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Issue #2166

Trump declares war

After decades of financing wars, regime changes and assassinations, the US imperialist political establishment is now trying to appear as a peacemaker. It is invoking...

Issue #2026

Fund peace not war

Issue #1952

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 ...

Issue #1973

Biden 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.

Issue #2027

POSTER: “What’s the cost of war?”

NATO’s air policing mission over Poland, March 2023.

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...

Issue #2131

That strong spirit of Palestinian emancipation

Vijay Prashad

The Boorloo/Perth Hiroshima and Nagasaki NEVER AGAIN initiative

Issue #2158

Hiroshima, Nagasaki – NEVER AGAIN?

For 80 years, the Hibakusha (survivors) of the United States atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been warning the world — “never again.” Never...

Issue #2203

Trump’s annexation threat escalates crisis

The Strait of Hormuz became the centre of a new diplomatic dispute after US President Donald Trump threatened to declare the strategic waterway a potential...

Issue #1953

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.

Issue #2111

POEM

by Steven Katsineris I want to cultivate tolerance and understanding And see wisdom flourish, To sow flowers in parched desert hearts And watch love grow...

Issue #1952

16 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.

Issue #1962

“Defender Europe 21” – a military provocation

The United States continues its march towards a new world war.

President Lyndon Johnson driven through the streets of Melbourne after his car was splattered with paint.

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....

Issue #1947

Australia’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.

Issue #1970

End of the forever war?

The United States’ longest war has officially come to an end.

Issue #1977

Afghanistan: 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.

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...

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...

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...

Issue #2155

Austerity and war vs development and peace

Reason seems to have been gradually abolished by the language of bombs. As weapons systems get ‘smarter’ and ‘smarter,’ the range of diplomatic instruments used...

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...

Issue #2059

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...

Issue #2142

Free Palestine! End the occupation!

Demonstrations in support of Palestine have kicked off again in Australian cities. Communist Party members are turning out in support of Palestine and in protest...

Issue #1975

Afghanistan’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

Issue #1979

Afghanistan: 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.

Issue #1984

Letter

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Issue #2078

HALF THE SKY

Like funerals postponed “The humanitarian situation in Gaza was dire before these hostilities and has now severely worsened. This exacts unjustifiable and specific costs on...

Issue #2099

‘Squad’ of nations formed to confront and provoke China

A new US-dominated bloc aimed at ‘challenging’ China is now almost complete. The grouping unites the USA, Japan, the Philippines, and Australia in what is...

Volodomyr Zelensky ‘a president whose term of office has long since expired.’

Issue #2171

NATO press gangs in Ukraine

US imperialism continues to ruin all states that call themselves democratic and independent. In fact, many countries have already lost their independence. Some lost it...

Issue #2182

Women’s rights ‘regressing worldwide’

As an increase in conflicts leads to a significant spike in gender-based violence, women across the world face a “justice gap” with discriminatory laws reported...

Issue #1974

Department 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.

Issue #1977

Afghans 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.

Issue #1994

US 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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Part of the anti-AUKUS demo in Brisbane.

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...

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...

Issue #1958

Australia and the US withdraw from Afghanistan

After Joe Biden’s announcement on 14th April that the United States army will be withdrawing from Afghanistan ...

Issue #1986

AFGHANISTAN: 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.

Issue #1995

Neo-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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Issue #2082

Halifax International Security Forum: a thieves’ kitchen

The Halifax International Security Forum has just completed its annual summit in Nova Scotia. It describes itself as a forum and network for international government...

United States Air Force - McDonnell Aircraft F-101B Voodoo interceptor-fighter

Issue #2124

Australia: even more the 51st state?

The recent National Security and Australia’s Northern Defence paper by the right wing think tank/lobby group, the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) favours permanently expanding...

Refugees crossing borders into South Sudan.

Issue #2172

Let the Sudanese people walk toward peace

What is the reality on the ground in Sudan? On 15 April 2023, war broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) – led by...

Issue #2191

Iran’s civilisational strength

During some of the worst days of the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran, I was talking to friends who were in the civilian areas being...

Issue #2198

GLOBAL BRIEFS

CHINA: The China passenger car association said that June sails reached 1.50 million, 22 per cent higher than in June 2025 and a 12 per...

Issue #1959

Softening its mates up for another war?

Has anyone actually scrutinised the piffle that Anthony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, recently came out with?

Issue #1960

Afghanistan, 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.

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...

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...

Issue #2097

World military spending explodes

World spending on the military in 2023 reached an astronomical $2.44 trillion, according to research just released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)....

Issue #2098

Pine Gap on red alert

In October 1973, US bases in Australia were put on ‘red alert’ in case of a nuclear war. The USA did not bother informing the...

Issue #2105

Where our real national interest lies

The visit of Chinese Premier Li Qiang to Australia has revealed much about this country and how it views its relationship with China. Two distinct...

Issue #2109

GLOBAL BRIEFS

USA: Postal workers are involved in the nation’s largest contract battle, as the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) fights for an improved collective bargaining agreement...

Issue #2110

GLOBAL BRIEFS

UKRAINE: Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has led a Ukrainian delegation to Guangzhou, in China, for peace talks. Kuleba announced that Ukraine is willing and prepared...

Israeli airstrike on Gaza City on October 2023.

Issue #2119

Gaza: 12 months of terror

It is now 12 months since Israel’s blood-letting in Gaza began. That awful anniversary comes as Israeli bombs rain down on Lebanon. Every day since...

Displaced women and children escaping conflict and drought, Somalia.

