Australia/Gaza: Opponents of repression face increased repression

Written by: Nick G. on 1 July 2025

 

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.

Police are regularly deployed to prevent and restrain demonstrations and rallies, either declaring them unlawful or imposing conditions related to the route or place chosen for the rally.

The most recent example of police brutality at a pro-Palestinian rally was at the rally in front of SEC Plating in Sydney.  The company manufactures plating, engineering coating and finishes for F-35 fighter jets used by Israel in its death raids on Gaza.

Police declared the rally “unauthorised”, although legally, there is a right to protest in New South Wales. Police issued a “move on” order then moved in to make arrests. 

Maritime Union of Australia branch organiser Shane Reside, who moved in to try and stop the police violence, was arrested. So were another three, including Hannah Thomas, a rank and file member of the Australian Services Union.

In her case, the diminutive (155cm) Thomas, who was believed to have been acting as a legal observer, was tripped to the ground, and then assaulted by arresting police, resulting in severe damage to an eye. It was reported that this would necessitate surgery and may result in the loss of sight in that eye. 

She was charged with resisting arrest (resisting assault at best) and failure to comply with officers who were throwing her to the ground.

In response to community outcry, police have been forced to declare her assault a “critical incident”, that is, an event involving a NSW Police officer that results in the death or serious injury of a person, with police required to investigate once declared.

So, the police will investigate the police! As if we haven’t seen this sort of farce played out before!

This is the latest in a whole string of repressions, not all of which have involved the police. Journalist Antoinette Lattouf has just won her case after being unlawfully sacked by the ABC which had been lobbied for her dismissal by Zionist organisations. 

So-called “anti-Semitism” laws have been passed to restrict criticism of Zionist Israel and its ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Laws against the right to support the Palestinians come from the same politicians who have enacted laws against the right of workers to organise. 

Accordingly, workers have emerged as leaders of pro-Palestinian activities. There is the umbrella group Unionists for Palestine, as well as rank-and-file organisations in individual organisations.

This is the case in other countries as well.

We should thank the politicians and the police for encouraging the workers to organise and become active.

Where there is repression, there will be resistance.

Defiance of reactionary authority is a very good thing.

SA toxic algal bloom persists under wintry conditions

Written by: Nick G. on 1 July 2025

 

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

The algal bloom began in March at the southern tip of the Fleurieu Peninsula with masses of dead fish washed up onto popular surfing beaches, and surfers and beachgoers complaining of headaches, nausea and loss of vision. 

Then the discoloured, frothy waters spread across to Kangaroo Island and parts of Yorke Peninsula. Divers at Edithburgh said all sea life was being killed. Some have described the effect as like an “underwater bush fire”.

There are various sea algae. This one was first reported in Japan in 1972 and has the scientific name Karenia mikimotoi.  

Algal blooms occur when sea water temperatures rise and there is minimal disturbance of the sea by winds pushed ahead of large rain-bearing clouds, creating the perfect conditions for the growth of algae. 

Algal blooms are normally dispersed when sea water temperatures return to normal, and winter brings stronger winds and stormy weather. Over the past month, both conditions have occurred. In the most recent storm surge a week ago, jetties along the SA coast were damaged, yet the toxic bloom was not.

Not only has it not disappeared, but storm winds carried the algal froth from the open beaches of the Coorong, where mass killings of cockles (pipis) had occurred, over the high sand dunes and into the Coorong, killing fish and a leaving a carpet of dead sea worms and other sea bed creatures.

In recent days, the algal bloom has travelled north to Adelaide’s suburban beaches, possibly in search of marginally warmer water.

Marine biologist Mike Bossley has spent thousands of hours roaming the beach in his lifetime, but since Tuesday has sighted species he's never seen on the shore.

"Different kinds of rays and sharks, lots of pipefish, things called ling, which is a very unusual thing. I've never seen them washed up on the beach before, and lots of species of fish that I don't even know the names of," he said.

Scientists say that if the bloom persists beyond winter, it will spread even further as warmer weather returns.

