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Britain highlights

  • Trade unions / Communist work in the trade unions

    Our role is not to take over the bureaucracies but to bring a class-conscious understanding and programme to rank-and-file militants.

    5 May 2025 ,
  • Civil liberties / The Labour party is the agent of increased political repression in Britain

    Starmer’s government was installed to disarm working-class resistance and destroy the pro-Palestine movement.

    4 May 2025 ,
  • British politics / Develop the anti-imperialist core of the Palestine solidarity movement

    Growing anti-zionist sentiment must be developed into a consistent, scientific and class-conscious opposition to imperialism as a whole.

    3 May 2025 ,
  • British politics / We must build our organisation and connect it to the masses

    Party members must redouble their efforts to grow our organisation and draw the best elements of the working class towards it..

    27 Apr 2025 ,
  • British politics / Learning the lessons of front work

    Working in broad fronts is of vital importance to our work, but communists must maintain strict discipline while doing so.

    27 Apr 2025 ,
  • British politics / Tenth party congress elects new leadership as capitalist crisis deepens

    CPGB-ML delegates sum up vital lessons of the last few years, assessing the effect of the crisis on global and local conditions.

    26 Apr 2025 ,
  • Disputes / Birmingham’s gone bust! But why are workers told to pay?

    No one has explained why some of the most hardworking and essential employees should bear the brunt of a crisis they had no hand in making.

    10 Apr 2025 ,
  • Disputes / Birmingham bin workers expected to pay for council’s bankruptcy

    Some binmen are being told to take an £8k pay cut after national austerity and local mismanagement combined to bankrupt the city.

    3 Apr 2025 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • Pay and conditions / Starmer ditches the promised ‘right to switch off’

    Confirming what might have been anticipated about how sincere the Labour party was in its pre-election pledges to bring in a ‘New Deal for Workers’.

    11 Mar 2025 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / David Miller detained by British counter-terrorism police at Heathrow

    The British state, egged on by its rabid zionist attack-dogs, continues to persecute any journalist or activist who spreads awareness about its genocidal crimes.

    10 Mar 2025 , Press TV
  • Lay-offs and closures / The Grangemouth scandal

    Failure to mobilise against job cuts at Grangemouth reveals the fraudulent nature of Unite and SNP leaders.

    6 Mar 2025 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / TUC leader endorsing Ukraine war is a betrayal of British and Ukrainian workers

    Further proof that the gang in charge of the official organisations of working-class resistance have been completely bought off.

    1 Mar 2025 , Lalkar
  • Palestine / Gaza ceasefire: Palestinian resistance celebrates significant victory

    While the war for liberation is far from over, the Israeli entity has been mortally wounded.

    16 Feb 2025 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Divided we beg – Unite union demands expanded military production

    The Labour aristocracy once again demonstrates its total subservience to British imperialism and its war machine.

    5 Feb 2025 , Proletarian
  • British politics / The life and crimes of John ‘Two Jags’ Prescott

    One more example of a working-class man who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage.

    4 Feb 2025 , Proletarian
  • Europe / Western politicians’ crocodile tears for one genocide while conducting another

    The hypocrisy and venality of western politicians knows no bounds, stops at no lie and baulks at no crime.

    31 Jan 2025 , Proletarian
  • British politics / A brief history of British Trotskyism

    A plethora of groups with one real purpose: to confuse and disgust the working masses and keep them away from genuinely revolutionary politics.

    1 Jan 2025 , Lalkar
  • Syria / The fall of Syria

    The collapse of the government of Bashar al-Assad is a grave setback for anti-imperialist forces from which we must learn.

    12 Dec 2024 ,
  • Civil liberties / All eyes on the ‘enemy within’ – Prevent scheme targets dissenting children

    British teachers are being tasked with the surveillance and intimidation of Palestine-supporting young people in schools and colleges.

    2 Dec 2024 , Lalkar
  • Social wage / Your pension at work: the obscenity of ‘investment funds’

    What does the case of the Merseyside Pension Fund tell us about how retirement is funded in Britain today?

    23 Nov 2024 ,
  • Russia / Russian ambassador: October shaped the political, economic and social landscape

    ‘Turning to the lessons of a century ago is extremely important now that international relations are going through truly tectonic shifts.’

    22 Nov 2024 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Starmer government pushing fresh sell-off to hedge fund vultures

    The Labour party grovels to Wall Street and the City of London.

    15 Nov 2024 , Class Consciousness Project
  • USA / Persecution of the Uhuru 3 reveals limits of free speech in the USA

    The case of the Uhuru 3 must be seen as part of a broader global counteroffensive against any form of opposition to Nato’s wars.

    11 Nov 2024 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Why aren’t they taxing the rich?

    While ‘patriotic millionaires’ consider a wealth tax a no-brainer, Labour party ‘socialists’ are horrified at the very thought.

    1 Nov 2024 , Lalkar
  • Palestine / Yahya Sinwar, child of the camps

    Yahya Sinwar has been immortalised as a martyr in the righteous cause of liberating his people from a cruel and unjust occupation.

    1 Nov 2024 , Scott Ritter Extra
  • British politics / Joti Brar interview: ‘We are links in the long chain of revolution’

    Marx and Engels bequeathed essential values for every generation of revolutionaries: humility, service, dedication, discipline, sacrifice.

    17 Oct 2024 , Za Pobedu!
  • Education / Education union colluding with Labour against the workers

    The NEU has thrown in the towel of struggle, betraying not only its own rank-and-file membership but also the wider interests of the working class.

    8 Oct 2024 , Proletarian
  • North Africa and Middle East / Lies, damned lies, and the British ‘Labour’ party’s imperial propaganda

    Keir Starmer vows his government will continue to ‘stand with Israel’ as the zionists seek to expand their genocidal war across the region.

    4 Oct 2024 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Labour means austerity, racism, repression and war

    So where are the trade unions?

    1 Oct 2024 ,
  • Civil liberties / It’s a free country, isn’t it?

    On the creeping fascistisation of British society.

    26 Sep 2024 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / Ukraine is losing the war, sparking panic in the imperialist pack

    If the purpose of the Kursk ‘offensive’ was to distract attention from the hammering the fascists are getting in the Donbass, the result has been just the opposite.

    18 Sep 2024 , Lalkar
  • Society / Jury refuses to convict Palestine Action activists for arms factory damage

    The state will continue to persecute Palestine solidarity activists through the legal system until such time as the organised working class forces it to stop.

    17 Sep 2024 ,
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray on Richard Medhurst and the right to armed resistance

    It is becoming easier to list the truly dissident UK journalists who have not been arrested for terrorism than those who have.

    3 Sep 2024 , Craig Murray
  • Palestine / Zionists, beaten in Gaza, pursue a wider conflict

    The Palestinian struggle is the spearhead of the Arab people’s democratic revolution. It will not be quashed by imperialism or its flunkeys

    1 Sep 2024 , Lalkar
  • 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
  • Divide and rule / Class unity against fascism!

    The Labour party has always sought to keep the working class divided along religious and racial lines. It remains part of the problem, not the solution.

    13 Aug 2024 ,
  • Divide and rule / How can we achieve unity of the working class against fascism?

    We will never defeat racism by ‘uniting’ with the arch-racist Labour party. The job of real antiracists is to expose Labour’s support for fascism and war.

    3 Aug 2024 , Marx Engels Institute
  • British politics / Professor David Miller on zionist control of the Labour party

    When it comes to the Labour party the term ‘state capture’ is correct.

    3 Aug 2024 , Twitter
  • British politics / French greetings to our party: ‘a guiding light in the fight against capitalism’

    ‘Your courage and determination serve as a powerful reminder that a better world is not only possible but within our grasp.’

    1 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
  • Social wage / Media blames workers for the corruption and fraud endemic to capitalist society

    It is not ‘benefit cheats’ who are emptying Britain’s treasury but the unending subsidies to monopoly capital.

    25 Jul 2024 , Proletarian
  • Media / Declassified UK: an ideological defence mechanism for a dying system

    How the imperialists allow criticism of past offences in order to whitewash the crimes of the present.

    18 Jul 2024 , Lalkar
  • 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
  • Russia / Russian ambassador: ‘The world is undergoing truly tectonic changes’

    Celebrating Russia’s National Day with anti-imperialist friends in the heart of Foggy Albion.

    25 Jun 2024 ,
  • 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
  • Health / Infected blood: another chapter in the book of Tory-Labour betrayals

    As in the case of the Post Office, mistakes that could have been rectified were continued for years and then covered up.

    20 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
  • Pay and conditions / P&O boss admits he couldn’t live on the starvation wage paid to his workers

    Toothless select committee hears how CEO agonised over accepting his £183k bonus after summarily dismissing 800 staff.

    31 May 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
  • Palestine / Nakba 76 – talk by Dr Ranjeet Brar

    Join us to show your solidarity with the people of Palestine and remember their long history of struggle.

    15 May 2024 ,
  • British politics / Tory Lord Cameron escalates tensions with Russia in Ukraine

    The unelected foreign minister’s reckless sabre rattling on behalf of British imperialism has backfired badly.

    14 May 2024 ,
  • Education / Join the students: No cooperation with genocide in Gaza! Free Palestine!

    Britain’s students are leading the way. The rest of the working class is duty bound to follow their lead.

    7 May 2024 , Proletarian
  • Europe / Chaos and confusion in Europe’s anti-Russia front

    Regime leaders in Kiev, Berlin, Paris and London are equally unable to come to terms with the bitter reality of a Russian victory in Ukraine.

    3 May 2024 , Lalkar
  • Trade unions / Gaza, inflation, Assange … Where are the trade unions?

    While crime after crime is committed against the people, those who should be organising the resistance are doing nothing.

    30 Apr 2024 ,
  • Health / Decaying dental services cause misery for millions of workers

    The steady destruction of NHS dentistry has left millions of working people resorting to to DIY dental kits as Victorian era diseases return to Britain.

    25 Apr 2024 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Assange extradition: where are the unions?

    As an innocent man is tortured for the crime of exposing the criminals, British workers should be organising meaningful action in defence of all our rights.

    24 Apr 2024 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Are we about to see the end of railway manufacture in Britain?

    The government seems uninterested in diverting any of our public funds to this genuinely useful purpose.

    20 Apr 2024 , Proletarian
  • Russia / Daily Mail doxes young people on their return from Russian festival

    Why did Russia’s hosting of an international youth festival provoke such a hysterical reaction from British media?

    4 Apr 2024 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Latest twist on Assange’s extradition: cause for pessimism or optimism?

    While an individualist view tends to despondence, there is a positive aspect to British imperialism’s blatant complicity in persecuting free speech.

    28 Mar 2024 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / The tragic end of Gonzalo Lira: A voice silenced in Ukraine

    A US citizen done to death by the US’s fascist proxies in Ukraine for the crime of telling the truth about Nato’s proxy war against Russia.

    21 Mar 2024 , Helsinki Times
  • Media / John Pilger: the man they couldn’t silence

    The most courageous, fearless and decent of journalists, who devoted his life to speaking the truth and uncovering imperialist lies.

    20 Mar 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
  • Civil liberties / Women found guilty under terror laws for wearing a sticker at a demo

    Another Orwellian attempt to use the courts to brand opponents of imperialist-backed terror as ‘supporters of terrorism’.

    11 Mar 2024 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Prof David Miller’s significant tribunal victory: anti-zionism is not racism!

    A substantial fly in the ointment for those who are trying to criminalise all criticism of and opposition to zionist Israel and its blood-drenched British enablers.

    7 Mar 2024 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Journalist Graham Philips still being targeted by the British state

    The British ruling class has a long tradition of persecuting those who work to shed light on inconvenient truths.

    5 Mar 2024 ,
  • British politics / Galloway victory in Rochdale by-election reflects anger over Gaza genocide

    The Workers party’s entry into the race transformed the northwestern by-election into a referendum on British complicity in Israeli war crimes.

    1 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
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange’s final appeal against extradition from Britain to the USA

    If the WikiLeaks editor is extradited to face trumped-up ‘treason’ charges in the USA, it is the death of investigations into the inner workings of power by the press.

    19 Feb 2024 , Chris Hedges Report
  • Argentina / His name is Cristian Díaz and his crime is supporting Palestine

    In Argentina, as in Britain and Germany, workers in support of Palestine are being identified by zionists and targeted by the state.

    17 Feb 2024 , Orinoco Tribune
  • Civil liberties / Solidarity against police repression: Labour’s role in Gaza genocide

    The Labour party’s control over movements of solidarity and ‘opposition’ in Britain is key to the present impotence of the working class.

    14 Feb 2024 ,
  • British politics / Workers’ blood must not be shed for the profits of capital

    Where is all the recent talk about conscription coming from, and what does it tell us about the state of Britain’s capitalist economy?

    2 Feb 2024 , Class Consciousness Project
  • Civil liberties / Iranian Marxists in solidarity with our arrested comrades

    ‘When the imperialist governments fail to impede solidarity with the oppressed, they resort to suppression.’

    29 Jan 2024 ,
  • Health / Vape wars: Children in the sights of tobacco giants

    It seems unlikely that the British government has any real intention of stopping the corporate dope-pedlars in their tracks.

    27 Jan 2024 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / TUC launches fake ‘campaign to defend the right to strike’

    A campaign most workers are unaware of, aimed not at overturning anti-worker legislation but at garnering votes for the perfidious Labour party.

    26 Jan 2024 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange: Day X is here

    The case of Julian Assange reveals how little concern the bourgeoisie really has for ‘human rights’ and ‘civil liberties’.

    22 Jan 2024 , Stella Assange
  • Economy / Post Office scandal: Trouble on the Horizon

    The power of monopoly laid bare: evidence reveals a picture of tampering with witness statements, falsifying data and coercing would-be whistleblowers.

    21 Jan 2024 , Proletarian
  • World history / Who are the imperialists to accuse others of ‘terrorism’?

    Thoughts on the barefaced hypocrisy and doublespeak of the real mass-murdering terrorists.

    20 Jan 2024 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Jury unanimously acquits Palestine Action’s Balfour 2 who defaced statue

    Exposing the colonial legacy of Balfour, and Britain’s continued complicity in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.

    11 Jan 2024 , Lalkar
  • 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
  • Health / NHS: Murder by a thousand cuts

    Excess avoidable deaths are rising alongside waiting lists for operations and GP consultations – and it is no coincidence.

    4 Jan 2024 , Lalkar
  • Palestine / Zionist slaughter of Palestinians will only hasten the demise of Israel

    With 22,000 murdered and 52,000 wounded so far, the mass murder of civilians in Gaza has achieved nothing except the further weakening of the genocidaires.

    29 Dec 2023 , Lalkar
  • Industry / Grangemouth refinery workers’ jobs at risk

    Why is Scotland’s main oil refining plant planning to become a mere import hub?

    18 Dec 2023 ,
  • Greece / Solidarity with Greek comrades under attack for anti-imperialist activities!

    Why did fascist thugs choose the eve of our Platform conference to issue threats to a member of the organising team?

    13 Dec 2023 ,
  • Britain / Remembering Comrade Joyce Foster, founding member of our party

    One of many unsung heroes of our movement – those workers whose commitment never falters no matter the ups and downs of our movement.

    10 Dec 2023 , Lalkar
  • Korea / Still fighting for Korea’s liberation: An interview with Comrade Ahn Hak-sop

    ‘In 1952, I came here to liberate the southern half of the peninsula, and I need to stay here and continue that struggle.’

    8 Dec 2023 , Liberation School
  • Civil liberties / Get ready for Day X: Julian Assange must be freed!

    British judges have shown themselves only too ready to allow our ‘justice system’ to be used to persecute an innocent man for the ‘crime’ of real journalism.

    6 Dec 2023 ,
  • British politics / The tasks of communists in the Palestine solidarity movement

    We must awaken workers to the need to struggle not only against zionist Israel, but against the entire imperialist system.

    5 Dec 2023 ,
  • Economy / HS2: they should have gone to ChinaSavers!

    What does it say about our decaying system that our rulers can spend decades debating and spending to deliver precisely nothing at the end of it?

    24 Nov 2023 , Lalkar
  • Leaflets / Open letter to CPB: Give up the Labour party and take the revolutionary path

    Sincere communists must make a serious appraisal of their work at this time of deepening crisis and renewed struggle.

    16 Nov 2023 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • Education / British government stifles school debate on Gaza

    As the imperialists continue their support for the ongoing genocide in Gaza, schools are urged to play their part in complying with the murderous narrative.

    13 Nov 2023 , Electronic Intifada
  • Palestine / Mutiny at the BBC: ‘gravest possible concerns’ over Palestine coverage

    The BBC’s own reporters are beginning to speak out about the corporation’s complicity in Israeli war crimes.

    10 Nov 2023 , Proletarian
  • Palestine / Palestine Solidarity Campaign punishes Manchester branch

    The PSC wants to keep pro-Palestine activism within the bounds considered acceptable by the pro-zionist establishment.

    9 Nov 2023 , The Electronic Intifada
  • 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
  • Pay and conditions / Scottish Water workers vote to strike

    Bosses are trying to force the ‘modernisation’ of pay structures – ie, to enforce ever more draconian pay cuts on workers.

    7 Nov 2023 , Proletarian
  • World / Joti Brar: How can workers learn the truth if everyone is too scared to tell it?

    We must respect the workers enough to believe they are capable of learning and we must create opportunities for them to do so.

    3 Nov 2023 ,
  • Trade unions / Arms factory blockaded as calls for practical solidarity with Palestine grow

    Non-cooperation with zionist Israel is firmly on the agenda. ‘The time to act is now.’

    2 Nov 2023 , Novara Media
  • Trade unions / Mass non-cooperation urgently needed to help end Gaza blitzkrieg

    Workers have power to prevent Britain’s continued military, propaganda and logistical support for zionist massacres.

    1 Nov 2023 , Proletarian
  • Palestine / Students protest against Manchester university’s complicity in Gaza genocide

    Graphene research helps Israel to develop the fighter jets, drones and other military systems now being put to such criminal use against the Palestinian people.

    31 Oct 2023 ,
  • Palestine / British complicity in Gaza massacre

    Britain is dripping in the blood of Palestinian massacres, and the stain will never wash out.

    26 Oct 2023 , Declassified
  • 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 ,
  • France / Upholding anti-imperialist struggle under the flag of the Platform, herein lies our hope

    French communists host international meeting to discuss the present crisis and the way forward.

    21 Oct 2023 , Platform News
  • Canada / Association of United Ukrainian Canadians condemns honouring of Nazis

    The fascist-aligned section is vocal and prominent, but Yaroslav Hunka does not represent all Canadians of Ukrainian origin.

    15 Oct 2023 ,
  • Leaflets / Victory to the Palestinian people in their just war for liberation!

    The Palestinians are fighting a just war against imperialist-backed genocidal zionism. They will surely prevail.

    12 Oct 2023 ,
  • History / ‘The lessons of history …’

    No matter how carefully our environment is manipulated, in the end, truth will out.

    10 Oct 2023 , Proletarian
  • Palestine / Victory to the Palestinian people in their just war for liberation!

    The Palestinians are fighting a just war against imperialist-backed genocidal zionism. They will surely prevail.

