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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Britain's track record with nuclear-powered submarines does not inspire confidence in the AUKUS arrangements. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol #antiAUKUS
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British imperialism: sinking below the waves
<p><strong>British imperialism’s decline as the power that once “ruled the waves” has been demonstrated by what the UK Daily Mail newspaper called “an extraordinarily protracted construction process” ...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Britain is positioning itself to engage in orbital warfare, alongside the US. Australia is complicit. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol #spacewars
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British join the DARC side in push to militarise Space
<p><strong>British imperialism announced two days ago that it was establishing its third space squadron capable of taking offensive and defensive space missions, according to Harv Symth, UK Chief of t...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Duncan B. reviews a new book on AI. cpaml.org/post4.php?id...
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Book Review-WHY WE FEAR AI
<p><strong>Among the many new books about AI that are coming out every week, I consider this book, written by two AI insiders, to be important because it stresses the need to look at AI from a class p...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
More reports on actions against AUKUS on the International Day of Peace. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol #antiaukus
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Australians mobilise to Cancel AUKUS and End the US Alliance
<p><strong>On the International Day of Peace and National Day of Action people from many walks of life and organisations across the country called for scrapping AUKUS and ending the US alliance, decla...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Finance capital abandoned manufacturing and is leaving mining as the smart money goes into yet more data centres. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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Firming up on fictitious capital – Firmus and its capital raising
<p><strong>The proposed public float of Australian data centre company Firmus in late October is symptomatic of the speculative capital being drawn to the expansion of data centres.</strong></p> <p> ...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nepalese Communists have issued a warning about possible Australian involvement in mining uranium in the country's Mustang region. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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Press Statement by Nepal Communist Party (Mashal)
<p><em>Our comrades in the Nepal Communist Party (Mashal) have issued a statement which refers to a possible Australian involvement in the mining of uranium in Nepal’s Mustang region. At this stage, n...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A reader has sent an interesting review of a book on organising black workers in Detroit in the late 1960s. cpaml.org/post4.php?id...
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Book Review: Motown and the making of working-class revolutionaries…
<p><em>A reader has sent us his review of a book on the League of Revolutionary Black Workers who were organised in the Detroit auto plants in the late 1960s. Rank and file workers in America, led by ...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
300 people rallied for the International Day of Peace in Port Adelaide. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol #antiAUKUS
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International Day of Peace action in Port Adelaide
<p><strong>On Sunday 20 September over 300 people gathered at the Workers' Memorial at the Black Diamond Corner at Port Adelaide as part of International Day of Peace actions against AUKUS across all ...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will meet in Washington later this month, each hoping for a different outcome. cpaml.org/post4.php?id...
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Trump and Xi meeting will not solve the crises inflicted on the people
<p><strong>The upcoming visit of Xi Jinping to the United States, where he will meet and have talks with US President Trump, will see both imperialist powers trying to gain advantages over the other.<...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A Party discussion paper on the question of a shift in the balance of power between imperialist states has been released. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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Party’s discussion paper published
<p><em>A CPA (M-L) discussion paper sent to the 13th Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star this September has been published on the Media & Archives/Booklets drop down m...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The 2026 Pacific Islands Forum was a fragmented event, set against a background of superpower rivalry. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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2026 Pacific Islands Forum: safe, not sorry?
<p><strong>Commentary about the recent Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) has tended to highlight the seemingly dysfunctional nature of the organisation without focussing upon the underlying causal factors o...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The US-Marcos dictatorship and US military bases in the Philippines were condemned at a rally in Sydney. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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“Imperialism wounds so many people. We can’t look away.”
