May Day Greetings from CPA (M-L)

Written by: CPA (M-L) on 30 April 2025

 

On the occasion of the 2025 May Day, the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) greets our class, the working class of Australia, and all workers and oppressed peoples throughout the world.

It is important that on May Day, the demands of the working class, independent of the electioneering slogans of the parliamentary parties vying for office, are raised and heard.

Together those demands make up an independent working class agenda and unapologetically go beyond what the Labor Party and the trade union leaderships supporting it, can tolerate.

They could not tolerate strong union militancy in the construction industry, so they placed the CFMEU under Administration. 

We demand the right of workers to belong to the union of their choice and for the freedom of action that all unions should possess, namely the right of their members to withdraw their labour when and where it hurts the employer the most.

We support the rights of workers and unions to take actions in solidarity with each other's struggles, for sovereignty and self-determination of the First People, in support of people's struggles for justice, the environment, for peace and against imperialist wars.  We support the right to take actions in solidarity with workers and the oppressed around the world and at this time particularly, of the right to stand with Palestinians against Israel’s genocidal killings.

Young workers are getting organised.  Sometimes this must be done in areas of new and often precarious employment where there has been no history of union involvement.  We salute these young workers and their courage in rising to the challenge of finding new ways to organise and struggle.

We recognise the support that comes from progressive members of other classes active in environmental, antiwar and anti-imperialist activity for Australian independence and socialism. 

There is a growing united front against AUKUS. AUKUS commits us to a $368 billion spend over 30 years – or $30 million per day over 30 years! Imagine what services could be provided to struggling communities if that money was used to address cost of living matters here in Australia.

Finally, wherever this greeting is being read in Australia, it is being read on the unceded lands of the First Peoples, and we acknowledge and respect their resilience in the face of colonial genocide. We support their ongoing struggles for self-determination.

Workers of Australia, take the lead in all our struggles!

For anti-imperialist independence and socialism!

Workers and oppressed peoples of the world, unite!

(Above: Art work courtesy of Olliver Tyler, Eureka Initiative, Queensland)

 

ICOR: 1 May 2025: All over the world, come out on our day – long live socialism!

Written by: ICOR on 30 April 2025

 

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

Many people are concerned about the future, and this is beginning to come to the fore in the struggles of the workers and popular masses in many countries and all continents - on the streets, in the workplaces, factories and schools. The capitalist and imperialist world domination is becoming more and more absurd in view of the possibilities and achievements of the revolutionary productive forces: a growing working class worldwide, knowledge and possibilities of science and technology before unknown to overcome hunger and many mass diseases, to provide humanity in the entire world with work, education, health, food, housing and dignity and to save the environment. But instead, imperialist domination turns these gains into their opposite. The threat of world war, rising fascist movements and racist tendencies, and a worsening global environmental catastrophe that has begun are rampant throughout the world.

The heaviest burdens of imperialist rule are borne by the worldwide working class, their families and the women. Intensified exploitation and oppression in the factories, extended working hours, mass layoffs or even entire plant closures, dangerous working conditions, wage theft and widespread violence, particularly gender-based violence, etc. endanger health, undermine the quality of life, devastate communities and exhaust the masses. This makes the conditions more difficult to become socially and politically engaged next to work. These realities also steal hope for future generations. At the same time, fascist tendencies are on the rise: repressive laws, political persecution, and state violence are being deployed against striking workers, students, revolutionaries and the oppressed. Around the world, the ruling classes respond to the crisis with terror, but also with demagogy, seeking to break resistance with prisons, bullets, and fear – but also by means of deception.

Even more important is that 1 May must be more than a day of protest and be held in contrast to division, individualism and despondency. It is not only an occasion to develop the class struggle for the improvement of working and living conditions, but also to root the idea of socialism as the only perspective for the future among the masses of workers.

Let us recall Lenin's vision from 1 May 1919:

“Our grandchildren will examine the documents and other relics of the epoch of the capitalist system with amazement. It will be difficult for them to picture to themselves how the trade in articles of primary necessity could remain in private hands, how factories could belong to individuals, how some men could exploit others, how it was possible for those who did not work to exist. Up to now the story of what our children would see in the future has sounded like a fairy-tale; but today, comrades, you clearly see that the edifice of socialist society, of which we have laid the foundations, is not a utopia. Our children will build this edifice with even greater zeal." (V.I. Lenin, Three Speeches Delivered In Red Square, Collected Works, Vol. 29, p. 330)

Let us take up this vision, not as a dream, but as an urgent task.