The bloom has already persisted for four months. Normally, it lasts for less than a month. The following table shows how other mikimotoi outbreaks have fared:

The SA algal bloom is longer and more intense than other mikimotoi outbreaks and is yet further proof that as carbon-induced global warming heats the planet, the scale of ecological disaster intensifies.

Capitalism, with the big fossil fuel corporations at its core, is waging a destructive war on nature in the drive for expanded accumulation of profits, of capital.

We cannot wait until we have only our proverbial chains to lose.

We are losing the war for a sustainable environment and for the prevention of the destruction of biodiversity.

With the SA government bidding to host COP31, the 2026 United Nations Conference of the Parties on Climate Change, participants will be able to choose between visiting the world’s largest renewable energy battery or the battered beaches and seas that are the evidence for urgent action, not talk-fests, to save the planet.

 

Drought

Written by: Duncan B. on 26 June 2025

 

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.

There is no doubt that Australia is a land of drought. Bureau of Meteorology records show that on average, Australia experiences a severe drought every 18 years. Many droughts have been recorded in Australia from the early days of colonisation to the present. They include the Federation drought of the early twentieth century, the World War 2 drought of 1937- 45 and the Millennium drought of 1996 - 2010.

At present, parts of South Australia, most of western Victoria and northern Tasmania are experiencing severe drought. The Federal and state governments have belatedly come to the assistance of drought-affected farmers with various cash grants and plans to improve farmers’ access to hay. The Victorian Government has paused the introduction of a higher Emergency Services levy on drought- affected farmers. As usual these band-aid measures are too little too late.

Droughts existed in Australia before colonisation, but indigenous Australians managed their lives to deal with them. They moved from place to place as the availability of food and water dictated, taking only what they needed and leaving sufficient supplies for other people and for future use. They set aside areas of food plants and game as sanctuaries which were left untouched to ensure food for the future.

With colonisation came farming practices which quickly began to degrade the land and worsened the effects of droughts. Sheep compacted the soil so that rainwater ran off instead of soaking into the ground. Large-scale clearing of trees led to a reduction in rainfall, and this, combined with the destruction of native grasses by sheep led to soil erosion and fierce dust storms.

The effects of climate change will make hot days hotter, increase the severity of extreme rainfall events and increase the likelihood of droughts in Australia. Government hand-outs to farmers will not solve the problem of drought. Only reducing and reversing the effects of climate change will achieve that.

Many farmers are deeply involved in developing innovative farming practices which seek to reduce the effects of agriculture on the environment and reduce the use of inputs such as fuel, electricity and water. Many have gladly accepted wind turbines and solar panels on their farms. In embracing action against climate change these farmers are working towards making agriculture sustainable in Australia. They are leaving behind the climate-change denying, nuclear power- loving dinosaurs of the National Party.

 

Public sector workers take on SA government

 Written by: Ned K. on 26 June 2025

 

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.

The medical officers and their union, SASMOA, have been the punching bag for the Government and Premier Malinauskas in particular.

The medical officers wage claim is for 10% increase each year for three years. Malinauskas, ably supported by the Murdoch Press with a headline "Mali slams belligerent union claims", (Adelaide Advertiser page 1, 26 June 2025) claims that such wage increases will put the State of SA Government budget "back into deficit" and that such wage increases will impede the Government's ability "to invest in infrastructure".

Workers across the public sector are not copping this argument. They know that some of the public sector jobs in SA are 20% lower pay than the same jobs in the eastern States. This includes medical officers' jobs in critical areas of patient care.

Hospital cleaners, disability workers, food services workers and nurses have all seen the above Award margin in their Enterprise Agreements shrink over the last decade as governments took advantage of the job losses in manufacturing in SA with the closure of the car industry to depress public sector wages and increase workloads.

Workers can see that the current "Mr Popularity" Premier Malinauskas has no problem in finding undisclosed money amounts for car races, Liv Golf and AFL Gather Rounds, plus corporate welfare to big business in various forms, but when it comes to frontline workers providing public services, there's a hue and cry about "greedy" unions!

