The Guardian • Palestine
Issue #2079
Dehumanisation gone mainstream
The Economist has published a piece pretending to answer why Israel is killing so many Palestinian children, or, as the British journal puts it, why...
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Issue #2032
Israeli extremists propelled to power alongside Netanyahu, accelerating global neo-fascist trend
It appears likely that the criminally corrupt former Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, will be returning to power, despite being under criminal indictment. Israelis...
Read moreIsrael kills dozens in Gaza airstrikes, escalates land theft and Palestinian expulsions
Last week, Israeli military forces began killing Palestinians – including women and children.
Read moreAliens in their own land
Mephistopheles, a demon of German legend, says: “Hell is where I am. Wherever I go I’m still in it.” These words are relevant to imperialism as well.
Read moreIsraeli communists call for “Jewish-Arab partnership against racism, hatred and violence”
Israeli Communist Party-led coalition Hadash has called for a “Jewish-Arab partnership against racism, hatred and violence” in the face of the Benjamin Netanyahu government’s willingness...
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Issue #2042
GLOBAL BRIEFS
GERMANY: Air traffic came to a virtual standstill on the 17th February with around 2340 flights cancelled. The strike affected almost 300,000 passengers. Germany’s flag...
Read moreThe continuity of US and Israeli aggression
If there’s one thing we couldn’t criticise the imperialists for, it’s inconsistency in deeds. Rhetorical inconsistency aside, the actions of the imperialists never waver in their course – subjugate, dictate, punish, plunder.
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Issue #2032
Plan of Action of the 22nd International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties
The 22nd International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP) held on October 27-29, 2022 in Havana, Cuba defined the following main guidelines and actions...
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Issue #2039
Into the crusher: Gaza’s rubble recycled
This past August, Ahmed Amir, 34, stood atop the wreckage of a residential building in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun. In the...
Read more“Liberation is within our reach”: Palestine goes on strike
Under Israeli bombardment, Palestinians went on one of the biggest strikes in Palestinian history on 18th May.
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Issue #2078
HALF THE SKY
Like funerals postponed “The humanitarian situation in Gaza was dire before these hostilities and has now severely worsened. This exacts unjustifiable and specific costs on...
Read moreIsrael’s genocide of Palestinians continues
Israel has once again unleashed abhorrent attacks on the Palestinian people.
Read more“How long will it last?”: Ceasefire in Palestine
A ceasefire was declared between Israel and Hamas on the morning of 21st May, bringing a temporary halt to an eleven-day conflict on the Gaza Strip.
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Issue #2040
Inhumane medical blockade
Mahdi Amer, 35, lost his father at the beginning of the new year. Ibrahim Amer was 65. He had a heart attack. But due to...
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Issue #1970
An interview with ambassador Izzat Abdulhadi
A CPA delegation held conversations with ambassador Izzat Abdulhadi (IA) of the State of Palestine on important matters on the Palestinian struggle for self-determination.
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Issue #2065
US shapes ICC to its agenda
Anyone supposing that the newfound enthusiasm in Washington for the International Criminal Court (ICC) would open the door for justice for Palestinians ought not to...
Read moreAction hits Israeli arms
Firefighters called to assist police at a protest targeting an Israeli arms factory in Leicester withdrew today in solidarity with Palestinians. Members of the Palestine...
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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 #2042
Apartheid complicity
Richard Falk and Virginia Tilley’s 2017 report for the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (“Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the...
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Issue #2043
GERMANY: Anti-war demonstrations were held in many countries last weekend, a year after the special operation in the Ukraine started. The largest by far was...
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Issue #2079
Israel – a terrorist with nuclear weapons
The state of Israel has been built up by the Western powers – principally Britain – as a colonising entity, and the military arm of...
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Issue #1962
Tasmanians gather for Nakba vigil
On the 15th of May, around 100 people gathered at Parliament House in Nipaluna/Hobart for a sombre and respectful vigil to commemorate Nakba Day.
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Issue #2077
Shame Albo Shame!
People in the tens of thousands around the world continue to rally for Palestine. In Australia, demonstrations around the main capital cities brought thousands of...
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Issue #2075
LETTER
Dear editor, The attack on Israel, from what one observer has called “the largest open air prison in the world,” that is the virtually Israeli...