<p><strong>On the 54th Anniversary of the imposition of martial law in the Philippines, around 50 gathered in Sydney, before an anti-Aukus, pro-Palestine rally.</strong></p> <p> </p>
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sydney ferry workers are taking action against their rich multinational boss, and passengers are enjoying the free rides. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol #auspo26
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Transdev bosses are spewing, but oh, so politely, as they take on MUA ferry workers in Sydney
<p><strong>Transdev began as part of a French state-owned financial institution, Caisse des Dépôts Group. In 2019 the German family-owned Rethmann Group took a 66% controlling share.  Rethmann made it...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A visiting US Congressman has told us to assume US submarines here are carrying nuclear weapons and that, as a consequence, we are a target. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol #antiAUKUS
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Visiting US Congressman reveals a few home truths
<p><strong>A visiting US politician has just stated that US nuclear-powered submarines stationed at the Stirling naval base in WA can be assumed to be carrying nuclear weapons. Michael McCaul, a forme...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The US imperialists are the first nation to admit to placing weapons in space, the militarisation of which must be stopped. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol #spaceweapons
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Condemn the US placement of weapons in Outer Space
<p><strong>Two days ago, a US military spokesman confirmed that the US has already placed weapons in space.<br /> This adds urgency to our demands to stop the militarisation of space.</strong></p> <p...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Australia needs a nationalised steel industry to avoid private investor failures in places like the Whyalla steelworks. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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Government
<p><strong>On Monday 14 September SA Premier Peter Malinauskas went to Whyalla to announce the final shutdown of the blast furnace at the Whyalla Steel Works in South Australia. 600 workers, including...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Can protests stop the spread of data centres and the accelerated development of AI? cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol #datacenters
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Data Centres and AI: has the horse already bolted?
<p><strong>Moves to regulate data centres and AI provision in Australia are urgently required; they appear likely, however, to become a political football. Some problems have already arisen: moves els...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A new booklet explains the two-fold role of the state in Australia. www.cpaml.org/web/uploads2... #auspol
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The reopening of a former US Air Force base in the Philippines is a further indication of US preparations for war with China. cpaml.org/post4.php?id...
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Pax Silica, the Philippines and US war preparations against China
<p><strong>The decision by the Trump administration to re-open military facilities from the previous Cold War in the Philippines forms part of a rising tide of US-led militarism sweeping the Indo-Paci...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Pauline Hanson and One Nation claim to be on the side of farmers. They are not. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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Pauline Hanson is no friend of Farmers
<p><strong>Pauline Hanson is trying to claim credibility as serious, mainstream politician, after years on the sidelines, where she is noted  mainly for her stunts and bizarre utterances. Hanson and O...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reports from China indicate that Maoists were harassed when trying to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Mao's death. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #maozedong
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How Maoists were treated commemorating the 50th death anniversary of Chairman Mao
<p><em>The following accounts concerning the September 9 commemorations marking the fiftieth anniversary of Mao Zedong’s death were written by Comrade Perrin and based on reports sent to him by comrad...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Both New Zealand and Australia are increasingly being drawn into US plans to establish military control of Space. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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New Zealand is being drawn into US plans to achieve military supremacy in space.
<p><strong>In 2024 New Zealand was invited by the US to join the US-led multinational space initiative Olympic Space Defender. Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and France complete the seven-nation m...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The US military-industrial complex is now wedded to Silicon Valley as a means of maintaining imperialism's control. cpaml.org/post4.php?id...
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The U.S. government, the Pentagon and big tech: key components of U.S. imperialism. Part 2: The Pentagon and Big Tech’s intimate relationships.
<p><strong>A cornerstone of U.S. imperialism since the end of World War Two is the military-industrial complex, also known as the military-industrial-Congressional complex, which highlights the symbio...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
s the barbarism of imperialism really going to be our future? cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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Notes on Barbarism – The Manifestation of Barbarism with the Decline of US Imperialism
<p><strong>It is relatively easy to use the term barbarism when referring to specific acts of violence such as those occurring in parts of the world today. This is particularly relevant to what is tak...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This book analyses the fascist fantasies of Elon Musk. cpaml.org/post4.php?id...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
US sycophant Marles is continuing his sell-out of Australia. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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Marles, you pathetic lackey - No more US military in Australia!
