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China-US relations seek to chart new course
US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping opened dialogue in a virtual summit for over three hours on 16th November
Read moreChina, Russia continue to cooperate on fighting colour revolutions, safeguarding political security: Wang Yi
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Sunday China and Russia will continue to cooperate in fighting the colour revolutions and disinformation, and safeguarding political security together in 2021 ...
Read moreBiden increases threat of war between great powers
While visiting the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden highlighted growing “threats” posed by Russia and China to the US’ national security.
Read moreChina, Russia jointly decry US democracy summit, call for past lessons to be remembered
A joint article by the Chinese and Russian Ambassadors to the US decrying the so-called Summit for Democracy is a clear declaration of opposition to the upcoming event.
Read moreChina’s rocket debris falls to earth as “accurately predicted”
China’s space authority announced on Sunday that remnants from China’s Long March-5B Y2 carrier rocket reentered the Earth’s atmosphere, most of it burning upon entry, with some remnants falling in the Arabian Sea.
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Issue #2016
Why Western predictions on China were mostly wrong in past decade
When commenting on China, some in the West only see a country constantly at the cusp of crisis, ranging from predictions of a “China hard...
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Issue #1954
The Lowy Institute and a review of Xi Jinping: the backlash
Australia has forty-two think tanks, of which the Lowy Institute for International Policy was ranked 64th in the world by the Think Tank and Civil Societies Program of 2018.
Read moreChina, Russia agree to extend Good-Neighbourliness Treaty as Putin congratulates CPC on centenary in phone call with Xi
Chinese President Xi Jinping held a video meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday three days ahead of the centennial of the Communist Party of China ...
Read moreXi calls for stronger global actions on climate change
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday called on all parties to take stronger actions to jointly tackle the climate challenge ...
Read moreNo crime lasts a hundred years
Twitter’s news feed did not stop. Facebook played live videos, one after another.
Read moreTibet’s progress a powerful message for western naysayers
The Tibet Autonomous Region celebrates the 70th anniversary of its peaceful liberation this year, a triumphant moment for its socialist system and governance
Read moreXi to walk together with Cuba to build socialism, be exemplars of coordination
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday that China is willing to walk together with Cuba in building socialism and be good partners in pursuing common development, in a phone conversation with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
Read moreHuman rights start from poverty alleviation
Absolute poverty in Chinese society has been eliminated.
Read moreChina, Russia joint military exercise to combat terrorism and chaos left by US
Russia is set to join a military exercise with China in the Qingtongxia Joint Tactical Training Base.
Read moreFree Meng campaign marks 1000 days of incarceration
Thursday, August 26, 2021, marked the 1000th day of unjust incarceration by the Trudeau government of Meng Wanzhou.
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Issue #2036
Comrade Jiang Zemin: a retrospective
On the last day of November, 2022, Comrade Jiang Zemin died in Shanghai. He was 96 years old, and at the time of writing the...
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Issue #2063
Space War?
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST) between the United States and the Soviet Union sought all nations to avoid any future “land grab” leading to...
Read moreXi calls for “unprecedented ambition, action” to build community of life
We should protect nature and preserve the environment like we protect our eyes.
Read moreChina is a responsible major country in addressing climate change
Human beings share a common future in the face of the challenges presented by global climate change, and no country can make itself immune from the impact.
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Issue #2030
Marxism at the centre of the CPC’s Twentieth National Congress
It has been quite some time since a Communist Party’s national congress has attracted worldwide attention. I speak of the Communist Party of China’s (CPC)...
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Issue #2016
The real threat of the United States’ 800 foreign bases
Under the heading “Australia Faces Massive Existential Threat from China,” Christopher Joye writes that: “The spectre of Chinese nuclear submarines, destroyers, fighters and bombers based...
Read moreAustralia’s role in US imperialism remains firm
The basic implicit promise of the Biden campaign has been a “return to normal” relative to the Trump years.
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Issue #2021
Using Taiwan to contain China is doomed to fail
Taiwan has been an integral part of China’s territory since ancient times, there is but one China in the world, and the Government of the...
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Issue #2061
WEASEL WORDS
Vicious No, not the old Lou Reed song. “Vicious” is how how 9 Newspapers describe Paul Keating’s description of Jens Stoltenberg the secretary general of...
Read moreSurging commodity prices put pressure on Chinese manufacturing firms
Surges in bulk commodity prices are putting pressure on China’s manufacturing sector, pushing authorities and industry participants to seek plans to stabilise the market to fend off potential disruptions and risks.
Read moreThe 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 #2062
Modernisation, heroism, Party work
Alex Denton represented the Communist Party of Australia Central Committee on the 3rd Communist party Leaders Delegation of North American, Oceanian and Nordic Countries from...
