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Russia denounces Biden for only giving them “a few minutes of warning” before the US attack on Syria
The attack ordered by US President Joe Biden against Syria received condemnation from Damascus and Moscow ...
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Issue #2057
US-NATO air war provocation
Germany has invited the US and its other NATO allies to start the biggest war provocation in history in its airspace this week. The simulated...
Read moreBiden increases threat of war between great powers
While visiting the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden highlighted growing “threats” posed by Russia and China to the US’ national security.
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Mismatch: Biden bombs Syria while pushing progressive economic bill at home
An old dichotomy that’s haunted many Democratic administrations – pushing ostensibly progressive economic and social policies at home in the US while pursuing imperialist aims abroad – has returned.
Read more“Defender Europe 21” – a military provocation
The United States continues its march towards a new world war.
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Issue #2061
50th anniversary of the last Australian troops in Vietnam
The 50th anniversary of the withdrawal of the last Australian troops, on 1st July 1973, marks the end of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War....
Read more16 million risk starvation in Yemen, says UN as Saudi war rages
More than 16 million people in Yemen will go hungry this year, a United Nations agency warned today ahead of a conference to drum up humanitarian aid.
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Issue #2016
The real threat of the United States’ 800 foreign bases
Under the heading “Australia Faces Massive Existential Threat from China,” Christopher Joye writes that: “The spectre of Chinese nuclear submarines, destroyers, fighters and bombers based...
Read moreEnd of the forever war?
The United States’ longest war has officially come to an end.
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Issue #2063
Space War?
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST) between the United States and the Soviet Union sought all nations to avoid any future “land grab” leading to...
Read moreAustralia’s role in US imperialism remains firm
The basic implicit promise of the Biden campaign has been a “return to normal” relative to the Trump years.
Read moreAfghanistan: no clean end to a dirty war
The Russian Foreign Ministry was the first to announce [last month] that a suicide attack outside Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport killed at least two people and wounded fifteen more.
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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...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg, once known as “the most dangerous man in America,” died on 16th June 2023 at the age of 92. In 1969 he was...
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Issue #2024
War preparations are sparking the growth of an Australian peace movement
The indicators that preparations are being made for war are coming thick and fast. Previous governments have committed close to one-quarter of a billion dollars...
Read moreAfghanistan: what’s next?
Little was said about the horrendous consequences of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan and the tens of thousands of Afghan lives that were lost, and the wreckage and chaos that was left behind following the hasty withdrawal by US and allied troops.
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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 #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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Dear Editor, I was disappointed to read Matthew Hole’s article, “Afghans Reclaim Sovereignty as US-NATO Occupation Comes to an End” (Guardian #1977), ironically with a...
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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...
Read moreAfghanistan’s socialist years: the promising future killed off by US imperialism
Since the horrific events of the 11th of September, much has been said about the desperate situation of the Afghani people
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Issue #2045
WEASEL WORDS
(special AUKUS edition) Uncomfortable reading / əˈnkmfərtəbəl ˈrdɪŋ/ A lot of weasel words are an attempt to pre-emptively shield something awful from criticism. If something is...
Read moreAfghans reclaim sovereignty as US-Nato occupation comes to an end
Celebratory gunfire echoed across Kabul on Tuesday morning, 31st August, as the last US flight took off from Kabul airport, ending twenty years of American occupation in the country.
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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 #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 #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...
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 #2035
Contributions to IMCWP 2022
Editor’s note: The following are contributions from the Iraqi Communist Party and the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (Czech Republic) to the International Meeting...
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Issue #2062
Korean war armistice: 70 years on
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War (1951-1953). The war remains a humiliation for the US. On the 27th...
Read moreDepartment of Defence to pay for war crimes
The Department of Defence has pledged to bring soldiers accused of war crimes to justice and pay reparations to their victims by the end of the year.
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Issue #2013
World beyond war – global peace wave
Over the weekend 25-26 June, people all over the world joined up to protest the continual wars around the globe. Naturally, because of the time...
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Issue #2038
Stop the War
LONDON: The first ever Stop the War Coalition trade union conference held last weekend looked at how to build a bigger peace movement – and...
Read moreAustralia and the US withdraw from Afghanistan
After Joe Biden’s announcement on 14th April that the United States army will be withdrawing from Afghanistan ...
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Issue #2039
Japan’s dangerous military expansion
On December 16 last year, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced a new defence strategy that doubled Japan’s military spending by 2027. The biggest military...
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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 #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...
Read moreAFGHANISTAN: caught between poverty and possibility
The future of Afghanistan will be determined not only in Kabul, where the Taliban is now firmly in power but also in places such as the Wakhan Corridor.
