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AI and Australia’s data centre boom

AI is seeing a huge growth of investment due to stagnant growth in the global economy generally. It is largely an attempt by industrial monopolists to lower the cost of production and remain competitive as the global market marches towards decline. The short-sighted nature imposed by private ownership and competition leads our economic overlords not to actually solve the crises, but to put off the effects until a later date, ‘kicking the can down the road’. Contradictorily, the massive investment undermines the very consumer base these profits are realised from by cutting jobs in the pursuit of profit and thus reducing the purchasing power of the average worker, not to mention the inflation eroding real wages due to its lack of meaningful use to the economy.

The Australia-Japan energy deal and imperialist militarism

The ‘joint statement on energy security’, the signed partnership between Australia and Japan as answer to both advanced capitalist states growing economic instability amidst the ongoing war on Iran, reveals more than a cobbled together response to the global fuel shortage.

RCI Australia Statement on the Colonial Elections in Gilgit-Baltistan

The upcoming 7th June elections in Gilgit-Baltistan are not elections. They are a controlled circus organised under the shadow of the military bureaucracy and the Pakistani ruling class. For decades, Gilgit-Baltistan has been treated like a colony, where mountains, rivers and minerals, and land are looted while the local population is left with poverty, unemployment, forced silence and political repression.

“Australian Values” – How our rulers divide us

On 14 April, the Australian Liberal party announced a new immigration policy, which would elevate acceptance of “Australian Values” to a legal requirement for entry. The Department of Home Affairs already publishes an Australian values statement which can be optionally included when applying for a visa, but is not a legal requirement.

The Cuban Revolution is facing its most dangerous period ever

The oil blockade decreed by Trump on 29 January is slowly but surely asphyxiating Cuba, which relies on oil imports for 60 percent of its energy production. The Cuban government has admitted talks are taking place with the United States, but these take place in conditions of extreme imperialist blackmail. How can the Cuban Revolution be defended?

Israel’s war on Iran- how would Trotsky have posed the question?

Following the US and Israel’s scandalous, unprovoked attack on Iran, we are republishing the following article, which was first written after the 12-Day War in June 2025. It remains every bit as true as then.

As it explains, communists must be absolutely clear on one thing: this is a predatory, imperialist war waged to subjugate or destroy Iran in the interests of US and Israeli capitalists. We say unequivocally: Hands off Iran! Down with Imperialism!

Trump’s defeat in Iran and its worldwide consequences

The war in Iran, which started as a reckless gamble on the part of Trump, is developing into a significant strategic defeat for US imperialism, which can have important consequences for the world economy, the position of America as a world power, and world relations in general.