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Bourgeois democracy highlights

  • Ecuador / Ecuador’s election – a critical analysis of class interests

    As the ‘pink wave’ continues to wash over Latin America, the influence of private enterprise and US imperialism on bourgeois elections should not be forgotten.

    1 Mar 2025 , Lalkar
  • USA / Collapsing empire: RIP CIA front’s ‘overt operations’

    The National Endowment for Democracy, a supposedly ‘non-governmental organisation’, is in reality an overt front for the CIA.

    31 Jan 2025 , Global Delinquents
  • USA / Billionaire BlackRock CEO: ‘Doesn’t matter’ who wins US election

    This notorious bankster’s observation highlights imperialism’s ability to maintain itself while distracting the masses with election circuses.

    8 Nov 2024 , Geopolitical Economy
  • Civil liberties / It’s a free country, isn’t it?

    On the creeping fascistisation of British society.

    26 Sep 2024 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Riots and the awakening of class consciousness

    Never is the capitalist class made more aware of the existential threat it faces than when confronted by the infinite power of a united working class.

    1 Sep 2024 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Labour gets ready to implement the ‘Liz Truss’ (Jeremy Corbyn) lock

    It is not unpopular leaders that worry our ruling class, but the possibility of a genuinely popular intervention in the country’s political life.

    28 Aug 2024 , Proletarian
  • British politics / ‘Labour landslide’ election narrative hides deepening crisis of legitimacy

    The ruling class pulled out all the stops to ensure a stable parliamentary majority for Labour, but it rests on very shaky ground.

    13 Aug 2024 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Benefit cap shock? Labour perfidy is nothing new

    Those surprised by the Starmer’s contempt for the poor would do well to study the party’s 100-year history of anti-worker crimes in office.

    26 Jul 2024 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange is free at last!

    Our press was never truly free, and today it is more incarcerated than ever.

    9 Jul 2024 , Lalkar
  • British politics / One communist’s perspective of a general election in Britain

    A journey through the Corbyn project to the ranks of the revolutionary working class.

    5 Jul 2024 ,
  • British politics / Election 2024: revisionists still propping up the Labour party

    Even the CPB’s best theorists tie themselves in knots when trying to justify their party’s rotten position.

    4 Jul 2024 , Lalkar
  • British politics / No big winners in local elections – Sunak calls general election in a panic

    As loyal servants of imperialism, the Tories would rather see masses of their MPs wiped out than a few antiwar candidates get into Parliament.

    25 Jun 2024 , Proletarian
  • British politics / No votes for genocide-enablers or Nato warmongers!

    We are calling on workers to help the campaigns of, and give their votes to, all candidates standing on an anti-genocide, anti-Nato and anti-Labour platform.

    11 Jun 2024 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Immigrants make vital contributions to British pensions and welfare benefits

    Population study shows that without the essential part played by immigrant workers, our pensions and social service provisions would collapse.

    18 May 2024 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Rochdale 1 Sunak 0: decoding Rishi’s meltdown

    Ruling class in a panic over Gaza and gearing up for political policing as Rishi Sunak lashes out against ‘extremism’ and ‘threats to democracy’.

    15 Mar 2024 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Why is Manchester in poverty? Workers need socialism!

    What is at the root of the spiral of poverty and decay we are experiencing in towns and cities across Britain?

    27 Feb 2024 ,
  • British politics / Tick. Tock. What did you do to stop the genocide in Gaza, Daddy?

    I waited as long as possible, and then helped to empty an already toothless resolution of all its meaning, my son.

    23 Feb 2024 , Proletarian
  • Culture / Benjamin Zephaniah – lifelong champion of the oppressed

    From the miners’ strike to Palestine, this working-class poet and author was steadfast in his opposition to British imperialism and its divide-and-rule tactics.

    5 Jan 2024 , Lalkar
  • Palestine / Two ‘British’ positions on Palestine

    The latest wave of Israeli violence was unleashed in a frenzy of impotent but brutal rage after Palestinian resistance launched its historic Al-Aqsa Flood battle.

    14 Nov 2023 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Starmer’s bad 90s remix – the Labour party ‘conference’

    Sign of the times? Bourgeois politicians are no longer required to inspire the masses – only to prove their utter servility to the interests of British monopoly capital.

    8 Nov 2023 , Marx Engels Institute
  • Capitalist crisis / Is life under capitalism getting you down? Luckily, there’s a cure!