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Issue #2075
Freedom for Palestine rally: Boorloo / Perth
Following the attacks by Hamas forces on Israel on 7th October, after years of constant attacks on the Palestinian people, Israel began its brutal retaliation...
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Issue #1964
Israel attacks Gaza after Jerusalem’s assault
Nakba day: “Day of the Catastrophe” is an annual day of commemoration of the displacement that preceded and followed the Israeli declaration of independence in 1948.
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Issue #2079
LETTERS
THE BLACK ARMADA Dear Comrade, I was very interested to read the recent article* about the MUA twilight commemoration event at Darling Harbour to remember...
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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 #2034
DINGO
Scott Morrison’s secret multiple portfolios has nothing on the dual role of PM Albanese and Defence Minister Richard Marles as salesmen/lobbyists for the arms manufacturers....
Read moreCPI(M) letter to Modi on India’s abstention on the Resolution on Palestine
I am writing this letter registering my strong protest over India’s vote of abstention in the UN Human Rights Council on the Resolution on the Palestinian issue and human rights of all peoples.
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Issue #2076
CEASEFIRE NOW!
Rallies around Australia Naarm/Melbourne. Warrane/Sydney. Borloo/Perth. Meanjin/Brisbane. Tarndanya/Adelaide. Statement from various organisations Palestinian Communist Party An explanatory statement issued by the Palestinian Communist Party on...
Read more“From the River to the Sea”, Meanjin rises for Palestine
Members of the Communist Party of Australia Queensland Branch attended a rally demanding an end to the occupation of Palestine by Israel.
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Issue #2040
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism
The recent fighting in the Gaza Strip has claimed the lives of 47 Palestinians, including 17 children, as Israeli forces targeted leaders of the Palestinian...
Read moreA crucial ally of imperialism – the origins of Israel and its role in the Middle East
Palestine was first occupied by the Ottoman Empire, but after the break-up of that entity in the First World War it was transferred to the British Empire under the Sykes-Picot agreement, which divided up the Middle East between Britain and France.
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Issue #2030
The mainstream media has excised coverage of Israel’s crimes in the West Bank and Gaza. While there is no end to the noise from the...
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Issue #1963
Rally for Palestine
Around two thousand people gathered on Sunday 23rd May at Forrest Chase in Perth CBD as part of the global day in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
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Issue #2077
They really said … about Gaza
Compiled by Graham Holton “We need to flatten entire neighbourhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn’t stop with Hiroshima – the Japanese...
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Issue #2075
GLOBAL BRIEFS
MALAYSIA: Thousands of people gathered near Malaysia’s National Mosque in Kuala Lumpur carrying Palestinian flags and chanting ‘Free Palestine.’ Strict security measures were in place,...
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Issue #2040
Free Palestine, end the occupation
The Communist Party of Australia calls for the end to the ongoing Israeli occupation of all Palestinian lands, the establishment of an Independent Palestinian State...
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Issue #2080
HALF THE SKY
On Monday 20 November, nurses at Westmead Hospital held a vigil for the Palestinians killed in the Israeli Defence Force bombings of hospitals in Gaza,...
Read moreFree Palestine, end the occupation
The Communist Party of Australia calls for the end to the ongoing Israeli occupation of all Palestinian lands, the establishment of an Independent Palestinian State...
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Issue #2075
Israeli Apartheid
While the world was shocked at the recent Hamas attack, the Western media has given little analysis to the background of for the attacks on...
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Issue #2078
Rally for Palestine in Newcastle, NSW
On Saturday 4 November 2023, CPA members in Newcastle NSW joined the major cities around Australia and the world in taking to the streets to...
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Issue #2012
Australia “opposes” US statement on UN report into human rights abuses in Israel and Palestine
Australia has refused to sign a statement, alongside over twenty other countries, released by the US regarding an inquiry into human rights violations in Palestine...
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Issue #2075
Suck it up, Summers!
One response to the Hamas attack on Israel and the ongoing atrocities Israel is committing in retaliation has been to try to close down criticism...
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Issue #2077
Australia: A History of Supporting Israel
On 28 October, 120 member states of the UN General Assembly voted Yes to the resolution for an immediate truce to provide aid to the...
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Issue #2030
West Jerusalem no longer recognised by Australia as Israeli capital
One of the more heinous foreign policy decisions of the former Morrison government has been reversed: Australia no longer recognises West Jerusalem as the capital...