    8 Oct 2023 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Support pay restitution for doctors; defend the NHS!

    The British government is holding both patients and staff to ransom.

    2 Oct 2023 ,
  • Health / Are striking doctors really ‘greedy’ and ‘uncaring’?

    An answer to ‘The Times view on health sector strikes: Uncaring profession’

    21 Sep 2023 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Macquarie stokes the roaring inflationary fires

    Vulture capitalists are not ‘bad apples’ – they are the inevitable product of a system in deep and permanent crisis and decline.

    20 Sep 2023 , Lalkar
  • World / Belt and Road envy dominates G20 summit

    US imperialism’s latest attempt to counter Russia and China underlines the shifting balance of world forces.

    18 Sep 2023 ,
  • Trade unions / Joti Brar: a personal account of anti-war struggle against the trade union bureaucracy

    Why is it so hard to get anything meaningful done via the existing trade union mechanisms?

    13 Sep 2023 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / With depleted uranium, nuclear war is underway in Europe

    Nato war crimes in Donbass don’t stop at DU; Donbass civilians are routinely targeted by cluster bombs and petal mines.

    12 Sep 2023 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Who is behind the TUC motion asking British workers to support war crimes?

    It’s not too late to reverse the disastrous decision taken by many union delegations and the bureaucratic leadership clique to support this criminal resolution.

    11 Sep 2023 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Ofgem serves corporate energy profiteers

    The energy regulators work, just not for workers.

    11 Sep 2023 , Proletarian
  • China / Isabel Crook: a long life of devotion and service to the Chinese people

    Living in China for almost all of her 107 years, Isabel devoted her considerable energies to serving the people – and to the international cause of socialist revolution.

    5 Sep 2023 , Lalkar
  • Industry / Air traffic out of control

    Who is to blame for the recent mayhem in the skies?

    4 Sep 2023 ,
  • Britain / The collapse of Wilko

    Wilko stores across the country are expected to close over the next few weeks with the chain struggling to find a buyer.

    1 Sep 2023 , Class Consciousness Project
  • 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
  • Trade unions / Which way forward for the trade unions now?

    It is time to break out of suffocating ‘unity’ with those who serve our class enemies.

    24 Aug 2023 , Proletarian
  • China / Ella Rule: ‘Xi Jinping’s call to strengthen the party comes at the right moment’

    The ‘US-led world order’ will use all its very considerable economic, military and propaganda means to oppose China’s rise.

    23 Aug 2023 ,
  • Afghanistan / Eighty Afghan civilians summarily killed by SAS, inquiry told

    A ‘systematic pattern of unlawful extrajudicial killings’ highlights the routine nature of war crimes committed by British occupiers in Afghanistan.

    17 Aug 2023 , Irish Republican News
  • Trade unions / Why do so many trade union struggles in Britain fail?

    Teaching union NEU led its members into months of strike action, only to capitulate and accept a below-inflation pay rise. Why?

    14 Aug 2023 , Class Consciousness Project
  • Civil liberties / Irish republicans challenge sinister ‘debanking’ strategy

    ‘We will have your house; if you keep going, we will have your car, we will have your kids, we will have your benefits and we will put you in jail.’

    12 Aug 2023 ,
  • Ireland / End internment of Irish republicans now

    Why are Irish republicans still being imprisoned without charge by British courts, 25 years after the initiation of the peace process?

    4 Aug 2023 , Republican News
  • Civil liberties / France in flames after yet another racist police murder

    The divide between French ‘natives’ and ‘immigrants’ is constantly exacerbated in order to keep workers from making common cause against their rulers.

    2 Aug 2023 , Lalkar
  • Ireland / Landmark judgment finds murdered Irish teen was blameless

    The wheels of justice? War crimes committed by the British occupiers in northern Ireland fifty years ago are only now being officially acknowledged.

    1 Aug 2023 , Irish Republican News
  • Civil liberties / Increasing state repression and the ‘non-personing’ of Nigel Farage

    The targeting of such a pro-imperialist figure is a warning to all those who might engage in acts of dissent against the establishment.

    25 Jul 2023 , Proletarian
  • Health / Capitalist contradictions abound: Victorian illnesses on the rise

    How can we explain the seemingly absurd combination of British workers’ failing health from malnutrition alongside rising obesity?

    22 Jul 2023 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Comrade Tongogara, who dedicated his life to the cause of freedom

    Police brutality, national-liberation struggles and socialist revolutions: Tongagara supported every serious struggle against racism and oppression around the world.

    21 Jul 2023 , Lalkar
  • 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
  • Health / An NHS nurse speaks out on pay, privatisation and demoralisation

    The conditions that have led to a haemorrhaging of trained staff from the health service have not come about by accident and will take a serious fight to reverse.

    18 Jul 2023 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / EVENT: Trade unionism and working-class leadership

    Don’t sit on your hands; don’t fiddle while Rome burns! Your class needs you; the future of humanity needs you! Step forward and help make history!

    17 Jul 2023 ,
  • Ukraine / Stop the War’s capitulation hides truth about Ukraine, stops workers organising

    It is time we in Britain got off our knees and organised a mass movement of real opposition to the imperialist war drive.

    13 Jul 2023 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Thames Water scandal – is the party drawing to a close?

    Having paid a fortune to private investors for years, the British public must now pay again to bail out indebted utilities and clean up the horrific mess they have made.

    12 Jul 2023 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Public Order Act: latest anti-worker legislation to outlaw protests and strikes

    Human rights in Britain? What human rights?

    11 Jul 2023 , Lalkar
  • Education / Burden on students becoming unbearable as fresh rent hikes planned

    Students are being milked like cash cows, while the vice-chancellors who facilitate this profiteering enjoy huge salaries and perks.

    5 Jul 2023 , Proletarian
  • Health / Why does Russia now believe that Covid-19 was a US-created bioweapon?

    Evidence released from secret biolabs in Ukraine reveals the deeper secret of imperialist attempts to create targeted biological weapons.

    3 Jul 2023 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Mick Lynch, Sharon Graham and the capitulating left

    As the next election approaches, supposedly ‘radical’ trade unionists are lining up obediently behind Starmer and Labour, against the interests of their members.

    1 Jul 2023 , Class Consciousness Project
  • Russia / Sergei Lavrov on western imperialism, nazism and the rise of the global south

    Russian foreign minister tells press: ‘The west has a colonial approach to Russia; they are incapable of seeing us as equal partners.’

    27 Jun 2023 , RT
  • Korea / Michael Palin in the DPRK: a western exceptionalism showcase

    Workers in Britain could learn much from our Korean comrades, but they are unlikely to realise that from listening to Palin’s arrogant commentary.

    25 Jun 2023 , Class Consciousness Project
  • Pay and conditions / Homeless charity workers on strike for decent wages

    St Mungo’s staff have suffered a 30 percent real-terms pay cut in the last ten years.

    22 Jun 2023 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Derby Silk Mill commemorations 2023: no communists allowed

    How did the CPB appoint itself the gatekeeper of the British working-class movement?

    21 Jun 2023 ,
  • Environment / The biggest threat to the environment is the imperialist war machine

    While lecturing workers about ‘consumer choices’, western environmental lobbies give a free pass to the planet’s real polluters.

    20 Jun 2023 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Why is Britain so set on escalating the war in Ukraine?

    Tanks, depleted uranium shells, long-range missiles, F16s: hardly a week goes by without some news of how Britain is upping the ante again.

    17 Jun 2023 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Communist message to Silk Mill rally: Ditch the Labour party!

    Don’t settle for social democracy when only scientific socialism has the answer!

    16 Jun 2023 ,
  • Russia / EVENT: Book launch: Neo-nazi Nato’s Proxy War Against Russia

    What is really happening in Ukraine? And what should antiwar activists be doing about it?

    14 Jun 2023 ,
  • France / Joti Brar: We are heartened and inspired by French workers’ fighting spirit

    Unfortunately, even the most militant of Britain’s trade union leaders seem keen to end the strikes here as quickly as possible.

    8 Jun 2023 , Communist Initiative
  • Trade unions / Model motion: No cooperation with the imperialist drive to war

    Only the collective action of workers has the power to stop the war drive in its tracks. This demand must be taken up in every trade union at every level.

    7 Jun 2023 ,
  • Trade unions / Model motion: Urgent measures needed to address the cost of living crisis

    Why are workers being asked to pay the cost of a crisis that was not of their making? If capitalism cannot provide for its workforce, then capitalism must go.

    6 Jun 2023 ,
  • Trade unions / Model motion: Defy the anti-trade union laws

    Within the current legal framework, workers’ right to strike in Britain has been all but annulled. This situation must be reversed by means of collective action.

    4 Jun 2023 ,
  • Trade unions / Model motion: Break the link with Labour

    The essential precondition for a successful struggle for decent pay is that our unions must break their connection with the imperialist Labour party.

    3 Jun 2023 ,
  • Pollution / Demand renationalisation of the water system without compensation

    Growing public outrage has forced a mealy-mouthed apology from Water UK, but the profiteers deserve jail sentences, not a wrist-slapping.

    30 May 2023 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / Zelensky piling up his millions as Nato tries regime change via assassination

    Washington continues to stoke the fire in Ukraine, but the blowback may refuse to remain safely in Europe.

    24 May 2023 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Defy the anti-trade union laws!

    It is time we turned the struggle for decent wages into a struggle for socialism.

    22 May 2023 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / The real trade union barons

    Having been absorbed into the fabric of the state machine, most trade union leaders now work not to aid but to suppress their members’ struggles.

    20 May 2023 , Class Consciousness Project
  • British history / Twenty years later: the predatory imperialist war against Iraq

    While the heroic resistance was defeating US and British imperialist forces, the British working class was effectively demobilised by its corrupted leadership.

    4 May 2023 , Lalkar
  • Pollution / ULEZ: a green greed initiative

    Not so much an environmental measure as a tax on driving and an effort to keep the car monopolies in profit.

    18 Apr 2023 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Anti-immigration propaganda stirs up anger and rioting in Knowsley

    As the cost of living crisis brings suffering to workers, our rulers are once again using immigration to distract from their failures.

    17 Apr 2023 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • USA / Message to US workers: Britain sending depleted uranium to Ukraine

    The imperialists can seem incredibly powerful, but in fact their dominance is declining and their rule is showing signs of senility and decay.

    10 Apr 2023 ,
  • Italy / British delegate in Italy: Our rulers are working to overturn Brexit

    Workers across Europe share the goal of defeating both the EU imperialist bloc and the US-led Nato war machine.

    4 Apr 2023 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / NHS pay offer exposes the limitations of trade unionism

    The NHS dispute has brought into sharp focus the inability of modern trade unions in Britain to advance working-class aims.

    29 Mar 2023 , Proletarian
  • Media / Look, balloons! The Hollywoodisation of imperialist ‘news’ media

    Hyperbolic reportage of the ‘spy balloons’ story was a perfect example of how the ‘infotainment’ industry works to distract and confuse.

    25 Mar 2023 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / After the strikes, what then?

    As union leaders look for the exit, their members’ anger is being directed towards yet another diversionary ‘vote Labour’ campaign.

    21 Mar 2023 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Rishi Sunak’s new northern Ireland deal foreshadows the end of Brexit

    But any victory of our rulers is likely to be short-lived.

    20 Mar 2023 , Marx Engels Institute
  • Education / Why I left my first teaching job: ‘No support, no training, no care for the kids’

    This view from a school gives an insight into why so many of our teachers are feeling so demoralised.

    17 Mar 2023 , Proletarian
  • Education / Support our teachers; save our schools!

    It is not only their present ability to exist that Britain’s teachers are fighting for, but our children’s future.

    14 Mar 2023 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Many councils have crippling gambling debts. Workers will be paying the bill

    Local councils across Britain are going bankrupt, leading to ever deeper cuts in services that have already been stripped to the bone.

    13 Mar 2023 , Lalkar
  • Venezuela / British delegate in Caracas: ‘Facing the same enemy, we must fight together’

    The world’s anti-imperialist forces are coming together in a way that has not been seen for 70 years.

    12 Mar 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 ,
  • Civil liberties / Police officer David Carrick’s campaign of rape: a bad apple or a rotten barrel?

    News that the Met will now reopen the cases of a thousand officer complaints would seem to answer the question.

    17 Feb 2023 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • Housing / Poor housing kills

    The death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak has shone new light on a growing problem: the slum conditions being endured by too many in Britain today.

    9 Feb 2023 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Pardeep Singh and Boohoo: sweatshop and semi-slavery conditions on the rise

    An immigrant worker whose punishment beating was filmed by his employer serves as a stark reminder of the true face of capitalist exploitation.

    6 Feb 2023 ,
  • Americas / EVENT: Drive to war in the Americas: Disband Nato; Yankees go home!

    As the reckless imperialist war drive threatens every corner of the globe, the World Anti-Imperialist Platform is bringing its focus to Latin America.

    4 Feb 2023 ,
  • Czech Republic / Medieval inquisition returns to Europe as historical truth-tellers are put on trial

    Josef Skála and two other scholars are being prosecuted in Prague, charged with ‘expressing doubts’ about who perpetrated the Katyn massacre.

    31 Jan 2023 , Marx 21
  • Trade unions / TUC directs its members’ anger into more meaningless busywork

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

    30 Jan 2023 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Capitalists are causing inflation, not workers!

    It’s time for the hoary old myth about wages causing inflation to be put to bed. Higher wages lead to lower profits, hence the bosses’ opposition.

    29 Jan 2023 ,
  • Civil liberties / Minimum Service Bill is the latest salvo in the class war against workers

    No cooperation with union-busting anti-strike laws! 

    27 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 ,
  • Europe / Food bank crisis in Europe

    As our rulers double down on their war against Russia, workers across the EU are suffering rising hunger and fuel poverty.

    22 Jan 2023 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Prepay meter scandal reveals workers being slowly crushed by energy debt

    Workers who can’t afford crippling energy prices are being forced to pay even higher rates by the vulture providers.

    18 Jan 2023 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Joti Brar on RT: New laws on strikes and protests aim to contain workers’ anger

    Instead of helping workers weather the inflation crisis, our rulers are preparing to suppress any future rebellion.

    16 Jan 2023 , Proletarian TV
  • China / Covid: China changes gear

    As the People’s Republic moves on from the era of zero-Covid, western media are desperate to portray its decision as a sign of failure.

    15 Jan 2023 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Communist replies to BBC budget tips: ‘Get out and see the real world.’

    What kind of ‘journalist’ could seriously investigate whether ‘showering at the gym’ could be a money-saving tip for impoverished workers?

    5 Jan 2023 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Happy new year?

    There is no reform that could enable this profit-hungry system to serve the needs of the working people.

    3 Jan 2023 ,
  • Health / The ruin of the NHS for the benefit of private interests

    In their desperation for sources of profit, our exploiters as individuals even end up damaging their own collective interests.

    29 Dec 2022 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Communist responds to patronising BBC advice for a ‘budget’ Christmas

    Naughty? Nice? It’s time workers stopped believing the fairy tale that we get what we ‘deserve’ and organised to fight for what we need!

    24 Dec 2022 , Proletarian
  • World TV / Comrade Joti on RT’s CrossTalk: ‘New globalisation?’

    Are we witnessing the end of ‘globalisation’ as we have known it for about the last 40 years?

    22 Dec 2022 , Proletarian TV
  • Pollution / Britain’s dire water situation is no joke

    Privatisation has stolen over £60bn from essential services, leaving the country to wallow in its own filth.

    19 Dec 2022 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Polycrisis? Time to put an end to this capitalist madness

    This system is unable to escape from its own absurd contradictions: in particular the insanity of deepening poverty in the midst of ever-accumulating wealth.

    7 Dec 2022 , 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 ,
  • Divide and rule / Tribute to Comrade Avtar Jouhl

    An indefatigable fighter against racism and imperialism, and for socialism, which he knew held the only solution to humanity’s problems.

    20 Nov 2022 , Lalkar
  • Disputes / Support our nurses’ struggle for decent pay!

    It is not our hard-pressed medical staff who are greedy, but the privateers who are pushing down their wages in the interests of profit.

    18 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Are Britain’s union bosses interested in helping their members fight back?

    As the crisis deepens, the ruling class is looking far more determined than the unions, where lions continue to be led by loyal Labour donkeys.

    16 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
  • Environment / Environmentalists: time to look your gift horse in the mouth

    The misguided actions of the environmentalist movement are annoying workers and harming the aims they espouse.

    11 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • Capitalist crisis / The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis!

    The capitalists have shown themselves to be entirely unable to run their own system for the benefit of society.

    4 Nov 2022 ,
  • Russia / West uses Putin’s birthday to ramp up demonisation and personal attacks

    But despite all the baseless allegations, reality is stubbornly resistant to imperialist propaganda.

    3 Nov 2022 ,
  • Europe / Liz Truss’s message to the USA seconds after the Nord Stream attack: ‘It’s done’.

    The former prime minister’s leaked iPhone messages convince Russia that British forces blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines.

    2 Nov 2022 , Finance Twitter
  • Social wage / Hungry schoolchildren; another sign of a failed system

    When an economic system can’t provide basics like food and warm shelter to its people, it is time for it to be replaced.

    22 Oct 2022 , Proletarian
  • 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 ,
  • Ukraine / Foreign mercenaries in Ukraine – Steve Sweeney reports

    One mercenary demanded Russian troops ‘surrender or die!’ after botched drone fundraiser cancelled.

    13 Oct 2022 , RT
  • Energy / Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse: fracking is back on the agenda

    Whichever way they turn, Truss and co are tying themselves in knots trying to escape the Gordian knot of the energy and inflation crises.

    10 Oct 2022 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / Kharkov and Mobilisation: the Russian coalition persists, unhindered

    The advance of Ukraine’s armed forces into territory from which Russian forces had already withdrawn, is not the ‘turning point’ western media are claiming.

    6 Oct 2022 , The Postil Magazine
  • Civil liberties / Free Julian Assange!

    The chilling persecution of honest journalism has only highlighted the unfreedom of bourgeois society and the lies and complicity of imperialist corporate media.

    5 Oct 2022 ,
  • China / Joti Brar on the history and future of the Chinese communist party

    ‘The stronger China becomes industrially, technologically and militarily, the more it is able to help poorer countries break free of the stranglehold of debt slavery.’

    3 Oct 2022 , China Reports
  • Health / Coffey’s ‘plan for patients’ boils down to more targets and some magical thinking

    Reams of empty phrasemongering are aimed at hiding the fact that Truss and co have no plan to do anything to fix the crisis in our health service.

    1 Oct 2022 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Farewell to Eric Levy

    A lifelong antirevisionist and anti-imperialist fighter who never failed to act on his beliefs and never gave up his faith in the socialist future of humanity.

    25 Sep 2022 , Lalkar
  • Ukraine / Free Ukraine’s Kononovich brothers, jailed communist youth!

    As part of its suppression of political activity, the Ukrainian stooge regime has banned communist organisations and imprisoned their leaders.