The attempt to clamp down on public sector workers' incomes comes at a time when NATO countries agree to the USA's demand to increase defence spending to 5% of GDP and pressure from the USA for Australia to follow. 

In SA, the SA Government sold off land to expand the proposed nuclear submarine ship building base at Osborne in Adelaide's northwestern suburbs. More SA Government money has gone towards supporting the submarine base but the exact amounts are rarely published.

Malinauskas is committed to the submarine base as the saviour of SA's future. 

The higher the public sector wages paid, the less money to throw towards SA as "the Defence State".

There is also the reality that under capitalism, workers in the private sector know that historically public sector wages have been higher than in the private sector and have set the benchmark for many workers in the private sector to struggle towards.

So, the lower the public sector wages are puts downward pressure on wages across the board and hence increases profitability in the private sector as a whole.

Malinauskas comes from the line of politicians dating back to the days of the Groupers and the DLP. Dedicated supporters of the "freedom and democracy" of capitalism.

Keeping the working people at bay through a "bread and circuses" approach is the game the ruling class and its Premier play.

The determination in struggle of public sector workers shows that this strategy is wearing thin. 

 

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Parliamentary rightists…birds of a feather, all flocking together

 Written by: (Contributed) on 24 June 2025

 

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.

While the centre-right were quick to applaud economic rationalism they turned a blind-eye to what accompanied it and continue to remain in a state of denial; repression, far-right political involvement and widespread criminal activity, developing alongside the policies, which drew upon the opening of 'opportunities'. Some of the main players remain people of interest, carrying considerable baggage.

The IDU was officially established in London on 24 June 1983, and was composed of nineteen centre-right political parties. The Conservative Party of prime minister Margaret Thatcher was a founding member and major player within the organisation in conjunction with US vice-president George HW Bush, a former director of the CIA under President Ford in 1976. The Australian Liberal Party of Andrew Peacock, with deputy leader John Howard waiting in the wings, was another founding member. It was a tradecraft front-organisation.

The main task of the newly created IDU was to legitimise economic rationalist policies, which favoured the corporate sector at the expense of all other sectors of society. The aim was to increase the levels of exploitation of labour against those of capital, having direct implications for traditional industrial relations techniques and the role of trade unions.

The policies were unpopular with many economists who regarded the outdated right-wing philosophies of the Chicago School of Economics of the 1920s as a relic of inter-war failures. The policies had, however, been revamped for Cold War use in 1973 with their imposition by the Pinochet military dictatorship following the September coup of that year, with serious political implications. Seemingly 'democratic' countries do not favour coups.  

The role of the US behind Pinochet had been well publicised elsewhere; it has been noted that 'the junta – the new military leadership – killed 30,000 former Allende government supporters in the first few months of power. Most were arrested, tortured and disappeared'. (1) The repression, however, did not end there. General Pinochet was actually noted as stating his military policies for the DINA, the secret police, were:
                                        
                                        First, the aim was to stop terrorism,
                                        First, we kill all the subversives,
                                        then we will kill their collaborators;
                                        then their sympathisers;
                                        then those who are indifferent. (2)      

The main instrument of power adopted by Pinochet was Operation Condor, which was established by linking intelligence services across the southern half of the Americas, which, at that time, were controlled largely by right-wing military regimes. (3)

Other players were drawn into the military planning.

Established during the previous Cold War, the Taiwan and South Korea-based World Anti-Communist League (WACL) specialised in counter-insurgency and country-intelligence training, and was increasingly drawn into Latin American repression during the 1970s. (4) In fact, it was noted that in the early 1970s the largely Asian-based far-right organisation had 'created the entire Latin network'. (5)

The WACL has been described as an 'umbrella organisation for extreme tight-wing militants. It includes expatriate Nazis, Italian terrorists, Japanese fascists, racist Afrikaners, Latin American death squad leaders, a number of US congressmen and former CIA agents'. (6) The overlap between Operation Condor and the WACL has not been difficult to establish, with Argentina being a central player: the Triple A in the 1970s became 'an organisation of right-wing murder, terror and propaganda whose activity was co-ordinated with the military regime. It was also the Argentine branch of the WACL'. (7) Studies of the period, furthermore, found that 'the WACL … was … the primary exporter of the Argentine Dirty War'. (8)  