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Issue #2043
SZEL WORDS
Complexities /kəmplˈɛksɪtiz/ Readers who lived in a share house during their student days may remember instant tidying for parties. One top tip for student house-dwellers...
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 #2066
Weapons corporations are making a killing
Weapons corporations are making a killing exporting terror around the world. While the USA’s top five weapons contractors make profits topping $200 billion, they’re never...
Read moreSoftening its mates up for another war?
Has anyone actually scrutinised the piffle that Anthony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, recently came out with?
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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...
Read moreAfghanistan, will the US lose the war as well as the peace?
It’s little wonder that Joe Biden wants to get his troops out of Afghanistan.
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Issue #2037
Peace Notes
By Hannah Middleton Welcome to Peace Notes, a fortnightly column which will cover militarisation and its impacts as well as people’s efforts to ensure peace...
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Issue #2030
Let’s rebuild the anti-war movement
There are many Australians currently opposed to the AUKUS pact with all its sinister implications for our country since it was first handed to us...
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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 #2070
Nuclear subs challenge trains 10-year-old children for war
It’s time for education ministers across the country to show leadership and protect our children from vested interests and pro-war propaganda. On 19th June, the...
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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 #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 #2050
No weapons in space
As the US war preparations escalate, its plans for domination here on earth also extend to the weaponising of space. At the UN Conference on...
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Issue #2005
The criminal madness of Morrison and Dutton militarising Australia
The 2022-23 budget confirms and expands the criminal madness of the last seven months, when the Morrison government has committed unbelievable billions of dollars to...
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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...
Read moreANZAC Day and Australia’s dark foreign policy
Sunday 25th April marked 106 years since Australian and New Zealander troops landed on the Gallipoli peninsula of the then-Ottoman Empire, to fight and die in their thousands under an uncaring British command in pursuit of British imperial interests.
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Issue #2031
DINGO
The wholesale theft from Optus and Medibank of the personal information of their customers by hackers brings forth a quote from Karl Marx: “Finally, there...
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Issue #2041
“Hands off the world”
On 2nd February 2023, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr of the Philippines met with US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin at Malacañang Palace in Manila, where they...
Read moreHorn of Africa
It is almost impossible to find out any news of what is happening in Africa.
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Issue #2005
Preparing for war does not preserve peace
Everyday in our news cycle the drums of of war become louder. Last month, however, that messaging received a massive boost when Defence Minister Peter...
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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 #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 #2021
60th anniversary of Australia’s involvement in Vietnam
This week marks sixty years since Australia entered the Vietnam war. Considered by many to be a Cold War-era proxy war, the conflict lasted almost...
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Issue #2022
DINGO
In a sign of widespread frustration, nurses and that midwives in NSW took 24-hour strike action on the 1st September over their demands for safe...
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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...
Read more20 years of occupation of Afghanistan: crass imperialism and a humanitarian disaster
The withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan has ended with the same Taliban forces taking over even larger parts of the country than they controlled before the occupation.
Read moreEffect of the military on carbon emissions and soil pollution
Every second year the US and Australian military hold war games, called Talisman Sabre in Queensland, in areas of high environmental significance: some being world heritage areas and natural heritage sites.
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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 #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...
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 #2049
Road to War
As Australia’s most outstanding documentary film maker with 21 films and many awards to his credit, David Bradbury has created another monumental and relevant work...
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Issue #2045
PEACE NOTES
The current debate over who can decide if Australia goes to war is more urgent and important than ever, now that the rhetoric around war...
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Issue #2053
GLOBAL BRIEFS
INDIA: The Indian state of Karnataka held the most crucial state election before parliamentary elections due in 2024. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) suffered...
Read moreCPA statement on the AUKUS Tripartite Agreement and nuclear-powered submarines
The Communist Party of Australia urges all its members and supporters to actively oppose the Morrison government’s decision to join the AUKUS Agreement
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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 #2033
Australia moves closer to ratifying UN treaty on nuclear weapons
As the threat of war continues to loom as tensions rise in Europe, it is the responsibility of every state – to deter as much...
Read moreJOBS NOT WAR!
The AUKUS alliance between Australia, the UK and the US turns the meaning of security on its head.
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Issue #2043
PEACE NOTES
In the latest escalation in Australia’s increasingly forceful campaign to manufacture consent for war with China, the Murdoch-owned Sky News Australia has aired a jaw-droppingly...
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Issue #2050
Wong’s “reality check” ignores reality
When Penny Wong took over as Foreign Minister from Marise Payne last year, she was surfing the wave of approval that brought the Albanese Labor...
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Issue #2025
United Nations day of peace
Today, 21st September, the United Nations Day of Peace, the Communist Party of Australia calls for the Albanese Government to save billions of tax payers’...
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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...
