The Guardian • elections
Official applauds HK’s new electoral system for balancing social interests, promoting democracy
Hong Kong’s overhauled electoral system balances the interests of the city
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Issue #2011
French legislative vote
Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his party France Insoumise (France unbowed (to the neoliberal turn)), the socialists, communists, and others have pulled off the electoral stunner of...
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Issue #2014
Left victory in Colombia
The electoral victory of Gustavo Petro in Colombia is, without a doubt, one of the most significant political developments in Latin America in the last...
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Issue #2031
“Brazil Is Back,” Says Lula After Election Victory
“Today, we are telling the world that Brazil is back and is too big to be relegated to the sad role of a pariah,” he...
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Issue #1958
Lula cleared to run against Bolsonaro after Supreme Court ruling
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is clear to run against Jair Bolsonaro in next year’s presidential election ...
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Issue #2003
CP of Pakistan: statement on current situation in Pakistan
The new setup in Pakistan has been established with the democratic parliamentary facade that has brought an unceremonious end to the Imran government. But the...
Read morePeru elects a left-wing president
Pedro Castillo has been confirmed as the next President of Peru after a neck and neck election, defeating Keiko Fujimori.
Read more“We deserve respect and peace”
The Nicaraguan government has expressed concerns over foreign interference in its upcoming 7th November general election to determine the next President ...
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Issue #2003
Macron and Le Pen face off in the 2022 French presidential election
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will once again face off in the second round of the French presidential election in a repeat of the...
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Issue #2083
GLOBAL BRIEFS
RUSSIA: Russia’s top election authority has declared Nikolay Kharitonov eligible to run for president in March elections. He will be representing the Communist Party of...
Read moreBrazil: Caught between hope and despair
Brazil’s next general election is scheduled to be held next year, on the 2nd October. Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers’...
Read morePeru’s electoral authority declares presidential runoff June 6
On a more than 10-hour election day, Peruvians went to the polls to elect their new president; however, the campaign will be extended until June 6 with the second-round runoff.
Read moreChile: Poll favours communist candidate in presidential election
According to a survey released on Monday, Daniel Jadue, the candidate for the Communist Party of Chile, is positioned at the top of the polls for the upcoming presidential elections of next November 21.
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 moreBritain’s local elections will see largest number of communist candidates since 1980s
On May 6, voters in Britain will go to the polls in local elections that will see the largest number of candidates representing the Communist Party (CPB) since the early 1980s.
Read moreNew rules set to target minor parties
The Morrison Government has introduced a raft of bills that will make it more difficult for minor parties to enter the nation’s Federal Parliament.
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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...
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Issue #2197
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BURKINA FASO: Burkina Faso has broken off diplomatic relations with France, its former colonial ruler, citing violations of sovereignty, foreign interference, and worsening bilateral relations....
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Issue #2198
GLOBAL BRIEFS
CHINA: The China passenger car association said that June sails reached 1.50 million, 22 per cent higher than in June 2025 and a 12 per...
Read moreCoalition, ALP condemn communism as “Extreme”
On the 3rd of February, the Senate, unfortunately, passed a motion to condemn “all […] extremist groups which seek to promote fascism, communism, anarchism, violence and bigotry in our community.”
Read moreFar-right surges as French elections draw near
With the French presidential elections little over two months away, the first round scheduled for the 10th April, polls show a surging far right and...
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Issue #2004
Timor-Leste elections 2022
In a conclusive victory in the recent Timor-Leste presidential elections, José Ramos-Horta, a former foreign affairs Minister, Prime Minister and President, became the new President...
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Issue #2073
GLOBAL BRIEFS
POLAND: Close to a million people took part in what was called the ‘March of a Million Hearts’ in Warsaw last Sunday. The action was...
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Issue #2086
GLOBAL BRIEFS
YEMEN: According to a joint statement from Australia, Bahrein, Denmark, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, strikes were conducted...
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Issue #2114
GLOBAL BRIEFS
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Hundreds of Dominicans demonstrated in front of the National Palace, Santo Domingo, demanding improvements to the Criminal Code. The protesters wanted a modern...
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Issue #2183
GLOBAL BRIEFS
OMAN: Oman has declared that it has no intention to join Trump’s “Board of Peace.” “We affirm our solidarity with the countries in the Gulf...
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Issue #2190
India and the myth of Gen-Z
In India, over 123 million people voted in the four states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal (home to 290 million people) for...
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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.
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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...
Read moreElection 2022: where do the major parties stand on housing?
Heading into the 2022 Federal Election on 21st May, housing is once again a major issue. The cost of housing increased by twenty-five per cent...
