The Guardian • David Matters
Social 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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The Communist Party of Australia supports the just struggle of the farmers of India for the repeal of legislation in the Indian Parliament that hands control of farm produce to the transnational corporations.
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Issue #2017
Class struggle is primary
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an edited version of a speech delivered by CPA Assistant General Secretary David Matters on the reissuing of comrade Jack...
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Issue #2042
The bastard banks
The Reserve Bank continues to launch an assault on the working class. The fallacy that interest rate rises are going to do anything other than...
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Issue #2110
LETTERS
Albanese, apartheid and genocide Dear Guardian Reader, The Albanese government stands condemned for its support of those who commit genocide. Albanese wheels out his support...
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Issue #2173
Japan’s Takaichi: be alarmed
Australians have been presented a benign view of the new Japanese Prime Minister. Our Prime Minister has posed for photo ops. The reality is that...
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 #2015
“Inspiration and hope”
The morning of 23rd June came with a blustery cold wind to the town of Childers in Queensland. Particularly felt by myself and my fellow...
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Issue #1996
Brisbane branch campaign against AUKUS, casualisation, and climate change
There is no rest for the Brisbane Branch of the CPA as we continue our campaign against the IR omnibus Bill, the AUKUS nuclear submarine...
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Issue #2013
Queensland comrades organise! – The CPA and the lower-Northern Qld tour
On Thursday the 23rd June, we arrived in Childers, the day commemorating the Childers Backpacker Tragedy. Sixteen young people were burnt to death at the...
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Issue #2096
Modern Political Economy – A New Coursebook
Those who have struggled through Marx’s Capital will find this a must read and study. As a coursebook it is written in accessible language and...
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Issue #2082
World Association of Political Economy report
Political Economy, the study of economic systems and how they are controlled by political systems, affects all of us. The following is a report from...
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Issue #2091
The Chinese Peoples Consultative Conference and the Australian media
Many Australians seem to accept without question the bias of the Australian media. A very subtle form of brainwashing goes on every day. The first...
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Issue #2162
Dead to Rights
While travelling in China I met a woman who was running a coffee shop. In conversation she talked about her history in China. She was...
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Issue #2181
Forum on multipolarity and Chinese modernisation
On 21 February David Matters led a forum on Multipolarity and Chinese Modernisation: A synopsis of nation state and class. These distinct concepts are inextricably...
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Issue #2074
CPA Qld Party School
The Brisbane and Sunshine Coast branches of the Communist Party of Australia jointly hosted this year’s Queensland Party School, held the Waterloo Bay Hotel. Presenters...
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Issue #1964
Contribution by CPA General Secretary Andrew Irving at the World Symposium For Marxist Political Parties
In China, the CPC has made many outstanding political, social, economic and defence achievements for its people
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Issue #2174
Marxian Economics – A new Japanese Tradition
Marxism has a strong focus on local concrete conditions. It follows that there are many ways to apply the insights of Maxism to many different...
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Issue #2198
Travels in China
This June, I arranged to meet with a comrade in a remote rural township in Songxi County Fujian province. The area was an old revolutionary...
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Issue #2123
Queensland elections
An election contested based on who could be tougher on children, with an underlying appeal to racism. A strategic flip towards making abortion an issue,...
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Issue #2173
Queensland transport: so many gave so much
There is a long history of union activism and militancy in Queensland transport. I recently attended a 100th anniversary event for the Brisbane city council...
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Issue #2111
New Issue of Australian Marxist Review
Australian Marxist Review #77, the theoretical journal of the Communist Party of Australia is now on sale. Go to cpa.org.au – AMR or contact a...
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Issue #2105
Queensland says no to nuclear
Around 70 people from unions, conservation groups, the general community, and of course the Communist Party of Australia gathered to hear Speakers from the Conservation...
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