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Pegasus: US and Israel strengthen connections

 

The appointment of a top US spook to a high-level corporate position with an Israeli-based business entity has revealed far more than meets the eye of a casual observer. The US diplomatic relationship with Israel has many highly secretive links. The appointment has also shown the linkage between the military-industrial complex remains an important defence and security consideration; the former use business entities as front companies for a variety of ...

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 25

 

Japan’s new PM drives tension in our region

 

Less than a month after being sworn in as Japan’s new Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi has ratcheted up regional tensions by declaring that any Chinese attempt at reunification with Taiwan Province would be a "survival-threatening situation" for Japan, implying that Japan would need to intervene militarily on the side of Taiwan.

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 24

 

Book Review: Turbulence

 

The author Clinton Fernandes is Professor of International and Political Studies in the Future Operations Research Group at the University of New South Wales. He is the author of several books about Australia’s foreign relations. 

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 23

 

Book review: Empire of AI: the reckless race for total domination

 

Karen Hao is a journalist who has won awards for her coverage of the impacts of artificial intelligence on society. Her book Empire of AI. Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination tells the story of Open AI, the company founded in 2015 by Sam Altman, Elon Musk and others to develop what they called “artificial general intelligence.”

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 23

 

Building struggle around an independent working class agenda is the key

 

Journalists for the ruling class media are excited to have found internal dissension within another important union.
They are digging deep into the internal affairs of the United Workers Union amidst allegations of an official’s links to what they call an “electoral slush fund”.

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 20

 

Indian Maoists reject capitulation and surrender

 

Roughly three months ago, several leaders of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) issued a statement calling on their guerilla units to lay down their arms and accept a ceasefire with the Modi and several state governments.
Sonu, a member of the Central Committee and Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), and Satish, who is a member of the Dandakaranyam Special Zonal Committee (SZC), created a faction that ...

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 20

 

AUKUS prompts razor gang cuts to science and health

 

The Albanese government has been forced to announce electorally unpopular funding cuts to areas including science and health as it struggles to allocate resources to support commitments to fund AUKUS and related arms acquisitions.
AUKUS is estimated to require $368 billion over 30 years.  Broken down into a daily average that is just more than $30 million per day for 30 years.

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 19

 

Labor hire warehouse workers and government support service workers win through struggle

 

Labor hire warehouse workers and government support services workers such as cleaners, orderlies and food service workers have won significant wage increases and improvement in working conditions in 2025.
With the support of their Unions, workers have adopted the correct strategies and tactics appropriate to the specific conditions of their workplaces and industries to win.

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 19

 

Vale Ron Owens

 

On November 3, 2025, the working class lost an outstanding leader, and our Party lost an outstanding member.

 

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 14

 

Away with the Yankee presence in the waters of the Caribbean

 

The CPA (M-L) has signed a statement by the International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organisations (ICOR) on US threats to the sovereignty of Venezuela -eds.

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 12

 

Gough Whitlam: The Vista of the New – a shoddy Murdochian attempt to deny history

 

It really could only have been done by a seasoned Murdoch reporter.
Troy Bramston has been a senior writer and columnist with the Australian since 2011.

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 12

 

Stop the militarisation of Space

 

Not content with their domination of the surface of the Earth, imperialist powers are determined to seek domination of cislunar Space – the area of space between the Earth and the moon.
True to form, US Empire loyalists in Australian political and military circles are determined to spend billions of dollars to ingratiate themselves with their masters and develop military interoperability across their respective Space Commands.

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 11

 

Wage-theft: an Australian standard business practice

 

The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) annual report for 2024-25 has revealed the problem of wage-theft has remained widespread despite government legislation; the amounts of unpaid wages, often for lower-paid workers, have been enormous. Serious issues have arisen. The problem has revealed Australian standard working practices for some employers can be regarded as literally indifferent to legal considerations in their race-to-the-bottom mentality. They obviously do not regard it as a serious ...

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 11

 

The Whitlam Dismissal: America's coup for the control of Australia

 

11th November marks the 50th anniversary of the bloodless semi-coup of the popularly elected Whitlam government in 1975.  As the tide for an anti-imperialist independent Australia is building up, what lessons can we learn from the Whitlam dismissal 50 years on?

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 10

 

Party booklet on Whitlam dismissal released

 

The CPA (M-L) has just released a 22-page booklet, “50 years on: the CIA coup that kept Australia under US control”.
The booklet contains some archival analyses of the involvement of US Ambassador Marshall Green in preparations for the coup, and a focus on the political dimensions of Whitlam’s sacking,

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 08

 

CPA (M-L) report to the Second Women's Conference of ICOR

 

The Second Women’s Conference of the International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organisations (ICOR) will be held this month in Kathmandu, Nepal.  The following is a report for the Conference from our Party – eds.

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 08

 

CPA (M-L) paper on fascism in Australia

 

Our Party was recently asked to prepare a paper on how fascism has developed and adapted in the 21st century for an international theoretical conference to be held under the auspices of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines.

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 06

 

The construction of a new Syria

 

The Western world endorsed the overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria, and has quickly rebranded the Islamo-fascist HTS as the legitimate government of Syria.  In return, the HTS accepts the expansion into parts of Syria by both the Israeli Zionists and the Turkish fascist regime.  In the latter case, Turkey is permitted to bomb and destroy the liberated autonomous zone of Rojava, where Communists have created a secular, democratic ...

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 03

 

US, Israel and Australia: the Indo-Pacific Strategy

 

Moves by the Pentagon to upgrade their Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS), have clear-cut lines of demarcation for the Top End of Australia. The Northern Territory has become a 'theatre of operations … for … US interests'. US allies, likewise, have been drawn to Australia for training with regional military operations.

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 02

 

Statement on the Massacres Committed by the Rapid Support Forces Militias in Bara and El-Fasher

 

Our Party takes a clear and decisive stand against the horrifying massacres being committed against civilians in the cities of El-Fasher and Bara, as well as in other areas of Kordofan and Darfur — a position that admits no evasion or justification.

more...- Posted on 2025 Nov 01

 

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