The Communist Party of Australia, Communist Party of Britain and Communist Party USA held a trilateral meeting during the 24th International Meeting of Communist & Workers Parties which convened in Havana, Cuba from August 7-8 2026.This was the second trilateral meeting held between our parties to discuss the Aukus pact between the governments of Australia, the UK and the USA to provide nuclear submarines and more advanced weaponry for deployment from bases in Australia.

At our previous trilateral meeting held in September 2021, following the announcement of the Aukus pact, our Parties agreed to focus opposition within the peace, anti-nuclear and anti-war movements in our respective countries on Aukus, which represents the largest act of nuclear proliferation this century and significantly escalates the threat of a nuclear war in the Asia-Pacific region.

Since 2021, our parties have played leading roles in campaigns to raise awareness of this dangerous nuclear escalation and have campaigned against public funding to feed the insatiable appetite of the arms industry and imperialists warmongers.

Our three parties all work in broad coalitions of peace and anti-imperialist movements. At today’s meeting in Havana, we reconfirm our condemnation of the wasteful, ruinous and dangerous Aukus pact and we recommit to increase the greater co-operation between our parties for a co-ordinated approach to stop Aukus across three continents.

The imperialist war machine has redoubled its effort to persuade workers and their unions that false promises of new jobs in arms manufacturing can compensate for the stagnation of Western capitalist economies and the continuing loss of jobs and decline in wages.  The projected Aukus expenditure in Australia of between $268 and $368 billion by 2055 would be enough to totally transform health, education, R&D and wider public services and would result in creating tenfold the number of quality union jobs.

Communists call for a society in which rewarding and socially useful jobs provide workers with tangible social benefits instead of alienating, socially useless employment through building weapons of mass destruction.

Health, education, housing and infrastructure investment create meaningful jobs, which are a basis for genuine social, common and human security for workers across the Asia-Pacific region and the world.

Aukus is a US-led offensive military pact. It is intended to protect the imperialist ambitions of the US, Britain, and Australia in the Asia-Pacific region. Aukus does not serve the interests of the peoples of our nations; rather, it serves the interests of monopoly capitalism within the alliance countries, which is increasingly invested in maximising profits through the military-industrial complex.

We reject the fantasy of military Keynesianism which is making the world a more dangerous place at a time when international efforts are needed more than ever to stop our planet burning as our climate collapses.

Our parties stand for peace between peoples, international co-operation to meet the needs of humanity and to address the existential climate crisis threatening our planet. Only socialism provides the answers to the crisis caused by imperialism and war. The Aukus pact is a symptom of the imperial decline of the US and the West. Our parties resolve to jointly campaign to scrap Aukus and demand a peace dividend to save our planet and our peoples.

• We note that the International Meeting Against War held in London on June 20 2026 brought peace activists from 27 countries together to issue a call for a global weekend of action against militarism and conscription on Saturday/ Sunday November 21-22 2026.
• We call on Communists and peace activists in our countries to make the demand to scrap Aukus a central theme of the global weekend of action against militarism and conscription.
• In advance of the global weekend of action against militarism and conscription our Parties will initiate a joint call and briefing on the campaign to scrap Aukus and build support amongst trade unionists, anti-war activists and the organised working-class movement.

Signed on behalf of the following parties:

Communist Party of Australia, Vinnie Molina, national president CPA 

Communist Party of Britain, Alex Gordon, general secretary CPB           

Communist Party USA Joe Sims / Rossana Cambron, co-chairs
CPUSA. Anita Waters, organising secretary CPUSA