The Guardian • COVID-19
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...
Read moreSuccess of Cuba’s fight against Coronavirus
On the 1st of January, 2021, Cuban revolution completed 62 years.
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Issue #1953
Beyond digital capitalism: new ways of living
Only a socialist publication could, in the midst of COVID-19, expose “for all to see the severe consequences of longstanding neoliberal state practices” and take on the challenge of capturing the significance of the pandemic and what it spoke to in terms of imagining, struggling for, and planning for, new ways of living.
Read moreUS intelligence community meddling in COVID-19’ origins echoes the tactics of Iraq war
At the end of May, US President Joe Biden ordered the intelligence community to “redouble” its efforts in the investigation of the origin of COVID-19 and report back to him in ninety days.
Read moreStudy reveals shocking decline in life expectancy in the US
The United States life expectancy fell by more than a year, from 78.8 years to 77.3 years, during the first half of 2020.
Read moreThe [UK] PM is giving bosses, not workers, the right to “exercise judgement” on COVID safety
Boris Johnson is a gambler and lifting remaining COVID restrictions this month is a gamble with unpredictable consequences.
Read moreEye-witness account of US attempts to destabilise Cuba
Approximately two weeks after Father’s Day, the COVID-19 Delta variant began to take hold, particularly in the province of Matanzas.
Read moreFederal court upholds India travel ban
In a judgment handed down on the 10th May, the Federal Court of Australia (FCA) upheld the federal government’s India travel ban.
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Issue #2001
Unite under the Olympic spirit
Following more than six years of preparation and nearly thirty days of exciting competition, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, which have successfully presented...
Read moreCoronavirus upends world of work, opens workers’ eyes to unions
In the months since the coronavirus pandemic was officially declared in the US on 13th March, 2020, the nation’s world of work has turned upside down.
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Issue #2032
22nd International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties
“Solidarity with Cuba and all the struggling peoples. United, we are stronger in the anti-imperialist struggle, together with social and popular movements, in the face...
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Issue #2021
Public sector alliance rally – WA
In Western Australia there has been a campaign of industrial activity over the past six weeks by more than ten trade unions who make up...
Read moreCOVID-19 and child labour
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) reported that child labour has risen by over 8mil to 160mil children in the four years from 2016 to 2020.
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Issue #1991
Interview with comrade Ekin Sönmez from the Communist Party of Turkey
Comrade Ekin Sönmez is a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP). Our comrades at the Guardian – The Workers’...
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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...
Read moreSocialist and capitalist response to COVID-19 and vaccinations
Now more than ever is probably a good time to look at the difference in responses between socialist and capitalist countries
Read moreCuba is not alone
The Communist Party of Australia recently sent a diplomatic delegation to Canberra.
Read moreEver increasing precarity for public education amidst TAFE funding cuts and privatisation
The Federal Government continues to neglect public Vocational Education and Training, diminishing accessibility for many Australians.
Read moreAnti-mask is anti-working class
Thousands of anti-maskers have gathered in major centres around the country in opposition to COVID-19 restrictions.
Read moreDistractions
Under the cloak of the global pandemic, the US military-industrial complex is gleefully organising another war to rescue capitalism. The propaganda machine has certainly made...
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Issue #2017
“We don’t need no (bourgeois) education!”: Comrades congregate at national school
On the 22-24th July, comrades from across the country from South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Canberra, and Queensland met in Sydney to learn about...
Read moreBHP can’t enforce vaccine mandate: Fair Work Commission
Workers at NSW’s Mt Arthur BHP coal mine have won in the Fair Work Commission (FWC), which ruled on 3rd December that BHP can not enforce a vaccine mandate at the site until it undertakes genuine consultation with workers.
Read moreAustralians “shielded” from systemic problems during pandemic
Alexander Michaels is a Scientific Officer for Laverty Pathology and says that people are aware of problems in the health system but not to the full extent.
Read moreBusinesses exploit JobKeeper subsidy
It has been revealed that businesses have rorted the JobKeeper program during 2020, with many of them using it to turn a profit.
