The Guardian • youth
Issue #2058
Child labour common in US
Children are our future, and they need to be taken good care of in any society. However, in the United States, child labour is common...
Read moreAustralia’s age of criminal responsibility is “archaic”
Australia is being urged by 31 countries of the United Nations to reconsider our archaic laws regarding the age of criminal responsibility.
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Issue #1991
Interview with comrade Ekin Sönmez from the Communist Party of Turkey
Comrade Ekin Sönmez is a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP). Our comrades at the Guardian – The Workers’...
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Issue #2039
CPA Sunshine Coast’s first meeting
The newest branch of the CPA, the Sunshine Coast, had its first meeting on 9th January. The branch was part of the Brisbane branch before...
Read moreQld Labor government’s misguided crackdown on juvenile crime
The Queensland Labor government announced on Wednesday, 9th February, that it will be cracking down on juvenile crime, a move many legal advocacy groups have immediately and roundly condemned.
Read moreMilitary uses predatory recruitment on Australian youth
The end of 2020 brought about the end of a particularly difficult and disruptive year 12 for the nation’s school leavers.
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Issue #2160
World Youth Peace Initiative
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory in the World Anti-Fascist War and the founding of the United Nations. Eighty years ago, in...
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Issue #2023
Juvenile justice a system in crisis
With frequent unlawful lock downs of over twenty hours per day, ostensibly caused by staff shortages, incarcerated youth are being denied access to formal education,...
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Issue #2112
Youth Anxiety: Roots and causes
The 2024 Australian Youth Barometer, run by the Monash Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice noted that anxiety, pessimism and insecurity are common among...
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Issue #2160
Together for peace
The world is at a crossroads. We are seeing new fractures open up along old conflict zones. The world is crying out for stability, for...
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Issue #2119
HALF OF THE SKY
It is school holidays where I live, and the usually quiet rural commuter bus has become a theatre of Gender War. On one route, a...
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Issue #2128
Cuba and Trump
How do the Cuban people view the re-election of Donald Trump as US President, and what does a second Trump administration mean for US-Cuba relations?...
Read moreYoung Workers’ Centre releases report into young migrant workers in the act
The Young Workers’ Centre, a Unions ACT initiative assisting young workers in Canberra, has released a report on the experiences of young migrant workers in the nation’s capital.
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Issue #2072
LETTER
Voice for the young As a Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander man I am supporting the yes vote for the Voice. Say Yes so...
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Issue #2168
Swiss Communist Youth
Adam Barbato Shoufani General Secretary Swiss Communist Youth The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) salutes the Swiss Communist Youth and wish you every success in...
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Issue #2090
GLOBAL BRIEFS
PAKISTAN: The Cabinet Committee on Energy has approved the beginning of the construction of an 80 km segment of the 800 km long pipeline from the...
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Issue #2052
DINGO
Courtesy of the Morning Star comes news that imprisoned journalist Julian Assange has written to Charles Windsor inviting him to visit him in His Majesty’s...
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Issue #2168
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BOLIVIA: Rodrigo Paz, a right-wing senator, won Bolivia’s presidential election with 54% of the vote and told supporters in his victory speech: “Today Bolivia can...
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Issue #2043
Privatisation inquiry call
The Sydney public hospital now controlled in the Cayman Islands is not subject to penalties for healthcare failures. Michael West reports on calls for a...
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Issue #2154
GLOBAL BRIEFS
China: Chinese scientists have fully constructed a Submicron-resolution Three-dimensional Atlas of the Mouse Brain (STAM Atlas), a major step forward in neurological research. As an...
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Issue #2155
Cricket is a South Asian sport
‘Cricket is an Indian sport,’ Ashish Nandy wrote in his The Tao of Cricket (1989), ‘that the English discovered by accident.’ In fact, Nandy could...
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Issue #2208
Cross-party push to raise age of criminal responsibility to 14
Liberal, Independent, and Greens Senators have united to call for the Commonwealth to mandate a minimum age of criminal responsibility across the country, even as...
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Issue #2104
GREEN NOTES
Dr Anshu Banerjee, Director of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing at the World Health Organization (WHO): “While awareness of climate change has...
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Issue #2049
NT: Jailing your way out of crime never works
Lawyers are concerned that new bail laws recently passed in the NT will not reduce crime and will disproportionately affect Indigenous people. The Criminal Lawyers...
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Issue #2119
LETTERS
Cesspits of misinfo Dear Comrade editor, I enjoyed Alex McKinnon’s article (23 September 2024) on the complexities of banning social media for kids. While I...