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Issue #2024
War preparations are sparking the growth of an Australian peace movement
The indicators that preparations are being made for war are coming thick and fast. Previous governments have committed close to one-quarter of a billion dollars...
Read moreJackie Chan expresses desire to join the CPC
During a recent forum hosted in Beijing, action movie star, director, and martial artist Jackie Chan expressed his interest in joining the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Read moreChina’s common prosperity – the next step in the building of socialism
President Xi Jinping has announced the next steps in resolving inequality in China following the monumental achievement of eradicating extreme poverty and reaching a moderately prosperous society.
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Issue #2017
Marx’s vampire capitalism and the present economic crisis
Friedrich Engels in his The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) refers to “the vampire property-holding class.” Twenty years later, Karl Marx uses...
Read moreAustralia scraps BRI agreements, eager to injure relationship with number one trade partner
The Morrison government has vetoed the state of Victoria by cancelling four agreements it had with other nations relating to cooperation and education.
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Issue #2026
China: party steps up fight against corruption
Twenty-four senior officials have been placed under investigation in first half of the year. Former vice-minister of public security Sun Lijun became on Friday the...
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Issue #2014
BRICS, BRICS+, and the new G8”
What are BRICS, BRICS+, and the “new G8”? What is the meaning of these acronyms and why are they important? BRICS To begin with BRICS:...
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Issue #2031
Why America is alarmed
Every five years, the delegates of the Communist Party of China (CPC) – 96 million members – meet to elect its top leaders and set...
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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 #2052
May Day – Millions march around the world
People squeezed by inflation and demanding economic justice took to streets across Asia, Europe, and the Americas to mark May Day, in an outpouring of...
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Issue #2004
Xi calls for efforts to build modern infrastructure system
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for all-out efforts to strengthen infrastructure construction in the country’s building of a modern infrastructure system. Xi, also General...
Read moreUS rallies allies against China at G7 Summit
The US-led Group of 7 (G7) Summit took place last weekend in Cornwall, England, where an official report was issued openly undermining China’s policies and practices.
Read moreChina-EU dialogue
In his meeting with Borrell, Wang said China and the EU have increased talks recently, reached many consensuses
Read moreNew Zealand’s divergence from Five Eyes intelligence network
New Zealand has seemingly broken ranks with the other members of the Five Eyes intelligence network over their attempt to exert political pressure on China through the network.
Read moreWhole-process people’s democracy is a high quality democracy
While the US is dragging some of its so-called “valued allies” to hold the Summit for Democracy, the world is increasingly troubled by questions such...
Read morePresident holds online talks with top Chinese leader
Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Chinese Party General Secretary and State President Xi Jinping affirmed the significance of the Vietnam-China relationship.
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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 #2032
High public support attests to success of CPC’s self-reform: Australian scholar
Global Times Editor’s Note: China had an epic decade since 2012. Particularly in the last five years, which were truly momentous, and extraordinary, the country...
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Issue #2052
HALF THE SKY
This is an interview with a Chinese woman and comrade on the struggle and achievement in the process of women’s liberation in China. What are...
Read moreSocial imperialism: its history and effects
In some sections of the international communist movement today, China is characterised as imperialist, capitalist, or “social imperialist.” Despite being around since the turn of the last century, the phrase “social imperialism” really took flight when the international communist movement split in the 1960s under the weight of the divisions between the Soviet Union and China.
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Issue #2034
China embarks on the new journey of the second centenary goal
The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) came to a successful conclusion October 22, 2022 in Beijing. The congress elected a...
Read moreAll the questions socialists have about china but were too afraid to ask
In the 1990s and 2000s conventional Western wisdom was that China had long abandoned socialism. But ...
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Issue #2006
Responsible and accountable governance in socialist countries
It would be difficult to find a citizen of any country who does not want clean, honest, and accountable governance. As the 2022 election approaches...
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Issue #2007
The Communist Party of Australia and the Communist Party of China – a perspective
As the Communist Party of China (CPC) prepares for its significant twentieth congress in 2022, we may ask how the Communist Party of Australia (CPA)...
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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 #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...
Read more19th CPC Central Committee kicks off sixth plenary session, to table landmark resolution
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, delivered a work report on behalf of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee
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Issue #2039
Japan’s dangerous military expansion
On December 16 last year, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced a new defence strategy that doubled Japan’s military spending by 2027. The biggest military...
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Issue #2012
By engaging with China, Pacific countries seek their own paths out of poverty
From 24th May to 4th June, 2022, China’s highly experienced Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, and a large delegation visited eight Pacific countries in person, as...
Read morePutin and Xi plot to escape SWIFT
At present, in the midst of the panic and pandemonium being created by the world’s press about Russia and China, no one has mentioned that...
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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...
Read moreVenezuela, Russia and China: the route to a multipolar world
The current global order is experiencing tension caused in the main by US-backed imperial power.
