The political crisis in Thailand is best viewed in the context of the present Cold War; its origins, however, lie in the earliest days of US-China regional rivalry and the previous Cold War. Emerging social, political and economic forces have challenged the status quo inside the conservative kingdom, facilitating a political environment marked by constant stand-offs. The popularist forces have, nevertheless, successfully challenged traditional class and state power, and correspondingly, ...

The US peace initiative between Israel and Iran is to be welcomed although it cannot be regarded as an example of skilful diplomacy by Washington. It is more in line with an act of desperation by the Trump administration; a changing balance of forces across the Middle East has had serious implications for traditional hegemonic and diplomatic relations. The terminology used by the US has carried the hallmarks of a ...

Environmental activists across the country were left with disappointment and confusion in late May when the European Union released its long-awaited first list of country risk classifications under the EU Deforestation Regulation, marking a step towards the regulation’s implementation.  

Sexual abuse inside childcare centres has outraged Australians. Now 1200 children will need invasive tests for sexually transmitted diseases. It’s horrible. Those innocent little children. What despair, grief and underserved guilt their families must feel. 

In his John Curtin Oration on July 5, PM Albanese is said to have invoked the WW2 Labor PM John Curtin to call for an “Australian Way” independent of pressure from certain great powers.

A group of retired unionists in South Australia, the Democracy Alliance Australia (DAA), is calling on the ACTU and State and Territory peak union bodies to conduct anti-far right training.

In order to maintain their support for the genocidal Zionist regime in Occupied Palestine (aka Israel), Australian authorities are increasingly using repression against its opponents.

The SA toxic algal bloom, first reported in Vanguard on April 12 has shown no signs of an anticipated dissipation as colder sea temperatures and rougher seas set it.

Henry Lawson called drought the “red marauder.” Climate-change deniers and National Party politicians love quoting Dorothea Mackellar’s land of “drought and flooding rains” try to convince us that droughts are normal and natural in Australia.

Public sector workers in South Australia are refusing to accept the SA Government's attempt to peg wage increases in new Enterprise Agreements at 3% per year.  Unions representing a broad range of occupations from hospital cleaners to salaried medical officers employed in public hospitals have been negotiating for new Agreements since mid-2024.

With the end of the era of globalisation in sight, it is important to study how it evolved from its origins. Moves to implement economic rationalism in the 1970s were accompanied by the creation of the International Democrat Union (IDU) in the early 1980s to legitimise the policies into mainstream centre-right parties: privatisation, de-regulation, liberalisation.

On the same day that the US warmongers illegally and unjustly dropped 14 bunker buster bombs on Iranian sovereign territory, the developer of the bomb, the US Boeing Corporation, was identified as a “partner” with a South Australian Technical College.

Stop barbaric US imperialism and genocidal Israel!
The world is dangerously close to a global war after the attacks

The USA's entry into the war alongside Zionist Israel against Iran has ignited a fire in the Middle East that can hardly be controlled. We condemn and refuse the imperialist aggression of the USA and Israel against Iran.

The Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) would like to extend its revolutionary greetings and solidarity to The Eureka Initiative, an organisation with the aim of spreading revolutionary Marxist-Leninist ideology to the masses and youth of today.

Well, the government’s courts have made their call, fully backing Albo’s plan to take away the power of a militant union, the CFMEU.
This affects all states, including the SA branch.

One week ago, on June 13, Israel initiated military attacks on Iran.  
The attacks were described as pre-emptive strikes carried out in accordance with Israel’s right to self-defence. This was the attitude taken by Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong.

BAE workers at the Osborne Naval Base have been taking industrial action to win the same rates of pay as other naval base workers employed by the federal government owned Australian Submarine Corporation (ASC). The ASC shares the Osborne Naval Base in SA and also has a Base in WA. 

Last year Vanguard reviewed the book Bina-First Nations Languages Old and New, which told of the destruction of Indigenous languages in Australia following the colonisation of Australia. A new book Terraglossia , also discusses the damage caused to Indigenous civilisation by the English language.

The Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) sends its heartfelt condolences to the Communist Party of the Philippines, to Ka Coni and other members of the family of Ka Louie Jalandoni who passed away recently at the age of 90.  

The Trump Administration has just announced a 30-day review of the AUKUS arrangements to make sure that they comply with Trump’s “America First” policy.
The announcement comes just days after Albanese publicly differed with US Defense Secretary Hegseth’s demand that we increase “defence” expenditure.