The Guardian • AUKUS
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)...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
Read moreAustralian-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.
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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:...
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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.
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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...
Read moreSetting 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.
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
Read moreAnti-AUKUS webinar provokes conservative contempt
Last week, the Sydney Anti-AUKUS Coalition (SAAC) hosted the Resisting AUKUS and War on China webinar.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Read moreNO 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).
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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’...
Read morePetition: no nuclear submarines
AUKUS and a submarine fleet shows a complete disregard for the democratic process and undermines sovereignty.
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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...
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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...
Read moreJOBS NOT WAR!
The AUKUS alliance between Australia, the UK and the US turns the meaning of security on its head.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 #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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 #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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 #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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 #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...
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