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Issue #2015
China’s principled position on the war in Ukraine
Respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states has been the express foundation of China’s response to the war in Ukraine. On that...
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Issue #2068
Silencing The Lambs (How propaganda works)
In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying at the...
Read moreAll the questions socialists have about China but were too afraid to ask
In the 1990s and 2000s conventional Western wisdom was that China had long abandoned socialism.
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Issue #2004
Ironic for Morrison to draw red line without respecting others’
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison just drew a “red line” for China. Australian media widely reported on Sunday that Morrison claimed China building a military...
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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 #1982
Victory for China: Meng returns home
Meng Wanzhou, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Chinese tech company Huawei, has been released from detention after being held illegally in Canada for over 1000 days.
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Issue #2022
The 2022 Tibet Think Tank Forum
On 26th August this year, I participated in the China Tibet Think Tank International Forum, hosted by the Institute of Tibet Studies in Beijing. It...
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Issue #2037
For peace and development
The 21st December marked the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the People’s Republic of China and the Commonwealth of Australia. On...
Read moreSoftening its mates up for another war?
Has anyone actually scrutinised the piffle that Anthony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, recently came out with?
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Issue #2008
Edition 72 of the Australian Marxist Review published
Earlier in May the Communist Party of Australia published edition 72 of its theoretical journal the Australian Marxist Review (AMR) prepared by its editorial board....
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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 #2019
Why the island of Taiwan is so important for mainland China
The Taiwan question remains unresolved to this day. To understand why the island of Taiwan is so important for the mainland, we need to understand...
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Issue #2069
The Kerguelen Islands sale to China
On 15th July 2023 France offered to sell the Kerguelen Islands to China for 60 billion Euros. The sale would make China Australia’s newest neighbour....
Read moreHow big a security threat does China face as Taliban draws closer to border with Xinjiang?
There are increasing concerns that Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is facing a resurgence of terrorism infiltrating through the Wakhan corridor, on the Afghanistan border.
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Issue #2040
Albanese’s PNG visit falls flat
In the second week of January of this year, Prime Minister Albanese made a delayed visit to Papua New Guinea (PNG). Albanese addressed the PNG...
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Issue #2050
No weapons in space
As the US war preparations escalate, its plans for domination here on earth also extend to the weaponising of space. At the UN Conference on...
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Issue #2045
GLOBAL BRIEFS
IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA: The two countries reached an agreement that includes the resumption of diplomatic relations and re-opening of diplomatic missions within two months. They...
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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...
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Issue #2005
The criminal madness of Morrison and Dutton militarising Australia
The 2022-23 budget confirms and expands the criminal madness of the last seven months, when the Morrison government has committed unbelievable billions of dollars to...
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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 #2008
DINGO
The US Department of Defence recently went through the formality of asking Congress to give it the go-ahead to fund facilities in Australia to process...
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Issue #2026
DINGO
Memo to Deputy Sheriff Albanese: In his address to the UN General Assembly last week, Manasseh Sogavare, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, recalled that...
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Issue #2047
GLOBAL BRIEFS
America: The Pentagon has blocked attempts by the US federal government to share alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine with the International Criminal Court (ICC)...
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Issue #2041
“Hands off the world”
On 2nd February 2023, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr of the Philippines met with US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin at Malacañang Palace in Manila, where they...
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Issue #2048
On the path towards modernisation
The Communist Party of China (CPC) kindly invited the CPA to participate in the online forum of the CPC in dialogue with World Political Parties...
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Issue #2011
WEASLE WORDS
Welcome to Weasel Words! This is a new fortnightly column where we look at the ways certain words are being used in our society to...
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Issue #2030
Canberra Branch attends PRC Poverty Alleviation Seminar
If you’re looking to alleviate poverty, there’s no better place to look for guidance than the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Their sheer volume of...
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Issue #2049
YEMEN: A prisoner exchange took place between Houthis and government forces. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that planes carrying detainees took...
Read moreMorrison gov’t further damages relations with China!
Australia-China relations continue to deteriorate.
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Issue #2031
DINGO
The wholesale theft from Optus and Medibank of the personal information of their customers by hackers brings forth a quote from Karl Marx: “Finally, there...
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Issue #2069
GLOBAL BRIEFS
JAPAN: Japanese retailer Seven & i Holdings Co is selling department store chain Sogo & Seibu Co to a US investment fund, even as the...
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 #2009
Dingo
Hedge fund shark George Soros’ speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos last week was essentially an anti-communist diatribe, seeing communism correctly as a...
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Issue #2029
The CPC unites and leads the Chinese people to realise rapid development
Vinnie Molina, National President of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA), said recently in an exclusive interview with a reporter from Xinhua News Agency that...