    19 Sep 2022 ,
  • China / Outrageous ‘assessment of human rights concerns’ in Xinjiang by UN commission

    Solidarity with the people of China, being subjected to abhorrent and baseless accusations as part of the imperialists’ relentless drive to war.

    17 Sep 2022 , Friends of Socialist China
  • Trade unions / Shameful capitulation of workers’ leadership in face of ‘mourning’ demands

    With hunger, blackouts and war knocking urgently at workers’ doors, our demand should be: ‘Don’t mourn, organise.’

    12 Sep 2022 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Amazon workers against Victorian working conditions and derisory pay

    Despite unions being banned by Amazon, its British staff have been staging wildcat actions in defence of their right to decent pay and conditions.

    11 Sep 2022 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / EU quietly rowing back on self-defeating sanctions against Russia

    In the face of the abject failure of their economic war, EU leaders are trying to salvage what they can without admitting to a U-turn.

    7 Sep 2022 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Cost of living crisis: the fightback is under way

    Growing militance among unionised workers and vigorous new campaigns to combat the effects of poverty and inflation signify a change in the workers’ mood.

    6 Sep 2022 , Lalkar
  • Social wage / Malthusianism is alive and well as feminists celebrate declining birth rate

    Since they cannot admit to a solution lying outside of capitalist production relations, ‘women’s rights’ advocates are reduced to prettifying their chains.

    2 Sep 2022 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Families face energy bills topping £5,000 this autumn

    Privatisation of the energy industry has put Britons at the mercy of world market prices – and no bourgeois party has a clue what to do about it.

    30 Aug 2022 , Proletarian
  • Media / Dissecting the cliches of Anglo-American ethnocentrism

    Former US ambassador calls on Britain and the USA to ‘come to the rescue’ of the world ... ‘again’.

    26 Aug 2022 ,
  • Disputes / Support the postal workers!

    Workers at Royal Mail are joining those on the railways and the docks in standing up for pay and conditions.

    24 Aug 2022 , Proletarian
  • Support the Felixstowe dockers!

    Workers at the country’s busiest port are using their collective power to demand a pay rise in line with rampant inflation.

    23 Aug 2022 ,
  • British politics / Backing Truss for PM means doubling down on war drive and economic pain

    Liz Truss represents a continued commitment by our rulers to their catastrophic direction on both the war drive and the economy.

    11 Aug 2022 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Britain fretting over declining influence on ‘the rules’ as China and Russia rise

    The accelerating development of a strong anti-imperialist camp is threatening the foundations of imperialist domination and plunder of the globe.

    30 Jul 2022 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange must be freed – a plea from his wife Stella Moris

    This battle is not to only save a single journalist from gross injustice but to defend the right of all workers to access and speak the truth.

    29 Jul 2022 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / ‘Bill of shame’ spits in the face of ‘Troubles’ victims

    British attempts to whitewash war crimes in Ireland make clear once again: there will be no ‘reconciliation’ until reunification.

    25 Jul 2022 , Proletarian
  • Health / Dr Bob Gill: The demise of British primary healthcare

    First they came for the cleaners, then they came for the caterers, then for the porters, the student nurses and the junior doctors. Now they’re coming for the GPs.

    11 Jul 2022 , Consortium News
  • Disputes / Victory to the striking railworkers; defend the right to strike!

    In fighting to save jobs and defend pay, railworkers are in the front line of a desperately-needed push-back against the onslaught of capital.

    22 Jun 2022 ,
  • Social wage / Food bank Britain

    British families are relying on charity to eat as the market and the government both fail to provide even such a basic necessity as food.

    20 Jun 2022 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Sainsbury’s CEO in the money as workers feel the pinch

    As conditions for the mass of workers get rapidly worse, the obscene inequalities of the system come into ever-sharper relief.

    15 Jun 2022 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Boris in trouble: It’s the economy stupid … and that bloody stupid war

    The commentariat might not be admitting it, but it is the Ukraine war that looks like finally finishing off Boris Johnson’s premiership.

    11 Jun 2022 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / Joti Brar: ‘Greek workers have power to play leading role against Nato in Europe’

    Those who spread the lie that the conflict in Ukraine is an ‘interimperialist war’ are helping to demobilise the world’s most militant antiwar activists.

    9 Jun 2022 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Cost of living crisis worsens as inflation and energy prices soar

    Our rulers are keen to blame ‘the Russians’ for the intrinsic failings of the capitalist system itself.

    29 May 2022 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Train strike: Britain could see the largest walk-out since the 1926 general strike

    Meanwhile, the government is considering adding to anti-trade-union legislation to try to outlaw the action before it begins.

    27 May 2022 , Reddit
  • British politics / Labour is the party of Nato, the party of war

    Throughout Labour’s history, in and out of government, its leaders have always been unabashed cheerleaders for the crimes of imperialism.

    19 May 2022 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • Divide and rule / Monstrous plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda

    The main target of anti-immigrant rhetoric is the British working class, which remains disunited and powerless when racist lies flourish.

    17 May 2022 , Lalkar
  • Divide and rule / Does our government love refugees now? What a difference one war makes

    What are we supposed to make of the our rulers’ desire to extend the warmest possible welcome to refugees from Ukraine?

    13 May 2022 , Lalkar
  • Media / ‘Hurrah for the Azov!’ – The curious case of BBC whitewashing nazism in Ukraine

    None of the glib refutations of nazism in Ukraine stand up to scrutiny, yet western media continue to repeat them while closing down those who expose their lies.

    7 May 2022 , Al Mayadeen
  • British history / Kim Philby: Hero of the working class

    How the Soviet Union inspired a British establishment insider to devote his life to the cause of socialism and the socialist motherland.

    4 May 2022 , Lalkar
  • Housing / London’s great council housing fraud

    Politicians talk as if workers are fools, but no-one who has tried to live on a worker’s salary can swallow the London mayor’s lies about an increase in ‘affordable’ homes.

    2 May 2022 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Partygate again: Is Boris really about to suffer ‘death by a thousand cuts’?

    The prime minister’s lies and hypocrisy are once more back in the media spotlight. But the ruling class is struggling to find a replacement for its disgraced frontman.

    25 Apr 2022 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Paltry Partygate fines for Boris and Sunak are a slap in the face for British workers

    The ‘us and them’ reality of British class society has never been clearer.

    25 Apr 2022 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / The day that P&O sacked all its staff: view from a worker in Dover

    When capital makes decisions about its profit margins, it is real people whose lives are destroyed.

    23 Apr 2022 , Proletarian
  • Korea / Solidarity with people’s Korea on the Day of the Sun 2022

    Progressive humanity has every reason to celebrate the birth of the great Korean Marxist and revolutionary Kim Il Sung.

    15 Apr 2022 ,
  • Climate change / Demonising fossil fuels will not tackle the environmental crisis

    Only nationalisation of the energy sector will allow us to make rational plans to safeguard both our energy supplies and our future.

    2 Apr 2022 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / P&O sackings: Don’t make workers pay for the capitalist crisis

    The ferry company’s callous treatment of its employees reminds us yet again that the logic of the capitalist system is impervious to the needs of human beings.

    30 Mar 2022 ,
  • Civil liberties / Iniquitous new borders bill aims to make citizenship-stripping routine

    Are we entering a time where any outspoken opponent of the present system can be rendered stateless and deported?

    19 Mar 2022 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Renegacy of Stop the War on display once again at ‘antiwar’ events

    Those who turn out to voice their concern over war in Ukraine are being fed a nausea-inducing diet of pacifism and imperialist lies.

    8 Mar 2022 ,
  • British politics / Build the Workers Party of Britain

    The primary goal facing us today is the breaking of all bonds between the Labour party and the working class.

    5 Mar 2022 ,
  • Civil liberties / Chris Mullin: Is another honest journalist about to be put behind bars?

    West Midlands police are still pursuing a vendetta against the veteran reporter who revealed their corruption and incompetence.

    4 Mar 2022 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Poverty stalks the land as ultrarich count the spoils

    Inequality is rising in Britain and in the world, the inevitable outcome of the workings of our much-praised market economy.

    3 Mar 2022 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Nationalise the buses!

    Covid was the last straw for thousands of Britain’s remaining bus routes, and the profit motive won’t save these essential services.

    28 Feb 2022 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / ‘Antiwar’ and corporate media play same tricks in anti-Russia war drive

    And none of them care a jot for the wellbeing or the wishes of the people of Ukraine.

    23 Feb 2022 ,
  • Canada / Solidarity with the Freedom Convoy of Canada

    The arteries of the Canadian capital are clogged to the point where Canada’s whole rotten capitalist system is having a heart attack.

    23 Feb 2022 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Learn the lessons of the Corbyn project: break the link with Labour!

    Breaking the thousand threads that connect workers’ organisations to the Labour party is the biggest task facing us now.

    22 Feb 2022 ,
  • Divide and rule / Imperialist society can’t be ‘decolonised’; fight racism by building for socialism

    While state power remains in the hands of a tiny exploiting class, workers will continue to be divided by racism.

    21 Feb 2022 ,
  • Divide and rule / The tragic fall of Kathleen Stock: another voice silenced by trans extremism

    A backlash against the domination of our university campuses by anti-material transgender ideologists is long overdue.

    16 Feb 2022 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Fight racism with class unity, not separatism or black nationalism

    It is only by unifying the maximum forces that we will be able to confront the enemy of ALL workers – the capitalist-imperialist economic system as a whole.

    13 Feb 2022 ,
  • British politics / The real conspiracy is that of the ruling class against the workers

    Workers are being side-tracked from the class struggle with plausible lies that exploit their fears and their anger at being endlessly lied to.

    12 Feb 2022 ,
  • Health / Law on mandatory vaccination for NHS staff to be repealed

    In a last-minute U-turn, the beleaguered prime minister has realised that this is one battle he can do without.

    1 Feb 2022 , Proletarian
  • British politics / What can Boris’s ‘partygate’ tell us about the nature of capitalist Britain?

    It is not just one leader we need to replace, but the whole rotten and corrupt system he represents.

    18 Jan 2022 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / The Channel boat tragedy and Britain’s inhumanity to asylum seekers

    Why is the plight of these desperate migrants being weaponised?

    14 Jan 2022 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange loses extradition appeal; British ‘justice’ exposed to the world

    On the insincere assurances of US lawyers, a British court has decreed that it would be safe for Mr Assange to be handed over to their country’s tender mercies.

    13 Jan 2022 , Lalkar
  • Economy / BP’s ‘cash machine’ goes into overdrive as workers’ energy bills soar

    Britain’s energy monopolies are enjoying a profit bonanza as their rivals disappear and Ofgem fixes prices on their behalf.

    11 Jan 2022 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Crisis is inescapable while capitalism remains

    The working class’s historic role is to put an end to profit-driven capitalism and to build a new, socialist society in its place.

    4 Jan 2022 ,
  • Health / Covid has exposed the weakness of capitalism and the strength of socialism

    In highlighting the fatal flaws of capitalism, the pandemic has also given us a chance to pursue solutions with renewed energy and hope.

    2 Jan 2022 ,
  • Divide and rule / Jobs are available – let asylum seekers work!

    What possible justification can there be for refusing to let migrants work when there are so many empty positions?

    26 Dec 2021 , Lalkar
  • Health / Covid-19: Damning report highlights unpreparedness and corruption

    Under cover of a global health emergency, our rulers have executed a blatant raid on the Treasury.

    20 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
  • Education / No academic freedom to support Palestine

    Bristol academic sacked for refusing to bow to the diktat of the zionist world lobby.

    18 Dec 2021 , Lalkar
  • China / China and Covid: working towards a global community of health for all

    While China has declared its vaccines to be a global public good, imperialist corporations continue to put profit ahead of health.

    17 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
  • Environment / Stop these sociopaths from poisoning our rivers!

    We are reaping the whirlwind after decades of criminal neglect of Britain’s privatised water and sewage systems.

    15 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Energy crisis: more millions to prop up the privateers

    Taxpayer cash will shore up monopoly profits while workers shiver this winter.

    14 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
  • Health / The NHS, the Covid pandemic and the private insurance takeover

    A meaningful defence of Britain’s health service is urgently needed. What would it look like?

    13 Dec 2021 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Imperialism’s global conspiracy against Julian Assange

    Corporate media maintain their silence as the persecuted journalist and publisher remains behind bars, though convicted of no crime.

    10 Dec 2021 , Lalkar
  • Health / Derisory pay offer covers further cuts as NHS privatisation reaches new heights

    National clapping and a George Cross have left nurses empty handed as the new health chief helps US profiteers move in.

    2 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Brexit continues to be a thorn in the side of imperialism

    Exposing capitalist democracy, hastening Irish reunification, weakening the camp of international imperialism ... these effects of Brexit are greatly to be welcomed.

    25 Nov 2021 ,
  • Industry / A curate’s egg: Shapps’s ‘Great British Railways’ scam

    The proposed railways ‘solution’ is less a plan for renationalisation than it is a promise to provide further subsidies to monopoly capital.

    24 Nov 2021 , Lalkar
  • China / Comrade Ella: Our enemy is here at home, not in China

    Confusing and demoralising anticommunist propaganda is a cornerstone of the imperialist drive for domination and war.

    23 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • Climate change / Cop26: Fiddling while the world burns

    Awash with fossil fuel lobbyists and corporate sponsors, the latest ‘climate conference’ was just another greenwashing exercise for monopoly capital.

    19 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • Energy / Why is Britain importing coal from Australia and the USA?

    Is it fear of militant miners that keeps our rulers from reopening deep mines in Britain while we still have a need for coal?

    18 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • Economy / ‘Just in time’ reveals the fatal inadequacy of market mechanisms

    Global supply lines have been designed with profit maximisation, not the needs of the people, in mind.

    16 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Energy crisis: how imperialism manufactures ‘shortages’

    The monopolists are too busy vying for advantage to worry about the effects of their machinations on the lives of the workers.

    13 Nov 2021 , Lalkar
  • Education / Prof David Miller and the zionist campaign to crush dissent on campuses

    The list of truths that we are being told we must not utter in public spaces continues to grow, but truth has a way of winning out.

    12 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Ninth party congress: We must connect our movement with the masses

    Important foundations have already been laid. Now we must expand and build on those in a principled and serious way.

    11 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Britain steps up diplomatic hostility towards China

    In banning the Chinese ambassador from Parliament, Britain is ramping up its pro-war stance.

    26 Oct 2021 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Palestine solidarity motion deepens division in the Labour party’s ranks

    Keir Starmer has already vowed to ignore the motion passed by an overwhelming majority of conference delegates.

    15 Oct 2021 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Labour party conference not a ‘safe space’ for women

    While Keir Starmer can’t say who has a cervix, one of his MPs is receiving death threats for defending women’s rights.

    14 Oct 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Anglo-American plot to assassinate Julian Assange on London’s streets

    Will the authorities now be forced to cease their decade-long persecution of the world’s most celebrated journalist?

    13 Oct 2021 , Proletarian
  • Australia / Aukus deal splits the imperialist front against China

    As Lord Palmerston declared 200 years ago: imperialism has no permanent friends, only permanent interests.

    25 Sep 2021 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Gas prices go through the roof as global shortage ties supply lines in knots 

    Millions of families will again be forced to choose between heating and eating this winter.

    22 Sep 2021 , Proletarian
  • Ireland / Deprivation, anger and fear behind loyalist riots in northern Ireland

    Poor protestants are responding to a sense of alienation and being left behind. The question they will need to answer is: to what and to whom are they ’loyal’?

    15 Sep 2021 , Lalkar
  • Ecuador / Chevron’s disgraceful persecution of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger

    Instead of paying billions in damages owed for horrific pollution of Ecuador’s rainforest, the oil giant is hounding and demonising its accusers.

    13 Sep 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray: British state locks up elderly journalist on spurious charges

    In Britain today, any journalist who becomes an inconvenience to the ruling class can expect to be ruthlessly targeted.

    9 Sep 2021 , Proletarian
  • Italy / Workers at the GKN factory in Florence fight back

    Workers demand an end to the dismantling and export of their industries and the protection of their rights to healthcare and a decent environment.

    8 Sep 2021 , Lalkar
  • Economy / Scandalous levels of public service corruption in Britain

    Is honest dealing by businesses and politicians compatible with capitalist society and the profit motive?

    7 Sep 2021 , Lalkar
  • Pay and conditions / Keep on trucking: supply lines chaos as Covid and Brexit effects combine

    The obvious answer to the present shortage of skilled labour is to invest in training and to improve pay and conditions in the areas concerned.

    3 Sep 2021 , Proletarian
  • Afghanistan / Saigon all over again: US pull-out from Afghanistan turns into a rout

    Nato’s invading armies have been ignominiously kicked out after two decades, having achieved nothing but the reinvigoration of anti-imperialist resistance.

    31 Aug 2021 ,
  • 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
  • Environment / Workers party hosts popular rally against LTN scheme in Birmingham

    An excellent example of socialists connecting with the community in order to advance their interests and raise their understanding.

    7 Aug 2021 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Remembering the 2011 youth uprising

    Ten years on, the poverty, inequality and injustice that led to an outpouring of rage on England’s streets have only worsened.

    6 Aug 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Reform of the Secrets Act is another brick in the wall

    While the ‘opposition’ sits on its hands, the ruling class is rolling out more legislation designed to suppress working-class discontent.

    5 Aug 2021 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Cambian Childcare: End this chattel slavery

    How many more horrendous revelations do we have to endure before action is taken to end the abuse of vulnerable children by profiteers?

    1 Aug 2021 , Proletarian
  • USA / Whistleblower Daniel Hale sentenced to 45 months in US prison for drone leak

    ‘I am here because I stole something that was never mine to take – precious human life.’

    29 Jul 2021 , The Intercept
  • Environment / ‘Recycling’ today: greenwashing for a broken, ecocidal system

    Why does our society seem so incapable of dealing with the rising tide of plastic that threatens to overwhelm us?

    28 Jul 2021 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Scandalous profiteering at the expense of children in care

    Our most vulnerable children have been transformed into business units by private equity funds.

    25 Jul 2021 , Lalkar
  • Ireland / Britain’s dirty war back in the spotlight

    The full historical reckoning for centuries of colonial crimes will be made by a future reunified Ireland.

    20 Jul 2021 ,
  • Economy / Fraud office’s ‘deferred prosecution’ trick shields top bosses from legal action

    The lords of finance capital have long made it clear that they are above the law: now it’s being implicitly accepted by those who supposedly ‘regulate’ their activities.

    15 Jul 2021 ,
  • Social wage / Unemployment and poverty set to rise as furlough ends and benefits are cut

    A brutal shock is in store for many workers as the temporary multi-tiered unemployment support system is slashed back to the bone.

    13 Jul 2021 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / Britain’s Crimea provocation: a navy lark that went very wrong

    Those who are driving us towards a full-scale conflagration with Russia should be careful what they wish for.

    10 Jul 2021 ,
  • Civil liberties / Metropolitan police branded ‘institutionally corrupt’

    An unsolved murder and a persistent family have laid bare a catalogue of dishonest dealings by police stretching out over decades.