    Are you sad and depressed? Lonely? Anxious? Isolated? Worried about the future? You may be suffering from capitalism.

    30 Aug 2023 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Oxfam identifies inequalities in shocking detail, but provides no solution

    Price-gouging is a real monopoly practice. But is it really at the root of the global economic crisis?

    25 Aug 2023 , Proletarian
  • Americas / Celac-EU summit and the rise of Latin-American sovereignty

    While European diplomacy failed on every front, the confident advance of the anti-imperialist bloc was unmistakable.

    19 Aug 2023 ,
  • British politics / As Ukraine bleeds, British defence minister looks to a new life

    Those eagerly packing Ukrainians off to fight for Nato can tend their gardens and sleep well in their warm beds, impunity guaranteed.

    19 Jul 2023 , The Indicter
  • Korea / Remembering the 1980 armed uprising against imperalism in Gwangju, Korea

    The spirit of Gwangju still burns bright amongst large sections of the Korean people, who yearn to reunite their country and free it from colonial rule.

    13 May 2023 , WAP
  • British politics / The Labour left still lost in its labyrinth

    Starmer’s refusal to allow Corbyn to rejoin Labour has highlighted the true loyalties of the party’s supposed ‘left-wingers’.

    12 Apr 2023 , Proletarian
  • France / French communists: A revolutionary crisis is developing in France

    If properly directed, workers’ action has the power to sweep away not only the rule of Emmanuel Macron but of the entire French bourgeoisie.

    7 Apr 2023 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Sound and fury: the hollowness of the woke v anti-woke debate

    Workers have no interest in perpetuating bourgeois-incited culture wars. What we need is a clear understanding of how these harmful ideas destroy our ability to unify.

    8 Mar 2023 ,
  • British politics / Lessons and legacy of the two-million strong Iraq antiwar protest

    Demonstrations are dead-end get-togethers without the leadership of a vanguard revolutionary party. Iraq, Occupy – where are you now?

    15 Feb 2023 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / TUC directs its members’ anger into more meaningless busywork

    An email campaign to reverse anti-union laws? Really?

    30 Jan 2023 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Communists condemn cancellation of WPB anti-Nato meeting by Conway Hall

    The Conway Hall Ethical Society’s craven submission to ‘online intimidation’ gives the lie to its claim to uphold free speech.

    23 Jan 2023 ,
  • Peru / Peru’s fragile socialist government ousted by a soft coup

    Can the anger and energy of the Peruvian masses be channelled so as to realise their dreams of liberty and socialism?

    9 Jan 2023 , Lalkar
  • British politics / What is really meant by the demand for a ‘general election now’?

    It is true that Rishi Sunak’s appointment was undemocratic. But what do those calling for his ousting really want?

    5 Dec 2022 ,
  • British politics / Rishi Sunak becomes Britain’s third prime minister in seven weeks

    No changing of the guard can address the fundamental problem the British ruling class faces – a deepening crisis of overproduction that it is powerless to overcome.

    9 Nov 2022 , Lalkar
  • Media / Inside the world of imperialist mind control

    The upside-down world of corporate media lies: how fairy tales and disappearing facts keep workers in ignorance and fear.

    16 Oct 2022 ,
  • Civil liberties / Assange, the 21st-century inquisition

    It is not one man who is on trial, but the people’s right to access meaningful and reliable information.

    18 May 2022 , Lalkar
  • USA / Insider dealing is just one of the ways US politicians get paid

    Only revolution can end the corruption of public life.

    28 Jan 2022 , Proletarian
  • Nicaragua / Imperialists incandescent as Nicaragua re-elects President Ortega in a landslide

    Meanwhile, the country is leaving the OAS after its attempts to have the election results overturned.

    16 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
  • China / US appoints itself arbiter of ‘democracy’: one more act of anti-China propaganda

    Invitation list confirms that to be counted as democratic one must be first and foremost a friend of the dictatorial US imperialist regime.

    9 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
  • British politics / WPB storms Batley: ‘We intend to replace Labour as party of working class’

    George Galloway’s party took 22 percent of the vote and sowed chaos in the ranks of the Labour party in July’s West Yorkshire by-election.

    10 Aug 2021 , Proletarian
  • USA / Crisis in America: Trump, Biden and the Capitol Hill affair

    How has the US arrived at the point where it is disarming its own national guardsmen?

    12 Feb 2021 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Crisis of legitimacy: trust in politicians and journalists keeps going down

    What does it say about our ‘democracy’ when those who are supposed to uphold it are some of the least trusted people in the country?