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Issue #2006
Never forget the victory of the Soviet Union
On 9th May, 1945, Hitler’s fascism was finally crushed amongst the rubble of Berlin and the “thousand-year Reich” came to a mercifully premature end. The...
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Issue #2031
Class war budget
The budget, delivered on 25th October, is set in the context of a looming global recession, ongoing wars, rocketing prices, extreme weather events, famine, and...
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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 #2045
Beating the war drums
Marx noted that in military state capitalism, building and operating the armed forces and the arms manufacturers is the primary activity of government. Last week...
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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 #2053
PEACE NOTES
Hannah Middleton There is always money for the military, no matter how bad the budget bottom line is. The Federal government plans to spend about...
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Issue #2030
Medicare under attack
An investigation by the ABC, and the Nine newspapers Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, claims that $8 billion (approximately thirty per cent) of Medicare’s...
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Issue #2067
More War Games
Australia has just hosted the Malabar Exercises which were held in Sydney and across the NSW south coast from 10th to 21st August. The naval...
Read moreSubs, subservience and stupidity
It’s been less than a month since the US tore out of poverty-stricken Afghanistan after losing a twenty-year dirty war, with Australia dragging behind, and already they have announced a new absurd military scheme, AUKUS
Read moreNo nuclear Australia: TIME FOR ACTION!
The sudden announcement of the AUKUS (Australia-UK-US) military agreement which will bring nuclear-powered submarines to Australia has provoked worldwide and growing opposition.
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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 #2002
Budget 2022-23 – CLASS WAR
The budget announced by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is a pre-election, last ditch, vote-buying exercise from the Morrison government. Voters struggling with rising prices and falling...
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Issue #2038
Invitation for peace
Dear Friends We would like to invite you to take part in a short campaign intended to contribute to our efforts to oppose the Federal...
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Issue #2029
Australia: The big polluter
Australia is the world’s largest gas and coal exporter. There are currently 114 new or expanded fossil fuel projects awaiting approval. In 2021-22, governments in...
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Issue #2052
AUKUS unmasked
With an ultimate price tag of over half a trillion dollars, AUKUS represents a huge attack on the Australian way of life, on the environment...
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Issue #2048
War Powers
A parliamentary report released 31st March on War Powers has failed to recommend the genuine reform many in the community expect. “The first recommendation confirms...
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Issue #2051
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SUDAN: Doctors Central Committee has reported that the number of people killed in clashes between the armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) rose...
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Issue #2067
ALP Conference and the path to war
“If you’re pro-human rights, you need to be pro-AUKUS. If you’re pro-peace, you need to be pro-AUKUS. If you’re pro-advanced manufacturing, you need to be...
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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 #2039
The power of internationalism
27th January marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, the agreement which ended the US war on Vietnam. From 1955...
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Issue #2055
The Warfare State
The National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies has released an analysis of the militarised budget in the United States, titled “The Warfare...
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Issue #1971
Stop Talisman Sabre war games!
US-Australian war games, currently being played in Queensland, should be cancelled for compelling security, environmental, economic, and health reasons.
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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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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 #2055
PEACE NOTES
Hannah Middleton Papua New Guinea is being pressurised by the US and Australia to join their plans for war on China. PNG’s location north of...
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Issue #2043
Nationwide demonstrations against AUKUS
The Australian Anti-AUKUS Coalition (AAAC) co-ordinated a series of successful rallies on 24 February at the offices of Federal Ministers around the country. The rallies...
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Issue #2063
For a nuclear free Australia
The 6th of August this year is the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Though Nazi Germany was defeated on 8th May 1945,...
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Issue #2046
Cancel AUKUS! – NO TO WAR!
The Labor government’s decision to sign up to AUKUS is potentially the most costly and dangerous decision of any government since federation. It is not...
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Issue #2049
MAY DAY
The international working class continues to commemorate the struggles and gains achieved over 134 years since the first May Day commemoration in 1889 which remembered...
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Issue #2059 03-07-2023
Truth-teller must be freed
There are two important dates around now. Daniel Ellsberg died on 16th June this year, at the age of 92. Julian Assange turns 52 on...
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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 #2051
Cut-and-paste US world domination
“So today I want to talk to you about how we avert war and maintain peace – and more than that, how we shape a...
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Issue #2043
The Communist Manifesto turns 175
In Sydney, comrades are getting ready to demonstrate at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s office against the government’s plan to spend an insane amount on preparations...
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Issue #2050
Fight back!
May Day is just eight days away from the federal budget. All we hear from Treasurer Jim Chalmers are attempts to soften up the electorate...
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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 #2051
Military uses for Arnhem Space Centre
Last year the Guardian reported on the development of the Arnhem Space Centre (ASC) in north-east Arnhem Land in the remote Northern Territory. We warned...
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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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