Therefore, on 1 May 2025, in the spirit of Lenin and his legacy of struggle:

For the future of the children of the world!

Workers of all countries, unite!

Workers of all countries and oppressed peoples, unite!

Workers of all countries and all oppressed, unite!

Forward with the struggle for liberation, democracy, freedom and socialism!

Get organized and strengthen the ICOR!

 

Further signing possible.

ORC Organisation Révolutionnaire du Congo (Revolutionary Organization of Congo), Democratic Republic of the Congo

UPC-Manidem Union des Populations du Cameroun - Manifeste National pour l’Instauration de la Démocratie (Union of Populations of Cameroon - National Manifesto for the Establishment of Democracy)

CPK Communist Party of Kenya

MMLPL Moroccan Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Line

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

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

SPB Socialist Party of Bangladesh

NCP (Mashal) Nepal Communist Party (Mashal)

RUFN Revolutionary United Front of Nepal

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

Krasnyj Klin Gruppa Kommunistov-Revoljucionerov „Krasnyj Klin“ (Group of Communist Revolutionaries “Krasnyj Klin” ), Belarus

БКП Българска Комунистическа Партия (Bulgarian Communist Party)

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

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

UPML Union Prolétarienne Marxiste-Léniniste (Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Union), France

BP (NK-T) Bolşevik Parti (Kuzey Kürdistan-Türkiye) (Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan-Turkey))

KOL Kommunistische Organisation Luxemburg (Communist Organization of Luxemburg)

RM Rode Morgen (Red Dawn), Netherlands

UMLP União Marxista-Leninista Portuguesa (Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Union)

RMP Российская маоистская партия (Rossijskaya maoistskaya partiya) (Russian Maoist Party)

MLGS Marxistisch-Leninistische Gruppe Schweiz (Marxist-Leninist Group of Switzerland)

TKP-ML Türkiye Komünist Partisi – Marksist-Leninist (Communist Party of Turkey – Marxist-Leninist)

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

KSRD Koordinazionnyj Sowjet Rabotschewo Dvizhenija (Coordination Council of the Workers Class Movement), Ukraine

UMU Union of Maoists of the Urals (Union of Maoists of the Urals), Russia

OAPCM Organización Apoyante del Partido Comunista de México (Supporting Organization of the Communist Party of Mexico)

PCP (independiente) Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independiente) (Paraguayan Communist Party (independent))

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

APR Ação Popular Revolucionária (People’s Revolutionary Action), Brazil

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

 

PROLETARIAN AND INTERNATIONALIST MAY DAY - Statement by Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Parties

 Written by: M-L-M Parties on 30 April 2025

 

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!

Let’s take the streets this May 1st, international day of struggle of the working class and oppressed peoples that is being held this year in a context of sharpening imperialist system contradictions and growing repression, which is opposed by a growing resistance of the proletarians and peoples.

The furious attacks of imperialists, their States and their governments on proletarians and the masses reflect the unloading on proletarians and the masses of their general crisis that is deepening.

All imperialist States and governments are increasing military spending beyond measure and explicitly say that we must prepare for war.

The imperialist powers US/NATO/EU are equipping themselves with increasingly modern and devastating armaments and plan to use of nuclear weapons; they are strengthening their armies, militarizing their territories, developing the war economy.

Russian imperialism and Chinese social-imperialism are on the one side the target of this offensive and on the other one are riding the crisis of USA/NATO/EU imperialism to prepare a new set up more favourable to them.

The imperialist war originates from the global economic crisis of the imperialist capitalist system that demands a new partition of the world.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine, the ongoing genocide in Palestine by the Zionist state of Israel, the attacks on Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, the occupation of Kurdistan and massacres on the Kurdish people by the fascist Turkish state, the preparations of the US to attack and encircle China through the Philippines with alliances in the Indo-Pacific are aspects of the march towards the war of partition.

It is opposed by the action of China in the global economic arena, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and also the gradual line up of other countries in the world which their reactionary regimes aspire to become gendarmes in their areas within the imperialist system: Turkey, India, Brazil, etc.

The costs of war and rearmament are unloaded on proletarians and people’s masses with heightening cost of living, unemployment, precariousness, cuts of social spending, attacks on the rights and struggles of proletarians and people’s masses. The capitalists intensify the exploitation and more and more turn the proletarians and the most exploited sections of them into modern slaves at the service of profit.

In the countries oppressed by imperialism, poverty and oppression of the people are worsening, and they also pay for the global environmental climate crisis and the effects of natural disasters.