    28 Jun 2021 , Proletarian
  • Health / Film: The Great NHS Heist

    Dr Bob Gill’s contribution to the fight to save our NHS is incalculable. This film is essential viewing for every British worker.

    19 Jun 2021 ,
  • Health / NHS dentistry in its death throes as Covid is used as a cover for privatisation

    Increasing numbers of poor workers are not registered with a dentist and are forced to use DIY treatments in an emergency.

    17 Jun 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Workers Party statement: No to Covid passports

    There is no medical justification for the imposition of such documents; they are not aimed at protecting our health but at the surveillance and control of workers.

    31 May 2021 ,
  • Divide and rule / Sewell report concludes ‘no institutional racism’ in British society. How?

    The whitewashers of the system and the self-identifying ‘social justice warriors’ form a perfect double-act, working to keep workers perpetually divided.

    27 May 2021 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Kill the Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill!

    A marked increase in police violence against workers has already been in evidence even before the new policing bill has passed into law.

    24 May 2021 , Lalkar
  • Industry / The Sanjeev Gupta, Lex Greensill and David Cameron affair

    Once again we see the absurdity of a system that leaves the fate of essential industries and millions of workers in the hands of rapacious fraudsters.

    21 May 2021 , Lalkar
  • World / Five Eyes become four as New Zealand distances itself from anti-China action

    Workers have no interest in going along with the wave of anti-China propaganda that is preparing the ground for a devastating war.

    20 May 2021 , Proletarian
  • Britain / Britain commits to nuclear expansion in defiance of non-proliferation treaty

    What is behind the renewed imperialist drive to war?

    15 May 2021 ,
  • Health / Imperialism fails the Covid test

    Capitalism is proving itself to be systemically incapable of dealing rationally and humanely with the global pandemic.

    12 May 2021 , Lalkar
  • Economy / Post Office pursued vindictive prosecutions against subpostmasters

    The appeal court victory of 29 of those wrongfully convicted has opened the floodgates for hundreds more claims.

    4 May 2021 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Greensill debacle: the door keeps revolving

    The collapse of this particular debt-laden finance house is drawing public attention to some very uncomfortable truths.

    3 May 2021 ,
  • Health / NHS privatisation accelerated during the pandemic: a medical ‘shock doctrine’

    Instead of rebuilding our decimated public capacity, private providers are being subsidised to the tune of billions to take the place of the NHS.

    1 May 2021 , Proletarian
  • Industry / FlyBe is dead, long live FlyBe

    Turns out all it takes to avoid the creditors is a slightly tweaked name and a fresh coat of paint.

    26 Apr 2021 ,
  • China / Who is peddling the ‘Uyghur genocide’ myth, and why?

    It is not in the interests of British workers to accept the lies being propagated by our rulers.

    21 Apr 2021 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Don’t make care workers pay for the crisis in social care!

    We must renationalise and reunite social care with healthcare, and pay all workers in the sector a decent wage.

    17 Apr 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Police Bill: capitalism gears up for the class struggles to come

    Our rulers are in a hurry to pass new laws while the excuse of Covid lingers and before workers have woken up to the true scale of the present economic crisis.

    7 Apr 2021 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Salmond v Sturgeon: what’s going on in the Scottish nationalist camp?

    All this sound and fury is serving to obscure Salmond’s real crime: the incitement of reactionary separatism amongst the British working class.

    3 Apr 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / BLM, XR: No reds under the bed … yet

    Our rulers are nervous that workers may start to put up really meaningful resistance to imperialist domination, despoliation and war.

    2 Apr 2021 , Proletarian
  • Housing / Ban extended, but evictions continue

    Behind the toothless legislation is a government, and parliament, inextricably intertwined with the landlord class.

    1 Apr 2021 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Shrewsbury 24: Justice delayed is justice denied

    Workers must start to organise themselves so as to be able to demand justice now – social justice for all.

    30 Mar 2021 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Liverpool scandal: Starmer cheers as the government sends in the commissioners

    Labour and Tory are two sides of the same dud coin; we should be grateful to Starmer for demonstrating this so clearly.

    29 Mar 2021 ,
  • Industry / Cameron’s hand caught trapped in the till as Greensill collapses

    The collapse of yet another debt-laden house of cards has shone a light on the revolving door between career politicians and the corporations they serve.

    27 Mar 2021 , Proletarian
  • Yemen / US falters over Yemen war, while Britain stops its ears

    While the US looks to hide its defeat behind talk of peace and principles, Britain continues blatantly to prioritise the interests of its arms manufacturers.

    12 Mar 2021 , Lalkar
  • Social wage / Don’t tell Newham we are all in it together

    The financial and physical inability to isolate or to work safely has led to far worse covid outcomes for the poorest in our society.

    10 Mar 2021 , Proletarian
  • Industry / With ‘saviours’ like Gupta, who needs enemies?

    If you are rich enough, you can get richer still without spending a penny; it is the workers who pay when the vultures’ schemes collapse.

    9 Mar 2021 , Proletarian
  • Health / More ‘reforms’ of the NHS, so many nails in the coffin

    We have a hard fight on our hands if we wish to save our health service from the corporate looters and privateers.

    6 Mar 2021 , Lalkar
  • Social wage / Destitution in Britain compounded by 2020 crash and covid shutdowns

    How can it be that there is so much want in the midst of so much plenty?

    4 Mar 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Mairead Maguire nominates Assange, Manning, Snowden for Nobel peace prize

    Irish peace prize winner explains how the bravery of these three whistleblowers inspires peace-loving workers everywhere.

    24 Feb 2021 , Lalkar
  • Pay and conditions / Bringing Kaplan to book: time to get organised in the gig economy

    A reminder that the whole reason for having trade unions is to fight the workers’ corner everywhere.

    21 Feb 2021 ,
  • Media / Big Tech and the end of dissent: First they came for Donald Trump

    The useful idiots of the liberal left are cheering while tech giants clamp down ever harder on freedom of speech.

    17 Feb 2021 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Communist George Blake dies in Moscow aged 98

    One of Britain’s most committed cold war warriors, who went on to live out his years in peace in Russia.

    15 Feb 2021 , Lalkar
  • Housing / Planning reforms won’t fix the housing crisis

    Building more homes is not the answer unless they are built for those who need them.

    14 Feb 2021 , Lalkar
  • Media / British ban of Chinese news channel is another step towards open warfare

    The mainstream media is spreading cold war propaganda against China in support of the imperialists’ drive to an all-out conflagration.

    10 Feb 2021 , Proletarian
  • British politics / The Big Ride for Palestine and the Labour party

    Tower Hamlets council’s decision to ban a fundfaising event for Palestine highlights the Labour party’s role as a tool of British imperial policy.

    9 Feb 2021 , Lalkar
  • Social wage / Hard to swallow: UK food parcels shamefully inadequate

    When profit takes precedence over the provision of service, it’s no surprise that half-hearted and belated government measures are not fit for purpose.

    8 Feb 2021 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Chester Road closure: No to GKN’s industrial vandalism!

    A 270-year-old British manufacturer is being slowly dismantled by asset-stripping vultures, destroying vital jobs and engineering capacity in the process.

    4 Feb 2021 , Proletarian
  • France / Macron government attempts to suppress exposure of police brutality

    French workers continue to set an example in resisting the encroachments of the powerful upon their rights.

    29 Jan 2021 , Lalkar
  • Health / DVLA: Keeping non-essential staff in offices is endangering lives

    The biggest outbreak of covid yet recorded in Britain is taking place in a government office in Wales – and staff are still being forced to come in to work.

    27 Jan 2021 , Proletarian
  • Health / Covid: Frontline workers are paying for the crisis with their lives

    Thousands of businesses are claiming to be ‘essential’, forcing staff to come to work but failing to provide PPE or to implement proper safety measures.

    25 Jan 2021 , Proletarian
  • Society / Time to end poverty: expropriate the expropriators!

    Bourgeois commentators are increasingly identifying the problems besetting humanity, but they are congenitally incapable of recognising the solution staring them in the face.

    23 Jan 2021 ,
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange: the persecution continues

    Years of unwarranted imprisonment and torture do not look likely to end any time soon, despite the denial of the US’s extradition claim.

    18 Jan 2021 , Lalkar
  • Iran / One year on from the imperialists’ murder of General Qasem Soleimani

    All progressives must support the right of Iran to defend itself against relentless imperialist aggression.

    8 Jan 2021 ,
  • Lay-offs and closures / Jobless figures mount as Paperchase is latest retail chain to fail

    As the economic crisis is exacerbated by repeated lockdowns, company after company is going to the wall.

    7 Jan 2021 ,
  • British politics / Fresh revelations prove definitively that Britain’s ‘defence’ capacity has aggressive intent

    What kind of defence force entails a permanent military presence of 145 base sites in 42 countries?

    6 Jan 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange victorious, for now

    Judge’s ruling makes it clear that the principles supposedly protecting free speech and honest journalism remain in peril.

    5 Jan 2021 , Proletarian
  • World / ICC drops case against Britain, despite ‘clear evidence’ of war crimes

    How can the warmongering criminals rampaging around the globe be held to account?

    28 Dec 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Sunak extends furlough till April as jobless stats sow panic

    The number of redundancies continues to climb inexorably each month, despite all efforts to massage the figures and soften the blow.

    23 Dec 2020 ,
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange extradition trial: Shameful martyrisation continues

    Kafka’s dystopian vision has been brought to life in the heart of the British injustice system.

    22 Dec 2020 , Lalkar
  • Industry / Government announces extra £16.5bn for military

    Government promises spending will protect 10,000 jobs, but at what cost to the working class?

    9 Dec 2020 ,
  • 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
  • Social wage / Demise of RPI: another attack on workers’ pensions

    Why should our right to a dignified old age depend on the vagaries of stock-exchange gamblers and government statisticians?

    5 Dec 2020 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Water privateers: ‘Doing what’s in the best interests of shareholders’

    As Britain’s utilities are looted by shareholders, workers are forced to pay astronomical bills for deteriorating services.

    29 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • Economy / B&M: Bending the rules and ripping off the public purse – and it’s all legal

    Funds used to ‘support the economy through covid’ have been spent on making the rich richer while everyone else struggles.

    25 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Humbled by their own incompetence: ‘winter economic plan’ back to square one

    Lockdown exacerbates ruling class conflict over future for employers, employees, and unemployed.

    24 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Paul Turek: passing of a working-class fighter

    Our party mourns the loss of a true class-conscious proletarian and a staunch fighter for socialism.

    24 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Edinburgh Woollen Mill: the vultures circle

    Thousands of workers look set to lose their jobs, but the man whose fortune they made will have no trouble hanging onto his millions.

    19 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Capital gains tax: Big business cries before it is hit

    Despite the exponential growth of poverty and inequality, our rulers still can’t seem to face the idea of paying a little more of their ill-gotten gains into the state’s coffers.

    18 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • Economy / City spivs raid the public purse

    The revolving door between private sector consultancies and the civil service continues to spin.

    16 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • Education / Marketisation of services to vulnerable children exposes true values of liberal democracy

    Never has the gap between human and capitalist logic been so glaringly apparent.

    15 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Jeremy Corbyn suspended from the Labour party

    Sir Keir Starmer is doing everything in his power to ram home the lesson that Labour will never serve working-class interests.

    11 Nov 2020 , 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
  • Economy / Covid: Parasites enjoy a bonanza whilst workers struggle

    There has never been a better time for workers to learn hard truths about the nature of the capitalist system.

    31 Oct 2020 ,
  • Social wage / Insult to injury: government plans to cut Universal Credit boost

    Covid has exposed the injustice of below-poverty-line benefits. How will our rulers balance their need for cheap and desperate workers with maintaining social peace?

    29 Oct 2020 ,
  • Social wage / Southern Cross: vulture capitalists still getting fat on the care home racket

    The problems in our care homes are rooted in privatisation and began well before the pandemic arrived to bring them to national attention.

    28 Oct 2020 ,
  • Syria / Dirty British propaganda war against Syria exposed

    The war machine is facing a most welcome crisis of legitimacy.

    16 Oct 2020 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Workers party launches corona wealth tax campaign

    All progressives in Britain should be working to extend the reach of the Workers Party into the ranks of the working class.

    12 Oct 2020 , Proletarian
  • Yemen / British soldier arrested for protesting collusion in Saudi’s Yemen war

    ‘I’ve seen enough not to speak out and I’d rather sleep peacefully in a cell than stay silent for a pay cheque.’

    29 Sep 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Railway pensions under threat

    It is the bosses’ responsibility to see to it that deferred wages are paid in full; why are workers expected to take the hit?

    23 Sep 2020 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Vultures circle over Royal Mail

    Britain’s privatised mail service is likely to be broken down into ever-smaller parts as investors peel of the most profitable parts one by one.

    21 Sep 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / FT spills the beans on the great pensions rip-off

    Not content with stealing workers’ unpaid labour today, the capitalists are conspiring to steal their right to a dignified retirement tomorrow.

    20 Sep 2020 , Proletarian
  • Britain / Civil servants face coercion over return to the workplace

    In a desperate bid to restore city centre footfall, the government is pushing workers back into offices.

    16 Sep 2020 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Media freedom? Show me the MSM journalist opposing the torture of Assange

    11 Sep 2020 ,
  • Housing / Grenfell Tower: construction bosses’ contempt for workers’ lives laid bare

    Despite its best efforts, the glacial inquiry has let slip a series of unpalatable truths about the practices and motivations of the construction industry.

    4 Sep 2020 , Lalkar
  • Social wage / UBI: a recipe for universal misery

    Our demand must be for meaningful work in a society free from poverty, unemployment and insecurity.

    24 Aug 2020 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / FT spills the beans on private equity scam

    The super-rich are indulging in an orgy of speculation using the ‘free money’ of low-interest debt. Who pays?

    23 Aug 2020 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Look, balloons! Another migrant scare distracts attention from corona and crisis

    With the worst covid outcome and deepest recession in Europe, our rulers are keen to divert workers’ anger from themselves and their failing system.

    19 Aug 2020 , Proletarian
  • Society / Thinktank warns of massive rise in destitution in the wake of Covid-19

    The wonders of capitalism: five million Britons predicted to become destitute this year.

    10 Aug 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Nissan slashes workforce and pensions, poised to flee Sunderland altogether

    Blame Brexit; blame covid ... blame anything but the capitalist system.

    31 Jul 2020 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Rising inequality following the 2020 crisis of overproduction

    Mushrooming inequality has the capitalist class spooked, for they fear the consequences.

    29 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Water CEOs fleece the public

    Residents’ bills are sky high, the nation’s water reserves are seeping away, but privateer bosses are still shamelessly rinsing the coffers.

    27 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • Health / PPE scandal: crony capitalists make a killing while frontline workers sacrificed

    Meanwhile, the system’s defenders are worried that workers might learn the right lessons.

    26 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Ministry of Justice retreats on sick pay for cleaners

    Victory for struggling cleaners after Emanuel Gomes’s death, who worked for a week with suspected covid and a raging fever.

    24 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Leicester sweatshops keep their heads down despite covid panic

    Fashion industry gangmasters are riding out the storm, safe in the knowledge that it will be business as usual before long.

    17 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Under cover of Covid-19: trial by jury is under attack

    The abolition of workers’ right to a jury trial could be the final nail in the coffin of the justice system in Britain.

    14 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Stop the War gets it wrong again

    When is an anti-war movement not an anti-war movement?

    13 Jul 2020 ,
  • Divide and rule / Statues come down: the toppling of the mighty

    Good riddance to bad rubbish, but what next?

    10 Jul 2020 , Lalkar
  • Divide and rule / JK Rowling’s stance against the thought police

    The author’s brave stance in defence of reality must be defended, and her hysterical detractors exposed as the reactionary bullies they are.

    9 Jul 2020 , Lalkar
  • Economy / Bosses press on with sackings as crisis deepens

    As the furlough support scheme comes to an end, the true depth of the economic crisis is becoming ever clearer.

    7 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Go Outdoors ‘rescued’ – for now

    Financial fancy footwork may allow the chain’s owners to sidestep onerous lease conditions as high street footfall plunges.

    2 Jul 2020 ,
  • Palestine / Palestinian lives matter: the murder of Ahmed Eriqat

    Ahmed Eriqat of Abu Dis was the latest victim of senseless murder by Israeli soldiers in occupied Palestine.

    30 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / The plight of the homeless after lockdown

    ‘Business as usual’ as rough sleepers are thrown back onto the streets.

    29 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / P&O takes the money and runs

    The shipping company is laying off a thousand workers on the very routes it is being paid public money to operate.

    29 Jun 2020 ,
  • Lay-offs and closures / Imperial College sacking vital IT workers

    University managers plan to axe more than half their IT staff, despite their heroic work in enabling vital pandemic research.

    27 Jun 2020 ,
  • Pay and conditions / Conditions at Yodel: report by a worker

    Workers in the logistics industry are being sweated at ever-more intense and unendurable rates.

    26 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / British Gas and SPS are latest to announce big job losses

    As the economic crisis bites, employers are looking to cut not only jobs but also pay, pensions and everything else.

    25 Jun 2020 ,
  • Disputes / Covid couriers sacked for requesting PPE and social distancing

    Workers responsible for transporting covid test samples from hospitals to labs are being victimised for requesting basic safety measures.

    25 Jun 2020 ,
  • British politics / Boris’s chapter of accidents

    As the covid emergency progresses, the prime minister is jumping from one fiasco to another, exposing his many inadequacies to full public view.

    23 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / The Coronavirus Act 2020

    Jumping on the excuse of Covid-19, parliament has rammed through a host of draconian measures unrelated to the health crisis.

    19 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange: The truth will set him free

    Many questions remain to be answered about the conduct of Julian’s defence.

    18 Jun 2020 ,
  • Industry / End British export of rubber bullets

    British arms manufacturers continue to profit from these lethal ‘crowd control’ weapons.

    17 Jun 2020 ,
  • Pay and conditions / BA threatens to sack its entire workforce

    After rinsing the furlough scheme, the airline is now insisting that its staff should accept huge pay cuts or be sacked.

    16 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Debenhams shafts its cafe workers

    Catering staff at the department store have been summarily dismissed without notice or redundancy pay.

    15 Jun 2020 ,
  • Economy / British trade agreements after Brexit

    By pinning all their hopes for Britain’s future on a US trade deal, our rulers are taking us out of the frying pan and into the fire.

    10 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / UBI: the ‘right’ to be idle or the right to work?

    What does the call for a universal basic income really mean?

    8 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Thousands more to go at Rolls Royce’s Derby plant

    As more and more manufacturing jobs are being scrapped, workers are the victims of the downward spiral of capitalist crisis.

    6 Jun 2020 ,
  • Health / Second spike looms: Boris opts for ‘whack-a-mole’ over having a good plan

    On every level, the performance of socialist countries in dealing with Covid-19 is putting the profiteering, anti-worker ethos of capitalism to shame.

    4 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Workers party sets a course despite lockdown

    Weeks of lockdown have been used by the Workers party to speak to more than half a million people.

