORDS

Stop the War

AUKUS, the ranks are breaking

AUKUS in trouble

Peace Notes

WEASEL WORDS

CPA’s Elly Hulm to CPUSA International Conference

GLOBAL BRIEFS

Pine Gap on red alert

GLOBAL BRIEFS

Australia’s secret anti-protest force for US Department of War

Tear up the AUKUS agreement now!

Season’s greetings and for a better 2022: the people need socialism more than ever

Setting the context for the Anglo-Supremacist AUKUS pact

Brisbane branch campaign against AUKUS, casualisation, and climate change

Let’s rebuild the anti-war movement

DINGO

Minnow Australia in the Anglosphere

Alliance against AUKUS

No Nukes, No Waste, No AUKUS!

Starmer is a socialist but …

CPA submission to the AUKUS Public Inquiry – Part One

CPA, CPB & CPUSA Trilateral Statement on AUKUS

Anti-AUKUS webinar provokes conservative contempt

60th anniversary of Australia’s involvement in Vietnam

AUKUS expansion is a gift to three sets of war-mongers

China-Ukraine talks, Western hypocrisy

GLOBAL BRIEFS

NO nuclear submarines: NO AUKUS treaty – NO war on China

CPA at protests around the country

If military spending could provide peace, wouldn’t we have achieved that already?

GREEN NOTES

Road to War

Anti-AUKUS action rocks Melbourne

North Korea-Russia bridge is not a threat to AUKUS

Petition: no nuclear submarines

JOBS NOT WAR!

Nuclear submarines = uranium mines

United Nations day of peace

Dumping on First Nations People

Housing Justice Rally

Outrageous assault on peace and vulnerable Australians

PEACE NOTES

Slaves to the US alliance

LETTERS

US Military Build-up in Australia

Nurses against subs

Fighting with America

Time to act, welcome to 2024!

Australia and New Zealand’s ‘seamless’ march to militarisation

Neo-Imperialist Australia’s colonial interests in Tuvalu

PEACE NOTES

PEACE NOTES

We must win the battle of ideas

DINGO

PEACE NOTES

AUKUS unmasked

Fight Climate Change Not War speak out and march Fremantle

Nuclear (con) fusion

PEACE NOTES

DINGO