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Issue #2033
Workers’ rights up for grabs
Ahead of the upcoming Victorian State Election on the 26th November, labour rights are on the ballot once more. The Andrews Labor government has made...
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Issue #2059
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SRI LANKA: Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is accused in a report of tampering with police records in a bid to hamper investigations into mass graves...
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Issue #2067
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SPAIN: Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s candidate for the speaker of the Congress of Deputies won the vote for the position in Sanchez’s first trial in...
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Issue #2110
Maduro’s win in Venezuela is a win for the Bolivarian Revolution
Nicolás Maduro is the declared winner of Venezuela’s presidential election, winning a third term. It is also a win for the ‘Bolivarian Revolution.’ The head...
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Issue #2143
HALF THE SKY
With more than one million votes already cast, the two major parties finally announced policies aimed at combatting the scourge of family and gendered violence....
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Issue #2169
HALF THE SKY
It is often said that history is written by the victors. It should more accurately be said that history is written by male politicians and...
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Issue #2004
Macron beats Le Pen but growth of French fascism continues
French President Emmanuel Macron has won re-election against far-right rival Marine Le Pen. The first French president to be re-elected in twenty years, Macron’s margin...
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Issue #2005
Preparing for war does not preserve peace
Everyday in our news cycle the drums of of war become louder. Last month, however, that messaging received a massive boost when Defence Minister Peter...
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Issue #2007
Back the call for a 5.5 per cent wage increase
Earlier this month, amid predictable outcry from the Coalition, Anthony Albanese voiced his support for a 5.1 per cent increase in wages, to keep pace...
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Issue #2035
Labor wins Victorian state election
Victorians went to the polls on 26th November to decide their next state government. In the wake of the past three years, with the pandemic...
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Issue #2114
NT Election: ‘Fear and division’ pay off for CLP
The Country Liberal Party has formed a majority government in the Northern Territory after a campaign described by activist group GetUp as “using crime as...
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Issue #2118
CPA congratulatory message
Dear comrades, The Communist Party of Australia conveys its warmest congratulations to comrade Anura Dissanayake Leader of the JVP and National People’s Power, NPP for...
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Issue #2146
GLOBAL BRIEFS
NEPAL: A three-day conference in Nepal, titled “Climate Change, Mountains and the Future of Humanity” took place last week. “From the lap of Sagarmatha (Everest),...
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Issue #2173
GLOBAL BRIEFS
HUNGARY: The current corruption scandal in Ukraine is “one of the most serious corruption scandals in the history of European politics,” the Hungarian Foreign Minister...
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Issue #2194
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BOLIVIA: Bolivia’s legislature has passed a law granting President Rodrigo Paz the authority to use the military to clear roadblocks set up by anti-government protesters....
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Issue #2196
GLOBAL BRIEFS
POLAND: Polish President Karol Nawrocki has stripped Ukrainian President Zelensky of Poland’s highest state order, the Order of the White Eagle. The decision followed escalating...
Read moreWA election a double-edged sword for workers
Western Australians went to the polls on the 13th of March in a historic state election. The Australian Labor Party (ALP), coming from a substantial majority in the last election, obliterated the two other major parties, and Premier Mark McGowan retained his seat for another term.
Read moreVale Fred Paterson
Born on the 13th June 1897 on a pig farm at Gladstone, Fred Paterson became the first communist elected to a state parliament in Australia.
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Issue #1997
Why the WA newspapers fight matters to all of us
In our democracy, we value the principle of one person, one vote. We would be outraged if the richer you are the more votes you...
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Issue #2007
Keep money out of politics
Climate action has been at the centre of the 2022 Australian Federal Election. The two major parties are flexing their climate credentials, with the Coalition...
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Issue #2008
Looking ahead to a Labor government
It’s official: Anthony Albanese has been sworn in as Australia’s 31st Prime Minister. At the time of writing, no seats in the House of Representatives...
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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 #2054
GLOBAL BRIEFS
JAPAN: Dozens of anti-nuclear activists protested to demand Japan scrap its plans to dump radioactive waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean...
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Issue #2068
GLOBAL BRIEFS
RUSSIA: The Kremlin last week rejected allegations that it was behind a plane crash that is presumed to have killed mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin. Kremlin...
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Issue #2136
GLOBAL BRIEFS
URUGUAY: Yamandu Orsi, a left-wing former history teacher, has won the presidential election in Uruguay. During his campaign he was supported by former president Jose...
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Issue #2140
GLOBAL BRIEFS
FRANCE: A Paris court has sentenced right-wing politician Marine Le Pen to a four-year jail term for embezzlement, half of which is without parole. Le...