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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 #2014
DINGO
While the Prime Minister was talking trade deals with the European Commission, who should pop up but Simon Crean, former ACTU President and erstwhile leader...
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Issue #2015
DINGO
Amid attempts to drag Australia into the nuclear cycle, news from France casts yet another pall over the non-future of nuclear fission. France gets about...
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Issue #2002
Australia’s political hypocrisy in the Pacific
A draft security cooperation agreement between the People’s Republic of China and the Solomon Islands was leaked catching the Australian government by surprise. The proposed...
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Issue #2070
DPRK celebrates 75 years of independence, self-reliance and peace
On 9th September the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) celebrated 75 years since its founding under Kim Il Sung, the general secretary of the...
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Issue #2071
GLOBAL BRIEFS
AFRICA: Three former French colonies – Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali have formed a defensive alliance. Alliance of Sahel States (AES) aims to jointly combat...
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Issue #2047
New Cold War: TikTok bans
Like Denmark and the European Commission before it, Belgium is the latest government to ban TikTok. Civil servants are no longer allowed to use the...
Read moreUS meddling comes under many disguises
Despite all the catastrophising Western reporting on the passage of the Hong Kong national security law almost a year ago, there has been mostly silence...
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Issue #2011
DINGO
A historical perspective brings into sharper focus US imperialism’s strategies in the Asia-Pacific since WW2. The victory over fascism – German Nazism and Japanese militarism,...
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 #2064
Pessimism of the West, Optimism of the East
Over the last few months, I have experienced first-hand both East and West, both China and some countries in Western Europe. I have been quite...
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Issue #2067
China’s good momentum
The good momentum of China’s economic development is conducive to the economy of Australia and the world. Achieving modernisation is a dream that the Chinese...
Read moreSocialism and capitalism: a tale of two approaches to enforcing environmental laws
It is no secret that in some societies, certain harmful activities go unpunished. For example, in the framework of a capitalist society, white-collar crimes are...
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Issue #2045
PEACE NOTES
The current debate over who can decide if Australia goes to war is more urgent and important than ever, now that the rhetoric around war...
Read moreMcCarthyism on the rise in Australian universities
In Australia’s latest self-sabotaging attack on China, the Morrison government has released a proposal that targets students and academics at Australian universities
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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 #2056
GLOBAL BRIEFS
PAKISTAN: Militants attacked a Pakistani security post near the country’s border with Iran last week, triggering a shoot-out that killed two soldiers, the military said....
Read moreLimiting global warming to 1.5° “on life support”
The United Nations Climate Change Conference – dubbed COP26 – has recently ended in Glasgow after two busy weeks in which 120 heads of state,...
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Issue #2043
PEACE NOTES
In the latest escalation in Australia’s increasingly forceful campaign to manufacture consent for war with China, the Murdoch-owned Sky News Australia has aired a jaw-droppingly...
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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...
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Issue #2053
GLOBAL BRIEFS
INDIA: The Indian state of Karnataka held the most crucial state election before parliamentary elections due in 2024. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) suffered...
Read moreTaiwan is a tinderbox, and the West is attempting to light the fuse
Taiwan island, internationally recognised as a province of China, has again become a key focal point in Washington’s ongoing hybrid war against Beijing.
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Issue #2045
Beating the war drums
Marx noted that in military state capitalism, building and operating the armed forces and the arms manufacturers is the primary activity of government. Last week...
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Issue #1968
CPA delegation to Canberra
The CPA sent a diplomatic delegation to Canberra last week.
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Issue #2067
More War Games
Australia has just hosted the Malabar Exercises which were held in Sydney and across the NSW south coast from 10th to 21st August. The naval...
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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...
Read moreSubs, subservience and stupidity
It’s been less than a month since the US tore out of poverty-stricken Afghanistan after losing a twenty-year dirty war, with Australia dragging behind, and already they have announced a new absurd military scheme, AUKUS
Read moreNo nuclear Australia: TIME FOR ACTION!
The sudden announcement of the AUKUS (Australia-UK-US) military agreement which will bring nuclear-powered submarines to Australia has provoked worldwide and growing opposition.
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Issue #2038
Invitation for peace
Dear Friends We would like to invite you to take part in a short campaign intended to contribute to our efforts to oppose the Federal...
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Issue #2066
Talisman Sabre 23
Talisman Sabre 23 Talisman Sabre 23 came to Australia amid a blast of PR media showing big war machines whipping through the seas along our...
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Issue #2063
Resist the anti-China scare campaign
Australians have real problems, problems that can’t be wished away. Climate change is happening now, and our ALP government is making it worse. There is...
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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 #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 #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 #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 #2051
Military uses for Arnhem Space Centre
Last year the Guardian reported on the development of the Arnhem Space Centre (ASC) in north-east Arnhem Land in the remote Northern Territory. We warned...
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