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Issue #2077
PEACE NOTES
SALAM EACE HALOM Hannah Middleton Professor Mark Beeson from the University of Technology Sydney writes: “If we are looking for historical parallels and lessons, then the razing...
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Issue #2076
Criticism of Israel and Zionism is not antisemitism
On 13th October SkyNews asked former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett about the plight of Palestinians in Gaza. Bennett shouted back “are you serious? these...
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Issue #2060
DINGO
The Queensland Palaszczuk government’s refusal to back down over its deeply unpopular approval of Blue Energy’s Central Queensland gasfield shows it cares neither for communities,...
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Issue #2077
Sydney pro-Palestinian action
Every week the protest actions in Sydney become larger rising from around 5000 to 15,000 to an estimated 50,000 on Sunday 29 October. After hearing...
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Issue #2069
DINGO
The Climate Council has labelled the decision to approve an extension to the Gregory Crinum coal mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin until 2073 as “stunning...
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Issue #2079
DINGO
Divisions emerge: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, like number of other western leaders, is turning a blind eye to Israel’s war crimes in...
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Issue #2077
DINGO
Climate action group Lock the Gate Alliance has accused the NSW Minns government of breaking an election promise by allowing BHP’s planned Mt Arthur expansion...
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Issue #2076
DINGO
Thick smoke enveloped extensive areas of the Brazilian Amazon as the region grapples with a surge in wildfires and a historic drought. In Manaus, a...
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Issue #2080
“End war crimes in Palestine”
The Palestinian Justice Movement Sydney has led an action in Port Botany in protest at the Israeli-owned ZIM shipping line which frequents Australia’s largest container...
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Issue #2077
Risks of wider Middle-East conflict
Israel is pounding southern Lebanon and Syria, in what can only be described as provocation. The west misleadingly mentions Iran in the same breath as...
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Issue #2078
No right to self defence
An invading force has no right to self-defence. However, since 7 October we have heard, repeatedly, that Israel has ‘the right to defend itself.’ How...
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Issue #2079
Pro-Palestine rally, Sydney
On Sunday 12 November 2023, tens of thousands of protesters descended on Hyde Park in Sydney to demand a ceasefire and a stop to the...
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Issue #2076
Communist Party of Australia members show up for Palestine
Naarm/Melbourne Over 15,000 people attended a rally and march under the slogan Free Gaza. On a show of hands, this was the first Palestinian solidarity...
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Issue #2080
Israel: stop bombing hospitals and stop killing kids
Unionists For Palestine is an Australia-wide cross-union group of rank and file union members. We are organising actions in support of Palestinian liberation. Each group...
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Issue #2078
STOP ISRAELI WAR CRIMES
There is absolutely no excuse for the Netanyahu government to act in the way it is, raining down artillery shells and bombs on a trapped...
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Issue #2074
The CPA stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people!
Gaza is again the centre of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 75 years since the partition of Palestine in 1948, known as the Catastrophe or Nakba in...
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Issue #2080
Ceasefire now!
The calls for a ceasefire grow louder and louder as hundreds of thousands of people continue to demonstrate in the major cities around the world....
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Issue #2079
SHAME ALBO SHAME
The genocide taking place in Gaza has not stopped for over 30 days. The death toll in what the United Nations is calling the “children’s...
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Issue #2080
Sydney protest against genocide in Palestine
On Sunday 19 November, tens of thousands gathered in Sydney’s Hyde Park to protest the ongoing war in Gaza carried out by Israel. Members of...
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Issue #2076
Criminal Israel
Israel is carrying out collective punishment, committing the most barbarous and cruel atrocities on an unarmed civilian population who are confined to a small area...
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Issue #2080
We must support Palestine’s right to self-determination
People around the world are witnessing every day the televised genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In Australia, and internationally, ever larger rallies are...
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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 #2080
Look who’s talking
It’s great to have a free press. We can hear the unvarnished truth about everything, and really see the world the way it is. Australians...
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Issue #2080
Gaza: End the slaughter
An open letter to PM Albanese and Foreign Minister Wong Prime Minister/Foreign Minister, You, as the representatives of the people of Australia, talk on our...
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Issue #2075
ISRAEL OUT OF GAZA!
Israel stands condemned for its brutal aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and the genocide and scorched earth war against them. The...
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