The Guardian • Russia
China, Russia continue to cooperate on fighting colour revolutions, safeguarding political security: Wang Yi
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Sunday China and Russia will continue to cooperate in fighting the colour revolutions and disinformation, and safeguarding political security together in 2021 ...
Read moreChina, Russia agree to extend Good-Neighbourliness Treaty as Putin congratulates CPC on centenary in phone call with Xi
Chinese President Xi Jinping held a video meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday three days ahead of the centennial of the Communist Party of China ...
Read moreChina, Russia jointly decry US democracy summit, call for past lessons to be remembered
A joint article by the Chinese and Russian Ambassadors to the US decrying the so-called Summit for Democracy is a clear declaration of opposition to the upcoming event.
Read moreAttempts to topple, kill Belarusian president foiled
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said Saturday that it had detained two members of the Belarusian opposition who were plotting a military coup, including assassination, against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
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Issue #2017
Russia, Türkiye, Iran change global geopolitical dynamics
At the end of the meeting held in Tehran on 19th July, Presidents Vladimir Putin (Russia), Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Türkiye), and Ebrahim Raisi (Iran) made...
Read moreOver 7.1 million veteran CPC members honoured for “50 years of glory”
The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee will for the first time award honorary medals to over 7.1 million veteran Party members, as the CPC marks the 100th anniversary of its founding.
Read moreChina, Russia joint military exercise to combat terrorism and chaos left by US
Russia is set to join a military exercise with China in the Qingtongxia Joint Tactical Training Base.
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Issue #2005
Does the peace movement still need to oppose NATO?
NATO, the international arm of the Pentagon, is in the news these days because of its role in the war in Ukraine. For now, millions...
Read moreAuschwitz liberator dies at 98
David Dushman, [one of] the last surviving Soviet soldier involved in the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, has died in Germany, aged 98.
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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...
Read moreLessons from the 104th anniversary of the February Revolution
The 8th of March marked the 104th Anniversary of the February Revolution in Russia.
Read moreWho is Alexei Navalny?
After a decade of Western media falsely insisting that Alexei Navalny is a major Russian opposition leader, a certain section of the Russian population – particularly disaffected youth under the influence of online propaganda – has taken the bait.
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Issue #1998
Why do Western countries like Australia support fascism?
A major question that needs to be addressed in Western countries like Australia is why they support fascism in Ukraine. Before we can answer this...
Read moreOn Victory Day
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an address at the Victory Day parade in Red Square, Moscow, on 9th May.
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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 #2030
The politics of Ukraine’s Holodomor “famine”
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on the 12th October offered a package of military assistance to help Ukraine repel Russian troops from the east of the...
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Issue #2032
Lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis Sixty Years
Sixty years ago during the Cold War the world came close to a nuclear war between the two superpowers of the day, the Soviet Union...
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Issue #2001
WASHINGTON BULLETS by Vijay Prashad
The present war between Russia and Ukraine reveals the heavy hand of US imperialist intervention behind the scenes, making this a timely and important book....
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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,...
Read moreSocial imperialism: its history and effects
In some sections of the international communist movement today, China is characterised as imperialist, capitalist, or “social imperialist.” Despite being around since the turn of the last century, the phrase “social imperialism” really took flight when the international communist movement split in the 1960s under the weight of the divisions between the Soviet Union and China.
Read moreUS and NATO tighten military ring around Russia
What sin earned Kay-Achim Schönbach such a fate as being fired? When asked about the month-long NATO-Washington campaign against Putin and Russia, based only on...
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Issue #2038
GLOBAL BRIEFS
PERU: The tense confrontation between the police and protesters seems to be escalating daily. Only last week the police raided the largest public university in...
Read moreVenezuela, Russia and China: the route to a multipolar world
The current global order is experiencing tension caused in the main by US-backed imperial power.
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Issue #2009
Interview with SKP leader Andreas Sörensen on NATO and Sweden
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a reproduction of an interview with Communist Party of Sweden (SKP) General Secretary Andreas Sörensen (AS) which appeared in the...
Read moreNATO “testing the waters” with Russia in the Black Sea
On 23rd June, the British warship HMS Defender entered the territorial waters of Crimea, sparking a response of two warning shots from a patrol ship and four bombs dropped by a Russian Navy Su-24M jet.
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Issue #2015
China’s principled position on the war in Ukraine
Respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states has been the express foundation of China’s response to the war in Ukraine. On that...
