The Guardian • Melbourne
Issue #2066
“Keep Fighting AUKUS”
Joon Shik Shin’s business card gives his profession as “peace activist.” He has been a long-time worker for unions and the peace movement in both...
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Issue #2077
Free Palestine: Naarm/ Melbourne 25 October
The struggle for Palestinian liberation continues in Melbourne, as hundreds gathered on a cold Wednesday evening. This was a rally co-organised by Warriors of the...
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Issue #2075
Freedom for Palestine: Naarm / Melbourne
On Sunday 15th October, thousands of Victorians from all walks of life gathered in front of the State Library of Victoria in one of the...
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Issue #2145
Blood on their hands
Speech given by Agapi Pashos, Secretary of the Greek Democritus Workers League at a May Day event in Naarm/Melbourne. Comrades , I am here tonight...
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Issue #2065
Hiroshima Day
Sydney Sydney – walking towards the Defence Department. Hiroshima/ Nagasaki Day 2023, was one of the best attended for years. The bombing of two cities...
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 #2023
The rent is too high!: RAHU speaks truth to power at the Victorian state election
On 2nd September, the Renters and Housing Union (RAHU) launched their state election campaign in Victoria, on the platform that “the rent is too high.”...
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Issue #2092
LETTER
Dear Editor, When two China-haters write on ASEAN there can’t be too many expectations of a reasonable assessment of that organisation’s deliberations in Melbourne on...
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Issue #2173
Breeze – Live at Trades Hall (21 September 2025)
Breeze are a pop-rock band based in Naarm/Melbourne who write political songs about surfing, the ennui of Australian coastal living and how the beach is...
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Issue #2024
Melbourne hosts another successful CPA National School
Who started smoking cigars earlier, Arnold Schwarzenegger or Fidel Castro? Which scientific discovery was announced in The Daily Worker (a British communist paper) before anyone...
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Issue #2092
International Women’s Day 2024
IWD walk for peace – Perth This year on 8 March around 300 women in Perth walked through Perth CBD for the first IWD Peace...
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Issue #2029
Victoria underwater, but Flemington dry
The northwestern suburbs of Melbourne are underwater, but Flemington Racecourse remains dry. It is a timely reminder that in the battle for climate, there is...
Read moreBetting the house: the Crown Casino scandal
Royal Commissions in two states, Victoria and Western Australia, into the Crown Casino empire have revealed the enormous amount of corruption.
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Issue #2022
(Un)equal pay day: Melbourne
On Monday the 29th August, working women took to the streets of Melbourne to raise awareness and protest against the rising gender pay gap. The...
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Issue #2063
Anti-AUKUS action rocks Melbourne
Melbourne comrades gathered in Brunswick to protest the planned AUKUS commitment and the Albanese government’s plans to turn Australia into a parking lot for nuclear...
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Issue #2039
Invasion Day rallies demand “Treaty before Voice”
As many as 100,000 people took to the streets with rallies and marches in every state and territory on Invasion Day, 26th January. Protestors held...
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Issue #2081
Palestine rallies: CPA members show support
With the brief truce in Gaza, Australian political leaders being weak on the topic, and most Australian media ‘both-sidesing’ a mass-murdering assault on Palestinians as...
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Issue #2034
Pampas workers reject crumby deal
More than fifty pastry and pie makers at Pampas in Melbourne commenced an indefinite stop work on Monday last week in a fight for job...
Read morePalm Sunday: Melbourne walks in solidarity with refugees
On Sunday, the 28th March was Palm Sunday, an important day on activist calendars for groups across the political spectrum. The Palm Sunday march is held each year on the Sunday before Easter in Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, and other cities across the country.
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Issue #2179
Herzog protest Naarm/Melbourne
The Naarm/Melbourne Herzog protest was huge and united. Protestors carried banners making it clear that the head of state of a country that is carrying...