Issue #2134

Imperialism and sub-Saharan Africa

There are currently 45 million displaced people in sub-Saharan Africa. That is 45 per cent of the total of displaced people on the planet. Lives...

Issue #2136

Japan: ‘self-defence’ stretched beyond a joke

Everyone knows that self-defence means defending one’s self, right? Everybody also knows that for a nation, self-defence means defending that nation, right? Everybody except hawkish...

Issue #1984

No to war!: nuclear is back

Imperialism and war go hand in hand.

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

People performs Tai Chi at the People’s Square of Urumqi, Tianshan District.

Issue #2092

China’s defence budget and the lies of imperialism

China will increase its defence spending by 7.2 per cent in the coming year. Predictably, ‘warnings’ came from the West. The cry is that the...

Rally in support of Palestine, Perth/ Boorloo.

Issue #2122

Israel and the USA: an axis of terror

An ‘axis of terror’ is operating in Gaza, in Lebanon, in the West Bank, in Syria. It’s the Israeli military, backed by the USA. Israel...

Rally in support of Palestine, Boorloo/Perth, 14 September 2024.

Issue #2132

UNWRA, Palestine, and hope

The ceasefire in Gaza, or the pause in hostilities, is appearing to hold, even if it is tenuous. The images of Israeli hostages and Palestinian...

Issue #2192

GLOBAL BRIEFS

LEBANON: Israeli military forces escalated their direct attacks against health facilities and emergency vehicles in multiple locations across southern Lebanon. The Lebanese Ministry of Health...

Issue #2147

The war in Gaza at a glance

A lot of media outlets like to ‘both-sides’ Israel’s assault on Palestinians, calling it a ‘conflict’ or an ‘Israel-Gaza’ war. For the both-sides fans out...

Issue #1959

ANZAC 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.

Issue #1971

Horn of Africa

It is almost impossible to find out any news of what is happening in Africa.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Issue #2095

GLOBAL BEIEFS

PERSIAN GULF: Countries in the Persian Gulf including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Kuwait have reportedly told the United States not to...

Issue #2103

Blinken ‘acting like Israel’s foreign minister’

Hamas officials have accused Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, of bias as negotiations over a possible ceasefire continue. Hamas official Taher Al-Nunu told...

An Australian Bushmaster blastproof truck in Afghanistan, 2007.

Issue #2115

NATO weapons used in Russia escalate the war

Ukraine’s recent ‘incursion’ into Russia, or more correctly its invasion of Russia, has seriously inflamed an already dangerous confrontation. Some observers consider that the purpose...

Issue #2140

USA: Hegseth both-sides Iwo-Jima

2025 is the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, justly called “the World Anti-Fascist War” in China and elsewhere. It’s a time...

Issue #2175

Vietnam moves ahead

Major reforms have been passed by the National Assembly of Vietnam, set to bring about the greatest changes to the nation’s government since its victory...

Issue #2182

GLOBAL BRIEFS

GERMANY: Thousands of students protested against a recently adopted law that could reinstate compulsory military service. The ‘School strike’ against the draft brought out more...

Issue #1976

20 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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Masthead of PDF version of Monthly Review.

Issue #2090

Media: Monthly Review

Graham Drew

Issue #2092

GLOBAL BRIEFS

UKRAINE / RUSSIA: Ukrainian military deployed over 2,500 servicemen, some 35 tanks and around 40 other armoured vehicles to attack multiple locations along the border with Russia....

Issue #2094

AUKUS expansion is a gift to three sets of war-mongers

“The defense ministers of the US, UK, and Australia will reportedly begin to talk about broadening the AUKUS military alliance, with Japan emerging as the...

Issue #2101

PEACE NOTES

Australian universities are deeply involved in military research and development. Western Sydney University, the University of Wollongong, University of Technology Sydney, and the University of...

Issue #2103

Israel threatens war with Lebanon

For eight months the world has watched and been horrified at Israel’s barbaric assault on Gaza. For eight months there has been a less well-reported,...

Issue #2108

NATO Summit beats the drums of war

The 75th anniversary of NATO has concluded. At its recent Summit, Ukraine was top of the agenda, and it is clear that its proxy war...

Mulan Wind Farm – located approximately 170km north east of Harbin City in Heilongiang.

Issue #2109

Hope from a greener China

The World Economic Forum’ (WEF) Global Risks Report rates the climate crisis as the primary risk to humanity. They see climate disruption as the main...

Issue #2152

GLOBAL BRIEFS

USA: The Indigenous People’s Coalition (IPC) met in Nashville to discuss opposition to anti-immigrant raids conducted by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the...

Issue #2159

GLOBAL BRIEFS

Ukraine: Some Ukrainian commanders and officials have expressed concerns over a manpower crisis in the armed forces. At least 650,000 men of fighting age are...

Issue #2175

GLOBAL BRIEFS

DENMARK: Denmark called on the United States to stop “threatening” Greenland as President Donald Trump told US media that he “absolutely needed” the territory, a...

Issue #2179

Korea: US military throws its weight around

The United Nations Command in the Republic of Korea is not well-named. It’s not a United Nations organisation. Despite the name, the UNC is a...

Issue #2184

GLOBAL BRIEFS

INDIA: India’s anti-terror agency has arrested seven people for allegedly training and supplying weapons to insurgents in Myanmar. Six Ukrainians and a US citizen were...

Issue #2186

GLOBAL BRIEFS

US: President Donald Trump acknowledged in an interview that the United States had supplied weapons to anti-government protesters in Iran during recent January unrest. The...

Issue #1965

Effect 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.

Issue #1980

Australia’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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Issue #2078

Rally for Palestine in Newcastle, NSW

On Saturday 4 November 2023, CPA members in Newcastle NSW joined the major cities around Australia and the world in taking to the streets to...