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Issue #2142
LETTERS
Propaganda polling Dear comrade editor, I was contacted by a polling agency last week, and curious to find out what it was about I decided...
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Issue #2160
Bolivia’s election – a turn to the right
Bolivia’s 17 August general election saw a loss for the left-wing Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) party. MAS has dominated Bolivian politics for nearly twenty years....
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Issue #2162
Guyana Elections – oil wealth and Venezuela’s territorial claims
President Irfaan Ali, the leader of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), has secured a second term in the Guyana election on 1 September. The PPP...
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Issue #2167
GLOBAL BRIEFS
HUNGARY: Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban accused Ukrainian special services of seeking to meddle in the country’s domestic affairs and supporting the opposition. “The Ukrainian...
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Issue #2172
Zohran Mamdani is not a win for the left
Zohran Mamdani has made shockwaves throughout the United States. He ran as a Democratic Socialist and won, first the primary and then the New York...
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Issue #2175
GLOBAL BRIEFS
DENMARK: Denmark called on the United States to stop “threatening” Greenland as President Donald Trump told US media that he “absolutely needed” the territory, a...
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Issue #2186
GLOBAL BRIEFS
US: President Donald Trump acknowledged in an interview that the United States had supplied weapons to anti-government protesters in Iran during recent January unrest. The...
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Issue #2188
GLOBAL BRIEFS
JAPAN: The Japanese government has amended its arms export regulations (see “Japan scraps lethal weapons export ban” this issue). “A decision was made to amend...
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Issue #2195
GLOBAL BRIEFS
JAPAN: The Japanese government will send specialists to Greenland to study the possibility of mining rare earth metals and other critical minerals. Japan is seeking...
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Issue #2208
GLOBAL BRIEFS
GERMANY: NATO intelligence services found no evidence of Russian involvement in a recent drone incident at Leipzig Airport and informed their authorities accordingly, the Russian...
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Issue #2209
GLOBAL BRIEFS
CHINA: China has said it opposes “illegal” US sanctions against Iranian airlines. The US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent earlier warned that “all the Iranian airlines...
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Issue #2016
Climate action looming as first Parliamentary sitting approaches
Parliament is meeting at the end of this month for the first time since the 2022 Federal Election with promises of significant reforms, including climate...
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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,...
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Issue #2007
Who rules Australia?
One of the striking features of federal elections is their increasingly undemocratic nature and Americanisation. Much of the electioneering by major parties has been short...
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Issue #2008
Smashing the two-party system is possible
The Communist Party of Australia predicted a government where Greens, progressives and independents would play an important role. At the time of making this statement...
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Issue #2074
GLOBAL BRIEFS
USA: US Republican House Representative Marjory Taylor Greene has raised concerns about the weapons Hamas militants used in their attack on Israel. Greene suggested in...
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Issue #2080
GLOBAL BRIEFS
ARGENTINA: Right-wing populist candidate Javier Milei has won in the final round of Argentina’s presidential election, defeating Sergio Massa, who defeated Milei in the first...
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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,...
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Issue #2116
GLOBAL BRIEFS
ALGERIA: 78-year-old Algerian president Abdelmaijid Tebboune won the presidential election held last Saturday with 94.65 per cent of the vote, according to the official count....
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Issue #2119
GLOBAL BRIEFS
GERMANY: The co-leaders of the Greens, one of the three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholtz’s troubled coalition, are to step down after the latest in...
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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 #2136
Germany’s crisis of working-class politics
While attention is focused on the rise of the right-wing populist Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) – and liberal opinion in Britain anxiously parses the difference...
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Issue #2139
GLOBAL BRIEFS
NAMIBIA: Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah was sworn in as Namibia’s first female president, nearly sixty years after she joined the liberation movement fighting for independence from apartheid...
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Issue #2142
GREEN NOTES
Extreme and costly weather events continue to have a deadly and destructive impact on people, our biosphere, and the planet. 2024 was the second consecutive...
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Issue #2144
GLOBAL BRIEFS
MEXICO: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected US President Trump’s proposals to send US troops to Mexico to help her administration fight drug trafficking. Speaking at...
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Issue #2177
GLOBAL BRIEFS
USA: The Pentagon has issued orders to prepare several hundred active-duty military police for potential deployment to Minneapolis, Minnesota. The orders come amid growing concerns...
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Issue #2146
Solutions to Election Crossword
Guardian 19 May 2025 #2145 Across 4 Workers – who really lost this election 7 Tree Tory – slang for a voter who is conservative but...
