CPA President

President, Communist Party of Australia, CPA

[Partido Comunista de México *☭ @comunistamexico]

Cuba vencerá!!

[Communist Party of Australia @communist_au]

CPA statement on UK ruling on the definition of a woman:

[Communist Party of Australia @communist_au]

We’re now on Instagram! Give us a follow 👉 https://t.co/EU8reaAcvA

[Tani @Tani_DL]

Thank you the friends of #Perth whom stand against the Blockade on Cuba https://t.co/6WUroTV6hW

[Tani @Tani_DL]

Amigos de Cuba demandan el fin del Bloqueo de EEUU en #Sydney. Agradecemos las muestras de solidaridad y cariño hacia nuestro pueblo.

[Embassy of Cuba in Australia @EmbassyCubaAUS]

Hoy se celebro el Dia Internacional de la Mujer en #WA #Perth, Embajadora de Cuba envió mensaje de felicitación a todas las miembros de la ACFS en esa hermosa ciudad del occidente australiano.
Mujeres de Australia y Cuba continuamos tendiendo puentes.
🇦🇺🇨🇺

[Proyecto Quisicuaba @QuisicuabaC]

Miembros de la Brigada de Solidaridad y Trabajo Voluntario Cruz del Sur número 40, provenientes de Australia y Nueva Zelanda, apoyaron hoy las labores en el Comedor Social de @QuisicuabaC.
Dijeron estar muy orgullosos por la labor diaria que hacemos hacia personas vulnerables.

[Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez @DiazCanelB]

Agradezco a todos los que contribuyeron a la decisión anunciada hoy por EE.UU de excluir a Cuba de la lista de estados patrocinadores del terrorismo en la que nunca debió estar y que, junto a otras dos medidas adoptadas, ha tenido un alto costo para el país y las familias cubanas

[Tani @Tani_DL]

Un saludo afectuoso a la 40 Brigada Cruz del Sur que se encuentra en estos momentos en Cuba 🇨🇺. Agradezco las muestras de cariño y solidaridad que han trasmitido generaciones de australianos hacia nuestro pueblo.

[CPA President @CPAPresident]

@DiazCanelB @MinfarC Toda nuestra solidaridad, Brigada Cruz del Sur, Australia-Nueva Zelanda

[CPA President @CPAPresident]

Apostamos por Cuba!
Southern Cross Brigade during their visit to the International Camp Julio Antonio Mella.
#letcubalive
#Cubaisnotalone
#Endtheblockade

[Siempre con Cuba @siempreconcuba]

Desde el otro extremo del mundo, más solidaridad con Cuba

#ICAPCuba
#CubaNoEstáSola
https://t.co/dPosqzCNKn

[CPA President @CPAPresident]

https://t.co/3S4V1l9hVe

[CIPI @CIPICuba]

«The Road to a Diplomatic Relationship: Ten Years Later»

Remarks by Vice Minister @CarlosFdeCossio at the inauguration of the 22nd Series of Conversations on Cuba in U.S. foreign policy

https://t.co/YyWYjl0eOY

[CPA President @CPAPresident]

CPA statement on Syria! please share.

