The Guardian • Ukraine
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...
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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...
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Issue #2004
Zelensky goes to Washington
In 2020 when Joe Biden decided to run for the presidential election, Donald Trump asked the Ukraine President Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden. In exchange...
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Issue #2017
Marx’s vampire capitalism and the present economic crisis
Friedrich Engels in his The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) refers to “the vampire property-holding class.” Twenty years later, Karl Marx uses...
Read moreAfghanistan, India and the Tapi Gas Pipeline
Since 9/11 the US has used the pretext of its “Global War on Terrorism” to develop a military position within GUAM ...
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Issue #2021
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Misinformation on the Ukraine is everywhere, especially if you happen to be in a Western country like Australia. Where do we find accurate information, especially...
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Issue #2024
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic: the Communist Party of the Ukraine
The following is the fourth and final instalment of an edited translation concerning the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The material is drawn from a long...
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Issue #2052
May Day – Millions march around the world
People squeezed by inflation and demanding economic justice took to streets across Asia, Europe, and the Americas to mark May Day, in an outpouring of...
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Issue #1998
Resolutions of the 14th Congress of the CPA
RESOLUTION ON THE SITUATION IN UKRAINE The war between Russia and Ukraine is part of a wider conflict between capitalist powers, between Russia on one...
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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 #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 #2022
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic: socialist construction 1921-1941
This is part two of a series on the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which was a founding republic of the Soviet Union (founded in 1922)....
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 #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 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.
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 #2061
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BRITAIN: The number of construction workers killed in site accidents rose sharply from 29 to 45 last year, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has...
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Issue #2000
The far-right in Ukraine and the Australian connection
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that Russia’s military operation aims to “demilitarise” and “de-Nazify” Ukraine. He was referring to the Azov Battalion and other Extreme...
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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 #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 #2008
DINGO
The US Department of Defence recently went through the formality of asking Congress to give it the go-ahead to fund facilities in Australia to process...
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Issue #2048
GLOBAL BRIEFS
YEMEN: Saudi and Omani delegations arrived in Yemen to negotiate a permanent ceasefire deal with Houthi officials. The visit follows the Oman-mediated consultations between Saudi...
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Issue #2024
DINGO
The cause of the Ukraine conflict is the fact that the presence of NATO and US bases, military forces, and nuclear missile systems put Russia’s...
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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....
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Issue #2038
DINGO
As the Albanese government pours billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money into fuelling the war in Ukraine it is offering the fossil fuel miners $500...
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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 #2079
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SAUDI ARABIA: An Arab-Islamic emergency meeting hosted by Saudi Arabia on 11 November called for an end to the war in Gaza, and rejected Israel’s...
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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 #2049
YEMEN: A prisoner exchange took place between Houthis and government forces. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that planes carrying detainees took...
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Issue #1998
CPA – Youth statement on the arrest of the Kononovich brothers
On 6th March 2022 the First Secretary of the Leninist Communist Youth Union of Ukraine Mikhail Kononovich, as well as his brother, Aleksander Kononovich were...
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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 #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 #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 #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 #2027
DINGO
Last week, “Dingo” reported on Solomon Islands PM Manasseh Sogavare’s address to the UN General Assembly, a voice of the Pacific Islands People in the...
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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 #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...
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Issue #2031
If military spending could provide peace, wouldn’t we have achieved that already?
The Labor Government plans to spend $48.7 billion on the military this financial year, in line with the policies of Morrison and Dutton. There is...
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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 #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 #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 #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 #2065
DINGO
Some readers might remember the Michael Moore show Sicko about the US for-profit health system, where he campaigned for a patient to have a life-saving...
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Issue #2075
PEACE NOTES
Dying for inches Hannah Middleton This issue of Peace Notes is from a recent article by Caitlin Johnson “People are dying for inches in Ukraine,...
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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 #2055
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SERBIA: Last week Alexander Vucic, Serbia’s president, put the army on high combat alert over Kosovo clashes. The troops moved to the administrative border with...
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Issue #2038
Australian troops to train Ukrainian soldiers
In a decision that will ensure even more death and destruction, the Australian Government has sent 70 Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel to the UK...
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Issue #2062
NO TO NATO
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attended the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in Vilnius, Lithuania on 11 - 12 July. Albanese was present as part...
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