Issue #2097

Where is the Red Menace?

Australia’s political, military, and media elites and the Americans holding their leashes have been doubling and tripling down on China fearmongering in the last few...

Issue #2115

US plans for war on three fronts

The United States has maintained power and control since the end of WW2 but its hold on power has never been shakier. Its economic dominance...

National Defense Academy of Japan cadets at West Point, NY, 2017.

Issue #2117

Australia-Japan 2+2 and the running dogs of war

The Australia-Japan 2+2 meeting (two foreign Ministers and two Defence Ministers) was held this September, between Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles and Foreign Minister Penny...

Issue #2122

GLOBAL BRIEFS

EGYPT: Egypt has been certified as malaria free by the World Health Organisation (WHO). “Malaria is as old as Egyptian civilisation itself, but the disease...

Issue #2180

Sudan war: UAE, Ethiopia get involved

The civil War in Sudan has surpassed 1,000 days of war and is one of the most deadly and tragic wars of this century. The...

Issue #2182

Growing crisis needs communist activity and solutions

When the war in the Ukraine began in 2022 a wave of inflation swept across the world as international energy and raw materials prices rose...

Issue #2187

Iran’s Lego meme war

Explosive News has released more than fifty AI-generated, Lego-inspired President Donald Trump videos, with millions of views across X, TikTok, Instagram and other social media...

Issue #2188

Ukraine: the fading dream of the European Union

Europe is slowly taking a stance against Zelensky while the USA continues to pressure Kiev to sign a peace deal with Moscow. Despite all the...

Issue #2203

GLOBAL BRIEFS

SOUTH KOREA: South Korea has angered President Trump by refusing to participate in the US-Israeli war against Iran. In response, the US President ordered to...

Issue #2206

UAE ruler confronted over Sudan

A video posted online on 6 September shows the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Prime Minister being confronted over his country’s role in the war in...

Issue #1980

CPA 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

Issue #1985

JOBS NOT WAR!

The AUKUS alliance between Australia, the UK and the US turns the meaning of security on its head.

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’...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Issue #2076

Killers of the Flower Moon

Who’s up for some three hours plus of cinematic awesomeness? Lots of people, that’s who, even the ones who think that Killers of the Flower...

Issue #2086

The Cabinet Papers and the Iraq War

No one knows with certainty how many people have been killed and wounded in Iraq since the 2003 United States invasion. Between 280,771 and 315,190...

Issue #2099

PEACE NOTES

BIDEN MANOEUVRES TO SAVE VOTES Facing fast growing opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza, US President Biden is manoeuvring to save votes in the...

A woman covers her son with a blanket after fleeing the war from neighbouring Ukraine at the border crossing in Medyka, southeastern Poland.

Issue #2100

Peace in Ukraine? China’s initiative

Wars always end. How they end is important. China has just announced four principles that would support peace initiatives. This builds on its earlier broad,...

Land to air long range missile being fired

Issue #2111

New arms race in Europe

The signing of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty between the USA and the Soviet Union, in 1988, was a break in Cold War...

Issue #2134

Saudi Arabian Oil Policy and the Iran-Iraq War

With US President Donald Trump promising to produce cheap global oil, this is a useful study that shows why the United States has tried, but...

Issue #2165

GLOBAL BRIEFS

CHINA: Three US companies – unmanned vehicle maker Saronic Technologies, satellite technology company Aercomm, and subsea engineering firm Oceaneering International, have been added to China’s...

Issue #2174

GLOBAL BRIEFS

BRAZIL: President Lula da Silva has announced the creation of two new higher education institutions – the Federal Indigenous University (UNIND) and the Federal University...

Issue #2202

US - Iran war and oil profits

One-fifth of the world’s traded oil passes through the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The outbreak of the US-Iran conflict interrupted Gulf oil and petroleum product...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Issue #2072

Fighting with America

In September 1951, during the Korean War, Australia and New Zealand, signed the ANZUS treaty. In Fighting with America James Curran, Professor of History at...

Issue #2076

GLOBAL BRIEFS

ARGENTINA: Argentina’s Economy Minister Segio Massa and the leader of the far-right Liberty Advances party, Javier Milei have advanced to the 2nd round of the...

Issue #2079

PEACE NOTES

Expel the Merchants of Death Hannah Middleton War is good for business. Armaments corporations are raking in billions from death, suffering, and destruction. It is...

Issue #2082

Henry Kissinger: War criminal guilty of 3 million dead

Henry Kissinger died at home on 30 November, aged 100, never having been tried for his war crimes. He had been a leading diplomat, serving...

Issue #2097

ACTU statement on Gaza

The Australian Union movement is a movement of peace and respect for all races and nationalities. We oppose war, racism, and oppression. We act in...

Issue #2112

DINGO

This week’s target of US aggression is the final one, Vietnam, 1950-73: The slippery slope for the US began by siding with the French, the...

Issue #2122

Hezbollah’s tunnels in Lebanon – never secret

In August the Agence France-Presse (AFP) showed a video titled “Our mountains are our storehouses,” which purported to show Hezbollah fighters in secret tunnels near...

Issue #2170

GLOBAL BRIEFS

VENEZUELA: Venezuela suspended energy agreements with Trinidad and Tobago for hosting US warships and troops. The US deployed its biggest military mission to the Caribbean...

Issue #2179

LETTERS

Bondi hypocrisy What a madder, sicker world it has become, where injustice, terror and many ongoing wars have engulfed the planet and no power steps...