    7 Dec 2020 , Proletarian
  • USA / Moves to impeach President Trump

    What is the real motivator of all the bile being levelled against Donald Trump? The Democrats can’t possibly be offended by corruption.

    16 Nov 2019 , Lalkar
  • USSR / Workers in eastern Europe and former Soviet states prefer socialism

    As the dystopian reality of bourgeois exploitation and ‘democracy’ hits home, Stalin and communism are viewed with respect and longing.

    26 Jul 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Thousands of Labour voters and members angry over Brexit

    While the media focus on ludicrous ‘antisemitism’ allegations, workers are more interested in hearing JC explain his Brexit U-turn.

    12 Jul 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Brexit betrayal reveals the sham of bourgeois democracy

    Parliament has shown itself to be in direct opposition to the will of the people it theoretically represents.

    3 Apr 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Brexit means … remain!

    The ruling class is divided over whether its best bet is to create a ‘Brexit’ in name only, or to re-run the referendum in the hopes of reversing the leave vote altogether.

    12 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • France / Macron compares French workers to Asterix and the Gauls

    Yet as the class struggle intensifies it is Asterix and Obelix who symbolically represent the determination to resist exploitation and oppression.

    22 Nov 2018 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Brexit or bust: Down with the imperialist EU bloc!

    The remainers are right in thinking Brexit will weaken British imperialism; they are wrong in thinking this is a bad thing for British workers.

    9 Nov 2018 , Lalkar
  • Spain / Blatant corruption finally unseats the Spanish government

    The sordid and anti-working class nature of bourgeois democracy is exposed.

    22 Jul 2018 , Lalkar

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Bourgeois democracy video

  • Working-class history / The life and times of Sylvia Pankhurst

    A remarkable woman with a big heart, who devoted herself heart and soul to the cause of the downtrodden and oppressed masses.

    1 Mar 2025,
  • British politics / Joti Brar and Garland Nixon ep8: Social democracy and the labour aristocracy

    What is at the root of the Labour party’s consistent betrayal of working-class interests?

    3 Sep 2024, Proletarian TV
  • World TV / Joti Brar and Garland Nixon: The state and revolution, episode 3

    Lenin’s lessons on the nature of the state continue to bring valuable truths to workers the world over.

    17 Feb 2024, Proletarian TV
  • British politics / Gaza: tipping point in western crisis of legitimacy for politicians and media?

    Workers are turning away from mainstream media in droves, and they may not be coming back.

    22 Dec 2023,
  • Trade unions / Joti Brar: What happened to our trade unions?

  • Australia / Is Australian anti-aboriginal racism the most virulent on earth?

  • Capitalist crisis / Garland Nixon and Joti Brar: The decay of western imperialism

  • World TV / Garland Nixon and Harpal Brar: India, Russia, China and anti-imperialism

  • Korea / To south Korean workers: We share the same struggle against poverty and war

  • World TV / Lavrov to UN: Who has even seen the ‘rules’ the west expects us to follow?

  • USA / Hunter Biden’s laptop and democracy, US style

  • British politics / Comrade Joti on RT’s CrossTalk: ‘Free Assange’

  • British politics / Book: The Rise and Fall of Project Corbyn

  • British politics / ‘Brexit means you won’t have to share the pain of Greek workers’

Bourgeois democracy theory

  • Venezuela / The Bolivarian Revolution: 25 years fighting imperialism

    Why the people voted President Nicolás Maduro and his PSUV government back into power.

    21 Oct 2024, Proletarian
  • World history / Josef Stalin on Winston Churchill and the spread of socialism to eastern Europe

    How did the Soviet Union react to former prime minister Churchill’s notoriously anticommunist ‘iron curtain’ speech in 1946?

    10 Sep 2024, Lalkar
  • British politics / Book: Britain’s Perfidious Labour party by Harpal Brar

    An essential history for every sincere worker who wishes to make sense of the political landscape in Britain and find an effective way forward.

    27 Oct 2023,
  • British politics / Eulogies for Sturgeon highlight the fraud of Scottish nationalism

    If the SNP is really a threat to British imperialism, why has its leader been treated as such a saint by the corporate media?

    26 Apr 2023,
  • Theory / Lenin lives!

    Why do the workers need a communist party; and what should communists be doing that no one else can?

  • USA / Who are the Capitol rioters?

    Why do so many on the ‘left’ refuse even to try to work amongst the mass of the working class?

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