    2 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Jobless total rockets

    As the economic crisis bites, over a million workers in Britain have been forced precipitously onto the breadline.

    24 May 2020 , Proletarian
  • World history / Women in the victory over fascism

    Without the brave and tireless efforts of women across the USSR and Europe, vanquishing the enemy would have been impossible.

    21 May 2020 , Granma
  • Industry / ‘Back to work’ stampede – and may the devil take the hindmost

    Reopening schools and workplaces without proper safety measures highlights the government’s true priorities.

    20 May 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Workers in the US and Britain fight for workplace safety

    Wildcat strikes and a high-profile resignation are highlighting the anti-worker essence of capitalist accumulation.

    15 May 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / British Airways takes the money and runs

    The Covid-19 crisis is highlighting the necessity for public ownership of all our vital services.

    13 May 2020 ,
  • Health / Covid-19: What is the coronavirus and is it a real threat?

    Dr Ranjeet Brar takes a look at the medical aspects of the present pandemic, comparing Covid-19 to other viruses such as influenza and Sars.

    12 May 2020 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Supreme court ruling overturns Israel boycott ban – for now

    What can workers do to stop this advance from being rolled back by Parliament?

    3 May 2020 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / The corona pandemic and the capitalist world economic crash of 2020

    Our rulers are keen to convince us that the deepest depression in the history of capitalism is a random and unpredictable ‘black swan’ event.

    2 May 2020 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / A call to arms: This May Day, fight together against imperialism

    Workers’ parties sign international revolutionary anti-imperialist manifesto.

    1 May 2020 ,
  • Economy / Covid-19 furlough scheme: a bonanza for big business

    While thousands of workers find themselves without a job, bosses are cashing in on the ‘free money’ of the furlough scheme.

    30 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Health / Covid-19: Why is it that Cuba can manufacture PPE, but Britain can’t?

    Britain’s frontline workers continue to put their lives on the line, paid in broken promises and empty gestures.

    28 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Venezuela / Using the Covid crisis: British and US military massing off Venezuelan coast

    Reckless and desperate attempts are being made by US imperialism to encircle and crush Venezuelan socialism.

    25 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Health / Coronavirus stats are air-brushing the elderly

    Thousands of Covid-19 infections and deaths in Britain’s care homes have simply not been tracked or counted.

    20 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Society / Lessons of Covid-19 pt 1: Only workers can solve the problems created by capital

    Who are the real ‘key workers’ and why are they still being treated so badly?

    19 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Hunger rising sharply as covid-19 lockdown combines with economic crash

    Why are we witnessing the obscene sight of workers going hungry in the midst of plenty?

    17 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Cuba / Socialist Cuba shows real international solidarity during Covid-19 outbreak

    People or profits? The coronavirus pandemic is bringing this question to the fore more sharply than ever.

    14 Apr 2020 ,
  • British politics / Harry Dunn and the one-sided ‘special relationship’

    Our rulers, who love to flaunt their ‘patriotism’, fail miserably when it comes to defending the interests of their own against a stronger foreign power.

    13 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Austerity Britain: where the homeless seek shelter in bins

    Report reveals shocking rise of bin sleepers as one waste worker recounts finding children as young as nine or ten.

    6 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Yemen / Burying bad news: corona-filled papers ignore Britain’s Yemen invasion

    Unreported in British media, British troops have landed in Aden. All that awaits them is the graveyard of imperialist ambitions.

    4 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Onwards and upwards: In memory of Deborah Lavin

    One of a kind: her influence on party life, and the guidance she gave to young cadres in particular, will be fondly remembered and sorely missed.

    3 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Health / Now 230 workers’ parties call for united effort to fight Covid-19

    Progressive parties from around the world have signed a joint letter calling for closer international cooperation in the fight against the coronavirus.

    2 Apr 2020 ,
  • British politics / Red salute to our beloved Comrade Deborah Lavin

    Her funeral is to be live-streamed since large gatherings are prevented by the present pandemic conditions.

    30 Mar 2020 ,
  • Health / Britain’s response to Covid-19 pt 1: ‘Take it on the chin’

    What the coronavirus teaches us about our rulers’ attitudes and priorities.

    27 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
  • British politics / John Hepple: a life of working-class struggle

    A true son of the working class, one of so many who have given their lives to the fight for a better world.

    25 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / RIP FlyBe

    The only rational way to ensure that vital infrastructure exists and is run for the benefit of all is public ownership.

    9 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Barclays spies on its own staff

    The banking giant is using ‘Big Brother tactics’ to monitor staff and keep their noses to the grindstone.

    6 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray: Assange’s armoured glass box is an instrument of torture

    ‘They are attempting to make him kill himself – or create the conditions where his death might be explained away as suicide.’

    4 Mar 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Disputes / Wirral’s binmen to strike?

    Outsourced waste collector Biffa is playing fast and loose with its workers’ pay.

    3 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 4

    The British state is lying about the validity of the US extradition treaty – and it knows it.

    2 Mar 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 3

    The sham show-trial at Woolwich reveals how brazenly our rulers will flout their own rules when it suits them to do so.

    1 Mar 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 2

    It has been demonstrably proved in court that the US knows its own charges against Assange are untrue.

    1 Mar 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 1

    This shameful show trial is being exposed by one of the few people in the court who is prepared to tell the truth to the outside world.

    29 Feb 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Social wage / Errol Graham and the unreported austerity pandemic

    Social murder in our midst is being hushed up by all arms of the state, hand in glove with media that are entirely uninterested in ‘speaking truth to power’.

    27 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Offshore oil workers under threat

    Will trade unions now get off the back foot and start to mobilise their members into an active campaign of resistance?

    26 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / John Pilger: Julian Assange must be freed, not betrayed

    Australia and Britain are helping to get the WikiLeaks editor extradited to the USA, which is preparing a lifetime of torture for the ‘crime’ of exposing the truth.

    22 Feb 2020 , JohnPilger.com
  • Pay and conditions / Lecturers rise against pay cuts and pensions robbery

    The marketisation of education: staff are being sweated so that universities can make fat profits.

    21 Feb 2020 ,
  • Social wage / Work doesn’t pay and British families know it

    Fourteen million people, including four million children, live in poverty in Britain, and more than half of those come from working families.

    19 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • British politics / George Galloway: ‘The idea that the organs of the state are impartial is dead’

    Does this herald a moment when the working class in Britain gets back up off its knees and starts to fight again?

    16 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / UN: Britain and US guilty of torturing Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning

    This illegal and brutal repression must not be allowed to succeed in its aim of terrifying workers into submission.

    7 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Union-busting at St Mungo’s homeless charity

    More pressure on workers in the charity sector, where a race to the bottom is well underway.

    4 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / RSPCA: You wouldn’t treat a dog like this

    Despite healthy donations and reserves, the charity is using a minor single-year operational deficit to justify ‘salami-slicing measures‘ on pay and conditions.

    30 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Defend railway pensions!

    Workers have a right to their deferred wages in retirement and to a dignified old age after a lifetime of work.

    27 Jan 2020 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / FlyBe farce exposes lunacy of privately owned transport

    A hefty subsidy to the airline’s private owners may not be enough to save a vital service and thousands of jobs.

    22 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Firefighters victory forces government retreat on public sector pensions

    The FBU has won its case to get former pension rights restored, and the case has wide implications.

    19 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Children in care being let down as vultures profit from their misery

    The children’s care system is yet another example of how privateers are feeding off the wretchedness of society’s most vulnerable.

    18 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • Iran / Self-identifying ‘communists’ blame Iran

    Self-defence is no offence; those who really want to stop war must stand with the resistance.

    16 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Car industry crisis pushes Peugeot-Fiat merger

    Workers rightly fear for their jobs as another round of ‘cost-cutting’ looms.

    15 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • Iran / US imperialism digging its own grave ever faster in the middle east

    Slavishly supported by Britain as it does so.

    14 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Stand with rail strikers defending passenger safety

    Railway bosses have abandoned the deal that was struck a year ago and are refusing to restart talks without preconditions.

    9 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • Iran / Britain is acting as the US’s sanctions lapdog; will it follow into all-out war?

    If the British imperialists fall in line with the US’s drive to war against Iran, they will share the bitter fruits of humiliation and defeat with their partner in crime.

    6 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • Society / Debt survey shows inequality widening as rich get richer and poor get poorer

    As the gap between the super-rich and everyone else gets ever wider, it is clear that this system is overdue for a foreclosure of its own.

    5 Jan 2020 , Lalkar
  • British politics / The Brexit election and the birth of the Workers party

    As Boris prepares a fresh assault on the trade unions, what does the election result mean for workers?

    29 Dec 2019 , Lalkar
  • Working-class history / Peterloo in its historical perspective, part 2

    As a result of the industrial revolution, a new class, the urban proletariat, was emerging onto the political and social scene in 1819.

    22 Dec 2019 , Lalkar
  • British politics / The Brexit election and the death of Project Corbyn

    What lessons can workers take from the last four years?

    12 Dec 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Support the South Western Railway strike

    Railway workers are fighting to put safety ahead of profit: keep the guard on the train!

    3 Dec 2019 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Why do we celebrate the October Revolution?

    Workers need to take inspiration from the achievements of October; an example that our rulers would prefer us to forget.

    2 Dec 2019 ,
  • Disputes / Royal Mail: high court bans the strike

    For how long will we accept the right of bosses’ courts to decide how workers’ organisations are run?

    26 Nov 2019 , Proletarian
  • Education / Sabotage of state schools

    Growing privatisation and austerity is eroding the hard-won right to an education for our children.

    17 Nov 2019 ,
  • Working-class history / Avtar Jouhl: lifelong class fighter against racism

    Comrade Avtar reflects on a life of struggle in the IWA and the trade unions from the 1950s to the 1990s.

    10 Nov 2019 , International Socialist
  • British politics / Brexit delayed again as general election called

    Following years of Parliament’s refusal to implement the referendum result, can an election break the deadlock?

    6 Nov 2019 , Lalkar
  • Trade unions / Stifling criticism of Israel in the British trade-union movement

    TUC votes in support of Palestine, but decision is ignored by the media, including those on the left.

    1 Nov 2019 , Lalkar
  • Social wage / DWP dirty tricks are pushing the most vulnerable over the edge

    Private companies are being handsomely paid to prevent the sick from accessing benefits they have every right to.

    31 Oct 2019 , Proletarian
  • Economy / QuickQuid – cut and run

    Having extorted millions from struggling austerity-hit families, the US-backed payday lender is pocketing its loot and getting out.

    30 Oct 2019 ,
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange in court: unmistakable signs of torture

    Unless Julian is released shortly he will be destroyed. If the state can do this, then who is next?

    28 Oct 2019 , Craig Murray
  • Society / The true level of unemployment

    Joblessness is being underreported by a factor of 200 percent.

    26 Oct 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Royal Mail workers vote overwhelmingly to strike

    Mail workers are ready to fight for their pay and conditions, but is their union prepared to back them?

    24 Oct 2019 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / City leeches celebrate the demise of Thomas Cook

    Financial gamblers in the City are playing with loaded dice, deliberately pushing companies over the edge in order to get paid.

    6 Oct 2019 , Proletarian
  • Climate change / The TUC and climate change: don’t mention the wars

    Unions tail-end middle-class eco protests and stoke illusions in ‘green’ capitalism.

    28 Sep 2019 , Proletarian
  • Europe / Anniversary of the D-Day landings

    Why are the imperialists so keen to push the lie that the Normandy landings changed the course of WW2?

    23 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • Britain / Bury FC: a victim of capitalism

    One more reason for workers to burn with indignation against a social order that can never be made to serve their interests.

    15 Sep 2019 , Proletarian
  • Health / Shameful levels of malnutrition in Britain

    Privatisation and cost-cutting in social care have led to shocking levels of neglect amongst the most vulnerable in our society.

    13 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Comrade Bridget Bell, dedicated fighter for the working class

    Bridget was highly respected for her work during the 1984/5 miners’ strike, and for her principled class position at all times.

    9 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • Iran / Britain falters onto the warpath against Iran

    With so much else on their plate, Britain’s rulers may not be keen to follow the US into yet another doomed war.

    6 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Boris’s Brexit bombshell

    Can the warring remainer factions get themselves together and block Britain’s EU exit before 31 October?

    4 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Interview: What does our party stand for?

    Responses to a Turkish journalist about Britain, Brexit, Boris, the workers’ movement and the wider world.

    27 Aug 2019 , Proletarian
  • Industry / British Steel sold for ‘blood money’? A reply to the Morning Star

    Where should workers look for their salvation from the crises that destroy industry and jobs?

    26 Aug 2019 , Proletarian
  • Education / Our schools need more than money

    It is not only cuts that are devastating and gutting our schools but privatisation and outsourcing.

    24 Aug 2019 , Proletarian
  • Education / GSM collapse: another for-profit education provider hits the rocks

    A London-based private university has gone bust, leaving students and staff in the lurch.

    23 Aug 2019 ,
  • Pay and conditions / Cleaners demand fair pay at government department

    Outsourced staff are on strike for living wages at the department of business.

    16 Aug 2019 ,
  • USA / US workers force child migrant concentration camp to close

    Homeware staff strike against their employers’ profiting from privatised detention camps.

    14 Aug 2019 ,
  • Lay-offs and closures / Nissan to cull 12,500 jobs globally as Chinese car market stalls

    The crisis of overproduction continues to wreak havoc with workers’ lives.

    12 Aug 2019 ,
  • World history / The origins of World War Two

    How did WW2 come about? And when were the opening salvos really fired?

    11 Aug 2019 , Lalkar
  • Divide and rule / Racial profiling revealed in Home Office visa processing

    African academics are routinely being denied entry to attend conferences and seminars in Britain.

    10 Aug 2019 ,
  • Education / Teachers given pay rise, but schools forced to pay

    Government will fund a 0.75 percent increase, with schools told to find most of the required cash from their own budgets.

    8 Aug 2019 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / ‘We often see grown men in tears – they can’t believe they’re here’

    Manchester reporter discovers dismay, rage and defiance in Oldham, a town bruised by universal credit and austerity.

    7 Aug 2019 , Manchester Evening News
  • British politics / Boris Johnson is Tories’ last hope of averting electoral annihilation

    But can he convince voters that he really is prepared to deliver Brexit, in the teeth of ruling-class opposition?

    6 Aug 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Will Boris bottle Brexit?

    Johnson is loud in declaring himself ready for a no-deal EU exit, but is that just an electoral ploy?

    2 Aug 2019 , Proletarian
  • Iran / Unions call on British government to send in the gunboats

    What would Bob Crow have said to the ITF’s blindly acquiescing in the war games of our imperial masters?

    30 Jul 2019 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Police refuse to investigate killing of refugee schoolgirl

    The authorities are closing their eyes to strong evidence of racist bullying in the death of Shukri Abdi.

    29 Jul 2019 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / GMB protest at Rugeley Amazon

    British trade union seems more worried about defending the profits of shareholders than the interests of workers.

    21 Jul 2019 , Birmingham Worker
  • Housing / Foreign investors head to Birmingham housing market

    As London property prices nose-dive, investors are hoping to make a quick buck out of new-build apartments in the country’s second-largest city.

    18 Jul 2019 , Birmingham Worker
  • Housing / Council tax becoming the new poll tax says report

    Thinktank investigation reveals the huge disparity in rates of payment between the poorest and richest households.

    16 Jul 2019 , Birmingham Worker
  • Britain / British imperialism announces: there is no peace, only war

    Army plans to move to a permanent war footing in hopes of stopping successful economic development by Russia and China.

    15 Jul 2019 , Lalkar
  • British politics / BBC’s anti-Corbyn hatchet job fails to land blow

    If Corbyn’s allies can't fight back against the Israeli lobby within their own party, what chance will they have against the power of British imperialism?

    14 Jul 2019 , The Electronic Intifada
  • 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
  • Health / Brexit, profiteers and the NHS

    Why are Donald Trump and a ‘no-deal’ Brexit being held up as threats to the future of the health service?

    11 Jul 2019 , Lalkar
  • Pay and conditions / Railway pensions under attack

    As profiteering franchise bidders haggle with the government over contract terms, workers’ hard-earned pensions are once more under threat.

    8 Jul 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Brexit and the Tory leadership race

    The contenders are busy promising the earth, but the poisoned challice of Brexit could quickly see off May’s successor.

    6 Jul 2019 , Lalkar
  • Education / Thousands of children are taught in classes that are too big

    Reverse privatisation and create an education system that serves the real needs of both society and individuals.

    4 Jul 2019 ,
  • Divide and rule / Fighting the forces of fascism: persuasion, not force, is key right now

    What should meaningful antifascist work look like in present-day Britain?

    28 Jun 2019 ,
  • Divide and rule / Teach children to kick against gender stereotypes, not gender itself

    The party of the working class must above all be the purveyor of truth.

    26 Jun 2019 ,
  • Czech Republic / Czech comrade speaks in Birmingham and London

    Dr Josef Skála described the advances made by socialist Czechoslovakia and discussed the challenges of organising the forces for socialist reinstatement.

    19 Jun 2019 , Birmingham Worker
  • Lay-offs and closures / Fight against the closure of Ford Bridgend

    Workers are not to blame for the crisis; stop redundancies and demand nationalisation!

    17 Jun 2019 ,
  • British politics / Prosecuting Boris Johnson

    Leaving aside the double standards of the case, misuse of the law is not in anyone’s interests.

    15 Jun 2019 ,
  • British politics / British workers demand Brexit … TWICE!

    The Brexit party’s win in the 2019 EU election has thrown the Tories into unprecedented chaos.

    12 Jun 2019 , Proletarian
  • Housing / Right-to-rent and work checks promote racism and victimise the most vulnerable

    Forcing landlords and employers to check the immigration status of tenants and employees has led to a surge in homelessness among non-white workers in Britain.

    11 Jun 2019 ,
  • British politics / Tribute to Comrade John Dempster

    A staunch and determined comrade to the end.

    11 Jun 2019 ,
  • Climate change / Letter: How can we deal with climate change?

    Should workers ‘take a haircut’ to save the environment?

    10 Jun 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / EU election: a second Brexit referendum. Do we really need a third?

    Britain’s Labour-Tory two-party political monopoly is cracking under the pressure of Brexit.

    6 Jun 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Letter: Is the British Worker a racist paper?

    Are there colours, fonts or names we need to avoid in order to preserve our socialist message as we try to connect Marxism with the working masses?

    5 Jun 2019 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / British Steel: overproduction crisis claims another scalp

    As thousands of workers lose their jobs, the vultures of Greybull Capital are standing at the front of the queue for ‘reimbursement’.

    3 Jun 2019 , Proletarian
  • Pollution / Residents unite against power station plan next to Bristol inner-city nursery

    Fight against unelected planning authorities exposes once again the true nature of Britain’s sham democracy.

    2 Jun 2019 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Support the Sellafield strikers!

    Workers at the Sellafield nuclear plant are in revolt against poverty wages and management bullying.

    28 May 2019 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange facing extradition to the United States

    Why is the WikiLeaks founder being targeted now, and what happens next?