Issue #1980

Subs, 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

Issue #1981

No 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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The unmasking took place at an urgent meeting during the “coronation” weekend in Adelaide where two inspirational speakers provided insightful explanations on “AUKUS: Why we are opposed!”

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...

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...

Issue #2095

PEACE NOTES

Global Action on Military Spending has issued a statement for its days of action from 12 April to 15 May. The statement, “Disarmament now to...

Issue #2106

GLOBAL BRIEFS

HUNGARY: EU documents and reports from The Financial Times and Sputnik suggest that the EU is increasing pressure on Hungary to end its veto of...

Issue #2109

PEACE NOTES

If you know anyone in their sixties, ask them if they remember World War I. Chances are they do, but not because they were there....

Issue #2111

PEACE NOTES

This paper has used a lot of space to explain how Australian military forces have been turned into a working part of the US military,...

Issue #2126

Trade war, Trump and decaying capitalism

The world is bracing itself for the coming war. No shot will be fired, at least not immediately. No troops will be paraded, but the...

Issue #2143

LETTERS

Dear Editor, Every April in Australia, ANZAC Day comes around with little discussion to water down the exaggerated displays of nationalism and jingoism. Vijay Prashad...

Issue #2147

PEACE NOTES

Say what you like about war, at least it’s good for the economy, right? Wrong, but you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. War and...

Anti-nuclear weapons protest march, Oxford, England, 1980.

Issue #2156

US nukes to the UK?

Anti-nuclear campaigners have called for British PM Keir Starmer to reveal if US nuclear weapons are back in the UK. If they are, it would...

Issue #2160

National Day of Action in Support of Palestine

Boorloo/Perth Vinnie Molina Tens of thousands rallied and marched for Palestine as part of the National Day of Action on Sunday 24 August 2025. In...

Issue #2171

Dick Cheney 1941 – 2025

“true dereliction, negligence, and irresponsibility: at worst, lying, incompetence, and corruption.” That’s how the career of Dick Cheney, who has just passed away at the...

Protesters at a anti-war rally at Parliament House, Adelaide, March 2026. Sarah Hanson-Young, a federal senator for the Australian Greens, is speaking.

Issue #2184

Time of monsters – The US lashes out

This year isn’t even three months old and we’re seeing constant escalation of wars across the world, primarily from the United States’ imperial ambitions. Iran...

Issue #2186

LETTERS

Lawless prosecution President Nicolás Maduro, and his wife Cilia Flores, have been held by the US judicial system after being kidnapped and transferred to the...

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...

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...

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,...

Issue #2078

DINGO

“Violence against women is a national crisis,” says Kate Fitz-Gibbon from Monash University’s Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre. “These deaths represent the tip of...

Issue #2096

Anti-AUKUS Forum, Port Adelaide

A coalition of Anti-AUKUS, peace and community activists organised a public forum on the dangers of the planned involvement of Port Adelaide in the nuclear...

Issue #2103

Free education? Sorry kids, the military has all the money

The 2024/25 Federal Budget in May announced that military spending would be $53 billion, an increase on last year’s figure of $46 billion. The figure...

Issue #2105

PEACE NOTES

By the time you read this everybody will have had a gutful of Peter Dutton’s idea of building nuclear reactors around the country while crippling...

CPA member Emily, a Palestinian activist, and CPA President Vinnie Molina at the conference.

Issue #2121

Sleepwalking into War?

With the clouds of war building over the Middle East between Israel and the many enemies it is making in the region, the intractable war...

Chinese Dragon as part of the Chinese New Year celebrations at Sovereign Hill, Ballarat, Victoria.

Issue #2125

Australia’s contradictory relationship with China

Two hundred and fifty Australian businesses were represented at the 7th China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai. Minister for Trade and Tourism, Don Farrell,...

Issue #2130

PEACE NOTES

AUKUS, the euphemistically called ‘security partnership’ between Australia, the US, and the UK, is sold to the public as promoting “a free and open Indo-Pacific...

Khaled Sabsabi, Co-existence, 2009, MCA.

Issue #2135

Israel lobby’s assassins

A rich-list of Jewish business and finance moneybags has rallied around former Coalition federal treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, to “raise millions to fight antisemitism.” Frydenberg, currently...

Issue #2142

Business as usual

There are a lot of comments flying around about Donald Trump betraying his country and destroying cherished American principles. A look at past behaviour and...

Issue #2157

PEACE NOTES

People who work for peace are used to being told that they’re too idealistic. In fact, the pro-war and pro-military build-up crowd are often believers...

Issue #2162

Drawing wisdom and strength from history, guiding humanity’s ship steadily forward

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. On...

Issue #2166

‘Peace through war’

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth welcomed the 800 military leaders assembled in Quantico to the “War Department” last month saying, “the era of the...

Issue #2181

LETTERS

Spineless war criminals Paul Keating once famously described then Opposition leader John Hewson as “a shiver waiting for a spine to run up.” He also,...

Issue #2185

LETTERS

Cyprus, Greenland, and the US I write this in response to US President Trump’s continuing threats to take over Greenland and his comments about why...

Issue #2187

PEACE NOTES

There’s something Australians hear a lot of when they get news from the rest of the world. It should make us feel better but it...

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel delivers the closing address.

Issue #2203

ACTION PLAN

The Communist and Workers’ Parties participating in the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP), organised by the Communist Party of Cuba in...

Issue #2208

PEACE NOTES

One thing about the carbon emissions that most people don’t realise is this: they’re massively under-counted. We know this because we know that the carbon...

Issue #2181

No more war!

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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...

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...

