Bangladesh has passed through a series of dramatic transformations over the last two years, beginning with the July Uprising of 2024. A 17-year-long autocratic regime led by Sheikh Hasina was overthrown in this uprising, which was primarily led by students organized under the platform “Movement Against Discrimination.” 

Dear comrades in the International Automotive Workers' Coordination,
The auto industry is intensifying its attacks on auto workers. VW plans to cut 100,000 jobs worldwide. In Germany alone, four plants employing thousands of workers are set to be closed. Mercedes plans to close a plant in South Africa. Two plants in China have already been shut down. Capitalist competition is a battle of annihilation that is to be waged on ...

The recent Australian Banking Association (ABA) Conference received a report from the assistant governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Brad Jones, which addressed 'challenges to international cohesion, which had re-emerged for a number of years'. (1) The peak trade association is highly influential inside the corridors of power in Canberra and other provincial cities across Australia. The report, therefore, can be taken in that light.

The Asian continent has now become a focal point of imperialist conflict. The axis of US imperialism and  Zionist Israel are taking a heavy toll on the oppressed nations and peoples of Asia. In many places, the people are rising up against imperialist and expansionist aggression. Today, the overall politics of Asia revolves around the genocide of this axis of the Palestinians and agression of Iran. The consequences of this ...

On July 4-5, the ICOR affiliated parties and organisations in the Asia region are meeting in Kathmandu, Nepal. We were unable to accept the invitation to attend, but sent this brief report on current conditions here to conference participants.

Earlier this year, Prime Minister Albanese said he was keen to see electric cars manufactured in Australia.

Retired General Jim Slife, former USAF Vice Chief of Staff, has criticised current space warfare planning, saying that obsolete acquisition programs need to be urgently replaced to enable the US to catch up with China in the race for domination of Space.

The following report is by comrades of the New Democratic Marxist-Leninist Part of Sri Lanka. In 2022, widespread demonstrations led to the overthrow of the SLPP government, and the allegedly “leftist” JVP-NPP was overwhelmingly elected in 2024. It did not, however, dismantle the old state machinery through which the Indian regional expansionists and the US imperialists sought to expand their influence and power. This report provides some details of interest ...

Detention Centre Officers who are members of United Workers Union have been taking rolling strike action for several weeks to win a real wage increase, safe staffing levels and better rosters.

On the 18 June, residents and commuters from the western suburbs of Melbourne rallied together outside Parliament House around the demand for ‘Better Buses for the West’.

A statement issued in a defence report about Defence Force Aid to the Civil Authority has carried all the hallmarks of moves in Canberra to consider military deployments into Australian civil society. (1) While the main heading of the report provided concern about domestic terrorism following the Bondi shootings, reference to 'no-warning exercises involving whole-city terrorism', would tend to convey widespread insurrection, and the move toward military personnel conducting counter-insurgency ...

The following is an extract from a post on social media. It contrasts the American ruling classes’ role in the creation and promotion of popular cultural images with the reality for working class citizens.

This is the country who our leaders bow to and ensure we meet their every demand as they undertake directly and with the support of countries such as ours the subjugation of any country that attempts ...

Scrutiny of Australia's defence budget following demands by the Trump administration to increase expenditure has provided some interesting insights into the mindsets of the higher echelons of decision-makers in Canberra. It has also thrown light upon Australia's designated role to 'project power' in support of sensitive US defence and security provision in the Indian Ocean. All is not what it would appear.

The Chinese government has just adopted a new set of guidelines for the protection of Chinese capital export to take effect on July 1, 2026.  Competition between the imperialists for the capture of raw materials, labour power and markets via outbound investments has intensified in recent years as China’s economic strength begins to rival that of the US.

Australian company EOS has just announced the appointment of Air Vice-Marshal (Ret’d) Catherine Roberts AO, CSC and Major General (Ret’d) Kathryn Toohey AM, CSC as Non-Executive Directors, effective 1 June 2026.

Official announcements from the Pentagon that the Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS) is being upgraded into a “new defense architecture taking shape across the Indo-Pacific” have revealed far more about the changing balance of forces taking place across the wider region than the US is usually prepared to divulge. A down-scaling of the importance of Guam for hosting sensitive defence and security facilities has taken place due to China's increased capacity to ...

The package of reactionary reforms being pushed by the government of Rodrigo Paz has mobilized the militant Bolivian people
In defiance of its campaign promises, the government of Rodrigo Paz published a list of 10 priority laws on May 9, 2026: Hydrocarbons Law, Investment Law, Mining Law, Green Economy Law, Law for Bolivian Entrepreneurs, Electoral Law, Judicial Reform Law, National Security Law, Law on the Reduction of the State and ...

The contest for the domination of Space between China and the US is reflected in yesterday’s (May 26) announcement by NASA that it plans to inhabit the Moon. However, the hawks pushing for a militarised Space are demanding to be included in the action.

A carefully worded media release from BRICs has revealed the transition toward a diplomatic collective is well under-way. The trade body, now increasing its influence in the emerging economies of the South, has presented a credible challenge to traditional US hegemonic positions and that of their allies, which seek to reassert traditional hegemonic positions by controlling strategic supply and trade routes central to BRICs.

A new Party publication focuses on Australian involvement in the militarisation of Space. Wars of the past were fought in three domains: land, sea and air. Two new domains have now been added, cyber and Space, the latter in violation of the UN Outer Space Treaty. The booklet “Fight the Militarisation of Space” can be downloaded here:   Stop+the+militarisation+of+space.pdf