<p><strong>Meeting with US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, the pathetic chief lackey of US imperialism in Australia, Richard Marles, has further sold out our sovereignty by welcoming a greater US mili...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Who owns and controls the Australian state is the question that must be addressed. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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Break the hold of the US on the Australian state
<p><strong>Australia is a capitalist country. It has developed to a point where capitalism in Australia is characterised by each sector of industry and commerce being dominated by a few big monopoly c...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Residents around the Henderson WA "defence precinct" are living within an area which will be target during warfare. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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The Henderson warfare target
<p><strong>The Australian government earlier this week released its plans for the Henderson Defence Precinct in Western Australia.<br /> Last September, the government announced a $12 billion downpaym...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The race between China and the US to colonise the Moon is speeding US plans for warfare in Space. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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Race to colonise the Moon sees more space war planning
<p><strong>US imperialism continues to discuss its plans for warfare in Space.  It proceeds from the assumption that “the future warfighting environment is expanding”, and that the potential for confl...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Curious statements emanating from Trump, and set aside those from others within US imperialism simply mean that they must be judged by their actions, not their words. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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The forked tongue of US policy on the Asia Pacific
<p><strong>The US Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy, Eldridge Colby, yesterday held a virtual media briefing whilst on a visit to the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia.</strong></p>
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Ned K reflects on some Depression-era views that led to rejection of the ALP. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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Impact of Russian Revolution on Labor Party In Australia
<p><strong>I have been reading <em>Weevils In The Flour</em> by Wendy Löwenstein.  The book is an oral record of Australian people of various backgrounds and occupations during the Great Depression of...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
US imperialism is determined to proceed with the militarisation of space according to SPACECOM head. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol #space
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US developing kinetic and non-kinetic weapons for space war
<p><strong>With China and the US locked in a race to be the first to establish a manned base on the Southern Pole of the Moon, the US is making no secret of its plans to establish its space supremacy ...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Why has the SA government rushed into announcing a Royal Commission into AI? cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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AI – the rush to a Royal Commission in SA
<p><strong>SA Premier Malinauskas has just announced a Royal Commission into artificial Intelligence (AI). The announcement followed his return from a trip to the US where he met with US politicians, ...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
We have now made our submission to the public inquiry into AUKUS, one of nearly 600 to date. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol #antiAUKUS
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Party submission to AUKUS public inquiry
<p><em>The Public Inquiry into AUKUS, convened by concerned Australians following the government’s refusal to hold a parliamentary inquiry, has so far received close to 600 submissions, the overwhelmi...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This series of images illustrates our position on NATO territoriality in the previous post. #auspol
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A dangerous new precedent for granting legal immunity to foreign military personnel is being set in a new Australia-NATO agreement. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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Oppose the extraterratoriality of NATO personnel in Australia.
<p><strong>A proposed new Agreement governing the deployment of NATO personnel to Australia to facilitate the procurement of NATO goods and services is setting a dangerous new precedent for the surren...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Despite spending millions to improve its image, the Zionist war machine has never been so isolated. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #Palestine
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Zionist war machine never so isolated
<p><strong>Revelations that the Netanyahu government has allocated hundreds of millions of dollars together with a US$45 million lobbying contract to 'improve its image around the world', has carried ...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Make Albanese, Wong and Marles ask the question! cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol #antiAUKUS
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Ask the question!
<p><strong>One of the arts of leadership is to set an example of behaviours appropriate to one’s policies and objectives. The recent ALP National Conference had the abysmal triumvirate doing just that...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Opponents of AUKUS and the US Alliance rallied outside the ALP National Conference this morning. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol #antiAUKUS
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Labor’s AUKUS-trated Conference denies debate on key issues
<p><strong>Approximately 150 people rallied outside the ALP National Conference at the Adelaide Convention Centre this morning.<br /> It was a work day, so many of the participants were retirees with ...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Around the world, women are in the front lines confronting imperialism. cpaml.org/post4.php?id...
