The Guardian • ceasefire
Issue #2165
For genuine recognition of the State of Palestine
Editor’s note: We reprint this statement from the Communist Party of Canada because it seems very relevant to Australia’s situation. There are Australians serving with...
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Issue #2173
Palestine update: Only one side uses airstrikes
The situation is changing all the time, but UNICEF has been very clear about the facts of life for people in Gaza: 67 children have...
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Issue #2128
The Lebanese ceasefire and the ongoing nightmare for Palestine
News of a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel captured headlines and raised hopes that the destruction of Lebanon might be coming to an end. Whether...
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Issue #2112
Israel stokes the fires of war
Israeli bloodletting in Gaza continues. The headlines talk of ceasefire negotiations and of how the United States is pushing for a settlement. The Israelis continue...
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Issue #2137
Gaza: peace so far away
Just recently night-time temperatures in Gaza dropped well below average. It meant that people living in temporary shelters, tents, and in the open, suffered even...
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Issue #2176
Israel practices ‘territorial engineering’
Israeli troops have moved a series of yellow concrete blocks, called the yellow line’ far beyond the line that defines the Israeli Defence Force’s line...
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Issue #2125
GLOBAL BRIEFS
PALESTINE: The Palestinian Environmental Quality Authority issued a statement denouncing the continuing Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Israel has dropped...
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Issue #2201
GLOBAL BRIEFS
IRAN: Dialysis equipment for 44,000 patients has finally reached Iran after being held by the United States for 95 days. The eight-container shipment had been...
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Issue #2130
GLOBAL BRIEFS
MYANMAR: Myanmar’s government and a major ethnic rebel group have signed a formal ceasefire agreement. The new ceasefire was brokered by China and came into...
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Issue #2194
The desolation of the word ‘ceasefire’
There are moments in history when words lose their meaning. Not because dictionaries are rewritten, nor because language itself changes, but because political power empties...
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Issue #2149
GLOBAL BRIEFS
United States: The US has once again vetoed a United Nations Security Council draft resolution on Gaza. The most recent resolution, introduced by a coalition...
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Issue #2135
Palestine is Not for Sale Rally, Boorloo/Perth WA
Friends of Palestine WA organised a rally in Forrest Place, Perth attended by about 200 people. The MC was Palestinian activist Heba who like most...
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Issue #2092
Open letter to Foreign Minister Penny Wong
Senator the Hon. Penny Wong Minister for Foreign Affairs PO Box 6100 Senate Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Re: Urgent call to Act against genocide....
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Issue #2093
CPA Statement
The Communist Party of Australia has followed the events that took place at Sydney’s Port Botany on Sunday 24 March in which 19 protestors were...
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Issue #2080
Ceasefire now!
The calls for a ceasefire grow louder and louder as hundreds of thousands of people continue to demonstrate in the major cities around the world....
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Issue #2079
SHAME ALBO SHAME
The genocide taking place in Gaza has not stopped for over 30 days. The death toll in what the United Nations is calling the “children’s...
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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 #2130
The ceasefire: hopes and aspirations must be fought for
There were images of intense jubilation on what were once the streets of Gaza when news first emerged that a ceasefire in Gaza might be...
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Issue #2090
Government opposes Palestine ceasefire
Benjamin Netanyahu’s language has gone biblical again. In a statement issued 29 February he repeatedly called for “total victory” and God’s “vengeance,” stressing the support...
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Issue #2173
EDITORIAL
Here are some figures. It’s more than two years since 7 October 2023. In that time, Israel’s military have killed over 68,000 civilians. It’s one...
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Issue #2177
Board of Peace? – Gang of rogues
Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ was slammed as a “board of war” by campaigners on the day the US president launched it at Davos. With...
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Issue #2133
Demand an independent Palestinian state now!
The Communist Party of Australia, condemns in the strongest possible terms the outrageous proposal by US imperialism to take control of the Gaza strip and...
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Issue #2139
Israel murders 18,000 children
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 18,000 Palestinian children as the current Israeli attacks target areas across the Gaza Strip, from north to...
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Issue #2167
Gaza genocide
Israel has continued to launch attacks across Lebanon and Syria, while continuing to violently expand illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. More than 700,000...
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Issue #2126
Trump, Israel, and dark days for Palestine
Israel continues its calculated program of starvation and ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza. In a move that surprised no-one, the Biden administration has pledged to...
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Issue #2152
Israel’s nuclear threat
The ceasefire between US/Israel and Iran does not mark the end of imperialist hostilities against the sovereign state of Iran. The debate around the damage...
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