It also soon provided much of the organisational frameworks and networks which became the Iran-Contra conspiracy, when illegal arms trafficking merged with drug trafficking to sponsor covert operations. The US intelligence services were heavily implicated in the conspiracy with organised crime. (9)

The repressive apparatus was soon extended into Europe and Southern Africa with the notorious Third Phase which included 'the formation of special teams from member countries to travel anywhere in the world to non-member countries to carry out sanctions, including, assassinations, against terrorists or supporters of a terrorist organisation from Operation Condor member countries'. (10)  

The Third Phase would appear to have operated in conjunction with co-ordinated counter-intelligence activities conducted by US-trained personnel world-wide, against those perceived and profiled as opposing the US Defence Department, 'during peacetime and all levels of conflict'. (11) It was the age of computerisation of intelligence records and profiles.

It also included representatives of the West German, French and British intelligence services
visiting 'Argentina to discuss methods for establishment of an anti-subversive organisation similar to Condor' in September 1977. (12) Concerns had arisen that the 'terrorist/subversive threat had reached such dangerous levels in Europe that they believed it best if they pooled intelligence resources in a co-operative organisation such as Condor'. (13)

In Southern Africa the Argentine military regime, which was waging a Dirty War against the political opposition, enabled four Condor specialists attached to the Argentine Embassy in Pretoria in 1979 to train South African security police and counterparts where they 'exchanged ideas regarding methods of interrogation'. (14)

The timing of the creation of the IDU may also have been linked to developments in Argentina of the same year. Following the Malvinas/Falklands War in 1982, the military junta in Buenos Aires was forced to stand down and make way for a transition to democratic
elections. In December, 1983, Argentina had an elected government. (15) Some of the nineteen founder members of the IDU, and their associates, however, might have been just a little concerned about the implications of Argentina re-claiming democratic credentials and their possible disclosures about what had accompanied the Dirty War with their connivance.

When John Howard, Australian Liberal Party leader, took office as chair of the IDU, which he served for over a decade before stepping down in 2014, he must have known about the shadowy historical and highly questionable background of the organisation and their associates. Ignorance is no excuse; his own parliamentary security personnel must have known, or had access to those who did. The Office of National Assessments, likewise, must have known. That was their job. If they were competent.

In light of revelations emerging under his tenure, Howard's silence over the issue remains highly questionable. In 2006, for example, an Argentine judge ruled that Rodolpo Almiron, a former leader of the Triple A, previously employed by Manuel Fraga as chief of his personal security team, was to be charged with 'crimes against humanity'. (16) Fraga, and his Francoist People's Alliance, were among the original founders of the IDU. It happened on Howard's 'watch'; people at the top are expected to be kept informed by their supporters.

Secondly, Howard's attendance and active involvement with the WACL and later re-named World League for Freedom and Democracy (WLFD), has appeared to be conveniently overlooked by his supporters. In 1989, a total of 120 delegates representing fifty countries attended the 22nd WACL annual conference in Brisbane. (17) It seems almost unbelievable that 120 people representing such an organisation could be allowed to enter Australia. Or is it? The immigration department, presumably, looked the other way as the motley crew walked into Australia carrying suitcases. Was their baggage even checked?

When former Australian Liberal prime minister Scott Morrison joined the board of the IDU in 2022, just what did he know? His smug, complacent grin, had already become the hallmark of his political leadership as he portrayed himself as Mr Squeaky Clean.
Perhaps when his successor Peter Dutton stated 'I just don't care what their ideology is … I'm not getting into silly, stupid, petty arguments or discussions about that sort of interpretation', he revealed a reluctance to face the facts about the patronage system he was also part of. (18) To state it carried considerable baggage would be an under-statement. It remains a sad fact of life, furthermore, that many of those involved in the far-right organisations possessed other agendas and a readiness to be ruthless, if, and when, required.