    23 May 2019 , Proletarian
  • Society / Hunger on the rise in Britain, despite economic ‘recovery’

    In-work poverty testifies as to who really paid to bail out the banks in 2008. And while hunger is on the rise, one-third of food produced every year is wasted.

    20 May 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Vote Brexit on 23 May!

    British workers have demanded Brexit, and the failure to deliver it is exposing to them the fraud of our so-called parliamentary democracy.

    17 May 2019 ,
  • Disputes / Privatisation directors’ fat salaries come from ripping off health service workers

    Sodexo and Mitie are the latest hospital outsourcing companies to face industrial action by staff over terrible pay and conditions.

    14 May 2019 ,
  • Disputes / Left-Labour-controlled Newham is not such a New Jerusalem

    Despite working for a Labour council and a Corbynite mayor, council workers in Newham face pay cuts and bullying.

    13 May 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Galloway, Farage and the Brexit party

    British workers are set to keep demanding Brexit at the upcoming EU elections.

    7 May 2019 ,
  • Climate change / Yellow vests v Extinction Rebellion

    Climate protestors’ leader accidentally gives away the ruling class’s agenda.

    4 May 2019 ,
  • British politics / Capitalism can’t solve society’s problems, but working people can

    In the immortal words of Karl Marx: “Workers and oppressed peoples of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains; you have a world to win!”

    1 May 2019 ,
  • Civil liberties / Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning!

    Injustice and oppression will never be defeated unless at every turn they are resolutely resisted, whatever the cost.

    23 Apr 2019 , Lalkar
  • Divide and rule / Why gay rights is not a class issue

    It is not ‘homophobic’ for socialists to focus their attention on those contradictions that concern the whole working class in its struggle for socialism.

    20 Apr 2019 ,
  • Social wage / Fire Brigade Inc

    Cuts and outsourcing are part of the slow drive towards total privatisation of this essential service.

    12 Apr 2019 ,
  • Lay-offs and closures / Interserve: another outsourcing giant hits the wall

    In the pursuit of monopoly profits, another building corporation turned ‘public service provider’ has gone bust – and the public will be picking up the tab.

    6 Apr 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Antisemitism is cover for a much deeper divide in Britain’s Labour party

    Breakaway MPs hope that smearing Corbyn will obscure the fact that they are remnants of an old political order bankrupt of ideas.

    5 Apr 2019 , Middle East Eye
  • 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 / ‘Neither Brexit nor austerity’ – the People’s Assembly and the yellow vest movement in Britain

    Pitting austerity against Brexit is misleading workers into supporting the interests of British imperialism and dividing rather than uniting workers in struggle.

    29 Mar 2019 ,
  • Economy / Britain lobbies Germany to sell arms to the Saudis

    Crocodile tears over the famine in Yemen are accompanied by strenuous lobbying on behalf of the corporations that are perpetuating it.

    27 Mar 2019 , Proletarian
  • Health / How to squeeze the NHS and get a gong

    Private drugs companies seize on a ‘loophole’ in NHS rules to vastly overprice medicines.

    25 Mar 2019 , Lalkar
  • Disputes / Brum bin strike concludes with a payout

    A new deal was concluded in March to appease workers’ anger at secret payouts to GMB members during the 2017 strike.

    24 Mar 2019 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’

    We do not advocate and we cannot allow the bourgeoisie to impose this divisive ideology upon us.

    23 Mar 2019 ,
  • British politics / Five years without Tony Benn – Stop the War laments

    With friends like these, the working class doesn’t need enemies.

    22 Mar 2019 , Proletarian
  • Health / Smartphones v doctors: NHS destruction moves up a gear

    A ‘new era of personalised care’ where mobile apps replace overworked GPs.

    20 Mar 2019 , Lalkar
  • Disputes / Deliveroo strikes spread

    Increasing numbers of workers in the gig economy are fighting for basic rights at work.

    17 Mar 2019 ,
  • Social wage / Privatisation undermines the probation service

    The government has reneged on its promise to step in if the privateers failed to deliver.

    17 Mar 2019 ,
  • Divide and rule / Asda continues to flout equal pay rulings

    Automation and unequal pay are just two of the tools being used by retail giants to divide workers, reduce costs and win the cut-throat war of competition.

    14 Mar 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Brexit: Parliament does the hokey-cokey

    Splits and back-tracking by politicians combine with rampant media hysteria as Brexit day approaches and the ruling class searches for a way out.

    8 Mar 2019 , Lalkar
  • Lay-offs and closures / Honda doesn’t blame Brexit

    The cover is blown on the attempt to blame everything on Brexit as Honda’s CEO denies that the Swindon closure has anything to do with Brexit uncertainty.

    28 Feb 2019 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Constance Markievicz – class traitor, Irish republican and working-class hero

    London rally salutes the memory of Britain’s first woman MP.

    20 Feb 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / South Western railworkers win battle to keep the guard on the train

    Safe and affordable public transport for all. Support our rail workers!

    19 Feb 2019 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / Britain complicit in Ukrainian war crimes

    Defence secretary Gavin Williamson is working overtime to promote the Anglo-American drive to war with Russia.

    16 Feb 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / British think tank implicated in orchestration of the Skripal affair

    The desirability of such an event, along with media and establishment ‘responses’, are all outlined in the files of the shadowy Integrity Initiative.

    13 Feb 2019 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / The fake emergency of the Channel boat refugees

    Why is such a fuss being made about the arrival of a few desperate migrants on the shores of one of the richest countries in the world?

    10 Feb 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Bring on the no-deal Brexit!

    The ruling class is desperate to find a way out of its Brexit impasse, but hamstrung by its divisions.

    6 Feb 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Deliveroo strike in Bristol: gig economy workers fight back

    Resistance to the poverty pay and union-busting tactics of so many zero-hour and gig economy employers is gathering momentum.

    23 Jan 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Refuse, resist! Brum rubbish collectors ready to strike as council talks fail

    Brummie binmen are days away from an all-out strike, clashing once again with a Labour council that has rewarded scabs and blacklisted strikers.

    20 Jan 2019 , Sputnik
  • Lay-offs and closures / Jobs massacre at Jaguar Land Rover confirmed

    Overproduction not Brexit is to blame. But if there really are too many cars in the world, what are workers to do?

    16 Jan 2019 , Proletarian
  • Health / Newcross Healthcare: rinsing the public coffers

    The true face of privatisation in our public services, where greed and abuse are rewarded and people come last.

    15 Jan 2019 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Carillion: lawyers make hay whilst workers wait for pay

    As workers try to get recompense for lost jobs and wages, the whole crooked business of outsourcing is being exposed to view.

    14 Jan 2019 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Support the workers against Condor and the ships of shame!

    Defend Brexit and fight for better working conditions for all.

    12 Jan 2019 ,
  • Lay-offs and closures / Defend Brexit and manufacturing jobs

    Overproduction in the car industry is being blamed on ‘Brexit uncertainty’ in an effort to justify reversing the EU referendum result.

    9 Jan 2019 , Birmingham Worker
  • Industry / Interserve: dead men walking?

    How can the outsourcing racket, which sucks the public purse dry while failing to deliver decent services, finally be put an end to?

    4 Jan 2019 , Lalkar
  • Disputes / Cammell Laird strike suspended for now

    Workers’ resistance has led to a stay of execution at the Merseyside shipyard.

    3 Jan 2019 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Brexit paralysis – government and opposition in a shambles

    As withdrawal day approaches, Parliament is at a standstill, and all sides equally at a loss as to how best they should proceed.

    31 Dec 2018 , Lalkar
  • China / Huawei executive arrest – a provocation too far

    The US's persectution of Meng Wanzhou represents a dangerous escalation of its trade war against China.

    30 Dec 2018 , Lalkar
  • Lay-offs and closures / Cammell Laird shipyard strikes

    Overproduction is hitting industry after industry, proving once more that capitalism cannot solve the problems of the masses.

    27 Dec 2018 ,
  • Civil liberties / Branding the wage slaves

    British companies are starting to experiment with microchipping their staff as a way of keeping tabs on their movements.

    24 Dec 2018 ,
  • Social wage / WH Smith gobbles up another 74 post offices

    Another step towards the complete dismemberment and privatisation of the mail service.

    22 Dec 2018 ,
  • Lay-offs and closures / FT leaks plans by Jaguar Land Rover to axe 5,000 jobs

    The joy of capitalism: unemployment is the workers’ reward for enriching the company's owners.

    21 Dec 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • Lay-offs and closures / Support Asda Queslett workers’ fight for jobs

    Don’t let machines come before jobs, nor profit before people.

    19 Dec 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • Divide and rule / Letter: Identity politics v class politics

    If our political activities don’t threaten imperialism, we need to think again about what we are doing.

    17 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Challenges facing communists in Britain today

    Objective conditions for the creation of a revolutionary movement are improving, but much work needs to be done to take advantage of those conditions.

    14 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / A third of British children live in poverty

    A decade of austerity is taking a heavy toll on Britain’s families.

    13 Dec 2018 , 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
  • Housing / Grenfell Tower – another long and winding public inquiry

    Privatisation, subcontracting and the drive to maximise profits led to the inferno, but the ruling class will be hoping the inquiry can come up with a scapegoat or two on whom to pin the blame for its crimes.

    8 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Identity politics are anti-Marxian and a harmful diversion from the class struggle

    Refuse to allow our movement to be hijacked by hostile class forces!

    7 Dec 2018 ,
  • Housing / The housing crisis is lining private landlords’ pockets

    Housing benefit is acting as the ‘landlords’ bonus’, while provision of emergency temporary accommodation by private landlords is the ‘icing on the cake’.

    6 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Building an active party

    Capitalism creates its own gravediggers. We must organise them into a mighty liberating army.

    5 Dec 2018 ,
  • Disputes / Birmingham: Two-faced council breaks promises to binmen and residents

    Birmingham’s militant binmen deserve our full support as their dispute looks set to break out again this Christmas.

    1 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Bristol bus protest highlights failing public transport in Britain

    Workers must demand renationalisation as the first step towards affordability, planning, and the sanity of a socialist economy.

    25 Nov 2018 , Proletarian
  • Palestine / Zionism is a racist and antisemitic tool of imperialist policy in the middle east

    It is not the anti-zionists who are guilty of antisemitism, but the zionists themselves. Accusations meant to silence opposition to Israel’s fascistic nature must be resisted.

    24 Nov 2018 ,
  • British politics / Beware the drive to WW3 with Russia and China

    If war is not avoided by workers making revolution first, then we must turn the coming war into a civil war to shake the warmongers off our backs.

    21 Nov 2018 ,
  • Syria / No cooperation with imperialist war crimes in Syria

    Refuse to help with the war effort; full support to the resistance!

    20 Nov 2018 ,
  • British politics / Venezuela solidarity falling short

    British workers have the power to give real solidarity to Venezuela, which is in the front line of the struggle against the imperialist enemy.

    17 Nov 2018 , Lalkar
  • Pay and conditions / University of Manchester support staff to strike against pension attacks

    Cleaners, caterers, security and admin staff are fighting to defend their right to a dignified retirement.

    17 Nov 2018 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Glasgow: Teachers take to the streets

    Pay and conditions in the profession continue to decline, leading to a retention and recruitment crisis in our schools.

    16 Nov 2018 , Proletarian
  • Cuba / Workers must continue to stand in solidarity with revolutionary Cuba

    Comrade Fidel may have gone, but the Cuban revolution lives on, and deserves the support of progressive humanity.

    15 Nov 2018 ,
  • Korea / Support the just cause of peace and reunification in Korea

    The only real impediment to Korean reunification is the occupation of the south by US imperialism.

    14 Nov 2018 ,
  • British politics / Real antifascist work means engaging with workers, not dismissing them

    Every possible effort must be made to win duped workers away from backward ideas that act against their own class interests and help to keep them enslaved.

    13 Nov 2018 ,
  • Social wage / Universal credit: forcing the needy into ever more desperate poverty

    The government can look after the interests of the capitalists or the interests of the workers; it cannot do both.

    13 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
  • USSR / October Revolution 101: the future belongs to communism

    October changed the world forever, and the genie can never be put back in the bottle. Only socialism offers a decent future free from crisis, poverty and war.

    7 Nov 2018 ,
  • British politics / Anti-war work in Britain

    If we want to build an effective anti-war movement, we must work to smash the hold of the imperialist lie machine on workers' minds.

    6 Nov 2018 ,
  • Housing / Residents resist social cleansing in Cambridge

    The CPGB-ML supports tenants in Montreal Square, who are trying to save their community from redevelopment.

    2 Nov 2018 ,
  • Housing / The housing crisis shows that capitalism is due for demolition

    Housing should be a right not a privilege, yet capitalism has proven itself incapable of providing a decent home to every worker.

    1 Nov 2018 ,
  • Society / Meaningful employment is a right for all

    Useful work well done for collective benefit brings personal fulfilment. A society that can't provide such work to its members is not fit for purpose.

    28 Oct 2018 ,
  • Education / Decent education for all

    If we want a society worth living in, education should be high-quality, free, universal, lifelong and publicly provided. Profit-taking has no place in classrooms.

    27 Oct 2018 ,
  • British politics / Build an information network capable of bringing the truth to British workers!

    For workers to win the battle against capital, they must be armed with a correct understanding to guide their revolutionary struggle.

    26 Oct 2018 ,
  • British politics / Comrade Harpal Brar steps down as party chairman after 14 years

    Party congress elects new officers and vows to rebuild the communist movement in Britain.

    24 Oct 2018 ,
  • Disputes / Support the Glasgow women’s strike for equal pay

    But beware the Labour wolf in sheep's clothing!

    23 Oct 2018 ,
  • British politics / The ‘people’s vote’ is Britain’s Euromaidan

    Sponsored by finance capital, privileged workers and small business owners jointly demand that Brexit be overturned and the neoliberal status quo be reasserted.

    22 Oct 2018 , London Worker
  • Disputes / FE lecturers ballot over derisory pay offer

    It is not the job of workers to square the accounts of their employers.

    17 Oct 2018 ,
  • British politics / The mixed message of the IHRA definition of ‘antisemitism’

    Anti-zionism and opposition to the fascist activities of Israel must not be conflated with antisemitism.

    16 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Courier strikes

    As the food delivery industry consolidates itself, the winning companies and putting the screws on drivers to up their profits.

    16 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Why is Corbyn under attack?

    It is not his alleged ‘antisemitism’ that offends the ruling class, but his refusal to give unconditional support to Israel.

    14 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
  • Energy / Government plans to push fracking through the back door

    If we want to save our planet, we’ll need to get rid of capitalism.

    11 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Dental industry: another ‘self-employed’ scam

    Privatisation has led to massive concentration in dentistry, with employees rebranded as ‘associates’.

    10 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Theft of steelworkers’ pensions

    Successful campaigners lose up to half their entitlement, shafted after all by caveats in the small print.

    9 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Support the fast food strikers!

    Fast food workers across Britain are organising to demand decent pay and conditions.

    3 Oct 2018 ,
  • Housing / Property tycoon hikes rent by 10 percent

    The decimation of social housing proves once more the inability of the market to provide even for people's most basic needs.

    1 Oct 2018 , London Worker
  • Education / School exclusions create prisoners, not reformed pupils

    With ever more social problems manifesting in the classroom, and support staff and services being axed, draconian methods of ‘behaviour management’ are on the rise.

    28 Sep 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / British workers demand Brexit!

    It is not in our class interests to allow the referendum result to be overturned.

    27 Sep 2018 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / University of London workers strike a blow against the outsourcing racket

    A simple demand for a basic rights is causing consternation in the camp of the class enemy.

    20 Sep 2018 , Lalkar
  • Disputes / Support Birmingham’s homecare workers

    Before Labour councillors privatise the service completely.

    19 Sep 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • British politics / Fascist tactics: How Jeremy Corbyn’s detractors are plotting to remove him

    The Labour leader’s opponents don’t care about antisemitism. They’ll just do anything to remove Corbyn.

    18 Sep 2018 , Middle East Eye
  • British politics / Collusion between British security services and jihadis revealed

    Further proof that it is in workers’ interests to oppose and challenge the imperialist foreign policy of our ruling class.

    5 Sep 2018 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Libyan terrorists nurtured by British imperialism bite the hand that feeds

    The terrorist attack on the Manchester Arena was carried out by a young man whose training and radicalisation were facilitated by British secret services.

    5 Sep 2018 , Lalkar
  • Divide and rule / Prison report reveals truth about Britain’s dreadful concentration camps

    If one can judge a society by how it treats its prisoners, British imperialism continues to plumb new depths of baseness and depravity.

    3 Sep 2018 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Comrade Dave Coates: a life in the struggle

    Red salute to a dear comrade and tireless fighter for the working class.

    2 Sep 2018 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Our party’s internationalist tasks: building a revolutionary party

    What does it take to make a revolution here at home?

    24 Aug 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Profiteers of war: how working-class kids die to keep the rich rich

    A former soldier's compelling call for non-cooperation with imperialist war.

    23 Aug 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Is Corbyn racist?

    What is behind the relentless campaign against Corbyn’s ‘antisemitism’ and ‘terrorist wreath-laying’ in our national media?

    21 Aug 2018 ,
  • Media / How Wikipedia is used to prop up the imperialist lie machine

    The internet encyclopaedia is an important front in the information war being waged by our rulers.

    20 Aug 2018 , Proletarian
  • USSR / How do socialists approach the veil?

    Boris Johnson's comments do nothing to elighten anyone or further a debate, but those of his opponents are not much more sensible.

    19 Aug 2018 ,
  • Lay-offs and closures / More redundancies in the Midlands: Rolls-Royce and JLR

    The world crisis of overproduction is far from over.

    12 Aug 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / West Midlands firefighters threat of strike causes employer to retreat?

    Long live workers’ militant unity.

    11 Aug 2018 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Gig economy faces legal setbacks

    Curbs being put on fictitious ‘self-employment’.

    9 Aug 2018 , Proletarian
  • Media / The ongoing ‘fake news’ debacle

    In the name of suppressing ‘fake news’ the bourgeoisie seeks to suppress inconvenient truth.

    6 Aug 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / ‘Novichok’ 2: the continuing propaganda drive against Russia

    Second ‘novichok’ case undermines the claims of the first as hysterical anti-Russia campaign falls flat.

    4 Aug 2018 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Court victory for workers’ rights

    Supreme court makes landmark ruling against the practice of fake 'self-employment' by which companies strip workers of their rights.

    27 Jul 2018 , Lalkar
  • Health / NHS: government forced to recognise reality

    The NHS needs more money for services and staff, not simply to create further profits for the bloodsucking privateers.

    16 Jul 2018 , Lalkar
  • British politics / The myth of Labour party antisemitism

    On the zionist-backed campaign against Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour party.

    3 Jul 2018 , Lalkar
  • Disputes / TGI Fridays staff strike over tips ‘redistribution’

    Cut-throat competition in the oversupplied public dining sector is forcing real wages down even as the minimum wage officially goes up.

    21 Jun 2018 ,
  • Media / Bringing Julian Assange home

    John Pilger on the significance of WikiLeaks and the rage of US imperialism against its founder.