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Issue #2035
Contributions to IMCWP 2022
Editor’s note: The following are contributions from the Iraqi Communist Party and the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (Czech Republic) to the International Meeting...
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Issue #2033
Cuba wins for the 30th consecutive time at the UN General Assembly
Activists around the world celebrated Cuba’s win at the UN General Assembly as 185 countries voted in favour of Cuba’s draft resolution to end the...
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Issue #2001
Letter from Denmark
In July of 2020, I was given “special permission” by the border authorities to leave Australia and join my partner in Denmark. For almost two...
Read moreThanks but no tanks, rats please?
“You can’t make everything free,” said Prime Minister Scott Morrison ...
Read moreCOVID-19 vaccines: community groups urge trade minister to deliver on waiving monopolies at WTO
Following months of campaigning, Australian civil society organisations last week welcomed the comments from Trade Minister Dan Tehan
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Issue #2025
Wa State Myanmar makes great progress!
“Our study of the laws of revolutionary war springs from the desire to eliminate all wars; herein lies the distinction between us Communists and all...
Read moreNo politicisation of COVID origin tracing
As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across the globe, the current situation is still grave.
Read moreLETTER
Dear Editor, I am very happy about the recent victory of Lula in regaining the presidency of Brazil, but he has a lot of work...
Read moreThe “new normal” life with COVID, two years on
New data shows that the cost of living has increased 3.5 per week in the past year and poverty is once more on the increase...
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Issue #2041
GLOBAL BRIEFS
PERU: Hip hop, rock reggae, and punk songs are accompanying the continuing protests of thousands of Peruvians. Displaying unprecedented creativity, Peruvian youth have composed songs...
Read moreDjokovic, Hillsong reveal COVID contradictions
“No Rapid Antigen Tests available” – the now ubiquitous message can be found in just about every supermarket and chemist in the country.
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Issue #1973
Working class over-policed, while the rich enjoy freedom
The response to the pandemic from Australian governments has revealed (perhaps more than any other event in recent history) their contempt for the Australian working class.
Read moreLogistics and manufacturing industries in chaos due to government’s Omicron crises
The recent Omicron crises, the result of the incompetent Coalition government’s “let it rip” strategy, is reeking chaos in Australia’s logistics industry. High numbers of...
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Issue #1982
Nurses and midwives deserve better working conditions
Two weeks ago, a petition with over 50,000 signatures called for Australia’s nurses and midwives to receive a COVID disaster payment for their work during...
Read moreThe challenge of dealing with COVID-19
In the world of the 24-hour news cycle, we are being bombarded with information overload. The mass media move from picking at one warped point...
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Issue #2036
New year’s greeting from the president
It feels like only a few months have passed since I wrote a season’s greeting for 2022. It was the year our 14th Congress, delayed...
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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.
Read moreACTU calls on government to save lives and support a waiver on vaccine patents
Australia is just one of twelve countries stopping a waiver on patents for COVID-19 products which would allow developing countries to manufacture COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.
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Issue #2002
Fight for public health and workplace safety rally – Melbourne
CPA Victorian Branch comrades marched to and attended the Fight for Public Health and Workplace Safety rally on Saturday 19th March at Melbourne’s State Library....
Read moreIndustrial policy for Australia post COVID-19 webinar
This webinar proved to be a most interesting Q&A debate between Sarah Howe, chairing the session and Professor John McKay, Hon. Prof of the Faculty of the Arts and Education at Deakin University.
Read moreCommunist Party of Greece, Joint Statement
A year has passed since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, which also acted as a catalyst for the deepening of the capitalist crisis ...
Read moreA Melbourne perspective: lockdowns, “freedom” rallies, and mandatory vaccination
The topics covered were discussed at a recent Melbourne CPA branch meeting.
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Issue #2016
DINGO
At its Jobs and Skills Summit in September, the federal government will respond to staff shortages in nursing and aged care with a plan to...