A number of related matters subsequently arose: following his demise as Liberal leader in the May elections, a panel in the NSW Liberal Party 'which was parachuted in by Mr Dutton
… was collectively removed with the statement … this is a welcome transition on the way back to a reformed and democratically elected state executive'. (19) Who were the old one?

Australian Liberal Party financial members have until 1 August to provide submissions to a review of party policy and strategy setting, 'following the devastating election loss that saw Peter Dutton unseated as leader and member for Dickson'. (20) The review is likely to resemble a series of polite after-dinner chit-chats amongst those who remain part of the elite patronage system; their career pathways have already been mapped out, why would they want any serious change to the structures of which they have a vested interest in retaining? Employment in banking, the diplomatic service, academia, intelligence agencies and other occupations await them. They do not even have to formally apply; opportunities are offered. There is no unemployment in their circles. But only jobs for the 'boys and girls'.

It is doubtful, therefore, whether those concerned will be reviewing any of their party links with the IDU, which would appear a collection of questionable entities pursuing diverse agendas. But then, why would they? The review is far more likely to be a whitewash job, to cover over any incriminating evidence about an organisation responsible for co-ordinating the Australian-led implementation of globalisation. And with the IDU organisation seemingly intact, with Israel and Taiwan now as members, it will now be preparing for what will eventually replace globalisation, with the full connivance of the Australian Liberal Party as their faithful and obedient servants, like puppets on a string.

Birds of a feather, mate, they certainly do flock together!

1.     1968-1976, Chile: Killing a Democracy, A People's History of the CIA, Issue 43, December 2000, page 27.
2.     The CIA's secret global war against the left, Jacobin, Branko Marcetic, 30 November 2020.
3.     1976, South America: Operation Condor cross-border killing, People's History, op.cit., page 31.
4.     Inside the League, Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson, (New York, 1986), page 79.
5.     Ibid.
6.     1978-1992, El Salvador: Training the Death Squads, Peoples History, op.cit., page 32; and, The Beast Reawakens, Martin Lee, (London, 1997), page 189.
7.     Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican Party, Ross Bellant, (Boston, 1988), page 85.
8.     Website: History of the WACL, Part One: 1945-85, reference Triple A/Argentina.
9.     Revealed: Pinochet drug link, The Observer (London), 10 December 2000; and,         The Iran-Contra Scandal, The Declassified History, Edited by Peter Kornbluh and Malcolm Byrne, (New York, 1993).
10.   1976, South America, Peoples History, op.cit., page 31.
11.   See: Army Foreign Intelligence Assistance Program, AR 381-20, Section 1.5, Mission and Policy, page 1, Declassified 15 November 1993.
12.   Intelligence Information Cable, 7 April 1978, filed 'Condor', page 1, Declassified.
13.   Ibid., page 2; and, European spies sought lessons, The Guardian (U.K.), 16 April 2019; and, CIA declassified info, teleSur, 20 April 2019.
14.   See: South Africa Truth Commission, Final Report, Volume 2, Chapter 3,         Sub-section 14, 126, Ref: Alfredo Asti; and, The Disappeared, Voices from a secret war,  John Simpson and Jana Bennett, (London, 1985), pp. 347-48.
15.   See: 40 years later, The Buenos Aires Herald, 9 December 2023.
16.   Ex-director of Triple A, El Mundo (Spain), 28 December 2006.
17.   Website: WACL/WLFD.
18.   Peter Dutton says distinctions between forms of extremism are 'silly, stupid and petty',
        Today News Posts (Australia), 4 December 2020.
19.   Autopsy into Libs' dead duck campaign, Australian, 18 June 2025.
20.   Ibid.

Bunker-Buster Bomb Manufacturer to develop curriculum for SA Tech School

 Written by: Nick G. on 23 June 2025

 

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.

The announcement was proudly announced by SA Premier Peter (“MalinAUKUS”) Malinauskas who said “Not every child needs to go to university. We desperately need young people with a desire to work on complex machinery to protect our nation.

