Communist Party of Australia (CPA) Archives

CC executive member Warren Smith addressing the Congress.

Issue #2181

Fight for jobs, the planet and socialism

The Communist Party of Australia’s 15th Congress was held from 27 February to 1 March in Naarm/Melbourne. Delegates met against the backdrop of Israel’s and...

Issue #2173

CPA greeting to the 41st Convention of the CPC

Elizabeth Rowley Leader Communist Party of Canada Dear Comrade Elizabeth, We are inspired and energised to see the progress made by our fraternal brothers and...

Issue #2181

Congress: A delegate’s experience

The 15th Congress was my first in-person experience of Congress. I attended the 14th Congress which was online due to unpredictability of COVID-19 lockdowns. The...

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 #2144

CPA greeting on the 60th anniversary of JVP

Anura Kumara Dissanayake President of Sri Lanka People’s Liberation Front, JVP Dear comrade, The Communist Party of Australia conveys its warmest greetings to the JVP...

CPA visit to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela embassy with Venezuelan Chargé d’affaires HE Luis Laya (left).

Issue #2114

The CPA welcomes the election of Nicolás Maduro as president of Venezuela

The Communist Party of Australia, congratulates President Nicolás Maduro on his successful election of 28 July 2024. In a recent meeting with Venezuelan Chargé d’affaires,...

Issue #2205

Communism: The long game

Australia had one of the largest Communist Parties in the Anglophone world in the middle of the last century. That this didn’t continue is not...

Issue #2169

Manifesto to the workers of Australia

The Communist Party of Australia was formed on 30 October 1920 – just 105 years ago. On 24 December 1920, the new Party published this...

Issue #2127

Spinning the Secrets of the State: Politics and Intelligence in Australia

Justin McPhee’s Spinning the Secrets of State was inspired by the intelligence debacle following the dubious intelligence used by the Howard government to justify the...

Issue #2132

Communist Party’s fight for Aboriginals

Members of the Sunshine Coast Branch of the CPA stumbled upon a statement from 1931 outlining the CPA’s position in solidarity with Aboriginal Australians. It...

Issue #2180

CPC – CPA 15th National Congress greetings

Central Committee of the Communist Party of Australia Sydney 6 February 2026, Beijing Re: Message of Congratulations Central Committee of the Communist Party of Australia,...

Issue #2147

CPA-DFLP bilateral meeting

Representatives of the International Department of Communist Party of Australia, CPA, and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, DFLP, held a bilateral meeting...

Issue #2188

The CPA’s Hammer and Sickle

The Hammer-and-Sickle originally appeared in revolutionary art and posters in Russia. Yevgeny Kamzolkin, credited as one of the design artists, used the motif in May...

Issue #2143

Demonisation of immigration

Canberra comrades stand up against recent demonisation of immigration

Issue #2209

New Queensland Instagram account

Go to @CPA.QLD

Issue #2180

DKP – CPA 15th National Congress greetings

Parteivorstand Hoffnungstraße 18 45127 Essen Internationale Beziehungen International Relations Relaciones Internacionales Международные отношения Essen, February 15, 2026 To the delegates of the 15th National Congress...

Issue #2098

DINGO

Paramilitarised Powers to intervene in civilian public order management were given to the Australian Defence Force to be used during the 2000 Sydney Olympics, although...

US soldier in Shoalwater Bay during Talisman Sabre 2011.

Issue #2159

We say ‘human rights,’ they say ‘tourists’

The Communist Party in Sydney has been campaigning for the NSW government to ban Israeli arms corporations from exhibiting their wares at the Indo Pacific...

Issue #2125

ALP: A crisis of policies and ideology

Opposition from Labor Party members to the AUKUS war coalition entered into by the Albanese government with the US and Britain emerged in Labor Party...

Issue #2139

CPA greeting on 70th anniversary of the LPRP

Comrade Bounleua Phandanouvong Acting Chairman of the Committee for External Relations Central Committee Lao People’s Revolutionary Party, LPRP Dear Comrade, The Communist Party of Australia...

Issue #2142

CPA Statement on the upcoming federal election

The betrayal of the people by the Albanese Labor government has opened the door for the Coalition to form a minority government with the support...

Issue #2121

Communist Parties’ meeting in Sydney

The brutal and illegal aggression by Israel first on Gaza, then on the West Bank, and now in Lebanon has brought together fraternal parties affected...

Issue #2146

A great democratic rights victory

The defeat of the attempts of the Menzies government to outlaw the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) in 1950 must rank as one of the...

Issue #2142

Obituary for Maria Hilario

In late February this year, the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) lost a great campaigner, worker, enthusiast, for women’s rights, and more recently Cuba, Venezuela...

Issue #2166

Communist Parties of Australia and Vietnam build relationship

The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) delegation, led by Party National President Vinnie Molina, Assistant General Secretary Elly Hulm and International Department member Andy Carruthers...

Issue #2169

Getting ready for Congress: State Conference/AGM updates

If a state has more than one Communist Party Branch, the Branches have a state conference in the lead-up to the National Conference. This year,...

Issue #2164

Stop the US threats to Venezuela

A CPA delegation led by the Party president paid a visit to the embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to meet with the Chief...

Issue #2209

Communist Party of Australia’s new office

Comrades from around the country pitched in to getting the Communist Party of Australia’s new office in shape for the opening in November, then headed...

Issue #2169

CPA 105 years

30 October this year marked the 105th anniversary of the foundation of the Communist Party of Australia. It was an historic event and signalled the...

Issue #2209

77th Anniversary of the founding of the PRC

On behalf of the International Department of the CPA, Andy Carruthers offered greetings to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to...

Issue #2180

Delegates’ expectations of Congress

Preparations for the 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) to be held 27 February to 1 March are well underway. Accommodation...

Issue #2179

15th National Congress CPA: Action for a Socialist Future

“The future of the world and humanity is at stake,” starts the draft Political Resolution to be put to the 15th National Congress of the...

Coat of arms of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Issue #2181

Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam

The Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam in Australia presents its compliments to the Communist Party of Australia and has the honour to...

Issue #2172

Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Dear Comrades in the Communist Party of Australia, Warm revolutionary greetings, On behalf of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and in the...

New room at Enmore Road with union art work.

Issue #2198

We’re moving!

Communist Party of Australia members have put in more than one hard weekend to move the Party Headquarters from Sydney’s Surry Hills to Enmore Road,...

Issue #2131

Appeal to all members and supporters to act now on issues arising from the National Cabinet on AntiSemitism

Of course, we deplore and discourage property damage being inflicted on property belonging to any group and in the current case the Jewish community. The...

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 #2210

Letter to Senator David Shoebridge

Senator David Shoebridge Leader of the Australian Greens Dear Senator, The Communist Party of Australia wishes to congratulate you on your election on 30th September...

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...

The Communist Party of Australia WA organised a state-based party school on 23-24 November in Boorloo/Perth.

Issue #2127

Improve your Marx

The Communist Party of Australia WA organised a state-based party school on 23-24 November in Boorloo/Perth. This was part of the Central Committee Education Collective...

Issue #2151

Joint Statement of Communist and Workers’ Parties

The Communist and Workers’ Parties signing this Joint Statement strongly condemn the US attack on Iran, which escalates the military offensive already launched by Israel....

Issue #2144

CPA Statement on UK ruling on the definition of a woman

The Central Committee analysed the implications of the UK ruling on the definition of a woman. It was important that the issue be seen in...