Issue #2073

PEACE NOTES

Hannah Middleton With the escalating development of space warfare facilities in Australia, as part of the AUKUS deal, it is useful to look at how...

Issue #2117

LETTERS

Japan’s re-militarisiation Dear Comrade Editor, The article ‘Concern over Japan’s rising militarism’ (Guardian #2116) really struck a chord with me. I lived in Japan for...

Issue #2121

PEACE NOTES

The decision to double the Australian military budget to $100 billion a year is now an appalling fact of life. Whether Richard Marles remains the...

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...

Issue #2134

PEACE NOTES

There’s an understandable, but mistaken tendency to treat the subject of war and peace as optional extras, as not the main game. As a topic,...

Issue #2143

PEACE NOTES

Capitalist governments around the world say they want peace, but do they really? The British used to have a War Office, but for some time...

Issue #2147

CPA-DFLP bilateral meeting

Representatives of the International Department of Communist Party of Australia, CPA, and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, DFLP, held a bilateral meeting...

Issue #2179

PEACE NOTES

High probability of failure (AUKUS) Comments from retired rear admiral Philip Mathias, a former director of nuclear policy with the UK Ministry of Defence, have...

Issue #2184

Pharmaceuticals, fertiliser at risk

Dr Vinh Thai professor of logistics and supply chain management at RMIT University says, “While sustainability efforts often focus on reducing reliance on fossil fuels,...

Issue #2185

PEACE NOTES

The War in the Middle East The extent and brutality of the war just continue to mount with very little protest from the Australian government...

Issue #2189

PEACE NOTES

Not frugal with fuel Recently, this breathless account caught my eye: ‘US Army Soldiers with the 25th Infantry Division, alongside Philippine Army and Australian Army...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

US soldier in Shoalwater Bay during Talisman Sabre 2011.

Issue #2096

Marles boost to military spending ‘a disgrace’

Peace groups are outraged by Defence Minister Richard Marles announcement at the National Press Club that Australia’s military spending will rise from the current 1.9...

Issue #2163

PEACE NOTES

The Australian mainstream media Sometime in the late 80’s the Australian mainstream media adopted the policy of not reporting on peace rallies or criticisms of...

Boorloo/Perth rallies for Palestine in commemoration of the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, Saturday 17 May 2025.

Issue #2165

Trump ‘peace plan’ presented as Israel kills 45

As this edition goes to press, the world is learning about US President Trump’s 20-point ‘peace plan.’ Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has confirmed that Hamas’...

Ruins of Beit Lahia, in the Gaza Strip, destroyed by Israeli bombardments, February 2025.

Issue #2174

Ecocide in Gaza and Ukraine

Ecocide, the deliberate destruction of the natural environment during conflicts, should be an international crime. Advocacy groups, such as the Global Youth Statement, have called...

Issue #2183

PEACE NOTES

Some reports on this war from mainstream sources indicate a massive victory is heading the US/Israel’s way. However the level of censorship and plain propaganda...

International Peace Day, Walyalup/Fremantle WA, September 2025.

Issue #2184

Sign for peace

Australian naval personnel are now embedded in US nuclear hunter-killer submarines gaining operational training under the AUKUS Security Agreement. Three Australian submariners were on the...

Issue #2195

PEACE NOTES

US Navy Establishes NSA Stirling near Perth This announcement should send a chill down the spine of all Australians. It is time to redouble our...

Issue #2196

Close Pine Gap – interview with an activist

This year, the Close Pine Gap Convergence will be held from 18-20 July in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). Paul Gregoire interviewed three veterans of past Close...

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...

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...

Issue #2077

Risks of wider Middle-East conflict

Israel is pounding southern Lebanon and Syria, in what can only be described as provocation. The west misleadingly mentions Iran in the same breath as...

Issue #2095

DINGO

In Nazi-occupied France in WW2 the collaborationist Vichy government changed the words on French coins from the revolutionary “Liberty, Fraternity, Equality” to a motto better...

Issue #2130

Partners in US aggression

The US ended the Second World War by dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the war in the Pacific was all but finished....

Issue #2138

LETTERS

Unity in action Dear Editor, I was encouraged to read the lead piece in the 10 March issue of the Guardian, “Unite for Rights and...

Issue #2153

PEACE NOTES

(Comrade Hannah Middleton inaugurated the Guardian’s Peace Notes column. As we prepare to commemorate her life and achievements, it seems appropriate to reprint these words...

Issue #2159

We say ‘human rights,’ they say ‘tourists’

The Communist Party in Sydney has been campaigning for the NSW government to ban Israeli arms corporations from exhibiting their wares at the Indo Pacific...

Issue #2171

PEACE NOTES

Here are some stomach-turning remarks from Richard Marles, Minister for Defence in his opening address to the opening of the recent Indo-Pacific Expo/arms fair in...

Issue #2182

Adelaide: Anti-war protest

More than 200 demonstrators assembled in Adelaide when the Coalition Against the United States Empire held a rally in opposition to the US and Israel’s...

A picture of a picture, taken at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial museum after the bomb was dropped..

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,...

Julian Assange at the Embassy of Ecuador in London 2013.

Issue #2106

‘Collateral Murder’: the Wikileaks background

Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, received from Chelsea Manning, a US Army intelligence analyst, hundreds of thousands of classified or sensitive military and diplomatic...

Issue #2122

Israel’s $5.5 billion stake in Australia

Australia’s relationship with Israel dates back to 1949. Australia continually supports Israel, despite countless United Nations resolutions. Less well known is the trade relationship, especially...

Issue #2126

The drive to war: a blurring of the civil with the martial

The hawks driving strategic thinking and the militarisation of Australia and the region are demanding successfully that the government expends vast resources in building and...