Read morePutin and Xi plot to escape SWIFT
At present, in the midst of the panic and pandemonium being created by the world’s press about Russia and China, no one has mentioned that...
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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 moreNeo-nazis active in Ukraine as White House adds 3,000 troops
There’s an increasingly surreal air regarding the war scare over Ukraine. The original roles in the drama seem to be reversed. Back in December, Ukrainian...
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Issue #2068
Silencing The Lambs (How propaganda works)
In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying at the...
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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 #2066
Capitalism’s Global Food Crisis
The world is suffering from a dire food crisis. On 20 July India, the world’s leading rice exporter, supplying 40 per cent of the global...
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Issue #2045
GLOBAL BRIEFS
IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA: The two countries reached an agreement that includes the resumption of diplomatic relations and re-opening of diplomatic missions within two months. They...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SRI LANKA: Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is accused in a report of tampering with police records in a bid to hamper investigations into mass graves...
Read morePutin’s Presidential address
On April 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the Federal Assembly, a combined gathering of members of the Federation Council (Senators), the State Duma (Parliamentarians), Cabinet ministers, Regional Governors, representatives of selected State Departments, Agencies and the media.
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Issue #2047
GLOBAL BRIEFS
America: The Pentagon has blocked attempts by the US federal government to share alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine with the International Criminal Court (ICC)...
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Issue #2064
GLOBAL BRIEFS
VENEZUELA: Thousands of people in Venezuela celebrated the 69th anniversary of the birth of the legendary socialist leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Commander Hugo Chávez...
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Issue #1999
ON DEFENCE: ALP and Coalition of little difference
There is little more powerful evidence of how far the Australian Labor Party (ALP) has moved from traditional social democracy than its current policies on...
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Issue #2069
GLOBAL BRIEFS
JAPAN: Japanese retailer Seven & i Holdings Co is selling department store chain Sogo & Seibu Co to a US investment fund, even as the...
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Issue #2014
DINGO
While the Prime Minister was talking trade deals with the European Commission, who should pop up but Simon Crean, former ACTU President and erstwhile leader...
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Issue #2054
GLOBAL BRIEFS
JAPAN: Dozens of anti-nuclear activists protested to demand Japan scrap its plans to dump radioactive waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean...
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Issue #2065
NATIONAL BRIEFS
UNITED NATIONS: Global prices for food commodities such as rice and vegetable oil have risen for the first time in months after Russia pulled out...
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Issue #2068
GLOBAL BRIEFS
RUSSIA: The Kremlin last week rejected allegations that it was behind a plane crash that is presumed to have killed mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin. Kremlin...
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Issue #2041
PEACE NOTES
Just 80 years after the end of World War II, German tanks are again threatening Russia. At an event commemorating the 80th anniversary of the...
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Issue #2070
DPRK celebrates 75 years of independence, self-reliance and peace
On 9th September the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) celebrated 75 years since its founding under Kim Il Sung, the general secretary of the...
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Issue #2012
DINGO
The Russian government’s visitation ban on a list of media types and some residents of Australia’s corporate cesspool has brought forth the nationalist breast-beating and...
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Issue #2053
De-Sovietisation and the rise of the far right
This year’s Victory Day celebrations in Germany were held on 9th May at the Soviet Memorial Tiergarten in Berlin. Two men dressed in Soviet Union...
Read moreMcCarthyism on the rise in Australian universities
In Australia’s latest self-sabotaging attack on China, the Morrison government has released a proposal that targets students and academics at Australian universities
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Issue #1987
THE REVOLUTION LIVES ON
The 7th November marked the 104th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
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Issue #2029
End fossil fuels!
It appears as though climate action has a new, unlikely support from Santos CEO Kevin Gallagher! Speaking to an Australian business community event in London,...
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Issue #2039
DINGO
How to fund endless war? That is the question. That ‘tis better to grab workers’ retirement funds to build Australia’s military industrial complex and pour...
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Issue #2064
DINGO
A new political force uniting left and progressive parties and other organisations with a clear pro-people agenda is needed urgently. The Communist Party is convinced...
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Issue #2054
DINGO
It is timely to revisit the cause of the conflict in Ukraine. The issue behind the strife in Ukraine is the fact that the presence...
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Issue #2057
PEACE NOTES
Hannah Middleton Russia and Belarus have signed a deal to deploy Russian tactical nuclear missiles in Belarus. “In the context of an extremely sharp escalation...
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