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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. AI and Australia’s data centre boom

The State of Trade Unions

The Australian trade union movement today finds itself in a peculiar position. It remains, despite everything, the largest organised expression of the working class in this country. More than a million workers remain union members. The State of Trade Unions

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.RCI Australia Statement on the Colonial Elections in Gilgit-Baltistan

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

The James Webb telescope: an eye onto a universe, infinite in time and space

Thirty years after the launch of the Hubble telescope, its successor, the James Webb telescope is now operational. Big Bang cosmologists expected it to show young galaxies just a little after the universe’s own ‘beginning’. But having peered deep into the cosmos, the James Webb telescope is sending back images that defy the established cosmology, and point to a universe that is infinite in time and space. This article is included in issue 39 of the In Defence of Marxism magazine, click here to buy a copy and subscribe!The James Webb telescope: an eye onto a universe, infinite in time and space