On May Day we celebrate the struggles by workers and working people from around the world. We never give up the fight for workers’ rights, for decent, secure and safe jobs and life, for a clean environment, for peace and justice.Every day workers struggle against capitalist exploitation, poverty and imperialist wars.The world is on the threshold of another global capitalist …
18 March Melbourne Peace rally Talk by Shirley Winton (member of No AUKUS Victoria/AAAC and IPAN) On behalf of Peace Roundtable Melbourne welcome everyone and thank you for coming on this scorching hot day. I would like to especially acknowledge the people who have travelled many hours from across Victoria to attend this important rally. They are from South West …
by Binoy Kampmark The AUKUS alliance is increasingly adopting a nuclear tone. First came the promise to furnish Australia with nuclear powered submarines, absent nuclear weapons, a point that did not dissuade critics such as Indonesia. Then came the announcement to deploy six B-52 bombers to the Northern Territory’s Tindal airbase, south of Darwin, an exercise underwritten by the Pentagon. …
By Richard Stone The continued stalling of Australia’s submarine program and contradictory statements issued by US government officials have revealed deep-rooted Cold War positions with security concerns and reliable allies. The statements, furthermore, have raised serious implications for Australia’s own defence and security, which is supposed to be primarily focussed upon national considerations and sovereignty. To the contrary, Australia’s foreign …
by Bevan Ramsden The US-Australia Force Posture Agreement has opened the gate for the US to set up Australia as a launching pad for its next war against China. The Albanese government must invoke Article XXI to terminate it and reclaim sovereignty. When it comes to military activities or agreements between Australia and the United States, the ANZUS Treaty provides …
A Commentary… By Brian Boyd, October 2022 This is the third of a three part series that looks into the current geo-politics and what it means for Australia. ARMS RACE It is legitimate for any country to be concerned about economic influences that impact negatively on their respective national economies, be it from China or from any other country. It …
by Shirley Winton from Spirit of Eureka Presented to the ILPS (International League of Peoples’ Struggle) Australia – General Meeting 22 October, 2022 I speak as a member of Spirit of Eureka, but some of the comments are my personal views. I acknowledge that I’m on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulan nation. I pay my …
A Public Call for Peace – Scrap AUKUS and Nuclear Submarines Statement. This Australian Anti-AUKUS Coalition Peace Not War Statement, signed by over 700 individuals and more than 80 organisations, has been published in national newspaper The Saturday Paper on 17 September. Signatures are continuing to come in. The statement is continuing to be promoted widely and people are encouraged …
by Binoy Kampmark As this idiotic, servile venture proceeds, Australian territory, sites and facilities will become every more attractive for assault in the fulness of time. If further clues were needed as to why AUKUS, the security pact comprising the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, was created, the latest announcement on weapons would have given the game away. …
Brief Speech by Shirley Winton * at a Melbourne rally outside the meeting of QUAD members on 10 February. This was a quickly organised small but lively snap rally protesting outside the Quad meeting led by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and foreign ministers from India, Japan and Australia. As Blinken and other foreign ministers arrived in bullet proof …