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Issue #2004
Jobs jobs jobs! Liberals ignore quality over quantity
Once again, one of the LNP’s go-to slogans for the upcoming federal election is “Jobs Jobs Jobs!” After Labor leader Albanese was raked over the...
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Issue #2006
Toothless tiger in the capitalist jungle
The question of the integrity of government has emerged as a major issue in the lead-up to the May 21st federal elections as Prime Minister...
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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...
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Issue #2149
GLOBAL BRIEFS
United States: The US has once again vetoed a United Nations Security Council draft resolution on Gaza. The most recent resolution, introduced by a coalition...
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Issue #2150
McCarthyism is back – Hawley style
US Senator Josh Hawley, was briefly famous for raising a fist of encouragement to the 6 January mob that attacked the US Capitol building seeking...
Read morePoliticians treat marginalised peoples as props
E Lennon As the two major parties press towards a 21st May election day, their treatment of marginalised peoples worsens. People with Disability Australia (PWD)...
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Issue #2008
Fight for change
“We want change,” was the message to the major parties. The Liberals copped a routing as millions of people sought change. Most of the Murdoch...
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Issue #2168
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BOLIVIA: Rodrigo Paz, a right-wing senator, won Bolivia’s presidential election with 54% of the vote and told supporters in his victory speech: “Today Bolivia can...
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Issue #2170
GLOBAL BRIEFS
VENEZUELA: Venezuela suspended energy agreements with Trinidad and Tobago for hosting US warships and troops. The US deployed its biggest military mission to the Caribbean...
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Issue #2193
GLOBAL BRIEFS
US: United States Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth discussed key foreign policy issues for Washington at a defence summit in Singapore. Among other things he...
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Issue #2198
Trump’s anti-communist crusade, a midterm panic move
In the space of a single week, the contours of the Trump administration’s political strategy heading into the November midterms snapped into focus. It is...
Read moreMorrison gov’t wants to restrict your vote
Our democracy is, yet again, under attack.
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Issue #2004
For a workers’ democracy
At the end of this month, Australians will participate in another federal election. Our elections, an expression of bourgeois democracy, are often presented as an...
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Issue #2006
VOTE THEM OUT
The Coalition Morrison government has got to go. On Saturday 21st May vote them out! The Communist Party of Australia rejects the undemocratic electoral system...
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Issue #2009
Feet on the ground
After nine years of corrupt, anti-people, climate deniers in office, the newly elected Albanese Labor government faces many challenges. Expectations of real change are high,...
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Issue #2048
NSW: Coalition booted out
The message from NSW voters on 25th March was loud and clear. The Perrottet Coalition government took a hit, losing twelve of its 47 seats...
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Issue #2148
LETTERS
Informal votes make a difference Dear Comrade Editor, As of 29 May the federal election AEC tally count is still continuing, with Bradfield having a...
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Issue #2149
Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House
Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House analyses the 2024 United States presidential election, examining Joe Biden’s disastrous bid for re-election, and the...
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Issue #2166
GLOBAL BRIEFS
CUBA: 73 people who were killed in a terrorist act against a Cuban civilian plane in 1976 were honoured at commemorative events in Havana and...
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Issue #2004
Boot the Coalition out!
The Coalition government has comprehensive plans to destroy militant trade unions and give employers arbitrary powers and unfettered rights over workers in the workplace. The...
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Issue #2144
LETTERS
Letter from Longman Dear Comrade Editor, The Labor victory on 3 May 2025 will be long remembered as one of the greatest sweeps to power...
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Issue #2138
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SYRIA: Russia’s air base at Hmeimim in Syria is sheltering about 9,000 people seeking refuge from a wave of sectarian violence. Most of the civilians...
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Issue #2109
DINGO
This week’s target of US aggression since the end of WW2 is the Middle East 1956-58: The Eisenhower Doctrine stated that the United States was...
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Issue #2140
GREEN NOTES
Jim Chalmers’ Budget Speech failed to mention the words ‘climate change’ and ‘environment’ although $7.3 billion is allocated in recovery payments for ‘natural’ disasters that...
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Issue #2185
South Australia votes
The South Australian Election held on 21 March resulted in an expected landslide re-election victory for popular Labor Premier, Peter Malinauskas. A Labor landslide was...
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Issue #2132
Dutton for sale
The ACTU has criticised billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart for behaving like an oligarch for trying to buy influence over the Coalition’s industrial relations policy....
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Issue #2119
The Battle for Cumberland Council
Local government elections have just been held across New South Wales and many seats remain undecided. The biggest controversy was the failure of the Liberal...
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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 #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...
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Issue #2134
Peter Dutton is super popular
The Murdoch Press and other conservative media outlets have been trying their best to convince Australians that Peter Dutton is all the rage. Anytime a...
