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communist party of great britain (marxist-leninist)

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Books highlights

  • Civil liberties / London Metropolitan police review of Harpal Brar’s book on zionism

    ‘It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good’ was not my favourite proverb at school, but I’ve recently come to fully appreciate its meaning.

    21 Mar 2025 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review, pt 1

    ‘Much of Stalin’s youthful political style derived from that of his master and political exemplar, Lenin.’

    1 Jan 2025 , Lalkar
  • Books / Arun Som: translation genius who brought Soviet books to Bengali masses

    After a decades-long pause, publishers in India are now reissuing Bengali translations of great Soviet works of literature and science in large numbers.

    24 Sep 2024 , Za Pobedu!
  • USSR / Inspirational women: Spanish-born Soviet spy Colonel Africa de las Heras

    An outstanding comrade who devoted her life to defending the Soviet Union in its battle against imperialism and imperialist-backed fascism.

    6 Mar 2024 , Chekist Monitor
  • 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
  • Ukraine / Book review: Putin’s Prisoner by Aiden Aslin

    Ukraine and other war zones are seen as cash cows for the west’s publicity-seeking soldiers of fortune, who crave fame and adulation for their actions.

    25 Oct 2023 ,
  • USA / Book review: War made Invisible by Norman Solomon

    A masterful insight into the mechanisms that hide the US’s constant state of war from its own citizens.

    22 Aug 2023 , Savage Minds
  • Working-class history / Book review: The East Was Read by Vijay Prashad

    An excellent collection that reminds us of the urgent need for a cultural renaissance amongst the working and oppressed masses.

    26 Mar 2021 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Book: Bandit Capitalism: Carillion and the Corruption of the British State

    A meticulously researched exposure of outsourcing and corruption that falls short of finding either the true culprit or the way out for impoverished workers.

    3 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • Climate change / Book review: The Uninhabitable Earth

    While giving admirable details regarding the facts of climate change the author fails to draw the crucial conclusion – that you need to be red to be green.

    23 Jul 2020 , Lalkar
  • Books / Polish hack writes laughable fantasy on ‘feeding dictators’

    As the crisis of capitalism continues to destroy lives, anticommunist hirelings are churning out increasingly blatant and ridiculous lies.

    22 May 2020 , Proletarian
  • Health / Covid-19 treatment handbooks issued compiling frontline experience

    China's gift to the world is hard-won knowledge: ‘The real remedy for epidemics is not isolation, but cooperation.’

    20 Mar 2020 ,
  • Books / A Nobel prize for literature in the service of reaction

    Art and popular history can be powerful tools in manipulating people's minds, and the imperialists are well-versed in using both to bolster their parasitic rule.

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • Culture / Book: Go Set a Watchman

    A poignant tale of the difficulties of breaking away from reactionary traditions.

    1 Oct 2015 , Proletarian
  • Books / Review: The Casual Vacancy

    A novel by JK Rowling, televised by the BBC in three parts.

    1 Feb 2015 , Proletarian
  • World history / Review: Prosperity’s Predicament

    A revealing eye-witness account of pre-revolutionary China by the CPGB-ML’s Honorary President, Isabel Crook.

    1 Oct 2014 , Proletarian
  • World history / Review: Ten Mile Inn by Isabel and David Crook

    This seminal work continues to bring the achievements and challenges of the Chinese agrarian revolution to life for English-speaking readers.

    1 Oct 2012 , Proletarian
  • Books / Ian McEwan’s White Tooth

    The thinking woman’s Ruth Rendell.

    1 Aug 2012 , Proletarian
  • Books / Charles Dickens, champion of the poor

    The first novelist to put working-class people at the heart of story.

    1 Jun 2012 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Book review: Striking a Light, the Bryant and May Matchwomen

    Louise Raw reveals the connection of these militant young East End strikers to new unionism, socialism and Irish republicanism.

    1 Apr 2011 , Proletarian

Books topics

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  • Anti-imperialism
  • Anticommunism
  • CPGB-ML
  • Fascism
  • Socialist realism
  • Tenth congress
  • Youth
  • Antisemitism campaign
  • Harpal Brar
  • Jeremy Corbyn
  • Justice system
  • Labour party
  • NHS
  • Racism and immigration
  • War crimes
  • Zionism
  • Josef Stalin
  • Leninism
  • Marxism
  • Transcaucasia
  • VI Lenin
  • BDS
  • British imperialism
  • Free speech
  • German imperialism
  • US imperialism
  • WW1
  • WW2
  • The state
  • Trotskyism

Books video

  • British politics / Book launch video: Britain’s Perfidious Labour Party

    Ranjeet Brar gives an essential overview of 125 years of misleadership, revealing the true anti-working class essence of the British ’Labour’ party.

    5 Feb 2024, Proletarian TV
  • China / Review: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics by Harpal Brar

    Can the market really be made to serve the masses?

    21 Dec 2020,
  • British politics / Book: The Rise and Fall of Project Corbyn

    What should British workers conclude from this four-year experiment in ‘reclaiming the Labour party for socialism’?

    15 Aug 2020,

Books theory

  • Culture / Deepening party work in the cultural sphere

    The struggle for socialism is not only a political and economic struggle but also a cultural and educational one.

    27 Apr 2025,
  • Theory / Book: Zionism by Harpal Brar

    A racist, antisemitic and reactionary tool of imperialism. Read the book they want to ban!

    31 Dec 2024,
  • Theory / Book: Trotsky(ism): Tool of Imperialism by Harpal Brar

    Unless the pernicious influence of this Trojan horse is rooted out, our movement will succeed neither in stopping imperialist war nor in overthrowing imperialist rule.

    10 Dec 2024,
  • USSR / Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 3

    Those who are in the business of fighting for the victory of socialism are duty-bound to make a study of the real Stalin, a giant in the history of our movement.

    20 Jun 2024, Lalkar
  • USSR / Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 2

    What is the truth about the commonly rehashed legends of the ‘gulag archipelago’ and of systematic antisemitism during the time of Stalin’s leadership?

  • Divide and rule / Book: Identity Politics or Class Politics?

    What are the origins of identity politics? And why are they so inimical to the working class’s struggle for socialism?

  • USSR / Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 1

    Domenico Losurdo is one of the small minority of historians and thinkers who have the courage and candour to swim against the tide.

  • 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.

  • Theory / Book review: China’s Great Road by John Ross

    The battle between socialist and bourgeois ideas is not one in which workers can be neutral: on its outcome, humanity’s fate depends.

  • Divide and rule / Book: Identity Politics and the Transgender Trend

    Where is LGBT ideology taking us and why does it matter?

  • Theory / Book: The Drive to War Against Russia and China

    Why do the US and British ruling classes seem so set on war with Russia and China, and what can the working class do to prevent such a cataclysm?

  • Zimbabwe / Book: Chimurenga! The liberation struggle in Zimbabwe

    A vital lesson in the importance of solidarity with anti-imperialist national-liberation struggles.

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    Bending socialist material to fit social media norms of ‘successful content creation’ only undermines our cause.

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    TV review: Adolescence

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    What you are supposed to think about Stalin and why

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    Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 1

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    Jenny Marx’s life of struggle and sacrifice in the cause of the working class

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    A class approach to the women’s struggle

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