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Issue #2160
National Day of Action in Support of Palestine
Boorloo/Perth Vinnie Molina Tens of thousands rallied and marched for Palestine as part of the National Day of Action on Sunday 24 August 2025. In...
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Issue #2070
Chile 11 September
MELBOURNE: There were tears, poetry, song, and many heartfelt speeches this week at a gathering to pay tribute to all those who suffered in the...
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Issue #2083
Treaty and Land Rights
On 26 January, join with Indigenous people in their demands for land rights, treaty, and truth telling! “To join in the rally demonstrates that we...
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Issue #2045
Party members in anti-Fascist action
Late last year it was revealed that a Nazi white supremacist organisation known as the National Socialist Network had held a get-together at Legacy Boxing...
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Issue #2165
Pseudo-cops
The City of Melbourne council has embarked upon a law enforcement experiment that involves security guards carrying out policing functions that on-the-beat officers usually perform...
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Issue #2091
Deputy sheriff fails to deliver
The four-day ASEAN-Australia Special Summit held in Melbourne from 4 - 6 March, ended with the Australian government failing to gain consensus around its aggressive stand towards...
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Issue #2064
MUA rallies for respect for workers
Australian maritime workers converged in Melbourne to rally at the Australia Wind Energy conference at South Wharf, to draw attention to the actions of global...
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Issue #2052
May Day 2023
On 1st May Communist Party of Australia comrades gathered at the 888 Hour monument in Melbourne to mark May Day. From a speech by comrade...
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Issue #2184
Victorian teachers go all out for decent pay
For the first time in over 13 years, public school teachers, principals, and education support staff have stopped work for 24 hours following the inability...
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Issue #2064
Cuban resilience to overcome the blockade
Cuban Ambassador, Tanieris Dieguez La O, expressed her gratitude to the Consultation for the continuing Australian solidarity with the Cuban people. At the Australia Cuba...
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Issue #2168
West Gate Bridge collapse remembered
This year CFMEU commemorated the West Gate Bridge collapse to honour the memory of the 35 workers who lost their lives. The event includes a...
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Issue #2114
CFMEU: Workers hit the streets
PERTH: over 1000 CFMEU members as well as delegates and officials from other unions attended in a show of unity and solidarity. MC for the...
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Issue #2185
Victorian teachers’ strike action – Huge turn out, far from over!
On 24 March Melbourne teachers took to the streets to protest their enterprise agreement for the first time since 2013. Over 40,000 teachers, school staff...
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Issue #2164
Naarm anti-AUKUS event: rock, information, inspiration
Victoria’s Trades Hall Solidarity Hall was almost full for a No AUKUS information session on Saturday 20 September. After a rousing warm up from local...
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Issue #2154
ALDI shoots the messenger, workers fight back
On 11 July, the United Workers Union and Retail, Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU), Community and Public Sector Union and the National Tertiary Education Union...
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Issue #2208
Renters win as union fights off 11% rent increase
Members of the Renters and Housing Union (RAHU) in Melbourne’s Thornbury have successfully fought off their landlord’s attempt to increase their rent by 11%, through...
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Issue #2103
It’s 3CR Radiothon time again!
Melbourne Community Radio Station 3CR is having its annual radiothon. 3CR is a Melbourne institution since 1975, broadcasting a range of alternative news and views...
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Issue #2098
May Day 2024
Victory Day Celebrations. May 9 defeat of fascism commemorated With all the recent celebrations of May Day, let’s not forget May 9, the anniversary of...
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Issue #2201
Vale Bevan Ramsden
It is with great sadness that we share the news that Bevan Ramsden passed away on 27 July 2026. Bevan was an integral member of...
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Issue #2128
CPA Melbourne/Naarm branch holds successful school
Over the last weekend in November, comrades gathered at Kathleen Syme Library to increase their knowledge and practice of Marxism-Leninism. The school provided a constructive...
