For a new year of justice

by Vinnie Molina

December 2025

2025 is leaving us with an enormous toll the peoples of the world are feeling as a result of genocide and the Zionist attacks on several countries in the Middle East. Also, environmental disasters like bushfires and the most recent hurricanes that devastated countries in the Caribbean among them Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and closer to home, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka. 

This year also saw workers mobilising for workers’ rights, for the return of the CFMEU to its members, solidarity with Palestine and most recently Venezuela. At time of writing, the threat of a US military invasion on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela remains high. Our party and activists have expressed solidarity and strong condemnation of the US as part of the Hands-Off Venezuela campaign. 

We also condemn the Polish government’s new laws trying to ban the communist Party of Poland and anything “communist”; it is fascist legislation. 

On 28th October, Cuba received, again, a majority support of 165 countries at the UN General Assembly. This is the 33rd consecutive time the world has supported socialist Cuba and condemned the criminal US blockade. 

This year Cuba alerted the international community that the Trump administration was threatening and lobbying a number of countries to vote against or abstain from the Cuban resolution. A number of traditional supporters abstained this time while others like Ukraine, Argentina, Paraguay, North Macedonia, and Hungary joined the United States and Israel in favour of the 60+ year old policy. 

The CPA stands firmly with the Cuban people in their right to self determination and we will continue the solidarity work until the US comes to its senses and the blockade is lifted. 

A key campaign for party members for the last two years has been the end of the Zionist occupation in Palestine. The CPA demands that our government backs up its decision to recognise an independent Palestinian state with action. We reaffirm our commitment to the people of Palestine and their right to decide their own future. On Sunday 7 December the CPA spoke out once again demanding the end of genocide and its support by the Albanese government. 

Our party will hold its 15th National Congress in Melbourne at the end of February 2026. The long process of party-wide discussion across branches has seen party organisations electing their Congress delegates who will take the role of Party leadership to decide the way forward for the period ahead. 

It is an exciting period for all party members, in particular those who joined since the 14th Congress in 2022. For all of us this is a rich period to learn more about our own organisation that celebrated 105 years of struggle on 30th October 2025 and help shape it going forward. 

Close to 100 people joined the online celebration that our comrades in Canberra organised making us very proud. Keynote speaker, Peter Limb, made a great contribution. We also heard from comrades across the country. It was particularly important to us to share this celebration with diplomatic representatives from the People’s Republic of China, Cuba, Venezuela, and written messages from Lao, DPRK, and other solidarity organisations. A recording of the event is available from the CPA YouTube Channel. 

This was also just days before the 50th anniversary of the Dismissal of the Whitlam government. There are many lessons to learn from those events; among them the struggle to become a republic, for an independent foreign policy, and an end to US bases on Australian soil. Pine Gap as we know played a role in the dismissal and also plays a key role for the US war machine and undermining Australian sovereignty to this day. 

The struggle in 2026 will not be any easier. In fact, the fight for peace and the environment will demand more effort from party members and the community. 

We will continue to campaign against senseless AUKUS and other agreements that commit Australia to more US wars in the Pacific and elsewhere. 

We will build on the successes of 2025. Our party will continue to grow with new branches and comrades who will take up the mantle of action and struggle for social change. 

Whatever we do in 2026, the struggle must continue for a better world. 

I wish all our party members, friends and supporters as well as our loyal Guardian readers the very best in the new year 2026. A year we hope will be of justice for all.