While externally the imperialist states and governments prepare war, internally the tendency to modern fascism combined with the crisis of imperialism advances and the tendency to a world imperialist war finds today a reference point in the Trump presidency and the fraction of the ruling class of the imperialist bourgeoisie which came to power in the US, restricting and erasing the vestiges of bourgeois democracy itself, attacking democratic freedoms and filling prisons, establishing increasingly dictatorial forms of government, within which fascist parties and modern fascism advance, according to the characteristics of the different countries.

Women's rights, freedom of thought are attacked, hatred is fomented, chauvinism and nationalism are strengthened to hit the people’s resistance, divide the proletariat and the masses, at the service of the domination of the ruling classes and their lackeys. Racism is intensified with attacks in all forms on immigrants, with deaths in the sea, concentration camps, slave exploitation, expulsions and deportations. The monopoly of old and new media is increasingly in the hands of technological oligarchies that make huge profits and more and more they seek to impose obscurantist culture in schools and universities.

All over the world the proletarians and the people are rebelling and resisting against imperialism, fascism, the worsening of living and working conditions.
Inside the imperialist and capitalist countries, workers carry out general strikes, as in Greece; they block ships that transport weapons of war, as in Italy, Greece etc., the youth take the streets against fascism and racism.

The new fascist-imperialist US presidency of Trump, with the Zionist operative arm Netanyahu, launched a plan of "final solution", of genocide and deportation of the Palestinian people. Against it, the heroic resistance of the Palestinian people develops, of their organizations that also with the action of October 7 have brought back to the center of the world attention the goal of a free Palestine, a Palestinian State "from the river to the sea". The struggle of the Palestinian people fuels the awakening of all the Arab masses for a liberation struggle from the Arab regimes accomplices of Zionism and in any case subservient to imperialism.

Internationalist solidarity with the Palestinian people is a great banner that calls the people to fight against imperialism. In Turkey, students, women, workers, oppressed masses oppose Erdogan's fascist regime, putting it more and more in crisis.

In some oppressed countries, from Latin America to Asia, from Africa to the Middle East, peoples’ protests and revolts advance, demanding the intensifying of the revolutionary battle for New Democracy revolutions marching to socialism. At the forefront of these struggles are women guerrillas, women workers, revolutionary women's organizations that fuel the fire of resistance and the necessary struggle for women's liberation united with the class struggle.
In many countries, youth are rebelling and are the front line of the opposition that demands and seeks the way of the revolution.

Among the revolutionary and anti-imperialist struggles in the world, the people's wars led by Marxist-Leninist-Maoist forces, particularly in India and the Philippines, inspire and show to the international proletariat and the oppressed peoples of the world the path to a true liberation from imperialism, which requires abandoning all forms of revisionism and reformism, as well as all forms of liquidationism and defeatism, to affirm that the only real alternative to capitalist and imperialist barbarism is the proletarian revolution and the only solution is socialism. We condemn the Indian state's ongoing fascist military campaign—Operation Kagar—targeting the Communist Party of India (Maoist). This offensive is not merely an attack on a revolutionary party, but a broader assault on the struggles of the toiling masses, Adivasis, and oppressed nationalities fighting for liberation and dignity. 

To support the protracted people's wars is a fundamental duty and task of revolutionary communist parties and organizations in the world.

The proletariat is the largest army that exists, if the exploited and oppressed people unite, they can put an end to the capitalist world system.

Today more than ever we need the unity of Communist Parties and Organizations of the world based on the great teachings of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism that develop, in the fire of the class struggle, their being more and more the advanced detachment of the working class, leading nucleus of the entire proletariat and people, promoters and central element of the construction of a united revolutionary front against imperialism, fascism, exploitation and oppression.

Proletarian internationalism demands the march, through unity and struggle, to advance to a new Communist International. On this 1st May it is necessary to advance this tendency and affirm it in the ranks of the proletariat and the oppressed peoples engaged in the revolutionary struggle.

THIS MAY 1st LET'S RAISE HIGHER THE RED FLAG OF REVOLUTION!

Stop the imperialist war, where it develops and breaks out, let's transform it into a revolutionary war for proletarian power!
Death to fascism in all its forms!
Free Palestine from the river to the sea!
Death to imperialism, the future belongs to socialism and communism!

Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan 

Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) 

Construction Committee of the Maoist Communist Party of Galicia 

Communist Party of India (Maoist)* 

Communist Party of Turkey - Marxist Leninist (TKP-ML) 

Communist Worker Union (mlm) Colombia 

Communist Unity - France 

Maoist Communist Party – Italy

 Maoist Communist Commitee - Brasil 

Proletarian Party Of Purbo Bangla (PBSP/Bangladesh). 