    20 Jun 2018 , Information Clearing House
  • Trade unions / Universities union leader Sally Hunt sidesteps members’ censure motion

    Trade union 'democracy' in action.

    19 Jun 2018 ,
  • Social wage / Poverty on the rise as Birmingham’s Labour council freezes burial fees

    Rates of child poverty are soaring in Britain’s major cities; Labour councils are as impotent and callous as all the rest.

    14 Jun 2018 , Proletarian
  • Health / Saving the NHS: the method and success rate of the petition ‘activist’

    All sound and fury signifying nothing much.

    10 Jun 2018 , Proletarian
  • Media / Cambridge Analytica and the drive toward internet censorship

    Corporate abuse of the internet is being used to justify censorship of independent media.

    7 Jun 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Brexit chaos deepens as withdrawal deadline looms

    The bourgeois parties cannot agree within and among themselves, and remainers are vying to overturn the referendum altogether.

    5 Jun 2018 , Proletarian
  • Industry / GKN takeover brings mayhem to thousands of working-class lives

    Unelected shareholders and executives continue to make decisions affecting thousands of families, revealing the true nature of the capitalist system.

    26 May 2018 , Lalkar
  • Industry / Privatised rail industry totters

    The resistance of rail workers to safety-cutting measures is bringing the question of renationalisation back onto the political agenda.

    19 May 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Glasgow lowlife

    Yet another 'arms-length' union-busting operation as Glasgow city council's chosen privateers hire scabs rather than pay agreed wages.

    15 May 2018 ,
  • Disputes / University workers sold down the river

    With friends like the University and College Union leadership, who needs enemies?

    14 May 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Should workers vote in Birmingham’s council elections?

    The answer to this question lies not in absolute principles, but in the day-to-day tactics of the class struggle.

    2 May 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • British politics / Celebrate and struggle on May Day: International Workers’ Day

    We urgently need to reclaim the British working-class movement for socialism.

    1 May 2018 ,
  • Divide and rule / The Windrush scandal

    For once, the British public is being given an insight into the misery that is daily inflicted by the UK's racist and draconian immigration regime.

    30 Apr 2018 , Lalkar
  • British politics / From Gaza to Balsall Heath – international man of peace

    Sammi Ibrahim is standing as a communist candidate in local elections in Balsall Heath, Birmingham.

    29 Apr 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • British politics / Birmingham Worker candidate speaks out on behalf of working-class youth

    What can British youth do about the poverty, exclusion and alienation they face today?

    29 Apr 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • British politics / Birmingham Worker candidates fighting for women and children

    Communist candidates highlight the role of the Labour party in implementing austerity on behalf of the ruling class.

    29 Apr 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • Working-class history / 200 years since the birth of Karl Marx

    The founder of the modern proletarian movement who gave his life to furthering the science of class struggle.

    25 Apr 2018 ,
  • Leaflets / No to Nato warmongering; stop WW3! Hands off Syria!

    The timing of the imperialist missile strikes on Syria reveals their hopes of saving the defeated jihadis to inflict further suffering on the Syrian people.

    24 Apr 2018 ,
  • British politics / Socialism anyone? How much further is left for the CPB to fall?

    The self-identifying communists of the CPB leadership are plumbing new depths as they seek to prettify every pro-imperialist policy of the Labour party.

    21 Apr 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Bristol demo report: The utter bankruptcy of Stop the War

    Fresh proof that workers will never succeed in stopping war while they allow the StW charlatans to lead their movement.

    18 Apr 2018 ,
  • Syria / Imperialist plans for a major war as rats cleared out of eastern Ghouta

    British soldiers captured by the Syrian army in Douma give the game away.

    13 Apr 2018 ,
  • Ireland / British government struggles with contradictory aims in Ireland

    Reunification is the simple solution staring everyone in the face.

    13 Apr 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / The infamous ‘antisemitic’ mural

    Jeremy Corbyn has apologised for failing to notice an East End mural’s antisemitism and now supports its removal. Is he right?

    11 Apr 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / The Skripal case is blatant war propaganda. Hands off Russia!

    The hysterical tone of the media and political establishment betrays imperialism’s rage that Russia continues to stand up for itself and its allies.

    11 Apr 2018 , Proletarian
  • Housing / Housing shortage in the midst of plenty

    It is not the right to buy that workers need, but the right to a home.

    5 Apr 2018 , Proletarian
  • Health / GP incentives – a dangerous tool of NHS privatisation

    “I will use treatments for the benefit of the ill in accordance with my ability and my judgement, but from what is to their harm and injustice I will keep them.”

    4 Apr 2018 , Proletarian
  • Leaflets / Support the northern trains strike!

    Shareholders get richer while workers and the public suffer.

    18 Mar 2018 ,
  • Disputes / Why lecturers need to remain steadfast in defence of their pensions

    Plans to rob workers of their deferred wages and replace them with a slashed pot totally dependent on market fluctuations must be resisted.

    11 Mar 2018 ,
  • Pay and conditions / Council workers win skirmish with Manchester outsourcing cowboy

    The involvement of Labour councils in the outsourcing racket should make unions think twice about their generous donations to the party's coffers.

    11 Mar 2018 ,
  • Health / Time to prise the leeches off the NHS

    Why is it that increased funding doesn't result in better services in today's health service?

    6 Mar 2018 , Lalkar
  • Leaflets / Hands off lecturers’ pensions

    A decent pension for all workers is a right, not a privilege.

    1 Mar 2018 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Capita poised to follow Carillion down the tubes

    Yet more proof of Marx’s observation that under capitalism profit is privatised and debt is nationalised.

    1 Mar 2018 , Lalkar
  • Leaflets / Housing: a crisis of capitalism

    What must be done in order to provide decent homes to all workers?

    1 Mar 2018 ,
  • Trade unions / Postal union caves in on pensions

    The CWU's failure to stand up to the marketisation of pensions will affect more than just postal workers.

    15 Feb 2018 ,
  • Disputes / Support the McWorkers: class against class!

    Organisation is a vital weapon in the fight for our rights.

    12 Feb 2018 ,
  • Leaflets / Why hasn’t Stop the War stopped a war yet?

    Fifteen years after the 2 million-strong demo against the invasion of Iraq, why is the anti-war movement’s record so dismal?

    6 Feb 2018 ,
  • Lay-offs and closures / The collapse of Carillion

    Financial and political commentators are suddenly ‘discovering’ that PFI and the privatisation of services might not be such a good deal after all.

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
  • Health / NHS crisis bites deeper

    Workers taste the bitter fruit of capitalist market ‘reforms’.

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
  • Media / Blunt hatchets: Guardian attempts to discredit real journalism on Syria

    As the criminal war against Syria faces an all-out defeat, the guardians of liberal opinion are going all-out to bring independent-minded readers back into line.

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Crossrail electricians walk out

    Blacklisting Balfour Beatty manager dismisses union members in an attept to avert strike action.

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Migrant workers in London: We are not the dirt we clean

    New unions are championing London's invisible workforce.

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Rail strikes multiplying

    The government and rail operators are continuing to force unsafe driver only operation onto staff and passengers.

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Released cabinet papers reveal imperialist skulduggery

    Although more files than usual were kept back from this year's release, those remaining reveal much about the workings of the imperialist system.

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Pay gap widens: the rich get richer

    What the minimum wage did for us ...

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
  • Pollution / Air pollution in Britain at scandalously high levels

    And all for the sake of the profits of the automobile industry.

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Theresa May’s election U-turn

    Proposed new laws to curb strike action by key public-sector workers were hastily ditched as Corbyn's popularity rose during the election campaign.

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Birmingham’s binmen conclude their strike … for now

    A ‘new’ deal has been offered that appears to make some concessions, but which demands more work for the same money.

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Editorial: Message to Birmingham’s bin workers

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • Health / GPs resisting wholesale privatisation of NHS surgeries

    It’s not just hospitals that are under fire.

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • Media / Media on trial

    Independent journalists expose the lies of the liberal imperialist media such as the BBC, Channel 4 and CNN.

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / British media go all out to spread racism and islamophobia

    While the true interests of vulnerable children are callously disregarded.

    1 Oct 2017 , Proletarian
  • Health / The ongoing decimation of the NHS

    Nurses leaving en masse and operations rationed.

    1 Oct 2017 , Proletarian
  • Education / The insanity of school league tables

    From cheating in public schools to expulsion of ‘weaker’ students in state schools – competition in education is the enemy of true excellence.

    1 Oct 2017 , Proletarian
  • Ireland / The DUPing of the British government

    Theresa May’s majority is saved by the most backward elements in bourgeois politics.

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • Housing / Grenfell Tower: tragedy or crime?

    What was behind the devastating fire in north Kensington in June?

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • Housing / Labour council pushes ahead with housing segregation in Haringey

    The disgrace of social cleansing in London.

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • Housing / Editorial: The housing crisis

    The horrific fire at Grenfell Tower in London, which has killed so many working-class people, demonstrates the terrible reality of housing in Britain today.

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Binmen on strike in Birmingham

    More council cuts = more rats! Birmingham’s refuse workers are mounting strong resistance to the latest austerity plans of the city’s Labour-led council.

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • Sport / Hillsborough 28 years on

    Will the victims get justice at last?

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Not so strong and stable after all: May loses Brexit gamble

    The poisoned chalice of the British premiership.

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • Britain / Terrorist atrocity in Manchester

    The MI6 connection.

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Editorial: Our demands

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • British politics / ‘Socialist’ McDonnell shocked by communists on May Day

    Reactionaries shun the hammer and sickle as the devil shuns holy water!

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / The fight-back of the low-paid

    ‘Precarious’ workers are doing it for themselves.

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Remembering Comrade Clement Murphy-Shaw

    An exemplary life given to the promotion of progressive and humanitarian causes.

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Join the CPGB-ML’s annual anti-imperialist barbecue

    In celebration of famous proletarian victories in Korea and Cuba.

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • France / French elections produce … more of the same!

    An opportunity further to upset the applecart in Europe has been lost, but the imperialists’ glee is likely to be short-lived.

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • Health / Cloak and dagger: the operation to kill the NHS

    The campaign to destroy the NHS is reaching its final stages: how did we get here and what can we do?

    1 Apr 2017 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Editorial: Brexit moves ahead

    Article 50 is triggered.

    1 Apr 2017 , Proletarian
  • Education / Education under attack

    Capitalism in crisis is wrecking our children’s future; it’s time to wake up and fight back.

    1 Apr 2017 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Birmingham council in financial crisis

    A strike by binmen and other workers is inevitable.

    1 Apr 2017 , Proletarian
  • Society / Letter: So you want to be a hero?

    A reader puts some pertinent questions to any young person thinking of joining the armed forces.

    1 Apr 2017 , Proletarian
  • USSR / What did the October Revolution do for us? 1. The NHS

    The Great October Revolution, which created the world’s first socialist state, and whose centenary is celebrated this year, brought with it the first ever system of universal provision for all members of society, and amongst the most important of those gains was that of free and complete healthcare.

    1 Dec 2016 , Proletarian
  • British politics / How the scabs were ditched, and other dirty laundry of 1989-90

    The latest release of cabinet papers gives us a further insight into the secret doings of our ruling class.

    1 Dec 2016 , Proletarian
  • Ireland / Northern Ireland assembly collapses in scandal

    Northern Ireland assembly collapses in scandal.

    1 Dec 2016 , Proletarian
  • Palestine / What more can we do for Palestine?

    “In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians.”

    1 Dec 2016 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Yes to Brexit; No to xenophobia

    Workers must hold tight to the motto Unity is Strength, and utterly reject the siren songs of racism and xenophobia.

    10 Nov 2016 ,
  • Disputes / Shrewsbury 24: Amnesty International shows its true colours

    Even forty years later, the ‘human rights’ champions are still not prepared to tell the full story of their collusion with Labour in keeping Des Warren locked up.

    1 Aug 2016 , Proletarian
  • British politics / After Brexit: what next?

    The anger of the proletariat must be turned against their real enemy – capitalism!

    1 Aug 2016 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Chilcot report: devastating exposure of the British establishment

    Blair hung out to dry in an attempt to divert attention from the continuing crimes of British imperialism.

    1 Aug 2016 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Editorial: Junior doctors vote to reject new contract

    Health secretary Jeremy Hunt vows to impose new conditions anyway as privatisation plans ramps up another gear.

    1 Aug 2016 , Proletarian
  • British politics / The Scottish response to Brexit

    SNP pressing for another bite of the cherry.

    1 Aug 2016 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Crisis in the Labour party

    With every day it is becoming more apparent that war criminals are eminently more acceptable to the imperialist Labour party than a mildly anti-war leader.

    1 Aug 2016 , Proletarian
  • Education / Kids’ strike over school tests

    Kids boycott SAT tests as parents demand: ‘Let our kids be kids’.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Tata: the vultures circle

    While the capitalist crisis continues to destroy workers' lives, our union leaders are still trying to push us down the blind alley of support for British imperialism.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Blacklisters cough up but justice still denied

    Construction monopolies pay out token amounts to their victims in the hope of avoiding further exposure in the courts and media.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Union-busting at Topshop

    Retail giant's outsourced cleaners protest against victimisation of activists.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Unite says no to Brexit

    Britain's biggest trade union backs monopoly capital's view on the imperialist exploiters' club.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / No to the new doctors’ contract; save our NHS!

    Hunt declares victory for the government; BMA’s Malawana declares ... nothing.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Police lies revealed at Hillsborough; Orgreave must be next

    Inquiry reveals police guilt for 96 unnecessary deaths in Sheffield, and highlights the militarised and anti-worker culture that grew out of the political policing of the miners’ strike five years earlier.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • British politics / ‘Anti-zionism is not antisemitism’

    Statement on ‘Labour’s problem with antisemitism’ from the Jewish Socialists’ Group.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Health / Sudden death of the ‘weekend effect’

    One of the key planks in the government's propaganda offensive against junior doctors has been exposed as a total nonsense.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Reclaiming May Day for the working class

    A day of proletarian pride.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / BHS workers facing loss of jobs and pensions

    This is not the ‘unacceptable face’ of capitalism; capitalism itself is unacceptable.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Budget 2016: attacking the poor will not fix the economy

    Chancellor Osborne is finding that there is no escape from the world capitalist economic crisis.

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • Health / Public health: a matter of private profit

    The proposed junior doctors’ contracts and cuts to student nurse bursaries are part of the drive to turn our hospitals into profit-taking enterprises.

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Industry matters: TUC touts for the EU

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • Society / Letter: We need a council tax rebellion

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • Society / Joint enterprise murder convictions judged unsound

    All those who have been unjustly jailed should be freed, and should be compensated for their lost years.

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Letter: Brexit – a historian’s view

    The EU is an undemocratic institution created in order to oppress, exploit and wage war.

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Industry matters: pay ‘rises’ belied by decline in real wages

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Disgraceful neglect of the disabled in Britain

    Official government policy: nobody knows you when you’re down and out.

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / New bill could pave the way for the final destruction of social housing

    Is this the end of social housing in Britain or the start of a fight-back?

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Big Data is watching you: the snoopers’ charter

    Unparalleled levels of intrusive mass surveillance are to be legitimised by the Investigatory Powers Bill.

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • Climate change / Floods in Britain: capitalism creating and exacerbating ‘natural’ disasters

    As cuts, privatisation and climate change collide to create a perfect storm, it’s becoming clearer than ever that we’ve got to be red to be green!

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Health warning: capitalism kills

    Latest assaults on society’s most helpless.

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • Health / Junior doctors’ fight to save our NHS betrayed

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • Health / The junior doctors’ contract and the US corporate takeover of the NHS

    Dr Bob Gill explains the unreported and sinister drive behind the push for changing junior doctors’ contracts.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Corbyn’s attempts to reform the Labour party rebound

    Lessons in the futility of trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Letter: Boycott the General Medical Council

    The medical profession needs a new, independent governing body, capable of acting in the true interests of patients.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Jeremy Corbyn: ‘resurgence’ of left social democracy may be shortlived

    Labour's new leader is already succumbing to pressure to give up his long-held positions on Britain's membership of Nato, the EU and more.

    1 Oct 2015 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Who is to blame for the refugee crisis?

    Why is it that so many more refugees are heading for western Europe than was the case five, ten or twenty years ago?

    1 Oct 2015 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Health warning: Austerity kills

    The truth is out, notwithstanding official attempts to cover it up.

    1 Oct 2015 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / The human cost of prisons for profit

    A Proletarian reader recounts his best friend’s descent into despair and eventual suicide while imprisoned on an indeterminate sentence. This article has been previously published in the Morning Star.

    1 Oct 2015 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Benefit cuts: Who are the real parasites in our society?

    Stealing from the poor for the benefit of the rich.

    16 Sep 2015 , Proletarian
  • Proletarian news / Red salute to Comrade John Taylor

    16 Sep 2015 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Jeremy Corbyn: ‘Left’ Labour’s great white elephant

    All the wishes in the world cannot turn the imperialist Labour party into a vehicle for workers’ emancipation.

    16 Sep 2015 , Proletarian
  • British politics / George Osborne’s vicious summer budget

    Austerity is set to deepen yet again, and the rise in poverty we have seen so far is only the beginning of what’s in store for Britain’s workers as the crisis of capitalism demands ever-bigger lumps of our flesh.

    16 Sep 2015 , Proletarian
  • Film and TV / We Are Many: new film prettifies leaders of the anti-war movement

    We have the power to change the world, but are we allowing that power to be diverted?

    1 Jun 2015 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Election circus over, the class struggle continues

    Workers don’t need Labour's ‘kinder’ cuts and ‘ethical’ wars; we need communist organisation to take on the ruling class and win.

    1 Jun 2015 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / General election results: the Scottish context

    The faith of the Scottish workers in the SNP will inevitably be dashed.

    1 Jun 2015 , Proletarian
  • Ireland / Sinn Féin: the voice of all Ireland

    The party of anti-imperialist nationalism continues to make headway in Ireland, as rivals north and south are exposed by the latest turns of the economic crisis.

    1 Feb 2015 , Proletarian
  • Syria / MI5 and the jihadists: an unholy alliance

    Britain's secret services and reactionary islamists united against Syria.

    1 Feb 2015 , Proletarian
  • Ireland / Sinn Féin stands alone against austerity

    North and south of the border, Sinn Féin is proving to be the only large party that takes a sincere interest in the welfare of the masses.

    1 Feb 2015 , Proletarian
  • Poetry / Poem: Of Mine and Me

    1 Dec 2014 , Proletarian
  • Energy / Fracking the world away?

    Capitalism can’t be trusted to take care of our environment or our health.

    1 Aug 2013 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Wonga watch

    Workers’ indignation needs to be justly roused against this humiliation of our class.

    1 Aug 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
  • British politics / Forget the jubilee, join the revolution!

    The Queen is not ‘ours’, but theirs. She is of and for that tiny handful of ruthless exploiters who keep the world’s people in poverty and servitude.

    1 Apr 2012 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Downton Abbey, the Jolly George and Stop the War

    Please, if we ask you nicely, will you? Pretty please?

