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Issue #1990

Protest against uranium mine proposal – Mulga Rock, WA

On Friday, 26th November, fifty anti-uranium mining protesters, including traditional owners, attended a rally outside the headquarters of Vimy Resources in South Perth.

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Public Sector Meeting. Issue #2079

WA: Unions give Premier the mail

On 10 November 2023, more than 400 public sector workers representing unions with members in the West Australian Public Sector rallied in the Perth Town...

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Issue #1958

Aboriginal Deaths in Custody rally – Perth

Thursday 15th April on the 30th anniversary of the tabling of the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report ...

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Issue #1984

School strike for climate change

The School Strike 4 Climate Change (SS4CC) was called around the world in the lead up to the critical COP 26 climate change conference.

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Friends of Palestine WA organised a rally on the 13th October attended by over 1000 people. 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 #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...

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Issue #1986

“Justice for JC” Protest, West Perth

On the steps of the West Australian Parliament House on Thursday 28th October, I attended a protest with about 100 other people, mostly Indigenous, calling for justice for JC.

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Issue #2019

Free Julian/Hiroshima day rally – Perth

“One of the ways to achieve justice, is to expose injustice.” – Julian Assange On the 6th August 2022, Perth for Assange,  together with StopAukusWA,...

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Issue #1957

Palm Sunday Refugee Solidarity Gathering – Perth

On Sunday, 28th March 2021, the Social Justice Commission held this year’s Palm Sunday Refugee rally indoors at the Wesley Church Hall Centre.

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Issue #2031

Cassius Turvey vigil

Below are some images of one of the many vigils held across the country for Cassius Turvey. Solidarity with the Turvey family. Read our editorial...

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Issue #2044

School strike for action on climate change

On 3rd March, about 100 mostly school children rallied in the Supreme Gardens in Perth directly opposite one of the principal corporate emitters of carbon...

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Vijay Prashad addressing the crowd. Issue #2127

Remembering the Russian Revolution and revolutions since with Vijay Prashad

On  5 November on the eve of Presidential elections in the US empire, visiting Indian Marxist intellectual Vijay Prashad gave a talk at Perth’s 43...

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Quill and ink . Issue #2093

LETTERS

Genocide Dear Editor, The terrible ongoing genocide continues in Gaza. I’m utterly astounded that after mere allegations by Israel against a few staff out of...

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Speakers. Issue #2060

National People’s Power, NPP holds national tour

The leader of the Sri Lankan People’s Liberation Front (JVP) and the National People’s Power (NPP) comrade Anura Dissanayake addressed a full house at the...

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Perth May Day rally. Issue #2051

May Day 2023

Adelaide – March & Fun Day Adelaide. Hundreds joined the May Day March and Family Fun Day in Adelaide Saturday 29th April with the March...

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Issue #2033

Change in the name of Cassius rally – Perth

In Forrest Place in the heart of Perth over 1000 people gathered to remember Cassius Turvey, the fifteen-year-old, Noongar/Yamitji boy who was ambushed and attacked...

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Issue #1986

Betting 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 #2006

CPA at protests around the country

The CPA fighting for aged care workers in Perth. Around 500 workers rallied at the Perth Cultural Centre demanding respect for aged care workers and...

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IWD Perth. 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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Anti-AUKUS protest in Perth (Wesley Corner) CBD to commemorate the 79th Anniversary of Hiroshima. Issue #2112

Slaves to the US alliance

The next step in the AUKUS agreement will see a line of bases hosting foreign, mostly US, personnel, that will run along the Australian coast...

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Issue #2031

Justice for Cassius

Content Warning: Racial Violence Last month, a fifteen-year-old boy, Cassius Turvey – a Noongar boy – was brutally murdered. It is alleged that Jack Steven...

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Issue #2022

Venezuelan film premieres in Perth

On Saturday 13th August 2022 in a joint venture between the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Canberra, the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society and...

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Rally for Palestine, Borloo/Perth. 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 #2048

Action for jobs, pay, safety

Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union members launched major rallies across Australia on Wednesday 5th April as anger mounts over serious issues facing the nation...