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Issue #2136
Capitalism and global warming
n his 1844 Manuscripts, Marx wrote “Man lives from nature, and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it if he is not to die....
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Issue #2139
Meet law-and-order Dutton
Peter Dutton is a Queensland cop. Whatever clothes or title he wears (Minister of Defence, Minister for Home Affairs, currently leader of the Coalition) he...
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Issue #2188
Analysis: South Australian State election
The 2026 South Australian state election resulted in the predictable outcome of a majority for Labor with Peter Malinauskaus securing a second term as premier...
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Issue #2138
Deliberate, orchestrated incidents
Anti-Zionist members of the Jewish community who oppose Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians are being targeted by the Israel lobby’s head-kickers. An organiser of the...
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Issue #2140
On the election beat in Western Australia
On Saturday 8 March West Australian comrades helped the Greens hand out how-to-vote material. I chose a booth at a Primary School in the north...
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Issue #2142
What they don’t ask If you’ve been finding the media coverage of this year’s Federal election annoying, you’re not alone. Partly, it’s the major parties...
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Issue #2190
Results of Farrer by-election
The by-election results in the NSW electorate of Farrer are historic. One Nation has won its first seat in the House of Representatives joining Barnaby...
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Issue #2135
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...
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Issue #2205
Labor’s Secret Harbour collapse
The political landscape of Western Australia’s outer suburbs changed course on the weekend of 29-30 August as the Australian Labor Party (ALP) suffered a humiliating...
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Issue #2145
Nothing to celebrate about ALP win
With the Australian Labor Party gaining a record majority in the House of Representatives, Anthony Albanese winning another term as Prime Minister, and the Liberal...
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Issue #2156
DINGO
On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet, with the support of the United States, led a coup d’etat against the democratically elected government of socialist...
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Issue #2134
Labor’s big fail
Labor has been in office for almost three years. It has introduced a number of progressive reforms, but in the lead-up to the federal elections...
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Issue #2140
DINGO
Temu Trump or Mini Musk? Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has been accused of being ‘Temu Trump’ with various attempts to come across as Trump-lite before...
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Issue #2143
Deported for opposing genocide? Welcome to Dutton’s dream Australia
During the election campaign Peter Dutton has told a Sky News reporter that he would be adding antisemitic behaviour to the immigration character test contained...
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Issue #2143
EDITORIAL
By the time you read this, the federal election will be finished. After a long and tiring campaign, it’s understandable that a lot of people...
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Issue #2143
Against fascism and war
Nationalism and militarism are being promoted on the election campaign trail, with Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton taking every opportunity to be seen with troops...
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Issue #2144
Need for electoral reform
Parliament and parliamentary campaigns have an important place in the whole process of the struggle to advance the interests of the people – provided that...
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Issue #2134
TWO-PARTY POWER GRAB
In a move reflecting the common ground in policies between the government and Coalition, and to sideline the Greens and independents, the Albanese Labor government...
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Issue #2205
EDITORIAL
At first, it seems like a very Western Australian thing to do. Faced with a contested by-election in Secret Harbour, Labor put up a gas...
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Issue #2145
Albanese does it Dutton’s way
One notable feature of the governments Peter Dutton used to be a member of was the creation of a giant government department for him to...
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Issue #2138
EDITORIAL
As we come closer to a May election, there’s a lot of talk of military spending. Our mainstream news outlets assume this country needs to...
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Issue #2141
Wage rise needed now!
A wage rise has become an urgent need for the great majority of Australian workers. Since its election, the Albanese government, in league with some...
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Issue #2201
EDITORIAL
Ben Carroll, Victoria’s new Premier is a man in a hurry. The Victorian election will be held on 28 November this year and his party...
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Issue #2133
EDITORIAL
Australia will have an election very soon. It could be as early as 12 April. So what’s on offer? As this edition of the Guardian,...
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Issue #2144
CPA CC Statement on the federal election
The Communist Party of Australia welcomes the electoral defeat of Peter Dutton and the Coalition on Saturday 3 May 2025. It is clear the electorate...
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Issue #2145
EDITORIAL
The term ‘mandate’ is always thrown around just after an election. The general rule is that if a party talks about something during the campaign...
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Issue #2144
EDITORIAL
Peter Dutton is history after a catastrophic loss in the federal election. He’s being given some points for being ‘gracious’ in his acceptance speech. The...
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Issue #2144
Labor has no mandate
The Albanese government has no mandate to implement its anti-people agenda. Behind the swing to Labor in terms of seats in the Lower House, the...
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