Guardian #1947 – February 1, 2021 – click here for index.
CPA statement on US inclusion of Cuba on its terror list
The Communist Party of Australia condemns in the strongest possible terms the inclusion of Cuba on the US list of “state sponsors of terrorism.” more ...
Australia’s human rights record is a joke
Last month, at the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review of human rights, Australian officials faced tough questions over its human rights violations. The review touched on several topics such as Australia’s border policy (including offshore processing and refusing to resettle people who arrived by boat) and the treatment of Indigenous people. more ...
WorkChoices Mark II (Part 2) – Casuals Con
The centrepiece of the Coalition government’s industrial relations Omnibus bill is the schedule on casual employees. Industrial Relations Minister Christian Porter boasts that the bill will “solve the problem of uncertainty, provide better avenues for job security, remove the burden of double-dipping claims and recognise employee choice.”more ...
Australia’s role in US imperialism remains firm
The basic implicit promise of the Biden campaign has been a “return to normal” relative to the Trump years. There were no radical promises of progressive developments, merely a return to certain features of the Obama administration, in many cases even less ambitious. Make America Normal Again – but what on earth is this normal? more ...
Trump’s Presidency in the light of Democrat neoliberalism
Joe Biden has now replaced Donald Trump as President of the United States. After Biden’s electoral win, a photograph was taken of him wearing a hat that stated “We Just Did,” a callback to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” hat. But has America become great again? This might be a good time to look more deeply into that early assertion. more ...
Big Tech ups the ante
One of the most powerful social media behemoths, Twitter, has taken bold new strides in demonstrating its ability to censor information in the political sphere, by permanently banning Donald Trump from the platform while he still President of the United States. Facebook soon followed suit, imposing an indefinite suspension on Trump. Internationally, the exile has been strongly opposed by a number of nations. Google and Facebook have also threatened the Australian government if a proposed code for publishing news proceeds. These recent incidents also reignite the question of how to protect independent media from censorship.more ...
The CPA attends invasion day rallies nationwide
Around the country, Communist Party of Australia (CPA) branches attended Invasion Day rallies and marches in a solidarity effort with First Nations people.more ...
Storming the Capitol: staging a farce
Early in December 2020, the racist and punitive Cashless Debit Card (CDC) trials were extended for another two years, a compromise on the attempts to make the CDC trials permanent. The passed bill also potentially expands the scope of the trials as the previous 15,000 participant cap was removed from the legislation. The current locations of CDC trials are in Ceduna, SA, East Kimberly and Goldfields regions, WA, and the Bundaberg and Hervey Bay region, QLD.more ...
REVIEW: Roadkill – stagy British scandal-a-rama
Hands up who likes a good political scandal! Nobody? Fair enough, we are kind of drowning in them. Hands up who likes a good political scandal on TV? A sea of hands! Well, fair enough, fictional politics can be fun, and cheering or booing fictional politicians is infinitely more enjoyable than cheering or booing the real thing. Actual politicians are much less photogenic and witty than dramatised ones, and they can literally kill us. Hands up who thinks the British do the best scandals? Keep the hands up if you like Hugh Laurie – the guy who went from being the comedy goon in Blackadder to being widely respected and wildly successful in his semi-serious role in House. Alright, your arms are probably tired by now, you can put them down.more ...
Biden makes it official: no Keystone XL oil pipeline
President Joe Biden’s made it official. He yanked, effective immediately, the federal construction licence for the remaining section of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline from Alberta through the US.more ...
Success of Cuba’s fight against Coronavirus
On the 1st of January, 2021, Cuban revolution completed 62 years. The socialist revolution carried out by a group of highly motivated individuals under the leadership of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara among numerous others in this small island nation in the Caribbean Sea in 1959 has since attempted to create an egalitarian society with a high standard of living for all its citizens sans exploitation. In the last six decades, it has survived continued imperialist assaults and built strong solidarity among its citizens. […] Today, the entire world is going through an unprecedented crisis in the form of COVID-19 pandemic which has left even the most advanced capitalist countries struggling to get past it. At such a time, Cuba’s success against the pandemic must be credited to its unwavering commitment to its revolutionary values of socialism, scientific temper and international solidarity. more ...
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