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Audience at walk-out speeches. Issue #2114

Perth public sector walk out

The Community and Public Sector Union Civil Service Association has been having rallies for the Public Sector Alliance wage claim for two months now. Since...

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Perth rally for Palestine. Issue #2135

Palestine is Not for Sale Rally, Boorloo/Perth WA

Friends of Palestine WA organised a rally in Forrest Place, Perth attended by about 200 people. The MC was Palestinian activist Heba who like most...

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Issue #2013

Guardian well received by construction workers

Carrying out the decision of the Central Committee that Guardian issue #2011 of Monday 20th June be distributed to building workers across the country, Party...

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Palestine rally Boorloo/Perth. 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 #2047

Right to housing

On any given night in Western Australia over 9,000 people can be considered homeless, though many more are homeless and not counted as such. How...

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CPA member Emily, a Palestinian activist, and CPA President Vinnie Molina at the conference. Issue #2121

Sleepwalking into War?

With the clouds of war building over the Middle East between Israel and the many enemies it is making in the region, the intractable war...

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The Australia-Cuba Friendship Society (ACFS) welcomed young Cubans, Marianniz Diaz and Ivan Barreto to Perth. Issue #2066

Cuba: revolutionary continuity

The Australia-Cuba Friendship Society (ACFS) welcomed young Cubans, Marianniz Diaz and Ivan Barreto to Perth on 11th - 14th August 2023. Their visit was the final leg...

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Health warnings. Issue #2140

Dirty Ashtray, Exploding Vape

In 2023, British American Tobacco (BAT) and Meta were dishonourably distinguished with a Dirty Ashtray award and the inaugural Exploding Vape award at a ceremony...

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Members of the Sunshine Coast Branch attended the “Hands Off Venezuela” rally on Sunday 4 January, to voice their anger at the US attack on Venezuela Issue #2175

NO blood for oil

On Monday 5 January, people in Boorloo/Perth took to the streets as part of the national emergency rallies called by the Hands-off Venezuela Coalition. The...

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Remembering and protesting Al Nakba Perth rally and march Perth WA 18 May. Issue #2100

Remembering and protesting Al Nakba Perth rally and march

Over 500 people gathered in the Supreme Court Gardens of Perth to hear Palestinian people speak about the history of their struggle from 15 May...

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Issue #2046

IWD Perth photo roundup

Photo: CPA

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Issue #2197

Cuba for unionists

A very successful screening of the Cuba after Castro documentary by Abby Martin and Matt Belen was held in Boorloo/Perth on Saturday 27 June. The...

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CPA members at the Hiroshima Never Again commemoration in Boorloo/Perth, 6 August. Issue #2111

Hiroshima Never Again

CPA members at the Hiroshima Never Again commemoration in Boorloo/Perth, 6 August.

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Friends of Palestine Snap action, Boorloo/Perth Issue #2122

Friends of Palestine Snap action, Boorloo/Perth

A snap action was called by Friends of Palestine WA on Friday 18 October 2024 to voice condemnation of Israel following the attack by IDF...

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Rally in support of Palestine, Perth 2024. Issue #2103

Stop arming Israel Rally – Borloo/Perth

This rally was based on the very simple premise that if the capitalist countries of the West stopped arming Israel, peace and justice could happen...

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CFMEU rally in Melbourne. 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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Elly Hulm Issue #2150

CPA members attend JVP anniversary Boorloo/Perth

Communist Party of Australia members attended the People’s Liberation Front of Sri Lanka (JVP) in Boorloo/Perth on 14 June. Elly Hulm represented the CPA and...

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May Day event in Caloundra, 2024. 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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Union Aid Abroad APHEDA Issue #2153

24-hour hunger strike for Palestine

A group of trade unionists and concerned people in Perth held a 24-hour hunger strike for Palestine Friday 4th July 4 at the Murray Street...