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

Short note on Syria (based on conversations with people in Damascus).
1. Syrian state had been devastated by the war from 2011 to 2014, and then by the sanctions placed on the country. The Syrian army had never fully recovered in the aftermath of the major fighting to take back the main cities of Hama, Homs, and Aleppo.
2. Israeli bombardment of Syrian military facilities had weakened the Syrian armed forces logistical and ordinance capabilities. These attacks had been sustained and painful for the Syrian armed forces.
3. Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the death of Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah of Hezbollah had weakened the ability of Hezbollah to operate even within Lebanon's south, which forced the 'ceasefire' agreement with Israel. This demonstrated that Hezbollah was not in any position to enter Syria again to defend the Syrian government against any armed incursion down the Hama to Damascus road (highway M5).
4. The attacks on Iranian supply depots and military facilities in Syria as well as the attacks by Israel on Iran had prevented any build up of Iranian forces to defend the Syrian government. The weakening of Hezbollah has weakened Iran's role in the region.
5. The conflict in Ukraine had certainly denied Syria the ability to call upon further Russian assistance for the protection of Damascus or for the Russian naval base in Latakia.
6. Therefore, Syria's government no longer had its Iranian and Russian military allies for assistance against the reinforced rebels.
7. The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formed in 2017 out of the al-Qaeda formations, drew together various military forces from Turkey to the Uyghurs - with a large number of other al-Qaeda influenced fighters - and built up its forces in Idlib over the past decade. HTS has received aid and support from Turkey, but also covertly from Israel (this information came to me from a highly placed intelligence official in Turkey).
8. What will the new HTS-led government do regarding the many social minorities in Syria? What will the new HTS-led government do regarding the Golan Heights and Israel? How will the new HTS-government regard the Israeli military incursion in Quneitra?
9. This story is not over yet. There will be much further unrest in the country led by ISIS as well as the Kurdish groups in the north; already Turkish-backed groups are in combat against YPG and PKK forces in Manbij; US forces are already in eastern Syria, where they say that they will remain as a buffer against ISIS (and will therefore retain control of the oil); there will be tension between the governments of Turkey and the US regarding what the new HTS-led government must and. must not do.
10. I hope very much that the statements made by Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, that retribution must not be the new culture, will come true. The real fear is regarding the treatment of the minority populations. There is no word yet if the militia groups in Iraq will enter Syria. Much of this depends on what happens to places such as the Sayyida Zaynab shrine in Damascus.

[CFMEU WA @CFMEUWA]

Today marks 170 years since the Eureka flag first flew…

The Eureka Stockade took place in Ballarat, Victoria in 1854, and was a key event in the history of the Australian Union movement. Miners who were unhappy with unfair taxes and poor working conditions rebelled against the government, wanting better rights, the ability to vote and fair treatment, and inspired the formation of the union movement in Australia.

The fight for workers' rights and better conditions continued to grow into unions across the country, including the mighty @CFMEUWA.

We swear by the Southern Cross to stand truly by each other and fight to defend our rights and liberties!

#CFMEUWA #CFMEU #UnionPower #Eureka #EurekaStockade

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

In Perth, I met Craig and Monique Oobagooma as well as their beautiful child Nancy. They are part of the Wanjina Wunggurr community in northern Western Australia, a community initially enslaved to work for white settlers and then displaced from land that had been their own. Craig told me about the importance of their autonomy from the greed of mining companies, such as BHP and Rio Tinto, that dominate this part of Australia and the world. Nancy held my hand. In her warmth I felt the possibility of our struggle against imperialism. Forward ever. Backward never.

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

In Perth, Australia, spent the day with Comrade Vinnie Molina National President of the @communist_au and a leader of the @CFMEU. Vinnie took me to a building work site, where the workers had built a lunch room as part of their union culture. I spoke about the uberisation of work and the dangers that will come if we lose the basic rights for decent working conditions. We went to Solidarity Park, which is near the Western Australia parliament. Vinnie told us that the workers seized this land, creating a Workers' Embassy on it in 1997, and fought to build this park in honour of fallen comrades (such as Mark Allen, born 1973 and died 1996 in an industrial accident, and whose quote adorns the main monument: Equality is the principle of life. It's shared between us to start. Man starts it, twists it, and then hands it back, betrayed. Stand up to these men, take your life back). In the park is a tribute to the Cuban Five.

There is no justice without strengthening the role of the workers in the class struggle.

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

Very honoured to be joined by the Palestinian Ambassador to Australia Izzat Abdulhadi (@PalestineAusNZ), the Cuban Ambassador to Australia Tanieris Dieguez (@EmbassyCubaAUS), and the Venezuelan Chargé d'Affaires in Australia Luis Laya (@CancilleriaVE) to share with them On Cuba, written with Noam Chomsky. These diplomats form the core of the good side of history, fighting against the genocide in Palestine, the blockade of Cuba, and the regime change sanctions against Venezuela. We met the night of the vote at the @UN General Assembly against the US blockade in which 187 countries voted against the US, and only Israel and the US (effectively one country) voted to maintain the blockade.
Here is a brief note (in Spanish) of our time together that evening: https://t.co/L8PguJQ6DR.
The book, on Cuba, is available in English from @thenewpress and in Spanish from @Capitan_Swing.
Thanks to comrades at Red Ant for this wonderful tour.