Red Road of Iran (Maoist group) 

People's Democratic Students Unity (PDSU) - Bangladesh

 

NSW construction workers to march on May 1

Written by: Louisa L. on 28 April 2025

 

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. 

Since 2019, when outrage about 18-year-old worker Christopher Cassaniti’s death under collapsed scaffolding saw tens of thousands walk out, the CFMEU and allied unions have struck and marched on May Day in Sydney. 

This year it comes two years after CFMEU strikes and bans forced the outlawing of deadly engineered stone, and just four weeks after 13 workers were sentenced to early deaths with silicosis after Chinese-owned John Hollands and NSW governments delayed measures to protect M6 and other tunnel workers. 

For 50 years the ruling class tried to destroy the CFMEU and Builders Labourers Federation before it.  Working-class militancy always resurfaced. Finally, in 2024 both Labor and Coalition joined forces to legislate the construction union’s complete takeover in four states. 

Three lessons

In any battle, understanding the enemy’s strengths and weaknesses, and our own, are essential. There’s no room for big noting. Facts are the key. Unions are part of the capitalist system, chained to it from birth by hundreds of laws. No matter how militant, unions can’t overthrow the system they operate in. They’re part of that system because unions by their nature seek only to win the best they can within it. 

Everyone makes errors.  The CFMEU nationally now understands relying on the ALP was disastrous. The ALP is not a working-class party, never has been. It’s been an essential ingredient to successful capitalist rule by deception since it was formed under capitalist laws in 1901.  

The second lesson was the need to raise political awareness so workers understood themselves as part of the working class. Extraordinarily good wages and allowances blinded many construction workers to the possibility of takeover by governments for giant mainly US-controlled developers and building corporations. 

Finally, the union realised too late how the enemy of the working class would behave when the boom began to bust. For corporations pocketing boom-time super profits, industrial peace was worth paying for. Lendlease even took the ABCC to court! The union’s last two decades showed briefly shutting jobs and slamming on bans won high wages and good conditions relatively easily. Like many construction workers, the union now realises it couldn’t last. Booms bust.

Construction is often the first industry hit. 

Sugar coated bullets and getting fired

When Robe River mineworkers fought individual contracts in the 1980s, to divide and conquer them the company paid those who signed contracts higher wages than it paid unionists. Of course it didn’t last! Once the union was weakened, the boss slashed individual contract rates.

Late last year, when anger was dangerously high on sites, under pressure Administrators signed hundreds of Enterprise Bargaining Agreements won by CFMEU workers. It was sugar-coated poison. Cementing in high wages and allowances in the short term fooled some workers who reckon the administrators are “doing a good job.” But, a government-approved union will sell them out from here to eternity. 

Last December, when NSW delegates called a strike, the Administrators cancelled it by text late the afternoon before. Administrators informed the companies “their” CFMEU would not support sacked workers. Lendlease and other corporations threatened workers with the sack. The strike and rally went ahead, but fewer attended, fewer went on strike.

Then Administrators fired a leading organiser on Christmas leave by email for refusing to attend an immediate interview without legal representation. It deliberately instilled fear, “We’ve removed one of your leaders. Who’s next?”

If not now, when?

Marching on May 1 focusses attention and forges unity with workers nationally and around the world. It builds collective strength and spirit. This year construction worker leaders have analysed the changed situation and have chosen different tactics. Construction workers will march this May Day, but they will take rostered days off won in their agreements. 

The surprise attack on the CFMEU is a warning to all workers.

Under this capitalist system, it doesn’t matter how many battles you win, unless you prepare for and defeat the entire system, workers end up with our backs against the wall. Times are quickly getting tougher. The system is heading for chaos. It’s our time! We urgently need to learn, to listen and to organise within unions and, more importantly, beyond them. 

If not now, when?

On May Day we celebrate First Peoples’ revolutionary potential

 

Written by: Louisa L. on 28 April 2025

 

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.  

We live on stolen lands. Stolen with violence, terror and deceit. This truth has already been told again and again. NO MORE. There must be action! Those everyday Australians who still support racism must open their eyes and unblock their ears. Racism supports only those who are ripping off this country and all its peoples. 

For 130 years, First Peoples sacrificed their lives in armed struggle to defend their communities, lands, waters and cultures. Despite the most terrible oppression, their struggle has not ceased since invasion. First Peoples are just 3.8 percent of these lands’ inhabitants. Yet theirs is the richest history of resistance. Land, water, people, culture remain the heart of their inspiring ongoing rebellion. Let’s tell this truth!