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Issue #2064
Youth corporation in Kimberley lacks funds
A Youth Aboriginal Corporation in the Kimberley has told Ngaarda Media that it would have to close its doors temporarily due to a lack of...
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Issue #2119
PEACE NOTES
That was the slogan of the Young Pioneers a scouts-like club in the socialist German Democratic Republic, also known as East Germany. Communists like to...
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Issue #2187
Open Letter – the youth of the world stands with the Palestinian people
The approval in the Israeli parliament on 30 April of a law that makes the death penalty the sentence for Palestinian prisoners who have exercised...
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Issue #2142
One in five young workers victims of wage theft
Around 400,000 Australians – one in five workers aged under 25 – are paid below the legal minimum wage for their age, according to ACTU...
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Issue #2141
PEACE NOTES
At some level, everyone knows that military hardware is expensive. We know this because we hear gigantic figures quoted about it – like the $368...
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Issue #2127
Natural disasters, el bloqueo, and Trump 2
From my earliest days as a communist, I have been intrigued by Cuba, a bastion of working-class power and a beacon of hope for proletarians...
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Issue #2039
A lesson in neglect and discrimination
Bans on alcohol sales in the Northern Territory were lifted on July 16, 2022. Almost six months later, the media is filled with alarmist stories...
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Issue #2194
Australian content lacking for children and tweens
Australia’s children’s television sector is at risk of collapse, leaving a widening gap in local content for children and tweens at a cultural moment when...
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Issue #2209
NSW extends youth bail crackdown
The Minns government announced on 15 September 2026, that it’s extending its 2024 established youth bail crackdown in regional New South Wales, which targets 14-...
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Issue #2132
Unite for rights
Reactionaries don’t need to be popular to stay in power – they just need to keep us distracted. While the cost-of-living spirals, wages stagnate, and...
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Issue #2139
Transgender healthcare shows why Labor can’t beat fascism
Labor’s announcement of a federal review into the guidelines for healthcare for transgender youth established by the National Health and Medical Research Council has had...
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Issue #2122
Queensland Youth Crime: Election mythology and ‘copaganda’
Youth crime ‘crisis’ stories have dominated headlines and debates ahead of the Queensland state election. Liberal National Party (LNP) leader Crisafulli has pushed the slogan...
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Issue #2161
Urgent action needed to address shocking rates of suicide among homeless youth
New data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has revealed the scale of children leaving violence and neglect, and seeking support from specialised...
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Issue #2057
Existing on $13 a day
Young renters on youth allowance sharing a typical two bedroom flat have only $13 a day to cover food, transport, medicine, utilities, and other costs,...
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Issue #2139
Victoria: law as a weapon
Victorian Comrades beware – over the last year, the bourgeois state government has proposed new reforms to its criminal law system which could have destructive...
Read moreMarxism-Leninism missing in Gen Z uprisings
In recent years the world has seen Gen Z protests across Asia, Middle East, and Latin America. Armed with smartphones they are globally connected. They...
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Issue #2162
A safer Northern Territory?
It has now been one year since the Country Liberal Party (CLP) returned to power in the Northern Territory. They promised to make communities safer,...
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Issue #2134
Labor’s big fail
Labor has been in office for almost three years. It has introduced a number of progressive reforms, but in the lead-up to the federal elections...
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Issue #2057
WA: Hopes for change on youth justice
WA’s Inspector of Custodial Services Eamon Ryan has released a damning report on conditions inside Banksia Hill Youth Detention Centre. Ryan prepared the report after...
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Issue #2207
EDITORIAL
Imagine yourself as the victim of any crime and you’ll feel angry. You’ll probably find yourself breathing faster, your heart rate going up. Crime is...
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Issue #2132
Cuban way to socialism!
A recent visit to Cuba with the 40th Southern Cross solidarity brigade was an eye-opener for the group of Australians and New Zealanders. The brigade...
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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...
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Issue #2137
‘Shameful’ – Victoria changes bail laws again
The Victorian government is set to implement alterations to bail laws less than a year after they were changed in the wake of a concerted...
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Issue #2172
EDITORIAL
Under new laws announced by Victoria’s Allan Labor government, the slogan is now ‘adult crime, adult time.’ Children aged 14-17 years old could be sentenced...
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Issue #2127
EDITORIAL
Young people are in the news again. At a time when everyone has cost of living pressures on their mind, the Albanese Labor government has...
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