    1 Oct 2011 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Rage against capitalism: working-class youth fight back

    The working class needs a general staff that can enable it to direct its anger in a constructive way.

    9 Aug 2011 ,
  • Civil liberties / YOUTH UPRISING 2011: Bourgeois ideologues battle for control of the working-class movement

    Protesters under attack from state repression, rabid propaganda and rotten ideology.

    1 Jun 2011 , Proletarian
  • China / The just stance of people’s China in the case of drug trafficker Akmal Shaikh

    Why are British media so concerned with the fate of a man convicted of pushing hard drugs in Xinjiang?

    3 Jan 2010 ,
  • Theatre / Play: The Power of Yes by David Hare

    Explaining nothing, this play is aimed merely at letting off some steam without getting any nearer to a solution to society’s systemic problems.

    1 Oct 2009 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Editorial: Jade Goody is a product of capitalist society

    1 Feb 2007 , Proletarian

Britain topics

  • British politics

Britain video

  • Syria / How the left failed Syria

    Trade union and antiwar leaders in Britain facilitated the destruction of the middle east’s longest-surviving sovereign territory.

    3 Apr 2025,
  • British politics / Communist revolutionary Harpal Brar lives in the hearts of the world’s people

    During the Soviet counter-revolution, he was at the forefront of the ideological battle for the fate of the communist movement.

    1 Apr 2025,
  • 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,
  • Britain TV / Red youth: Why I joined the CPGB-ML

    Any communist party that is serious must succeed in harnessing, training and directing the energy of our revolutionary youth.

    6 Jan 2025, Proletarian TV
  • Civil liberties / Joti Brar and Garland Nixon: Palestine repression, Ukraine war, ep9

  • Capitalism or communism TV / Joti Brar: Whose side are the British communists on?

  • British politics / Starmer promises to ‘fix’ Britain – with racism, repression, austerity and war

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

  • World TV / Joti Brar and Garland Nixon episode 7: Who are the ruling elite?

  • Cuba / Cuban ambasador: ‘We are united by principles and a common struggle’

  • British politics / Ella Rule: ‘Proletarian revolution is our number one objective’

  • British politics / The Communists’ message for May Day 2024: Where are the unions

  • British politics / Elbit 7 sentenced in Bristol. Where is our ‘Hands off Palestine’ movement?

  • Russia / Communists send solidarity to a Russian nation in mourning after terror attack

  • World TV / Joti Brar and Garland Nixon: Policing Palestine protestors, episode 4

  • Civil liberties / Communist party rally outside the Royal Courts of Justice for Julian Assange

  • Civil liberties / Zionism cannot be negotiated with – it must be defeated!

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

  • World TV / Joti Brar and Garland Nixon: Parasitic imperialism, episode 1

  • Civil liberties / British terrorist state persecutes communists on ‘anti-terror’ pretext

  • World TV / Joti Brar in the USA: ‘Work for the victory of the resistance forces’

  • Civil liberties / Huda Ammori: Why I risked prison to shut Elbit down

  • Civil liberties / Free the Elbit Seven! No cooperation with Israeli war crimes!

  • Palestine / Comrade Ranjeet talks to Press TV about his arrest and the fight against zionism

  • USSR / Joti Brar: The essential lessons of October

  • British politics / Gaza: tipping point in western crisis of legitimacy for politicians and media?

  • Palestine / Ranjeet Brar on Gaza war crimes and repression

  • Social wage / Heating and eating: the impoverishment of British workers

  • World / Athens declaration: World is entering a new era of anti-imperialist struggle

  • Palestine / Platform declaration: From the river, to the sea, Palestine will be free!

  • Capitalist crisis / Red Youth: Marxism can channel the anger of our youth into revolution

  • World history / British delegate in Athens: We must learn the lessons of our history

  • Civil liberties / Anti-zionism is not racism! Join our protest today!

  • Greece / Athens Polytechnic commemoration: ‘Our lessons have been learned in blood’

  • Civil liberties / Demonisation and lawfare used to suppress support for Palestine in Britain

  • Trade unions / Joti Brar: What happened to our trade unions?

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

  • Czech Republic / Interview with persecuted Czech communist Josef Skála

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

  • Trade unions / Alex Mckay: Trade unions can do more than fight for narrow wage increases

  • Britain / Joti Brar on the human cost of arms industry profits

  • Russia / Donetsk communist leader: ‘No democracy in Ukraine’

  • Britain TV / Joti Brar on RT: Imperialism’s fascistic proxy armies and MSM lies

  • Theory TV / Garland Nixon and Joti Brar: capitalism, imperialism, the ‘left’ and the Platform

  • Bulgaria / Ranjeet Brar: Brexit, Corbyn, the EU and the imperialist economic crisis

  • Korea / Seoul declaration: The rising tide of global war in east Asia

  • Korea / British delegate in Seoul: Global capitalist system teetering over the abyss

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

  • USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Soviet Union defeating fascism

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

  • Economy / Bank of England ‘economist’ to workers: accept poverty, stop asking for a pay rise

  • Divide and rule / Dan O’Brien, Ranjeet Brar: immigration and the new ‘stop the boats’ bill

  • Theory TV / Harpal Brar: Lenin is still key to understanding imperialism and war

  • Theory TV / The global drive to war and the launch of the World Anti-imperialist Platform

  • Media / BBC’s crocodile tears over ‘mass graves’ in Mariupol are a sick farce

  • Theory / Comrade Joti: Why our rulers hide the truth about socialist science

  • Divide and rule / Harpal Brar on Avtar Jouhl: Above all he was a fighter for socialism

  • Theory TV / Harpal Brar: Lenin on party building (One Step Forward)

  • Theory TV / Ella Rule: Lenin on revolutionary theory (What Is To Be Done?)

  • World TV / Harpal Brar to Anti-imperialist Platform: ‘Imperialism is going to crash’

  • Health / Dr Bob Gill on Julian Assange: Media censorship is key to NHS privatisation

  • Capitalist crisis / Kwarteng’s budget: less red tape – fewer workers rights

  • British politics / Book: Britain’s Road to Socialism?

  • Capitalist crisis / Comrade Ranjeet: ‘Cost of living crisis is inseparably bound up with capitalism’

  • Capitalism or communism TV / Comrade Ella tells Chinese conference: ‘A decent future is ours for the taking’

  • USSR / Harpal Brar: Why celebrate the Soviet and allied victory over fascism in 2022?

  • USSR / Journalist Steve Sweeney on Ukraine war – a personal account on Victory Day

  • Disputes / Rail strike spreads as employers and government remain intransigent

  • Civil liberties / British citizen Graham Phillips placed on UK sanctions list

  • World TV / Comrade Joti on CrossTalk: ‘Russia and the Global South’

  • Ukraine / Joti Brar: British people being subjected to a major psyop regarding Ukraine

  • China / Ella Rule: China’s history confirms that workers need a scientific socialist party

  • Theory TV / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: The Communist International

  • USA / To US workers: ‘Only class politics can save us from the rampaging monopolists’

  • Divide and rule / Joti Brar: ‘Nobody is telling women how socialist society will lift their burdens’

  • Working-class history / Comrade Ella Rule on socialism and women’s liberation

  • Ukraine / Comrade Nina with Dean O’Brien on Donbass, Ukraine, Russia and Nato

  • World TV / Comrade Joti on RT’s CrossTalk: ‘Crystal Ball 2022’

  • Divide and rule / A ‘luxury lifestyle’? The shocking abuse culture at immigrant detention centres

  • Divide and rule / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Capitalism and immigration

  • Capitalism or communism TV / Comrade Ranjeet: Our struggle is an international one

  • Venezuela / Venezuelan ambassador: ‘They will see the kind of democracy we have’

  • World TV / Vijay Prashad: How the imperialists couped the world in the 1960s

  • Russia / Dr Ranjeet: The story about Russia stealing vaccine secrets is a lie

  • Working-class history / Ivor Kenna: a long life dedicated to the struggle for socialism in Britain

  • Health / Dr Ranjeet Brar: Act now to stop the selling of your NHS data

  • Health / Dr Bob Gill and Dr Ranjeet Brar: The NHS is being dismantled before our eyes

  • Social wage / Queues for food reach 2km in London

  • Capitalist crisis / Covid has laid bare the capitalist dystopia in which we are already living

  • Divide and rule / Comrade Lauren: ‘Identity politics divide workers’

  • Yemen / Who is really fighting whom in Yemen?

  • Health / Comrade Ranjeet on Moats: NHS marketisation and the covid death toll

  • Health / Comrade Ranjeet on Press TV: 100,000 covid deaths

  • Capitalist crisis / The unenviable plight of the self-employed

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

  • Health / Comrade Ranjeet on Kalima Horra: ‘Who benefits from a covid vaccine?’

  • Economy / Amazon plays cat and mouse with the digital tax

  • Social wage / Picking workers’ pockets: the face mask tax is back

  • Health / Comrade Ranjeet on MoATS: ‘The government has failed the people’

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

  • Health / Coronavirus: Cuts to health and social care crippled covid response

  • Health / Coronavirus: NHS privatisation and the US second wave

  • Health / Coronavirus: NHS is 72 but drugs companies are still rinsing the system

  • British politics / Project Corbyn has failed: what next?

  • World TV / Comrade Joti on RT’s CrossTalk: ‘Rethinking globalism’

  • Health / Coronavirus: a real threat

  • Health / Coronavirus: The truth about ‘overpopulation’ and ‘herd immunity’

  • Health / Coronavirus: What do the experts say?

  • Health / Health service privatisation: who runs the NHS?

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

  • Theory TV / Marxism in the 21st century: is it still relevant?

  • British politics / Workers Party’s George Galloway launches No Gulf War campaign

  • USSR / The NHS is ‘communist’ – we owe it to the October Revolution, not to Labour

  • British politics / Comrade Joti interviewed by Caleb Maupin

  • China / Comrade Joti talks to George Galloway about China and Hong Kong

  • Divide and rule / George Galloway: identity politics is not socialism

  • China / Comrade Ranjeet discusses Hong Kong with George Galloway on MoATS

  • Britain TV / Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party exposed over Brexit U-turn

  • Britain TV / Revolution in Britain

  • British history / British communism, 1920-1943

  • Theory TV / Harpal Brar on Trotskyism or Leninism?

  • Capitalism or communism TV / Marxism, dialectics and the Labour party

  • Britain TV / Ukip – a party for British workers?

  • Culture / Shakespeare: bard of a rising class

  • British history / Winston Churchill: hero or monster?

  • Ireland / The Easter Rising of 1916 and the October Revolution of 1917

  • Divide and rule / Working women’s liberation or bourgeois feminism?

  • India / Poem: Comrade Bhagat Singh and Comrade Udham Singh

  • British politics / Workers for Brexit: why our party supported leave in the EU referendum

  • Divide and rule / The women’s movement in Britain

  • Divide and rule / Antifascist work: advice from a former fascist

  • Theory TV / Trotskyism Q&A

  • Britain TV / Comrade Harpal on Lenin, opportunism and the Labour party

  • World TV / The drive to war against Russia and China

  • Britain TV / October 100: Our future is socialism

  • World TV / October 100: DPR Korea pays tribute

  • Health / Dr Bob Gill: The NHS conspiracy

  • Britain TV / Former soldier Mike Pike on why workers should refuse to fight in imperialist war

  • Britain TV / Harpal Brar on the myth of Labour antisemitism

  • Britain TV / Our vision: Harpal Brar on the tasks of the party

  • Britain TV / What can Corbyn’s Labour do for us?

  • Britain TV / The royal wedding – our tribute!

  • History TV / Tribute to Marx on his 200th birthday

  • World TV / Syria briefing: What’s really going on?

  • Britain TV / Hands Off Syria protest in London on the eve of latest British bombing

  • Britain TV / On the eve of Britain’s bombing of Syria, Comrade Dan on Press TV

  • Britain TV / The Grenfell massacre: burning and looting

  • Britain TV / Imperialism on trial: Eva Bartlett

  • Disputes / New deal offered to striking university staff is no deal at all

  • Britain TV / Imperialism on trial: the big lie

  • Britain TV / Stop the War’s campaign for a Labour ‘anti-war’ government

  • Britain TV / Imperialism on trial: Libya, the media and Stop the War

  • British politics / General election 2017: what did it mean?

  • British politics / After Brexit: what does the EU referendum result mean?

  • Britain TV / Communist doctor addresses NHS campaign meeting

  • Working-class history / Billy Vincent – communist

  • Working-class history / What did the Indian workers do for us?

  • Britain TV / Refugees welcome: massive London demonstration protests ill-treatment

  • Britain TV / Indian workers in Britain

  • Britain TV / Corbyn mania: Jez we can?

  • Britain TV / Victory to the Donbass people

  • Britain / May Day election message for British workers

  • Ireland / Saville report: British murders on Bloody Sunday ‘unjustified and unjustifiable’

Britain 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,
  • British politics / Trotskyism – an imperialist, treacherous tendency

    Many, if not all, Trotskyite organisations are directly sponsored and promoted by the imperialist ruling class.

    27 Apr 2025,
  • Working-class history / Obituary: Harpal Brar, revolutionary founder of the CPGB-ML

    Sixty years of dedicated service to the anti-imperialist movement by an outstanding revolutionary have left a lasting legacy for the British working class.

    5 Mar 2025, Lalkar
  • British politics / Comrade Harpal Brar: a life entirely dedicated to the cause of socialism

    Our party’s founding chair has died, but his work lives on in a new generation of revolutionaries, both in Britain and around the world.

    26 Feb 2025, Proletarian
  • Syria / The sad downfall of the Syrian government

    This is indeed a devastating setback for the long-suffering peoples of Syria and the wider region, but it is by no means the end of their liberation struggle.

  • Theory / Book: Zionism by Harpal Brar

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

  • 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.

  • British politics / The dead weight of old slogans: how Trotskyists justify their sell-out

    The Euro-American fake left are hiding behind 19th-century slogans that have no relevance to anti-imperialist struggles.

  • Civil liberties / Role of the Labour government, and the workers’ necessary response

    The ruling class put Labour in power to try to manage the crisis, knowing that it is better placed to wage war on workers at home and abroad.

  • 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?

  • World history / Josef Stalin on the Labour party and Nato

    ‘The Labour government has agreed to turn Britain into a military and air base for the United States of America to attack the Soviet Union.’

  • British politics / What is the ‘Revolutionary Communist Party’ and why is it so heavily promoted?

    People interested in left-wing politics are suddenly being bombarded with links to RCP content on social media. Why?

  • Trade unions / Communist work in the trade unions

    How should Marxists approach union work? Which demands are most useful in developing workers’ class-consciousness?

  • Divide and rule / ‘Stop the boats!’ The political football of the ‘immigration debate’ in Britain

    How the ruling class divides workers against one another and distracts our attention from the true causes of our misery.

  • Theory / Lenin’s work remains a guide for our time: an introduction

    What is it about VI Lenin and his work that remains so essential to the working class a century after his death?

  • USSR / Lenin’s work remains a guide for our time

    What are some of the key lessons we need to take from Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the coming period of rising revolutionary struggle?

  • World history / On the current state and problems of the communist movement

    What are the lessons communists need to learn in order to fulfil their historic role in the coming period of increased class struggle and deepening imperialist crisis?

  • 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 / How the KKE uses Marxist terminology to cover its retreat from Marxism

    What is the impact of the anti-Marxian theory of the ‘imperialist pyramid’?

  • World history / Lessons of 1914: Imperialism means war

    Reams of WW1 historiography serve only to conceal the essence of that terrible conflagration – which gave birth in its turn to the era of proletarian revolution.

  • Capitalist crisis / Book: Manifesto for the crisis

    What do workers need to understand if they are to solve their problems for good?

  • Divide and rule / Book: Capitalism and Immigration

    Our strength is in our unity, and our rulers know it well.

  • 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?

  • Theory / Lenin lives!

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

  • Capitalist crisis / It’s not the workers but the capitalists who are causing inflation

    It is the right and the duty of workers to demand a bigger share of the wealth their own labour has created.

  • Capitalist crisis / The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis

    Economic crises are an inescapable feature of life under the market system. Socialist planning is our only way out.

  • Ukraine / Western presstitutes rediscover international law after 77 years

    Will this admission turn out to have been a massive own goal?

  • Theory / Connecting Marxism with the masses is the number one priority of communists

    Individually and as a collective we must constantly reassess whether our effort is being wisely spent.

  • British politics / A critique of the CPB’s ‘Britain’s Road to Socialism’ in the 21st century, pt 3

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  • British politics / A critique of the CPB’s ‘Britain’s Road to Socialism’ in the 21st century, pt 1

    What lies at the root of the CPB’s total inability to educate or inspire even a fraction of the working class?

  • Sport / What can the European Super League teach us about monopoly capitalism?

    The monopolisation of football is teaching workers all over again some of the lessons taught to us by Lenin over a century ago.

  • Civil liberties / Red scare and yellow peril: challenging the new McCarthyism

    Many self-identifying leftists are going along with the imperialist campaign to vilify China, including by cheering on attempts to crush all debate and dissent.

  • Theory / Modern monetary theory: is there a magic money tree?

    Those who would change the world must first understand it: Marxist economics is the antidote to bourgeois voodoo.

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

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

  • Lay-offs and closures / Job cuts and factory closures; the car industry in Britain

    As automation and overproduction combine to wipe out industrial jobs, what is the answer to this seemingly insoluble problem?

  • Divide and rule / The only thing that unites us is class

    Socialists must avoid the trap of bourgeois identity politics if they are to make headway in uniting the working class against capitalism.

  • 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?

  • Economy / Sanctions: a self-defeating weapon

    The tectonic plates of the world order are beginning to shift as a consequence of imperialist parasitism.

  • Leaflets / How can we stop imperialist war?

    If our unions take principled positions against British war crimes, we will have the backing we need to refuse to cooperate as individuals.

  • USSR / October 1917: the defining event of our epoch

    What is the significance of the events in Russia one hundred years ago for workers in Britain today?

  • Theory / Marx on Ireland: how colonialism abroad divides workers at home

    Two letters give Marx’s insight into the connection between the liberation struggle of the Irish and the British workers’ struggle for socialism.

  • British politics / Why British workers need a Brexit

    Leaving the EU would undoubtedly weaken the ability of British, European and US imperialists to dominate the globe.

  • Divide and rule / Black and white, unite and fight!

    Racism is built into the system of exploitation, and will not be abolished until that system is replaced by socialism.

  • Theory / Time to face it: capitalism must go!

    Only a planned economy designed to meet people’s needs can solve the problems of disease, poverty, inequality, war and environmental degradation.

  • Tunisia / Intifada in Tunisia and the fall of Ben Ali

    The long-awaited harbinger of a wider revolt against reactionary Arab regimes.

  • Theory / Letter to a comrade overcome by pessimism

    Living in an imperialist country, where the movement is weak and at a low ebb, it is easy to get discouraged or disillusioned with communist work.

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

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

  • Climate change / Save humanity: the ticking time bomb of climate change

    Even faced with their own destruction, the imperialists are incapable of doing anything to prevent a climate catastrophe.

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