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Issue #1991
Year in review
2021 has been a year that has intensified the elements of the class struggle we have been experiencing since the pandemic arrived in Australia in 2020.
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Issue #2046
GLOBAL BRIEFS
HONDURAS: The President of Honduras has announced that the country will seek to establish diplomatic relations with mainland China instead of Taiwan. The Foreign Minister...
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Issue #2003
May Day 2022: WORKERS DEMAND CHANGE!
Australian and international workers’ struggle is taking the demand for change to the ruling class who always put the weight of any crisis back onto...
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Issue #2008
COVID-19 is worse than ever in Australia
It is hard to believe that after over two years of harrowing fears of COVID-19 that people in Australia would be experiencing the worst situation...
Read moreACTU CALLS for GLOBAL SOLIDARITY ON PANDEMIC
The ACTU stated that “[t]he pandemic has highlighted the world’s stark social and health inequities".
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Issue #2065
USA: Hunger and food insecurity
The United States is a net exporter of food, yet hunger is a worsening phenomenon with many Americans unable to buy basic foods, due to...
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Issue #1993
“Freedom” rally, Supreme Court Gardens – Perth
In the shadow of WA Premier Mark McGowan’s announcement of a new mandate and restrictions to be imposed once the WA hard border falls on...
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Issue #2032
We demand more for teachers
Education was one of the industries most effected by the COVID-19 pandemic with teachers experiencing some of the worst workplace conditions with inadequate resources. But...
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Issue #1982
Fair Work Ombudsman finds wage theft in hotel quarantine
In July this year, the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO), Sandra Parker, launched an investigation into thirty-seven companies who ran security for hotel quarantine in Melbourne...
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Issue #2014
RBA and ALP want workers to pay for the crisis
After decades of wage stagnation and increasing living costs, the Reserve Bank of Australia has told workers to tighten their belts and accept further real...
Read moreFremantle council workers win
The recent attention to trade union activity is unsurprising; victories of the unions bring admiration for workers but worry the capitalist elites.
Read moreUnions join to give voice on job casualisation and COVID-19
It was great to see so many people joining together to listen and give voice to the major problems of casualisation and the pandemic that...
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Issue #2046
A return to Cuba
Since January 1983, dedicated groups of Australian and New Zealand friends of Cuba have made their way to the Caribbean to show their support for...
Read moreOp-ed: the global class struggle post-pandemic
Over one year ago (30/1/2020), the World Health Organisation (WHO), declared that the outbreak of COVID-19 constituted a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
Read moreCampus action as report reveals university job devastation
Uni staff will launch a week of action as a new report lays bare the devastation of COVID in tertiary education, with close to one in five staff losing their jobs in 2021.
Read moreWA police access COVID app
The WA government has butted heads with their police force over the police’s ability to access data from the state’s contact-tracing app, SafeWA.
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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 #1982
Queensland police fight vaccine mandate
Members of the Queensland Police Service (QPS) have launched a legal challenge in the Supreme Court of Queensland (QSC) against a vaccine mandate issued by...
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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 #2036
Build the fightback
Decades of privatisations, job cuts and wage suppression and more recently the cuts masked by measures taken during the COVID-19 pandemic, have taken a huge...
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Issue #2021
Profiteering & neglect: the aged care crisis
The aged care sector is in crisis. The failings are systemic and require fundamental structural changes. Aged care has been commodified by corporate and church...
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Issue #2003
More support for teachers needed
While the Morrison government acts as if the pandemic is for all intents and purposes over, workers on the frontlines know that this is far from...
Read moreIdeology before health
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the failures of capitalism and its neoliberal policies.
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Issue #2024
Remove Alan Joyce
Throughout the pandemic Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has consistently proven himself to be the walking embodiment of corporate greed. Alan Joyce took in $5,575,000 –...
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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,...
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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 moreWorkers forced to pay for crisis
Australian government income support for the COVID19 crisis, JobKeeper and JobSeeker, has ceased and been revised from April despite ongoing hardships for workers in Australia relating to the pandemic.