Issue #2160

Cannon fodder from down under

A mother speaks to her son as he prepares to go to war: “Now as you go forth to do your master’s bloody business, ahead...

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...

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...

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...

Issue #2059

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...

Map of Timber Creek and the military base in the Northern Territory.

Issue #2091

Timber Creek Propaganda

Timber Creek is little more than a pit stop in the Northern Territory. It is in the spotlight because it is next to Bradshaw, a...

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...

Issue #2099

A global community of shared future

Humanity refuses to die at the hands of war-mongers and profiteers. The planet and its people are at a cross roads. Capitalism and its blindness...

Issue #2162

Report on Cumberland Branch contingent to Canberra convergence event

A coalition of grassroots organisations focusing on solidarity with Palestine organised a nationwide convergence on Canberra from the 20 to 22 of July on the...

Romina Bietsen with Andrew Irving at the gates of Pine Gap 2016.

Issue #2164

Pine Gap protest activists face court

Peace activists Carmen Escobar Robinson and Tommy Walker are set to appear in Alice Springs Local Court in relation to summary offences that they were...

Issue #2199

PEACE NOTES

Peace work – right next door to you It’s easy to look at missiles going off in the Middle East on your TV or the...

Samantha Power, Administrator of the US Agency for International Development meets with Penny Wong, Australian’s Foreign Minister.

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...

A group of ‘debs’ who joined the protest.

Issue #2099

Geelong Debs join anti-Marles, anti-genocide protest

In Geelong, feelings are rising against local member Richard Marles, his warmongering policies and his support for the Israeli genocide. IPAN members in Geelong have...

Issue #2139

PEACE NOTES

By the time this paper comes out, everyone will have heard about US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s mistake. Hegseth organised a group on secure messaging...

Issue #2189

Crisis shows need for Australian ships

After three months of the USA/Israeli war on Iran and the constant closure and reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, Australians are eager to know...

Issue #2196

AUKUS: Public hearings inquiry starts

On 11 June the first session of the public inquiry into AUKUS was held at Trades Hall in Melbourne. The inquiry is being headed up...

Sydney participants in the Anti-AUKUS and Anti Bases day 21 February.

Issue #2210

Japan, AUKUS, and China

On 17 September 2026, Australian and Chinese defence officials met in Beijing for the Australia-China Defence Coordination Dialogue. The officials discussed the importance of dialogue...

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...

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...

Issue #2078

STOP ISRAELI WAR CRIMES

There is absolutely no excuse for the Netanyahu government to act in the way it is, raining down artillery shells and bombs on a trapped...

Emergency rally for Lebanon in Boorloo/Perth, 25 September 2024.

Issue #2118

CPA condemns Zionist state terrorism

The Communist Party of Australia condemns in the strongest possible terms the criminal attacks on the people of Lebanon by Zionist Israel. The terrorist state...

Issue #2136

DINGO

The Climate Change Authority’s latest report confirms the risks of delaying a clean energy future in favour of nuclear power will lead to higher emissions...

Three WILPF members leading a panel discussion.

Issue #2184

International women’s action campaigns

In South Australia women have been celebrating 110 years of Women’s contributions to global peace and justice as part of International Women’s Day. The Women’s...

Issue #2196

Metal against war

On 20 June this paper and the Communist Party of Australia Naarm/ Melbourne branch organised a charity show Metal Against War at Footscray venue Mamma...

Issue #2197

Health workers stand against Lebanon war

We stand in solidarity with the healthcare workers, emergency services, disability support workers, mental health clinicians and drug and alcohol workers who are continuing to...

Issue #2096

MAY DAY 2024

CHANGE Congratulations to all workers taking action this May Day, the international day of working class struggle and solidarity. Actions of workers on the streets,...

Issue #2184

Sydney: ‘Stop the War on Iran – Scrap AUKUS’

A combination of peace groups under the banner of Sydney Anti-AUKUS Coalition (SAAC) and the Palestine Action (PA) came together on the 14 March to...

Issue #2195

South Australia: CAUSE and effect

Early this year, the formation of the Coalition Against the United States Empire (CAUSE) was announced in Tarndanya (Adelaide), a coalition of groups and individuals...

Issue #2129

EDITORIAL

It was the UN Secretary-General who famously said, “The world is burning. We need a renewables revolution.” It is literally burning in California. Other parts...

Issue #2196

DINGO

One in 70 people worldwide is forcibly displaced, according to a damning new report released today by the United Nations. The UN High Commissioner for...

Issue #2207

DINGO

Leaders of the BRICS group of nations met in New Delhi last week with wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and United States trade...

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...

Sydney Anti-AUKUS Coalition poster –Submarine and missile.

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...

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...

CPA members at Hiroshima-Nagasaki March Sydney 2023.

Issue #2110

Remembering Hiroshima

As we approach the 79th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin...

Issue #2138

A Disneyland of war

A row has erupted about the Australian War Memorial and sponsorships from some of the world’s biggest weapons producers. Is this ‘dirty money?’ Is it...

Issue #2125

EDITORIAL

Trump’s victory should have Albanese terrified. Harris and the Democrats tried to run an election campaign based on insubstantial rhetoric about the “promise of America.”...

Issue #2137

DINGO

Palestine’s population is again on the verge of starvation following a week-long Israeli blockade which prevented the entry of aid shipments to Gaza. Hamas spokesman...

Issue #2151

DINGO

Protests rocked the host city, The Hague in the Netherlands at the recent NATO summit, as peace campaigners protested at the militarisation of Europe. “Let’s...