Generation by generation, mountainous waves of First Peoples’ rebellion grew. After 200 years, they threatened to drown capitalism’s ability to profit from their lands and waters. Through the Business Council of Australia, the ruling class deliberately set out to divide First Peoples and create collaborators to protect its power.

Elders of struggle like Gary Foley have said of the period until 1988, “We were united, because we were all poor.”  

While most First Peoples battle day to day just to survive, some ruling class collaborators have become multi-millionaires. Many land councils undermine custodians, claim land and water they have no right to, sell them, allow them to be mined or fracked or damned and sacred sites destroyed, all for private profit. Gary Foley and many others despise what he calls “the black bourgeoisie”.

Reconciliation Australia marked the birth of the collaborationist model. Zionist penetration came hand in hand with the BCA. Today some leading collaborators belittle and demonise those many First Peoples who stand for Palestine. Such traitors target their own people for removal from jobs, universities, media and more under the banner that falsely equates anti-Zionism with antisemitism. 

In 1938 Yorta Yorta man William Cooper famously helped initiate a petition to the nazi German Embassy protesting the most internationally publicised anti-Jewish attacks during Kristallnacht, when over two days synagogues, businesses and homes were destroyed and 30,000 Jewish men sent to concentration camps. William Cooper is lauded by Zionists. Today events that drove him to support Jews would, almost certainly cause Willian Cooper to support Palestine.

Again and again, First Peoples have battled for release from crushing oppression. Again and again, they have been promised positive change. Again and again, they have been betrayed. 

Colonialism and imperialism have proved they will never allow First Peoples to be liberated. 

Action to undermine the standing of collaborators, to expose the ruling class, to shatter their anti-people alliance, to divide them all, strengthens the forces for liberation.

We support all the demands the mass of First Peoples raise for reform and their revolutionary call for the right to their own independent states.

May Day Talk 2024

 

Written by: Shirley Winton on 27 May 2024

 

We have had requests for the text of Shirley Winton’s speech at the Melbourne May Day event on May 5.  Shirley was speaking on behalf of No AUKUS Victoria – eds.

 

Thank you May Day Committee for inviting us to speak on AUKUS, war and imperialism.

 

I’m on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulan nation, never ceded.  I pay my respects to their elders past present and emerging and stand in solidarity with the First Nations people of this country in their 260 year long struggle against the brutal colonialism, for self-determination and sovereignty.  

 

1 May is also 78th anniversary of the heroic First Nations pastoral workers in the Pilbara walking off the cattle stations in a long 3-year strike for pay and working conditions.  And they won. Always was always will be Aboriginal land.

 

May Day is International Workers’ Day. A day when workers around the world proudly celebrate their hard won victories and the ongoing struggles for workers’ rights, for decent and secure livelihoods for all, for peace and a better world. 

 

On May Day workers and their unions pledge their solidarity with struggles of the people around the world against exploitation, oppression and imperialist wars. 

 

This year’s May Day workers around the world stand in solidarity with our heroic Palestinian sisters and brothers in their 76 year struggle against the Zionist Israeli colonial occupation and genocide.  Working people, unions, students and millions around the world from all walks of life stand shoulder to shoulder with the Palestinian people’s resistance and determination to free themselves from Zionist Israel oppression and its backer, US imperialism.  

 

Palestinian people’s struggle is setting the world on fire. Inspiring and giving confidence to workers, unions, students, the oppressed and exploited, in their struggles. 

 

The Palestinian struggle for liberation is exposing the face of imperialism behind the wars of aggression, invasions, military occupations, political and military coups and foreign interferences in countries.  

 

Most major military and political conflicts in today’s world can be traced to fierce competition between the imperial big powers for control and exploitation of natural resources, markets, people and the environment – the proxy war in Ukraine, in the Middle East, in Latin America, in the resources rich Africa, and in our own Asia-Pacific region.     Imperialism creates wars, refugees, and whips up racism to divide the people.

 

Today, the world is on the threshold of another global imperialist war threatening to engulf workers across the world. 

 

A war that is being instigated and led by the US.  And, as in all the imperialist wars, we the working people and the environment are the casualties, the disposable pawns in the super power competition and the profiteering weapons corporations and military industrial complex.  It’s always us the ordinary people who pay with our lives, our health, our livelihoods and carry the main economic and social burden of imperialist wars.

