AUKUS

Anthony Albanese has just returned from his second visit to Washington since being elected, showing his determination to support the US’s imperial aims in the Asia-Pacific. Pip Hinman reports.

The Australia-United States military alliance and the complexities of building an anti-war movement were discussed at the Sydney Anti-AUKUS Coalition conference. Jim McIlroy reports.

 

Japan protests

Amid rising tensions in the Asia-Pacific, Japan’s government is ramping up defence spending. Japanese revolutionary socialist Akira Kato discusses the background to this move with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes.

AUKUS’s next phase, or “second pillar”, focuses on technology sharing of “advanced capabilities”, a major aspect being artificial intelligence. Matilda Byrne investigates the development of autonomous weapons technologies.

Anti-war protesters marked the second anniversary of the secretive AUKUS pact, calling for it to be stopped. Jim McIlroy reports.

Outside the Australian Embassy in Manila

A clear anti-AUKUS message was sent to PM Anthony Albanese a day before he arrived in the Philippines for talks with President Marcos on greater militarisation in the South China Sea. Pip Hinman reports. 

Japanese GSDF 2013

Green Left’s Federico Fuentes interviewed Japanese Communist Party (JCP) International Commission vice chair Kimitoshi Morihara regarding the peace and security initiatives the party is promoting to help counter growing militarisation in the Indo-Pacific region.

No nuclear subs, no war on China: Anti-AUKUS protest

Thousands of people rallied against AUKUS, for forests and housing and rent reforms outside Labor's national conference. Alex Bainbridge reports.

Housing protest outside the Labor national conference, August 19

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's argument that long-term government is counterposed to pro-working class policies contains major flaws, argues Alex Bainbridge.

Monaeka Flores and Shinako Oyakawa

Visiting Pacific peace activists Monaeka Flores (from Guahan/Guam) and Shinako Oyakawa (from Okinawa) warn that the United States military expansion in the Pacific has the dystopian objective of “winning” a nuclear war at the expense of the people on whose land these military bases are sited, reports Peter Boyle.

We can’t possibly mobilise the human and material resources needed to confront the climate crisis — the real threat to our security — while gearing up for a new Cold War, let alone a hot war, argues Sam Wainwright.

To challenge its drive to war and to force the government to invest in its people, students need to organise, argues Harrison Brennan.