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Invasion Day rally attended by about 500 people in Boorloo/Perth on Sunday 26th January 2025. Issue #2131

Invasion Day Report

Naarm/Melbourne DC This year’s Invasion Day rally at Naarm/Melbourne was marked with solemnity and hope intertwined. There was fiery gusto among the Aboriginal and Palestinian...

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Cuban Ambassador to Australia Dr Tanieris Dieguez at a public ACFS meeting in Boorloo/Perth Issue #2109

Welcome to Cuban Ambassador to Australia Dr Tanieris Dieguez

Australia-Cuba Friendship Society Perth welcomed Cuban Ambassador to Australia Dr Tanieris Dieguez at a public meeting in Boorloo/Perth with a full house at Trades Hall....

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United Workers Union rally. Issue #2072

Shame, Inghams, shame!

Around 1000 workers at Inghams chickens have been on strike, demanding better wages and conditions. Their demand for a 6 per cent pay increase was...

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The Mount Tom Price mine is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, and is fully owned and operated by Rio Tinto Iron Ore and is one of twelve iron ore mines the company operates in the Pilbara. Issue #2127

The choices that Australia makes

If you go to the bluff at Kings Park in Boorloo/Perth, Australia, you can look out over the Swan River and enjoy a remarkable view....

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Palestine rally Perth. Issue #2125

‘Homeland’ is written in blood

On a sunny November day in Perth, Friends of Palestine WA (FOPWA) held a rally to protest the continued slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza by...

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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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Minab school bombing exhibit. Issue #2196

Exhibition honours Minab school bombing victims

A moving exhibition was held in Boorloo (Perth), Western Australia, over the weekend of 13 June by the Iranian and Palestinian communities to honour the...

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Hands off Venezuela action Issue #2176

Hands off Venezuela action

Hands off Venezuela action in Boorloo/Perth, 5 January.

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Victory Day celebrations Issue #2144

Victory Day

80 years ago this year, fascism was defeated. Most Australian and other English-language media focusses on the role of the UK and the USA in...

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Silhouettes representing the 16 victims of domestic violence who lost their lives in the past year. Issue #2127

‘16 Days in WA 2024 Stopping Family and Domestic Violence’ launch in Perth WA

Dr Alison Evans, Chief Executive Officer of Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing launched the 34th annual rally to honour those killed due to Family...

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Invasion Day Boorloo (Perth) Issue #2177

Invasion Day call to action

The following piece is a call to action from organisers of the Boorloo/Perth rally of 26 January. 26 January is a day of mourning where...

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Invasion Day Boorloo (Perth) 2026. Issue #2178

Australian brutality exposed in Perth

The attempted terror attack on the Invasion Day rally in Boorloo (Perth) has laid bare the racism at the heart of Australian media and politics....

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Peter Dutton at the 2018 Sub-Regional Meeting on Counter Terrorism in Indonesia 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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Palestine rally Boorloo/Perth Issue #2157

Marching in solidarity with Palestine

PERTH On 2 August, Perth once again met at Forrest place to stand in solidarity with the international Palestinian movement and pressure the Australian government...

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Wind power plants in Xinjiang, China. Issue #2183

China-Western Australia practical cooperation ushers in new opportunities

A few days ago, the Fourth Session of the 14th National People’s Congress and the Fourth Session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese...

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Rally for Palestine / Boorloo, Sunday 27th October 2024. Issue #2130

The ceasefire: hopes and aspirations must be fought for

There were images of intense jubilation on what were once the streets of Gaza when news first emerged that a ceasefire in Gaza might be...

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Cuba vigil in Sydney. Issue #2180

An act of war

Activists in Sydney (see photo) and Perth have picketed US consulates in both cities. Protesters condemned Trump’s most recent moves against the people of Cuba...

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Bridges of Love Issue #2119

Bridges of Love – Perth

Australia Cuba Friendship Society Perth participated in the international campaign Bridges of Love on Sunday 29th September 2024 at Elizabeth Quay, Perth, Western Australia, with...

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Group shot Issue #2151

80th anniversary of the defeat of Japanese occupation of China

Members of the Communist Party of Australia and of the Australia-China Friendship Society WA joined a commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the defeat of...

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