The Guardian • submarines
Issue #2125
The Pacific – To live in peace
For the past few weeks I have been on the road in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Australia at the invitation of groups such as Te...
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Issue #1982
AUKUS is a direct threat to North Korea
While much has been said that AUKUS is a direct threat to China, little has been said that it is also a direct threat to North Korea.
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Issue #2063
Call to action against war
The Australian Anti-AUKUS Coalition (AAAC) is campaigning for an Australia that is committed to peace, justice and a nuclear-free world. In Australia, this starts with...
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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,...
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Issue #2067
GET RAUKUS NO AUKUS
The above slogan resounded on the streets of South Brisbane as the ALP conference came to town. The plans of Antony Albanese and Richard Marles...
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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 #2150
AUKUS in trouble
There have been conniptions in Canberra after the announcement by the US government that it plans to review AUKUS. The UK is reviewing it too....
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Issue #2031
CPA: submission to the Defence Strategic Review
The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) is a democratic, transparent and accountable organisation. We are member led and governed by a Central Committee elected every...
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Issue #2035
WEASEL WORDS
TAX tæks/ We all know what a tax is, don’t we? The government needs money, so they take a slice of your salary, or maybe...
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Issue #2003
The importance and history of May Day
May Day was chosen as the day for International Workers’ Day in 1889 by the Marxist International Socialist Congress, in Paris. 1889 is a long...
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Issue #2046
Minnow Australia in the Anglosphere
Why does Australia want nuclear submarines at all? The 2016 Defence White Paper tell us that “the key capabilities of the future submarine will include:...
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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 #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 #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 #1996
Brisbane branch campaign against AUKUS, casualisation, and climate change
There is no rest for the Brisbane Branch of the CPA as we continue our campaign against the IR omnibus Bill, the AUKUS nuclear submarine...
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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 #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...
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 #2046
GREEN NOTES
Anna Pha Humanity faces two major existential threats: climate change and nuclear war. The doomsday clock is ticking on both these threats. Ironically, the US...
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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...
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Issue #2048
DINGO
The Victorian government has been urged to list the fat-tailed dunnart as vulnerable, with the last surviving small marsupial of the state’s volcanic plains under...
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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...
Read moreJOBS NOT WAR!
The AUKUS alliance between Australia, the UK and the US turns the meaning of security on its head.
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 #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 #2041
Housing Justice Rally
About 300 activists gathered in Sydney Town Hall on 11 February determined to make housing justice a major issue in the upcoming State election. The...
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Issue #2136
PEACE NOTES
Thanks to AUKUS I&A Strategic Communications, we’ve learned that the USS Minnesota arrived in Western Australia on 25 February 2025. AUKUS I&A says the visit...
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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 #2177
LETTERS
Bases and more Thank you for your front page story in Guardian #2176, ‘Unhinged US – time to close the bases.’ There is so much...
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Issue #2045
DINGO
The NSW Council of Social Service (NCOSS) welcomed the recent announcement by an increasingly desperate NSW Coalition government in election mode, after it committed to...
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Issue #2103
Ghost shark vs AUKUS?
In a report for online outlet Pearls and Irritations, veteran analyst Brian Toohey speculates that the ‘Ghost Shark,’ might mean the end of the “deeply...
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Issue #2207
AUKUS: our region and our lives
2. AUKUS and the submarine weapon in our geographical region In the time we will have been waiting for submarines, underwater drones will have taken...
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Issue #2159
LETTERS
Comrade Editor, The Channel 9 papers seem determined to push Australia into buying the hideously expensive AUKUS submarines and a war with China. So desperate...
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Issue #2187
An AUKUS alternative
Academic and author Clinton Fernandez, in Search for Security – AUKUS and the New Militarism, highlights better alternatives to nuclear submarines. Air-independent propulsion (AIP) submarines...
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 #2126
GLOBAL BRIEFS
TURKEY: The government of the Republic of Turkiye, led by Tayyip Erdogan, will not continue or develop its relations with Israel. “We have cut all...
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Issue #2100
AUKUS: return to form for the World’s dumping ground
A Labor-chaired inquiry has urged the Albanese government to rewrite its proposed AUKUS laws, based on fears that Australia risks becoming the dumping ground for...
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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 #2141
PEACE NOTES
At some level, everyone knows that military hardware is expensive. We know this because we hear gigantic figures quoted about it – like the $368...
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Issue #2097
AUKUS boosters start to doubt
Fans of unintentional humour could do a lot worse then head over to ‘The Strategist,’ the website/journal of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), and...
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Issue #2044
Peace and Australia Post
Have you heard of the Peace Budget? If you’ve been reading News Corp or Fairfax publications this year, you won’t have seen any trace of...
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Issue #2124
Port Adelaide says NO to AUKUS
Alarming revelations about the dubious background to the one-sided AUKUS deal emerged at a packed public information forum organised by PACOA (Port Adelaide Citizens Opposing...
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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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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 #2193
AUKUS inquiry announced
Former environment minister Peter Garrett has announced he’ll lead an independent inquiry into the so-called ‘defence pact’ known as AUKUS. The inquiry has been launched...
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Issue #2163
EDITORIAL
It’s been a while since the AUKUS pact was featured in this newspaper. The plan to buy nuclear-powered submarines from the USA and the UK,...
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Issue #2145
How’s your posture?
Not so long ago, we heard a lot about AUKUS. It’s a pact under which Australia signs up for more than $360 billion in order...
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