 

In our region of Asia-Pacific, the US is preparing to start a war with China, its biggest competitor threatening to replace the US as the dominant global super power.  

 

It will be a war of aggression forced on the people of this region.  And Australia, the US deputy sheriff in the Asia-Pacific, is again marching to the beat of US war drums.  

 

Australia has joined AUKUS, an aggressive war pact between US, UK and Australia, created and led by the US, to start a war with China.  AUKUS and its nuclear powered submarines are not for the defence of Australia and peace in the region.   It is an instrument of aggression to protect the US dominance in this region,  not for the defence of the people of Australia, nor for “peace and prosperity” in the region.

 

AUKUS is more deeply enmeshing Australia politically and militarily into the US war plans and its multinational weapons corporations.  

 

Australia, a US deputy sheriff doing the bidding for the US, enforcing the so called US global rules based order in our region, rubber stamping US actions in the UN and supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.  

 

AUKUS and Australia’s involvement in a US-led war with China will syphon off more than half a trillion dollars of Australian people’s taxes from urgent needs of Australian people in health, education, housing, social services, aged care, child care, and urgent action to tackle climate crisis.  $368 billion on nuclear submarines and tens of billions more on US military and propping up the US and UK economies.

 

The only beneficiaries are the US economy and the hugely profiteering military industrial complex and fossil fuel corporations. 

 

The winners from AUKUS and nuclear submarines are the multinational weapons and fossil fuel corporations – Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, BAE, Boeing, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, the military industrial complex – raking in $trillions of dollars in profits from suffering of people and destruction of the environment.   

 

The only imminent threats to the Australian people’s safety and security come from the aggressive AUKUS war alliance, the US military bases across the country, the secretive US controlled Pine Gap spy base, the nuclear weapons carrying US bombers and warships in our ports and airfields, the AUKUS nuclear powered submarines in our ports, the deadly nuclear waste stored on the lands of the First Nations people, the US-Australia Alliance and the devastation of climate crisis These are the real threats to our safety and sovereignty.

 

Australia’s manufacturing industry is being turned into a production line for multinational weapons corporations and imperialist wars.  This is because workers in this country are not in charge of what our labour produces.   These are the weapons used in the horrific genocide of Palestinian people and against our sisters and brothers in other countries fighting for their rights and against oppression. 

 

Multinational weapons corporations are embedding themselves in our universities and our schools.  Public funds and universities are handed over to weapons corporations for research and development of their deadly weapons for wars of aggression.   These are public funds much needed for scientific research into health and wellbeing of people and the environment.  Australia’s military and defence are now deeply integrated into the US imperialist war machine. 

 

Our fight is not against workers of other countries. Our battles are right here – for secure and decently paid work for all, for workers’ rights, for safety at work, for affordable and secure housing for all, for properly funded health care and education and tackling the climate crisis.  For urgently needed funds to support women fleeing domestic violence and to end the violence against women epidemic.

 

Australian people don’t want Australia to be involved in another US war.  

 

Workers, unions and people from all walks of life are coming together, uniting, working together and speaking out against AUKUS, for peace and against war.

Australian workers and their unions have always stood up for peace and against imperialist wars.  Peace is Union Business.

 

We need an independent and peaceful foreign policy that upholds the sovereignty of all countries and builds solidarity with workers and the oppressed around the world.  We must build a broad anti-war movement and fight for peace. The heroic Palestinian people are showing that protracted struggle will unite and mobilise the people against injustice and tyranny. 

 

• Pease is Union Business 

• Scrap AUKUS and nuclear powered submarines

• Remove all foreign military bases from Australia

• Close Pine Gap

• Cut ties with multinational weapons corporations assisting Gaza genocide 

• End US-Australia Alliance

• End the Israel Zionist occupation of Palestine

• Solidarity with Palestinian people

• Solidarity with all workers and the oppressed around the world

• Touch one Touch all!    Palestine will live! 

 

Shirley Winton

May 2024 

Free Palestine rally leads Melbourne May Day march

 Written by: Bill F. on 6 May 2024

Highlight of this year’s May Day in Melbourne was the extended march through the city streets led by Free Palestine supporters who had already marched up to Trades Hall from the usual Sunday rally at the State Library.

This more than doubled the numbers who had earlier turned out for the annual May Day rally, this year falling on May 5th. At least 2000 at a guess.

Prior to this, the May Day event attracted a number of trade union members and activists from Construction unions, Plumbers, Maritime workers, Rail Tram and Bus, Nurses and Midwifes, student unions and individual unionists.  

