On May Day, the International Day of Struggle of the working class, we reaffirm our ties and solidarity with all the exploited and oppressed.

Against the Imperialist War, Reaction, Fascism, Repression, Poverty and Oppression
Proletarians and Oppressed Peoples of the World, unite!
We Have Nothing to Lose But Our Chains and Have a World to Win!

As attacks on the CFMEU continue, NSW construction workers and allies including electrical, plumbing and maritime workers will march on May 1, International Workers Day. 

On May Day we celebrate not only workers, but also worldwide revolutionary struggles for national independence from imperialism and for socialism and communism. In Australia, the CPA(M-L) recognises none of these goals can be created without the full participation of First Peoples.  

In the 21st century, the accelerating environmental crisis both in Australia and globally has sparked increased interest among the masses in advocating for environmental preservation and protection. Notable relevant groups in Australia include the Australian Conservation Foundation, Lock The Gate, and perhaps most prominently The Wilderness Society. Unfortunately, the environmental movement in Australia has been hindered by several key flaws. 

The tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on other countries' goods imported to the USA has turned the spotlight on the dependency of the US economy on imports and the weakness of its manufacturing industry.
The latest industry to receive attention from the mainstream financial papers exposing this weakness in the commercial ship building industry.

The rising tariffs imposed by the Trump regime on its main rival China is arguably adding to US imperialism's decline not only economically but militarily. The financial pages of the capitalist press in Australia are quite informative on this matter.

Those following the latest United States – Philippines military exercises might like to consider other related and highly relevant factors having serious implications for US-led diplomatic relations with the wider Indo-Pacific region. The US remains desperate to reassert their traditional hegemonic position in the region; evidence would tend to indicate their position, however, has already been eclipsed by China and countries diplomatically associated with Beijing.

A recent report by David Peetz, published by the Carmichael Centre (The Australia Institute), exposes the systemic exploitation of Australia’s working class under contemporary capitalism. It highlights stagnant wages despite rising productivity, declining union power, and employer control of labour markets. While Labor’s post-2022 reforms offer minor relief and concessions for workers, the report demonstrates the limits of reform and trade-unionism, which confirms the necessity for militant class struggle towards ...

When the revisionists and capitalist roaders in the USSR formally ended the socialist era and reverted to capitalism, the US imperialists rejoiced. They entered nearly two decades in which they were undoubtedly the world hegemon, a sole superpower, and were able to declare that their aim was to achieve “full spectrum domination”.

Kites are being flown in the US about tying the sale of second-hand Virginia class nuclear-powered submarines to Australia’s stand on a conflict between China and its off-shore province of Taiwan.

South Australians are in the grip of a “canary in the coal mines” moment, although it is not a canary and it is not a coal mine.
In early March, suffers at the popular South Coast beaches of Waitpinga and Parsons reported suffering headaches, coughing, skin rashes and blurred vision, whilst the beaches themselves began to be littered with masses of dead marine life. A sludgy thick brown foam began ...

As the tariff trade war intensifies between the USA and China, sections of big business in Australia are backing China to come out the winner, at least on the economic front.

The wave of Hands Off rallies on April 5 confirmed that where there is oppression, there will be fightback. Across the country several hundred thousand people came out to shout No! to attacks on our trade union rights, our Social Security, our health care, on our fellow federal workers who make these programs work, and on the science that creates vaccines.

Information about Australia providing Canada with a sophisticated long-range radar facility for Arctic defence and security provision has coincided with members of the Trump presidential administration making spectacles of themselves with outrageous territorial claims to Greenland.

It has not proved coincidental; nor has the official visit of US vice-president Vance and other high-level associates to US military facilities in Greenland.

This document from ICOR affiliate Indorev was written as thousands of students and activists took to the streets in February to protest budget cuts of up to $19 billion announced by Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto. the protests were lainched on Februart 17 by the All-Indonesian Students Union. Australian Communists have a long history of standing with the Indonesian people and will always support their just struggles – eds.

It is extremely clear that U.S global hegemony is on the decline and sliding further into fascism as a reaction while economic formations the likes of BRICS and Imperialist powers Russia and China are growing in global dominance. 

On Sunday 6 April, the Palestinian community in Adelaide held their annual Palestinian Cultural Day organized by Palestinian Australians at the suburban beachfront of Semaphore. Hundreds of people attended the Cultural Day. There were activities for children, Palestinian live bands and solo artists, and plenty of Palestinian food. 

Today, April 7, marks the beginning of an international week of solidarity with, and support for, the Indian revolutionary movement and the people’s war led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
The CPI (M) and its armed forces, the People’s Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA), have waged armed struggle for years against the Indian ruling class and established a zone of conflict often referred to as the “Red Corridor”.

Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s recent address to the National Press Club, in which he called for Australian politicians to “get up off your knees and stand up for Australia,” represents a further strengthening of the movement for Australian independence.