Read moreJobKeeper used to profit the corporations, not help people
The purpose of JobKeeper should have been to help keep the working class employed during a once-in-a-century pandemic that devastated the global economy. However ...
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Issue #1996
Where’s our federal anti-corruption commission?
There were many issues driving the 2019 federal election – wages and the cost of living, climate change, and negative gearing, among others. One issue,...
Read moreThe people will not be silenced – COVID needs a social response
Our governments want us to accept the failures of their pandemic response as just chance events, bad luck or someone’s personal fate.
Read moreThe sinister side of the anti-vaxxer “freedom rallies”
Across the country, anti-government anti-vax “freedom rallies” have erupted over vaccine mandates, pandemic restrictions, and at the broadest level, the government itself.
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Issue #1963
Vaccine rollout disgrace!
The federal government’s vaccine rollout continues to be a disappointment.
Read moreIncome support during post-test isolation
Unions NSW have had a breakthrough for workers, winning a $320 COVID Test and Isolate support payment from the NSW Coalition government to cover obligatory stay-at-home time following a COVID test. Victoria has a similar $450 Coronavirus Test Isolation Payment.
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Issue #2017
Scomo’s contempt of government explains why Australia was so poorly managed
It is unfathomable to think that a man who was Prime Minister no less than three months ago has so thoroughly dismissed the institution he...
Read moreCovid crisis in outback NSW: Indigenous communities at risk
The COVID crisis deepened this week as New South Wales began recording over 800 cases a day, and regional Victoria went back into lockdown.
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Issue #2002
Reflections on the outcomes of the CPA 14th Congress
The Communist Party of Australia successfully hosted its 14th National Congress at the end of February 2022 and elected a new Central Committee. COVID restrictions...
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Issue #2020
Scotty’s gotta go
With the Morrison government over, you’d think we’d have heard the end of it – but you’d be wrong! It turns out that former prime...
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Issue #2047
US maternal death rate highest in developed world
According to a recent report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maternal mortality rose by 40 per cent at the height...
Read moreThe workers and the people first!
Incredibly, fifteen months after the first COVID-19 lockdown in Australia was declared, the Sydney outbreak of the Delta variant is now being called a national emergency by the NSW government.
Read moreCan employers mandate vaccinations?
Editorial note: This article does not purport to give legal advice. It is for general informational purposes only With the national COVID-19 vaccine rollout well...
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Issue #2022
Venezuelan film premieres in Perth
On Saturday 13th August 2022 in a joint venture between the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Canberra, the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society and...
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Issue #2008
Private schools got richer under JobKeeper
To say that JobKeeper was a program designed to benefit the ruling class during the pandemic would be an understatement. As we have seen, Harvey...
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Issue #2054
In solidarity with Cuba
A recent Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) delegation of seven from around Australia attended the celebration of May Day in Cuba. More than 1200...
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Issue #1993
Forklift license fiasco highlights deepening pandemic crisis
Earlier this month, it appeared as though Australia had returned to the 19th Century when it became known that prime minister Scott Morrison had floated...
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Issue #1982
Morrison plays favourites with the Commonwealth
A hallmark of conservative rhetoric is to decry that the opposition is being opportunistic and politicising a sensitive situation.
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Issue #1974
Palmer’s dangerous rhetoric is all self-interest
Mining magnate Clive Palmer is once again ramping up the populist rhetoric.
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Issue #2016
Fund public health
Hospitals and their staff are at breaking point as the wave of BA.4/BA.5 COVID-19 sub-strains and flu send hospitalisations to breaking point. GPs across Australia...
Read moreCOVID-19
The pandemic is ravaging India with more than one million new cases every three days – a figure which is undoubtedly a gross underestimate.
Read moreHow the “red rooster line” affects COVID-19 police response
Often referred to light-heartedly, the “Red Rooster line” highlights the class border separating two parts of the city – east and west Sydney – where...
Read moreCPA Central Committee statement: for COVID-safe community
The CPA Central Committee expresses its sympathy to the many working people and the broader community suffering in the wake of the COVID Delta strain...