Various radical, revolutionary and environmental groups set up stalls and handed out literature, while banners and placards supported the Palestinian struggle against Israeli Zionism and condemned US imperialism and its criminal AUKUS war pact.

The popular Trades Hall Choir delivered its usual stirring songs of struggle, and a guest speaker from the Construction union deplored the falling living standards faced by working people whose wages and conditions were being whittled away in the face of ever rising costs and lack of social services. Housing, decent education and accessible and affordable healthcare were all getting further out of reach for many families. He called for workers to take action, to increase the level of struggle and not let the bosses get away with it any longer.

The second guest speaker exposed the rotten AUKUS agreement embraced by the Albanese Labor government. Her powerful speech pointed out that it was a war pact designed to tie Australia into a US instigated war with China rather than anything to do with the defence of Australia. She pointed to the sinister role of the US controlled Pine Gap spy base in supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and the danger of this being a nuclear target in any war with China. “The only imminent threats to the Australian people’s safety and security come from the aggressive AUKUS war alliance, the US military bases across the country, the secretive US controlled Pine Gap spy base, the nuclear weapons carrying US bombers and warships in our ports and airfields, the AUKUS nuclear powered submarines in our ports, the deadly nuclear waste stored on the lands of the First Nations people, the US-Australia Alliance and the devastation of climate crisis. These are the real threats to our safety and sovereignty.”

She continued, “The Palestinian struggle for liberation is setting the world on fire, exposing the face of imperialism behind the wars of aggression, invasions, military occupations, political and military coups and foreign interferences in countries.”

When the Free Palestine rally marched up, they were given a warm welcome as they joined in the May Day crowd, livening things with drums and music. This continued as the whole combined rally marched through the city and then returned to Trades Hall, chanting “Free, free Palestine!”, “The workers united, will never be defeated!”

On the return to Trades Hall, two Palestinian speakers addressed the crowd, expressing the determination of the Palestinian people to win their liberation in facing the genocide and expressing respect for the solidarity shown to them by people across the world, including many Jewish supporters.

The final speaker was the Chairperson of the Melbourne May Day Committee, Len Cooper. He also denounced the role of US imperialism in financing and arming Israel’s aggression and racist genocide in Gaza and the West Bank.

The Melbourne May Day rally ended with the ceremonial burning of a US effigy and flag, which delighted the crowd and was a fitting recognition of the main enemy of the oppressed people of the world.

May Day Solidarity - Victory for Palestine!

Written by: Alice M. on 30 April 2024

 

Palestinian Resistance Isolates Zionism and US imperialism

By Alice M.
Palestine’s fight for liberation is turning the US imperialist dominated world upside down.

Seven months of relentless Israeli slaughter of the people of Gaza and the West Bank has only spread the flames of Palestinian resistance and the solidarity of the great majority of peoples of the world.

Zionist Israel and its US-led imperialist backers stand isolated and exposed in their massacre of 34,000 Palestinians, nearly half of whom are children. Thousands more are still buried in mass graves under the rubble when Israel bombed countless homes, hospitals, schools, mosques, churches, child care centres, kindergartens and a university.

Not satisfied, Israel is now intent on starving the remaining Palestinian population of Gaza.

Heroic resistance
Yet, Israel, the world’s bloodiest military after the US, armed to the teeth with the most advanced high tech and intelligence weaponry, militarily and politically supported and funded in trillions of dollars by US imperialism, has failed to extinguish the 76 years of the Palestinian  resistance to Zionist Israel’s brutal occupation and oppression.

The seven months of Israeli genocide in Gaza and the West Bank to wipe out the existence of Palestinians, has only strengthened the unity and determination of the 5 million Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank to resist and fight for their liberation.

Their steadfast fight against the brutal colonial occupation by the fascist Israeli state is an inspiration and a beacon for millions around the world oppressed by colonialism, capitalism and imperialism.

Israel’s genocide and the heroic Palestinian resistance is mobilising millions around the world in solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle.
Millions across the world support Palestine’s struggle for liberation. Palestinians are showing that peoples of the world have the absolute right, and duty, to resist oppression, exploitation and fight for national liberation and freedom.

Seven months into Israel’s invasion and genocide in Gaza and mass rallies of hundreds of thousands across the world in solidarity are growing in numbers and influence.  The Zionist Israeli state and US imperialism are exposed and isolated. 

People’s mass organisations and actions against Israel’s genocide and complicity by imperialist powers and their lackeys, like Australia, have spontaneously sprung up in all corners of the world. People of the world are demanding Israel be boycotted, charged with genocide, and prosecuted before the International Court of Justice for its genocidal war crimes.

