The federal government’s inaugural National Defence Strategy significantly increases the country’s military burden and takes us further down the path to war with China.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s claim that a pro-Palestine demonstration at the Sydney Opera House on 9 October was “akin to a Port Arthur moment” reaches a new level of absurdity.
The Australian capitalist class is doubling down on the alliance with the US that has served its interests well for decades. In doing so, it risks dragging us all into a deadly confrontation between nuclear-armed rivals.
During World War Two, the Communist Party of Australia offered unqualified support for the Australian war effort. The CPA’s pro-war stance amounted to a complete departure from the internationalist traditions on which it was founded.