Read moreBring back Jobkeeper!
Thousands of workers face a substantial loss of income with the extension of lockdowns in Victoria and NSW and a new one in South Australia.
Read moreCOVID: It is a race!
As the Victorian state government continued to grapple with the more virulent Delta variant of COVID-19, the federal government failed to recognise the seriousness of the situation.
Read moreCall for urgent vaccinations for Sydney workers and an end to pandemic handouts to big business
The people of south-western and western Sydney need 24-hour vaccination hubs and pop-up vaccination centres as the Delta variant continues to pose a threat to...
Read moreGetting left behind: people at high risk and lockdown
As many Australians eagerly await the seventy per cent vaccination rate so we can finally begin “opening up” and start easing the lockdowns, there is an enormous group of Australians who are being left out of the conversation
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Issue #2023
Nurses strike for better pay and conditions
Earlier this month, Nurses and midwives across NSW went on strike for 24 hours, while maintaining life-preserving care. The demands are simple: The NSW Nurses...
Read moreRAT stoush worsens amid continuing shortages
Rapid antigen tests (RATs) are still proving hard to get a hold of across the country. Since the Liberal Party made the decision for Australia...
Read moreTeachers demand Federal Government make their vaccinations a “priority”
The Australian Education Union (AEU) wants educators across the country to be considered higher up on the list for those to be inoculated against COVID-19.
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Issue #1970
Charities under threat from coalition’s legislation
Undisputedly, the pandemic has caused economic disruption, much to the chagrin of the Morrison government.
Read moreVaccination the only way out
The delta strain of COVID-19 had spread to all states on the eastern seaboard and to South Australia and border closures are in place at the time of writing.
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Issue #2046
The fight against public service austerity
No matter how much employers want workers to understand otherwise, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a boom period for capital. Finance capital, represented most obviously...
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Issue #1972
ATAGI not the problem, our prime minister is
With less than fifteen per cent fully vaccinated and less than twenty per cent only having their first dose, to say that the Morrison government’s vaccine rollout has been a disaster would be an understatement.
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Issue #1979
Getting fully vaccinated
Despite the COVID-19 vaccination not being a panacea against the pandemic, currently it is the best option people have to protect themselves, their families, friends and comrades.
Read moreHARD SHUT DOWN NOW!
The situation in NSW is extremely serious. The Delta strain is far more infectious and deadly than earlier strains. Almost ten per cent of those who tested positive have been hospitalised.
Read moreMassive delivery delays cripple Melbourne, Sydney
With demand up thirty per cent from last year, Australia Post has been experiencing long delays in Victoria and New South Wales due to extended lockdowns in Melbourne, Sydney and regional areas in both states.
Read more“THE INEQUALITY VIRUS”
“COVID-19 has been likened to an x-ray, revealing fractures in the fragile skeleton of the societies we have built.”
Read moreMajor floods a timely reminder to humanity’s greatest threat
Recent major flooding across Germany, Belgium, and China, along with wildfires in Northern America have sharply brought back into focus the need for urgent united action on climate change.
Read moreOnly solidarity can defeat COVID
Around the globe, COVID-19 in its various mutations continues to spread, with the health systems of many developing nations unable to cope and vaccines in short supply.
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Issue #2012
AMA President urges immediate action on healthcare crisis
Earlier this month, ahead of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s first national cabinet meeting, Dr Omar Khorshid, Australian Medical Association (AMA) President, stated in a media...
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Issue #1971
Aus gov’ts favour celebrity racist over citizens
Last week, Far-right British commentator Katie Hopkins had her visa cancelled and subsequently was deported from Australia.
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Issue #2070
DINGO
As temperatures climb, and heatwaves become more common, it’s worth remembering that unions achieve and enforce protection against heat. As a comrade in the Rail...
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Issue #2053
“We stand shoulder to shoulder”
The World Federation of Trade Unions, the militant, class-oriented voice, representing 105 million workers who live, work, and struggle in 133 countries of the 5...
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