The Guardian • nuclear power
Small nuclear reactors still have huge nuclear problems
Ottawa and four provinces have jumped on the small modular nuclear reactor (SMNR) bandwagon.
Read moreIran demands international response against “nuclear terrorism”
The head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) has rejected an “act of sabotage” against the country’s nuclear site in Natanz, noting that the international community ...
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Issue #2016
The real threat of the United States’ 800 foreign bases
Under the heading “Australia Faces Massive Existential Threat from China,” Christopher Joye writes that: “The spectre of Chinese nuclear submarines, destroyers, fighters and bombers based...
Read moreJapan’s radioactive dumping ground
Ten years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan’s government prepares to release radioactive wastewater from the power plant into the Pacific Ocean.
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Issue #2047
“Worst deal in all history”
The recent Australia, US, and UK $368 billion deal on buying nuclear submarines has been termed by Paul Keating, a former Australian Labor prime minister,...
Read moreAustralian-UK-US nuclear submarine deal exposes civilian-military links
Andy Stirling and Phil Johnstone, writing for The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, highlighted several salient points in their paper, telling us a lot about the thinking of those pushing nuclear energy.
Read moreThe legacy hanging over Fukushima ten years on from disaster
Japan entered into a state of emergency when the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami swept across the country in 2011.
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Issue #2024
“AUKUS is about US imperialism”
The following is a contribution delivered by Dr Hannah Middleton to the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) International Conference held in...
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Issue #2049
Alliance against AUKUS
Since the Labor government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the funding of the $368 billion (and counting) contract to buy six nuclear submarines under...
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Issue #2062
GREEN NOTES
The Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc (TEPCO) has more than 1000 tanks of contaminated water from the cooling of reactors as it decommissions its...
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Issue #2035
DINGO
The latest cost estimate for taxpayers of Australia’s pending nuclear submarines at more than $170 billion. Don’t be surprised when Australia’s supply of weaponry to...
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Issue #2038
Surrendering sovereignty
The US-Australia Force Posture Agreement has opened the gate for the US to set up Australia as a launching pad for its next war. When...
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Issue #2070
Nuclear subs challenge trains 10-year-old children for war
It’s time for education ministers across the country to show leadership and protect our children from vested interests and pro-war propaganda. On 19th June, the...
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Issue #2061
Richard Marles self-regulates
It is a fundamental principle that the regulation of industries must be independent of the industries themselves. This is particularly important where products that have...
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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 #1985
CPA, CPB & CPUSA Trilateral Statement on AUKUS
The Communist Party of Australia, the Communist Party of Britain and the Communist Party of the USA met on 1st October to discuss the implications...
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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 #2027
DINGO
Last week, “Dingo” reported on Solomon Islands PM Manasseh Sogavare’s address to the UN General Assembly, a voice of the Pacific Islands People in the...
Read moreAustralia’s own goal
US President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and Australia’s PM Scott Morrison lined up like three stooges in a stage-managed virtual presentation to announce the formation of yet another military alliance
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Issue #2023
Nuclear submarines = uranium mines
On 15th September 2021, the AUKUS trilateral security pact was signed between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Under the pact, the United...
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Issue #2065
PEACE NOTES
The military tentacles of imperialism reach out into all parts of the globe as it struggles to maintain its domination. The Arctic is no exception....
Read moreCPA statement on the AUKUS Tripartite Agreement and nuclear-powered submarines
The Communist Party of Australia urges all its members and supporters to actively oppose the Morrison government’s decision to join the AUKUS Agreement
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Issue #2045
Outrageous assault on peace and vulnerable Australians
The naval nuclear reactors for Australia, announced today, represent one of the lowest points in Australian democracy in living memory. Unimaginable expenditure – up to...
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Issue #2071
PEACE NOTES
Hannah Middleton I recently saw a commercial TV promotion showing a a nuclear-powered submarine and a reporter saying it is invisible. This is rubbish. Since...
Read morePetition: no nuclear submarines
AUKUS and a submarine fleet shows a complete disregard for the democratic process and undermines sovereignty.
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Issue #2047
Nuclear waste in South Australia
Holding the largest single deposit of uranium anywhere in the world located at Olympic Dam, inevitably, South Australia has been set on the road to...
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Issue #2019
Dodgy Dutton continues “climate war”
With a new Labor government, Australia finally has some concrete plans for climate action (see in this issue Climate Wars). Climate change was a major...
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Issue #2056
Fight Climate Change Not War speak out and march Fremantle
On Saturday 27th May, several anti-war, anti-nuclear and climate activist groups held a speak-out on the AUKUS Agreement signed in September 2021 between Australia, the...
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Issue #2038
Invitation for peace
Dear Friends We would like to invite you to take part in a short campaign intended to contribute to our efforts to oppose the Federal...
Read moreSubs, subservience and stupidity
It’s been less than a month since the US tore out of poverty-stricken Afghanistan after losing a twenty-year dirty war, with Australia dragging behind, and already they have announced a new absurd military scheme, AUKUS
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Issue #2068
Nuclear (con) fusion
It’s increasingly evident that the reason the LNP quietly introduced the AUKUS pact into Australia just prior to the nation going into an election, was...
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Issue #2069
Stop releasing contaminated water into the sea
SHII Kazuo Chair of the Executive Committee of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) Press conference, August 2023 Tokyo (1) The Kishida government has decided to...
Read moreNo nuclear Australia: TIME FOR ACTION!
The sudden announcement of the AUKUS (Australia-UK-US) military agreement which will bring nuclear-powered submarines to Australia has provoked worldwide and growing opposition.
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Issue #2055
Softening Us Up
AUSTRALIA: Without much fanfare, Australians are being softened up to accept nuclear waste, nuclear power, and nuclear weapons. Not in one step of course, these...
Read moreNO to Nuclear Submarine Madness!
We condemn unreservedly the new tripartite agreement, AUKUS, between Australia, the UK, and the US and the announcement that Australia will have nuclear powered submarines.
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Issue #2048
Palm Sunday Peace Rally 2023 Adelaide
A gathering of dedicated peace activists met on the steps of Parliament House in North Terrace (Adelaide) in advocacy for peace which seems so fragile...
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Issue #2045
NO AUKUS
Under the appalling AUKUS plan announced by US President Biden on Tuesday (Australian time), Australia will begin hosting US nuclear-powered and armed submarines from this...
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Issue #2046
Cancel AUKUS! – NO TO WAR!
The Labor government’s decision to sign up to AUKUS is potentially the most costly and dangerous decision of any government since federation. It is not...
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Issue #2054
Give us a Peace Budget
Decaying capitalism is turning the world upside down. Australians are sleeping in the streets and going without food and health care while half a trillion...
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Issue #2067
Stop AUKUS!
Labor’s war hawks succeeded in cementing AUKUS and the nuclear submarines and missiles that go with it in the party’s platform at its national conference...
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