US and its lackeys condemned 
The Palestinian struggle has widened the gulf between the people and ruling classes of the capitalist world, sharpening contradictions between the exploited and their exploiters.

Capitalist and imperialist drive for control of the world’s resources, markets and bigger profits are behind Israel’s colonial occupation and genocide. Palestinian liberation is sharpening struggles between the governments of capitalist and imperialist countries and the people.  Palestinian resistance is exposing the leading role of US imperialism and its military industrial complex as accomplices in the genocide.

People power from below is demanding the ruling classes and their governments condemn Israel, stop exporting weapons and aid to Israel.  Dock workers are striking, refusing to handle weapons bound for Israel, banning Israeli shipping lines and blockading international ports.   

Across the world communities are blockading multinational weapons manufacturers’ factories. Students are occupying their universities, demanding multinational weapons corporations are kicked out of universities.  Tens of thousands protesting against Israel and the US are being arrested in the US and Israel.   

Since the start of Zionist Israel genocide in October 2023 in Gaza, growing numbers of Jewish people are condemning Zionism and protesting against Israeli genocide and the 76 years of Zionist occupation of Palestine.  Jewish Anti-Zionist organisations and groups have been formed across the world.

In Australia, Jews Against Zionism, Jews Against the 1948 Occupation, Loud Jew Collective and the reconstituted progressive Jewish Council of Australia are active in the Palestine solidarity movement. The anti-zionist Jewish Council of Australia has commended the university protests and rejected claims that they are antisemitic. https://www.jewishcouncil.com.au/media/university-encampments-are-no-threat

In the US, ruling class support for the Zionist Israel genocide is deepening contradictions between the people and monopoly capital, exposing the US hypocrisy. Democrats are losing their supporters as Biden desperately tries to win them back for the next election, crying crocodile tears, asking Israel nicely not to kill “civilians”, and in the same breath sending $26 billion in military aid to assist Israel in its genocide.

The complicity of US-led imperialist powers in the genocide of Palestinian people is exposing the reality of US global “rules-based order”, hastening its political demise. No longer can US imperialism and its lackeys, like Australia, hide their support and complicity in genocide. 

Australia – puppet of US imperialism
As in everything, the puppet Labor government is dancing to the tune of US imperialism, unwilling to veer one small step away from supporting US world domination and colonial Zionist Israel.  In the UN it loyally follows the US and rubber stamps every move to protect Israel’s brutal occupation and genocide.
Meanwhile, US imperialism uses its Pine Gap spy base to provide military intelligence and co-ordinates to assist the murderous Israeli military’s genocide in Gaza and the West Bank.

The Australian people are disgusted with the Labor government’s complicity in Israel’s and US massacres. In the middle of Israel’s killings of 34,000 Gazans the Australian government signed a $917 million contract with Elbit, Israel’s biggest developer and manufacturer of weapons.  That’s $1billion gifted to one of the world’s biggest perpetrators of war crimes. 

Zionist Israel in crisis
Israel itself is deeply divided, beginning to implode and on the brink of open fascism.

Fault lines and conflict of interests and strategies are opening up between Israel and the US, its biggest and most important sponsor without whose support Zionist Israel would not have survived as long as it has. Israel is a crucial base for the US economic, political and military dominance in the region.  Palestinian resistance is uniting and mobilising the masses of the Middle East against US imperialism.

Israel’s genocide is showing the world the reality of 76 years brutal colonial occupation. The world is learning about Nakba, about Gaza as a concentration camp created by Israel. About violent and armed Zionist settlers, supported by the Zionist state and Israeli army, stealing Palestinian land in the West Bank and brutally evicting Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem.

The world is learning about Israel stealing water and destroying Palestinian farms and olive groves in the West Bank, deliberately making life unbearable for Palestinians to force them to leave or die.  

The world is learning about the thousands of Palestinian prisoners as young as 10 or 12 rotting for years in Israeli gaols for merely throwing a rock at an Israeli Occupying Force (IOF) soldier, for flying a Palestinian flag.  The world is witnessing Israel’s horrific apartheid.

But the Palestinian struggle is turning the tide and shifting the ground for all the oppressed peoples of the world.

As long as the Palestinian people control their own destiny, they will surely be victorious.

Close Pine Gap!
Kick Elbit out of Australia!
Ban Zim and all Israeli shipping companies from entering Australian Ports!
Impose BDS against Israel!
Support Palestine Liberation!
Independence for Australia from all super powers!