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Issue #2196
Metal against war
On 20 June this paper and the Communist Party of Australia Naarm/ Melbourne branch organised a charity show Metal Against War at Footscray venue Mamma...
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Issue #2087
Community picket outside Heat Treat Australia in Victoria
On Friday 9 February 150-200 protesters picketed Heat Treat Australia’s (HTA) factory in Campbellfield, Victoria. This factory processes parts for Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II...
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Issue #2143
Melbourne – Protest after police shooting
Police shot Melbourne man Abdifatah Ahmed on 17 April claiming he rushed at them with a knife. Calling for police reform and an investigation, a...
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Issue #2206
Support for RAFFWU and retail workers
Members and supporters of the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU) have rallied in Naarm/Melbourne and Borloo/Perth to demand that Victorian Labor drop its...
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Issue #2200
Australia Cuba Friendship Society updates
South Australia The South Australian branch of the ACFS launched its ‘from Australia to Cuba with Love’ campaign on the 4 July. On 10 July,...
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Issue #2177
Invasion Day
Boorloo (Perth) CPA comrades joined the crowd of nearly 2,000 protesters at the Boorloo invasion day rally. The speakers were impassioned and engaging, but 40...
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Issue #2148
Public Housing: Stand up fight back
On 3 June protestors gathered at 33 Alfred Street, North Melbourne for the second day of a picket line preventing demolition works on the North...
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Issue #2151
Victoria: a killing in Footscray
On Saturday 22 June, Communist Party of Australia members attended a demonstration against racism and police brutality in Footscray, organised in response to the killing...
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Issue #2093
Melbourne Comrades rally for Palestine and Cuba
Melbourne Communist Party of Australia members are a regular fixture at the now-weekly rallies in support of Palestine and against the ongoing genocide there, proudly...
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Issue #2077
Ceasefire NOW!
Around the world hundreds of thousands of people are taking protest actions, calling for an immediate ceasefire so that food, water and medical aid can...
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Issue #2088
TJ Hickey speak-out, Melbourne 17 February
A determined and organised crowd attended the Speak Out for TJ Hickey at Melbourne’s State Library on Saturday 17 February. Organised by the Indigenous Social...
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Issue #2117
Melbourne: CFMEU here to stay
Up to 65,000 people gathered outside the Victorian Trades Hall on September 18 to draw a line in the sand against the ongoing assault against...
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Issue #2137
Panda Mart is capitalism at its worst
The Panda Mart phenomenon has reached Australia. Images of huge crowds of people pushing and shoving at the opening of the vast discount store in...
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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...
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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...
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Issue #2191
Nakba 78 commemorated around Australia
This year marks 78 years since the Nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe.” The term refers to the mass expulsion and flight of some 750,000 Palestinians from...
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Issue #2208
Hume Mayor fails to lead by example
The mayor of Melbourne’s Hume City Council, Carly Moore, has put out a statement calling on the Australian Services Union to end industrial action and...
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Issue #2144
May Day Naarm
Naarm/Melbourne had two May Day events this year. On the day itself, a feast of music, speeches and performance at Trades Hall, featuring the Trade...
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Issue #2149
Freedom Flotilla snap defence rally
Communist Party of Australia members attended a snap rally in Naarm/Melbourne on 10 June to protest Israel’s terroristic seizure of the Madleen Flotilla. The flotilla...
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Issue #2126
Woolies’ warehouse workers commence indefinite strike
On Thursday 21 November members of the United Workers’ Union (UWU) at four Woolworths distribution centres commenced an indefinite strike against their employer. Workers at...
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Issue #2119
Curry night – Melbourne
Melbourne comrades enjoyed a curry afternoon and AFL Grand Final day, on 28 September 2024.
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Issue #2148
Sri Lankan People’s Front Party celebrates in style
Melbourne comrades attended and participated in the Jathika Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) 60th anniversary celebration on 31 May this year with enthusiastic members of the Sri...
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