Issue #2185

CPA Cumberland Branch continues ‘NO RATES FOR GENOCIDE’ campaign after assault

The Cumberland Branch of the Communist Party of Australia has been campaigning in the suburbs of the Cumberland Council area around “NO RATES FOR GENOCIDE,”...

Issue #2117

DINGO

Farmers have travelled from across Queensland to deliver a clear message to politicians ahead of the election campaign: Farmers want a clean future. Farmers for...

Issue #2133

Greenland’s destiny – How the US took over Danish West Indies

Since the 19th-century the United States has claimed Manifest Destiny to support its brutal occupation and wars against Mexico and elsewhere. This grab of foreign...

Issue #2182

EDITORIAL

Australia is sending a ‘Wedgetail’ early warning aircraft and some air-to-air missiles, along with 85 defence force members to the UAE. Cue lots of ooh-aah...

Issue #2191

Iran war has exposed Australia’s real vulnerabilities and misplaced priorities

Successive Australian governments’ misplaced priority on military “security” against a fictitious threat has left Australians without adequate fuel, food, and transportation security. The disruption to...

Issue #2143

Against fascism and war

Nationalism and militarism are being promoted on the election campaign trail, with Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton taking every opportunity to be seen with troops...

Issue #2176

Unhinged US – time to close the bases!

Pine Gap, 20 kilometres southeast of Alice Springs, was established in 1968 in conditions of great secrecy. Local people were told it was a space...

No war on Iran IPAN rally Boorloo/Perth, 2020.

Issue #2182

STOP WAR

The Albanese government is taking Australia into the US/Israel war on Iran. Australians have every right to be angry and outraged as once again the...

Issue #2185

EDITORIAL

Local action can be dangerous. Just ask the Communist Party of Australia’s Cumberland Branch. They’ve been trying to make a local council get on board...

Issue #2186

In solidarity with the people of the Middle East

The Central Committee (CC) of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) condemns in the strongest terms the escalating war being waged by the United States...

Issue #2188

The outrageous waste of military spending

Military spending is sold as “defence,” but much of it is spending for war-fighting, projection and attack. Australia is now budgeting about $58.99 billion for...

Issue #2195

RESISTING THE GLOBAL BULLY

In its attack on Iran, the US global bully has hit a wall of resistance. Framed as a state that could be isolated, sanctioned, and...

Issue #2118

Letter from the Political Bureau of the Lebanese Communist Party

While the genocidal war waged by the Israeli occupation army against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip continues, along with its brutal attacks on...

Rally for Palestine and Lebanon, Boorloo/Perth on Saturday 12 October.

Issue #2121

Israel’s contempt for human life

The crimes of Israel grow with every passing day. In Lebanon the bombs continue to drop and an invading army goes about its barbaric work....

Issue #2162

EDITORIAL

It’s a war that started recently, but really it’s been going on for a long time. It’s appalling, but it’s so constant that people not...

Issue #2174

2026: Rights! Peace! Justice!

In 2025 a significant shift in international relations included the growing movement amongst the global south away from the US and former colonisers. A number...

Issue #2183

Trump’s war on Iran: Ecocide

On 28 February the United States and Israel carried out coordinated airstrikes on Iran during peace talks. Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, the Supreme Leader of the...

Issue #2185

Workers pay war costs

Australian workers and their families, like workers around the world, played no part in the illegal US-Israeli war in the Middle East, yet they are...

Issue #2186

EDITORIAL

Is Trump as mad as a meat axe, or is there a plan? This is the choice that has been presented by a lot of...

Issue #2188

Against the US imperialist-Israeli war of aggression on Iran and Israeli criminal war on Lebanon

The meeting of the Working Group of the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties is taking place at a time when the world...

Melbourne – outside of the State Library.

Issue #2205

AUKUS Pillar 2: autonomous vehicles

Everyone knows about AUKUS and nuclear-powered submarines. What has been little discussed in the media is AUKUS Pillar 2, which deals with advanced military technologies,...

Issue #2207

End US war alliance

The Albanese Labor government talks about protecting Australia’s “sovereign capacity” while not only surrendering to US imperialism but subsidising the US to the tune of...

Issue #2136

Unite for rights and against war

There is growing opposition around Australia to the authoritarian police-state attempts to silence voices of protest in support of the Palestinian people and against Israel’s...

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,...

Australian Defence Force’s Mercedes-Benz G-Class at a careers expo in Perth, 2019.

Issue #2117

Land Force Expo: state, capital give three cheers for war profiteers

The Land Forces International Defence Expo has shown with appalling clarity the lengths that the state will go in order to support the right of...

Issue #2118

Israeli terrorism against Lebanon

Following the terror attacks using remotely-detonated bombs in pagers and radios, the Israelis have launched a massive bombardment of Lebanon. Five hundred Lebanese were killed...

Long-range Naval Strike Missiles and Joint Strike Missiles to be manufactured in Australia with Norway’s Kongsberg Defence.

Issue #2126

Biden green lights escalation of war against Russia

A dangerous escalation of the NATO war against Russia has moved from the possible to the probable. Zelensky has been long urging his US and...

Issue #2137

EDITORIAL

New US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has been depressing a lot of mainstream commentators with his comments about Europe and Ukraine, but one mainstream paper...

Issue #2151

Tudeh Party of Iran and CP of Israel

The Tudeh Party of Iran and the Communist Party of Israel strongly condemn the continuous Israeli aggression in the region, and its latest attack on...

Issue #2188

EDITORIAL

There’s a long line from a children’s book about a river to you and your cost of living. Bear with us, it’s there. We’ll start...