“They can be assured they can gain this qualification while completing high school, and be perfectly place to walk into a fulfilling career in a growth industry.

This is but one more example of imperialist weapons manufacturers invading Australian classrooms in order to hand-select bright young students for careers in the manufacture of death.

A fairly comprehensive study of recent developments was submitted to the IPAN People’s Enquiry, and looked at incursions into Australian schools by Raytheon, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin.  It is available here.

Boeing and the Bunker-Busters

The bunker-busters are not cheap.  They are estimated to cost US$20 million each. From Boeing’s point of view there will be lots of happy shareholders looking for dividends to flow from the replacement contracts for the 14 bombs exploded inside Iran’s earth.

Boeing was the prime contractor for the current iteration of the bunker-busters. Boeing’s role in the GBU-57 MOP program was comprehensive — from initial design and systems integration to testing, production, and upgrades.

The weapons were carried into Iran by Northrop Grumman’s B-2 Spirit strategic bomber.

Curriculum design

Boeing Defence Australia has signed on as an employer partner with The Heights Technical College. The College, co-located with the R-12 Heights School, will open for enrolments from students currently in years 9 and 10, for enrolment in years 10 and 11 in 2026. 

The Heights School has an Ignite Program for “gifted and talented students”, the same program that attracted Raytheon to Aberfoyle Park High School, donating computers in return for access to the school’s Ignite students. 

Boeing will work with the SA Education Department to design the curriculum to be used in its Aeroskills pathway to develop skills in students for careers as aircraft maintenance technicians in defence and civil aviation.

Both parliamentary parties serve imperialism and have sold out the country on so many occasions and in so many ways that the sell-out of the classroom to the merchants of death can come as no surprise.

It is one more reason for promoting the widest possible united front for the independence of the country from imperialism, and for its mature development in a socialist republic.

 

ICOR Declaration: The USA bombs Iran

Written by: ICOR on 23 June 2025

 

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 ICOR declares: Only the fighting workers and masses of the people of the world can still extinguish it! 

 

The USA deployed its entire military superiority with strategic B2 bombers, the largest and uniquely brutal bunker-busting bombs, to destroy three Iranian nuclear facilities. US President Trump has not ruled out the use of nuclear bombs. Israel had previously started the war and launched a war of aggression in violation of international law after the genocide in Gaza. It is thus continuing its plans for Greater Israel, including the genocide in Gaza. Let us make Monday, June 23rd, or all the days ahead of us, international days of struggle against imperialist war and its two current main warmongers! 

 

Organize strikes, demonstrations, rallies and protests on the streets. Educate the masses against any underestimation of the danger of world war! Tear the hypocritical "peace" mask off Trump and the G7!

 

Let us take to the streets worldwide against this imperialist aggression. Workers, women, youth and all people fighting for peace are called upon to take an unequivocal stand, also against the accomplices and accomplices in the governments of their own countries. NATO is playing with the danger of nuclear war. NATO must be dissolved.

 

The masses, especially the courageous women in Iran, took to the streets against the regime in 2022 under the slogan Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (Woman, Life, Freedom). When we criticize the USA and Israel, we do not support the regime against the masses. The workers, women, and youth can and want to liberate themselves.

 

The hypocrisy of Trump, Netanyahu and their G7 and NATO accomplices is unbearable. The people of Iran do not want outside interference, they do not want to be bombed. In part, the masses support the regime against the attacks because they do not want to perish in the imperialist chaos of war as in Syria or Iraq. Iranian revolutionaries rightly demand: neither Shah nor Mullah! They do not see the USA and Israel as liberators, but as imperialist oppressors. 

 

The attacks pose a major risk of a regional environmental catastrophe with chemical and nuclear uranium contamination. 

 

What will and Russia, which have close military and economic ties with Iran, do? What will other imperialist powers do if Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz - one of the world's most important trade routes? Iran supplies drones for the war in Ukraine, China buys 90% of Iran's oil production at a special price. Today it's not just about peace in the Middle East, it's about the fight for peace in the whole world!

