The Guardian • colonialism
Issue #2125
The Pacific – To live in peace
For the past few weeks I have been on the road in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Australia at the invitation of groups such as Te...
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Issue #2102
Papua New Guinea: disaster and the hand of capital
The tragic loss of life in the landslide in Papua New Guinea has shown just how pitiably inadequate is the level of infrastructure in the...
Read moreRoyal racism no surprise
The mainstream media have sensationalised the most recent British royal family racism scandal, despite the monarchy’s long history of colonialism.
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Issue #2043
Lumumba – The murder of an African hero
17th January marked 62 years since the brutal assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the leader of the Congolese independence struggle and one of the most impassioned...
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Issue #2103
HALF THE SKY
Skye Dannaher In the shadow of Australia’s colonial history, the voices of First Nations women resonate with a profound urgency, particularly in the realm of...
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Issue #2052
CUBA: More than 10 million people became literate thanks to the Cuban program “Yes, I can.” The program was Fidel Castro’s initiative that helped to...
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Issue #2134
Imperialism and sub-Saharan Africa
There are currently 45 million displaced people in sub-Saharan Africa. That is 45 per cent of the total of displaced people on the planet. Lives...
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Issue #2025
DINGO
Well may we say God Save the Queen […] Just two instances, from the time she first sat on the throne in 1952, dutiful representative...
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Issue #2078
Colonial powers give “regrets” – not apologies
Recently the imperialist nations of Britain, Spain, and Germany, have expressed “regrets” for the atrocities they committed, but failed to acknowledge that the true horror...
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Issue #2040
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism
The recent fighting in the Gaza Strip has claimed the lives of 47 Palestinians, including 17 children, as Israeli forces targeted leaders of the Palestinian...
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Issue #2043
Freedom for the Sahrawian People is long overdue
Recently some much-needed attention has been brought to the situation in Western Sahara, brought on by speeches and visits from Ndaba Mandela, Nelson Mandela’s grandson....
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Issue #2052
Indigenous People ask Charles Windsor to apologise for colonisation
They ask the British monarch “to acknowledge the horrific impact and legacy of the genocide and colonisation of Indigenous and enslaved peoples.” Indigenous organisations and...
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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 #2101
Sorry Day
Sunday 26 May 2024 marks seven years since the Uluru Statement from the Heart was issued by First Nations Peoples “from all points of the...
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Issue #2175
New Caledonia
The New Caledonian riots in May 2024 made a few headlines in Australia, but media coverage primarily focused on the shock of violence in the...
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Issue #2175
100th anniversary of the Communist Party of India (CPI)
The Communist Party of India (CPI), founded on 26 December 1925 in Kanpur under British colonial rule, is the longest continuous communist party in South...
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Issue #2103
Fighting for our lives
A speech from Romina Beitseen of the Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament (CICD) to the Eighth International Seminar for Peace and for the Abolition...
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Issue #2165
Cuba remembers Assata Shakur
Assata Shakur (born Joanne Deborah Chesimard) died in Havana, Cuba on 25 September. Cuba regarded her as a political refugee and a victim of racial...
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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...
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Issue #2080
Anti-colonial resistance in the Pacific
Resistance to the plans of successive Australian governments to create an Australian colonial empire in the Pacific has taken many forms over time. In 2006,...
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Issue #2133
The New China Playbook – Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
For light reading about contemporary China that is not laden with Sinophobia, but is unfortunately very (very, very) light on Marxist thought, Keyu Jin’s book...
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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...
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Issue #2094
DINGO
The Federation of the Australian states in 1901 was the first step away from British colonial control. However, imperialist interests continue to dominate Australian politics...
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Issue #2038
Colonialism’s dead hand
In 2000 the same issues of land ownership and forms of government were behind the conflict of the two opposing “freedom” fighter groups which erupted...
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Issue #2165
PEACE NOTES
The recent military parade in Beijing, celebrating China’s role in the defeat of fascism, has alarmed and encouraged elements within Australia to push for more...
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Issue #2055
US$45 trillion looted
The meeting of the Quad leaders, on 20th May 2023, has given special political influence to Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi of India, and his...
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Issue #2135
DINGO
The grip of the dead hand of colonialism continues to be broken. Ivory Coast troops have taken over the last remaining French army base in...
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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...
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Issue #2154
NAIDOC 2025 – The Next Generation
Fifty years ago NAIDOC, the National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee, was commissioned to celebrate just one special day. Since 1975 it has become...
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Issue #2091
CPA greeting to the 90th anniversary of the Iraqi Communist Party
Read Fahmy General Secretary Iraqi Communist Party Dear Comrade, The Communist Party of Australia conveys its warm greetings to the members and leadership of the...
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Issue #2129
INVASION DAY
Basically, a policy of genocide has been followed. There were the shootings, massacres and poisonings by the colonial occupiers, the stolen lands, the forcing of...
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Issue #2165
Trump’s climate colonialism
US president Trump stunned and alarmed delegates with his arrogant and reckless one-hour rant to the UN’s 80th General Assembly on 23 September. Most notably,...
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