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Report on the ICOR Women’s Event in Paris: Women Confront Imperialism
<p><strong>Under the title “Women Confront Imperialism,” the initiative for a women’s coordination, launched at the Second ICOR Women’s Conference in Nepal, brought together younger and older women as...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The frenzied race for Space has both commercial and military aspects. Australia should oppose the militarisation of Space. vanguard-cpaml.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-... #auspol
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The frenzied race for Space
On Tuesday July 21, the federal government released a new Statement on Space. Space, and particularly cislunar Space or the area between t...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
During four days of protests at Mparntwe, the aggressive US war base at Pine Gap was closed. It needs to be permanently shut. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol #closepinegap
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Hundreds rally in Mparntwe to demand closure of US Pine Gap base.
<p><strong>Led by traditional owners of the land on which the US military base Pine Gap is located, hundreds of anti-war activists have converged on the base and demanded its closure.</strong></p> <p...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Consistent with his appeasement of Nazi Germany, Menzies never criticised Australian Nazis prior to WW2, unlike his perennial fascistic attacks on the Communist Party. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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The Menzies debate (Part 2): Why the denial?
<p><strong>The present furore by the Australian Liberal Party about criticisms of its founder, Robert Menzies, carries the hallmarks of those who continue to follow, without question, the basic legacy...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
So, was Menzies an appeaser of Nazism? cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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The Menzies debate: is there really any question?
<p><strong>Political disagreements about the role of Robert Menzies, who became an important leader of the Australian Liberal Party, reveal far more than what can be observed at face value.</strong></...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The 50th anniversary of NAIDOC in SA saw 10,000 blackfullas and their supporters take to the streets. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol #NAIDOC
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10,000 PEOPLE AT NAIDOC CELEBRATIONS IN ADELAIDE
<p><strong>On Friday 10 July, about 10,000 people attended the annual NAIDOC (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) festival and street demonstration in Adelaide. The march throu...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Senator Raff Ciccone epitomises the depth of right-wing influence within the Labor government. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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Deep right-wing influence within Labor
<p><strong>Widespread opposition to the pro-US policy orientation of the Labor Party has focussed on the leading triumvirate of Albanese, Wong and Marles.<br /> To them can be added the three State Pr...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The far right is organised globally as well as locally, and Morrison and Abbott are part of it. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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Australian rightists and the 2026 Alliance for responsible Citizenship Conference
<p><strong>The recent far right Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London attracted right-wing figures from the four corners of the globe. It, however, formed only part of a bigg...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
After toppling the government of Sheikh Hasina in 2024, revolutionary forces in Bangladesh have been unable to maintain their momentum. cpaml.org/post4.php?id...
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Country Report of the Socialist Party of Bangladesh to the ICOR Asia Conference, Kathmandu, Nepal 04.07.2026
<p><strong>Bangladesh has passed through a series of dramatic transformations over the last two years, beginning with the July Uprising of 2024. A 17-year-long autocratic regime led by Sheikh Hasina w...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The International Auto Workers Coordination is calling for solidarity with auto workers under attack around the world. cpaml.org/post4.php?id...
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International Auto Workers: Organize solidarity with the struggle against job cuts and police violence
<p><strong>Dear comrades in the International Automotive Workers' Coordination,<br /> The auto industry is intensifying its attacks on auto workers. VW plans to cut 100,000 jobs worldwide. In Germany ...
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mikewilliss.bsky.social @mikewilliss.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Australian bankers are seeking to strengthen the power of the ruling class. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
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Australian Bankers Association seeks to strengthen ruling class power
<p><strong>The recent Australian Banking Association (ABA) Conference received a report from the assistant governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Brad Jones, which addressed 'challenges to interna...
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