 

The masses of the world need clear, strong and globally connected Marxist-Leninist parties. Therefore strengthen their organization and the ICOR! 

 

Stop the arsonists who risk world war!

Stop the aggression against Iran, which violates international law, and stand up for the peoples of Iran!

Freedom for Palestine! 

Let us strengthen the forces for a democratic and socialist Middle East!

Stop the main warmonger USA together with its Zionist accomplice Israel!

Down with imperialism!

For democracy, freedom and socialism!

 

Status of the signatories 22.06.2025. Current list of signatories at www.icor.info

1. CPK   Communist Party of Kenya

2. CPSA (ML)   Communist Party of South Africa (Marxist-Leninist)

3. PPDS   Parti Patriotique Démocratique Socialiste (Patriotic Democratic Socialist Party), Tunisia

4. SPB   Socialist Party of Bangladesh

5. SPB(M)   Socialist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist)

6. NCP (Mashal)   Nepal Communist Party (Mashal)

7. CPA/ML   Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)

8. БКП   Българска Комунистическа Партия (Bulgarian Communist Party)

9. PR-ByH   Partija Rada - ByH (Party of Labor - Bosnia and Herzegovina)

10. MLPD   Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands (Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany)

11. KOL   Kommunistische Organisation Luxemburg (Communist Organization of Luxemburg)

12. RM   Rode Morgen (Red Dawn), Netherlands

13. MLKP   Marksist Leninist Komünist Parti Türkiye / Kürdistan (Marxist Leninist Communist Party Turkey / Kurdistan)

14. PC (ML)   Partido Comunista (Marxista Leninista) (Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)), Dominican Republic

15. SUCI (C)   Socialist Unity Center of India (Communist)

 

The Eureka Initiative

 Written by: Central Committee, CPA (M-L) on 23 June 2025

 

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.

They have stated their goals as that of creating mass interest in revolutionary ideology and practice through media and organization while advancing the cause of Australian independence, Socialism and Anti-imperialism. 

They have created some great artwork that serves as beautiful agitation and revolutionary propaganda. We look forward to the continuing great work and effort coming from the Eureka Initiative and hope for them a long and growing involvement in struggle.

Red Salute

Central Committee of the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)

Courts uphold government attack on militant union

 Written by: (Contributed by a CFMEU member in South Australia) on 20 June 2025

 

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.

This gives the puppets, the Administration, the go-ahead to further crush the strength of this militant union which includes the possible further sackings of organisers and staff that stand up for the workers, both members and non-members.

The bosses and their government learnt the mistakes in crushing the militant BLF.  

This round has a lot more thought and laws.

The developers and building bosses are rubbing their hands. Already, they will be rewriting their future Enterprise Agreements.  SA workers will be included in this, not just those interstate. 

It’s here now.  The Administration direction of non-attendance by the CFMEU at the May Day celebrations, the state governments joining in with cancelling the CFMEU’s position on industry boards.

Look at the tower cranes around the State.  Where are the Eureka/union flags?  Why are they not on the new and in particular, bigger, jobs (a visual weakening of the union).  We have flown them here in this State since the deregulation of the BLF.

The conditions and benefits in all areas of this industry – safety, financial, working conditions affecting members and their families – are there because of our unions. Over 80% of these mentioned areas are there from our unions being STRONG AND MILTANT AND UNDERSTANDING THE INDUSTRY.

Not because of laws, deals and government/employer rules.

The Administration must go.

Construction workers must control and run their union.  The members must select and vote who their leaders are.

The strongest tool you have in this fight is the worker working alongside of you and your union.

SOLIDARITY IS STRENGTH
DARE TO STRUGGLE
DARE TO WIN

Condemn Israeli Zionist Aggression Against Iran

 Written by: Nick G. on 19 June 2025

 

(Above;  Source https://cpiran.org/ )

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.

There is no justification in international law for pre-emptive strikes.  Israel’s actions were illegal acts of unprovoked aggression, aided and abetted by its protector, US imperialism.

The Australian government must immediately declare that Australia will not join the attack on Iran, and nor will it allow Australia territory to be used by US bombers to refuel or to operate from RAAF Base Tindal near Katherine in the NT.