Hiroshima Peace Memorial, also widely known as the Atomic Bomb Dome or Genbaku Dome.

Issue #2200

Hiroshima/Nagasaki 2026

As the 81st anniversary of the bombing of two cities in Japan dawns on 6 and 9 August respectively, there has never been more immediate...

Issue #2141

Wage rise needed now!

A wage rise has become an urgent need for the great majority of Australian workers. Since its election, the Albanese government, in league with some...

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...

Issue #2155

BAN ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS

We face the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, as the issues of war and peace are thrown into...

Issue #2138

End US war alliance

Australia must withdraw from the AUKUS war-making alliance. In its utter subservience to its US master, the Albanese government has suggested Australia could send troops...

Issue #2152

EDITORIAL

You’re being lied to, but they’re being smart about it. Nobody is saying that nothing is happening in Palestine. Nobody is saying that AUKUS isn’t...

Issue #2181

NO WAR ON IRAN!

When the United States and Israel began bombing Iran in an unprovoked act of war, they opened the way for conflict to escalate in the...

Issue #2206

Marles and Hegseth talk AUKUS

On 2 September Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister, Richard Marles, met with US Secretary of Defence, Pete Hegseth, at the Pentagon in Washington, DC,...

Issue #2119

End Israel’s war

The Communist Party of Australia condemns Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people. For 76 years Israel has committed crimes against humanity and the world...

Issue #2151

EDITORIAL

There have been a lot of protests in Israel recently, including demonstrations against Prime Minister Netanyahu for his perceived corruption, and because he seems more...

Issue #2119

A calculated step to war

The 940 kilogram ‘bunker-buster’ bombs that killed Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah have been applauded by US leaders and celebrated by Netanyahu. The murder has been...

Rally for Palestine and Lebanon, Boorloo/Perth on 5 October 2024.

Issue #2120

Lebanon: Israeli slaughter, backed by USA

The Israeli invasion of Lebanon continues. Hundreds of women and children are among the more than 2,000 Lebanese now dead. More than a million Lebanese...

Issue #2127

USA, Russia, missiles and truth

Russia’s decision to change its nuclear weapons doctrine has been presented as a step towards Armageddon. The United States has led the charge and Putin...

Issue #2151

Joint Statement of Communist and Workers’ Parties

The Communist and Workers’ Parties signing this Joint Statement strongly condemn the US attack on Iran, which escalates the military offensive already launched by Israel....

Issue #2151

Iran Resists

(editor’s note: this piece was written just before the US bombing of Iran) 19 June marked the seventh day of Israeli strikes against Iran, with...

Issue #2151

Stop the war on Iran

No to the law of the jungle Respect for International Law The Communist Party of Australia condemns the unprovoked US unlawful bombing of nuclear facilities...

war

The Guardian • war

Trump declares war

Fund peace not war

Russia denounces Biden for only giving them “a few minutes of warning” before the US attack on Syria

Biden increases threat of war between great powers

POSTER: “What’s the cost of war?”

US-NATO air war provocation

That strong spirit of Palestinian emancipation

Hiroshima, Nagasaki – NEVER AGAIN?

Trump’s annexation threat escalates crisis

Mismatch: Biden bombs Syria while pushing progressive economic bill at home

POEM

16 million risk starvation in Yemen, says UN as Saudi war rages

“Defender Europe 21” – a military provocation

50th anniversary of the last Australian troops in Vietnam

Australia’s role in US imperialism remains firm

End of the forever war?

Afghanistan: no clean end to a dirty war

Does the peace movement still need to oppose NATO?

The real threat of the United States’ 800 foreign bases

Space War?

Austerity and war vs development and peace

War preparations are sparking the growth of an Australian peace movement

Daniel Ellsberg

Free Palestine! End the occupation!

Afghanistan’s socialist years: the promising future killed off by US imperialism

Afghanistan: what’s next?

Letter

The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis Sixty Years

WEASEL WORDS

Call to action against war

HALF THE SKY

‘Squad’ of nations formed to confront and provoke China

NATO press gangs in Ukraine

Women’s rights ‘regressing worldwide’

Department of Defence to pay for war crimes

Afghans reclaim sovereignty as US-Nato occupation comes to an end

US and NATO tighten military ring around Russia

“AUKUS is about US imperialism”

Contributions to IMCWP 2022

“Worst deal in all history”

Korean war armistice: 70 years on

GET RAUKUS NO AUKUS

World beyond war – global peace wave

Australia and the US withdraw from Afghanistan

AFGHANISTAN: caught between poverty and possibility

Neo-nazis active in Ukraine as White House adds 3,000 troops

CPA: submission to the Defence Strategic Review

Stop the War

Japan’s dangerous military expansion

SZEL WORDS

Weapons corporations are making a killing

Silencing The Lambs (How propaganda works)

Halifax International Security Forum: a thieves’ kitchen

Australia: even more the 51st state?

Let the Sudanese people walk toward peace

Iran’s civilisational strength

GLOBAL BRIEFS

Softening its mates up for another war?

Afghanistan, will the US lose the war as well as the peace?

Why the island of Taiwan is so important for mainland China

Peace Notes

World military spending explodes

Pine Gap on red alert

Where our real national interest lies

GLOBAL BRIEFS

GLOBAL BRIEFS

Gaza: 12 months of terror

Imperialism and sub-Saharan Africa

Japan: ‘self-defence’ stretched beyond a joke

No to war!: nuclear is back

The criminal madness of Morrison and Dutton militarising Australia

Let’s rebuild the anti-war movement

DINGO

DINGO

Surrendering sovereignty

Minnow Australia in the Anglosphere

No weapons in space