By Dr Marie Longo, Board Member, Graham F Smith Peace Foundation I was fortunate enough to attend the 2026 Independent & Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) Conference from July 24th-26th in Adelaide. IPAN was formed in 2011 and has over 100 affiliate partners including community and church groups, trade unions, and peace and anti-war organisations. It is a national network that …
By Kate O’Brien In the early hours of Wednesday 8th April, anti-war activists blocked the entrance to the BAE Systems building at Edinburgh, north of Adelaide/Tarntanya, to protest the company’s manufacture and supply of titanium parts for the F-35 bomber jets used by the Israeli and US militaries. The Edinburgh precinct is one of five locations owned by the global …
A growing coalition of allied organisations is calling for Australia to break from the empire that maintains the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, has violated the sovereignty of Venezuela by bombing and kidnapping President Maduro & Cilia Flores, strangles Cuba and other nations with devastating sanctions, maintains an unwanted presence of military bases and political power in Australia and …
By Shirley Winton On Saturday 29 November, 2025, Spirit of Eureka (Victoria) held a commemorative meeting for the anniversaries of the Eureka Stockade rebellion and the sacking of the Whitlam government. The meeting was held at the premises of the Victorian branch of the Maritime Union of Australia. Speakers at the meeting were Gary Foley representing Indigenous Liberation, Sarah Baarini …
By Brian Boyd Embarrassment For Australia to be contributing $3 billion dollars, to bump up submarine production in the US, on a promise that we may receive up to 3 to 5 second-hand Virginia class submarines within a decade, is an insult to the Australian public. It is repeatedly speculated that this promise under so-called pillar 1 of A U …
By Binoy Kampmark There is a throbbing complaint among Western powers, including those in the European Union and the United States. Iran is not playing by the rules. Instead of accepting with dutiful meekness the slaughter of its military leadership and scientific personnel, Tehran decided, promptly, to respond to Israel’s pre-emptive strikes launched on June 13. Instead of considering the dubious legal implications …
By Richard Stone Direct US military involvement inside Israel in support of the IDF has marked a significant development in the present Cold War changing balance of forces across the region and globally. It has enabled a much clearer assessment of how the US require Israel to continue to conduct regional operations, although with increasing difficulty as the balance of …
By Brian Boyd This is the second of a two part-series Rival trading blocs emerging Privately most major nation states are acknowledging that global trade is becoming dysfunctional. At the macro level that WTO has become powerless to prevent or even slow down the fracturing of the long-running, international ‘rules-based order’. On a regular basis China and the US exchange …
By Michael Williss A fresh warning that the US will lose a war with China has just been made by a US data analytics and military software company with US Department of Defense contracts. It seems no-one is prepared to back the US to win a war with China, so why is Australia going all-out to align itself with provocative …
May 2024, Melbourne 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 myrespects to their elders past present and emerging and stand in solidarity with the FirstNations people of this country in their 260 year long struggle …
