The Guardian • Roland Boer
Issue #2036
Comrade Jiang Zemin: a retrospective
On the last day of November, 2022, Comrade Jiang Zemin died in Shanghai. He was 96 years old, and at the time of writing the...
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Issue #2018
The reason why African countries are keen to work with Russia
“In 1917, new forces came to power in Russia – the Bolsheviks. I don’t know how you feel about them, whether you like them or...
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Issue #2030
Marxism at the centre of the CPC’s Twentieth National Congress
It has been quite some time since a Communist Party’s national congress has attracted worldwide attention. I speak of the Communist Party of China’s (CPC)...
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Issue #2005
Listening to the Solomon Islands: friends to all and enemies to none
The Solomon Islands (SI), with a population of 700,000, has a growing relationship with China. This is a fact and an inevitable trend. In all...
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Issue #2013
By engaging with China, Pacific countries seek their own paths out of poverty
Last week, I looked at Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu, their histories and relationship with China. Here, a third country to be addressed is Fiji,...
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Issue #2014
BRICS, BRICS+, and the new G8”
What are BRICS, BRICS+, and the “new G8”? What is the meaning of these acronyms and why are they important? BRICS To begin with BRICS:...
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Issue #2007
The Communist Party of Australia and the Communist Party of China – a perspective
As the Communist Party of China (CPC) prepares for its significant twentieth congress in 2022, we may ask how the Communist Party of Australia (CPA)...
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Issue #2017
“We don’t need no (bourgeois) education!”: Comrades congregate at national school
On the 22-24th July, comrades from across the country from South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Canberra, and Queensland met in Sydney to learn about...
Read morePutin’s mistake: Russia, Ukraine, and the national question
On a number of occasions, Vladimir Putin has said that Russia and Ukraine are a “single nation.” This statement has been completely misunderstood in the...
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Issue #2025
The rediscovery of economic planning in Russia
Is Russia rediscovering the economic benefits of planning? Judging by the material presented at the recent Eastern Economic Forum, held in Vladivostok on 5-8 September,...
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Issue #2003
The end of US dollar hegemony
What is the potential impact on Australia and its workers of the end of US dollar hegemony? This is not an idle question, but a...
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Issue #2006
Responsible and accountable governance in socialist countries
It would be difficult to find a citizen of any country who does not want clean, honest, and accountable governance. As the 2022 election approaches...
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Issue #2032
High public support attests to success of CPC’s self-reform: Australian scholar
Global Times Editor’s Note: China had an epic decade since 2012. Particularly in the last five years, which were truly momentous, and extraordinary, the country...
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Issue #2007
What do you notice after a long time away?
What is like to return to Australia after two years away? What do you notice? There is a brief time – maybe a month –...
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Issue #2012
By engaging with China, Pacific countries seek their own paths out of poverty
From 24th May to 4th June, 2022, China’s highly experienced Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, and a large delegation visited eight Pacific countries in person, as...
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Issue #2001
Letter from Denmark
In July of 2020, I was given “special permission” by the border authorities to leave Australia and join my partner in Denmark. For almost two...
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Issue #2011
The break-up of Britain revisited
Is the “United Kingdom” at long last set to break up? Sinn Fein has recently overcome a biased electoral system in Northern Ireland to achieve...
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Issue #2019
Why the island of Taiwan is so important for mainland China
The Taiwan question remains unresolved to this day. To understand why the island of Taiwan is so important for the mainland, we need to understand...
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Issue #2027
The ideology of a rogue state: a “rules-based international order”
In the last few years, those of us in Western capitalist countries have heard more and more of a so-called “rules-based international order.” To the...
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Issue #2040
Albanese’s PNG visit falls flat
In the second week of January of this year, Prime Minister Albanese made a delayed visit to Papua New Guinea (PNG). Albanese addressed the PNG...
Read moreSetting the context for the Anglo-Supremacist AUKUS pact
As the CPA develops its Peace fraction and seeks to build up momentum to overturn the AUKUS pact, it is useful to look behind the scenes so as to gain a fuller picture of what is going on.
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Issue #2064
Pessimism of the West, Optimism of the East
Over the last few months, I have experienced first-hand both East and West, both China and some countries in Western Europe. I have been quite...
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Issue #2020
What Australia can learn from South Africa
It is a sad fact that many countries around the world do not see Australia as a sovereign country, especially in terms of international relations....
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Issue #2026
Generations of the Stolen
Aboriginal people see the process of stolen generations going back to the early days of the brutal British colony, which was soon centred around Parramatta....
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Issue #2009
Loss of trust in government and public institutions in Australia
Every year, the Edelman Foundation publishes a “Trust Barometer.” The survey typically covers 25-28 countries, and deals with a number of categories, such as government,...
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Issue #2037
Awabakal: A Recovered Language
Although we will never know for certain, it is estimated that before invasion there were about 400 First Nations languages in the land now called...
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