Wong has joined an international chorus of imperialists and their lackeys who are urging “restraint”.  All of this is directed at Iran, the victim of aggression. 

Wong would not dare urge US imperialist chieftain Trump to “exercise restraint” as he ponders whether to join the Zionists in their attacks.

There is also a chorus urging the Iranian people to overthrow the Islamic Republic “regime”.  Iranian Communists and other progressives have a proud history of struggling against the regime and have not hidden their aim of leading a mass uprising for the revolutionary overthrow of the regime. They alone will determine when the time is right to do that.

The genocidal Zionist regime has killed over 60,000 Palestinians over the past two years.

It has bombed and imposed its authority on parts of Lebanon and Syria.  It is a racist, regional expansionist and we condemn it.

Condemn Zionist aggression against Iran!
Condemn US and Australian support for Israel!
Solidarity with the people of Iran!

 

Support BAE shipworkers’ action for same job, same pay

Written by: Ned K. on 16 June 2025

 

(BAE metal workers and electricians walk off the job.  CEPU Facebook page)

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. 

The story of the wages struggle by BAE workers is an example of how the Australian Government works with the overseas owned defence industry multinationals connected to AUKUS to suppress workers’ living standards. 

Last year ASC workers at the Osborne Naval Base took industrial action over many months to win same pay rates as ASC workers in WA.

This year it is BAE workers at the same Osborne Naval Base taking action to win same pay rates as the ASC workers.

Both BAE and ASC workers do similar work both building and maintaining navy ships. They will increasingly become involved in maintenance work on US navy vessels, both nuclear and non-nuclear-powered ones.

BAE are pulling out all their propaganda with the help of the Murdoch Press to defeat the BAE workers' just struggle for same job, same pay.

About two weeks ago, BAE workers at Osborne walked off the job and demonstrated in the streets of the CBD of Adelaide and outside BAE headquarters in the CBD.

A few days later the CEO of BAE got front page of the local Murdoch newspaper saying that if workers at Osborne got the same pay as ASC workers, their job security would go out the window. In other words, telling the workers to accept lower wages or risk no job at all with BAE doing the work somewhere else.

Both the AMWU and CEPU SA Secretaries stood up for their members’ just struggle, exposing the greed of multinationals like BAE.

About a week later, BAE tried another tack with a "heart string" article appearing in the Murdoch Sunday Mail featuring the lives of two generations of families dependent on the Osborne Naval Base for their livelihoods. The implication being that the two Unions' industrial action was threatening jobs.

The SA Labor Government Premier and Treasurer chipped in with their "concern" about the 1,000s of jobs potential at the Naval Base

BAE Profits Is Their Game:

A day later the Murdoch-owned Adelaide Advertiser runs an article about BAE expansion and upgrade of its other weapons centre in SA at Edinburgh Park, about a half an hour's drive from the Osborne Naval Base. 

The Advertiser article said "BAE's upgrade will include a new security operations centre to support the AUKUS pact and Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN) along with machining facilities for extra missile production". (Monday 16 June).

The SA Government Treasurer Mulligan is quoted as describing this as a "golden era" for northern suburbs families of Adelaide. 

Perhaps BAE's expansion plans have been based on below industry standard wages to increase profits and on fear of the wage claims of defence workers at Osborne Naval Base spreading to their Edinburgh Park base.

BAE workers are highly skilled and both they and their Unions want to believe they are contributong to the defence of people in Australia. Their demands for decent pay and conditions are just demands.

BAE, Raytheon, Saab and similar multinational military industrial giants are primarily concerned with maximizing profits and are prime contributors to imperialist wars of aggression in different parts of the world.

They will build weapons of the most technologically advanced type with little regard to the needs of people in Australia.

Both federal and state governments are reliant on them and work with them.

The "golden era" predicted by the SA Treasurer is "gold" for imperialist war machines while the real needs of the working people are affordable housing for all, affordable health care including dental care and aged care and education for all children, including First Peoples.