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History highlights

  • 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 ,
  • China / Hail the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China

    We wish the Chinese people success in overcoming their enemies in the future as they have done in the past.

    24 Nov 2019 , Lalkar
  • 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
  • China / Comrade Isabel Crook recieves friendship medal from People’s China

    Our party’s honorary president was one of six recipients of the presigious award, along with Raúl Castro.

    15 Oct 2019 ,
  • Europe / EU legislates to erase the USSR’s role in defeating fascism

    But truth has a way of forcing its way through all the same.

    10 Oct 2019 ,
  • USSR / Stalin and the Bolsheviks of Transcaucasia, part 1

    How the revolutionary communists established themselves as the leading force against tsarist oppression in the Caucasus.

    3 Oct 2019 , Lalkar
  • China / The Chinese revolution: ‘One of the greatest moments in human history’

    Packed London meeting celebrates 70 years of New China and pledges support for its people and government.

    2 Oct 2019 ,
  • China / Defend China’s liberty as you would defend your own

    Workers everywhere must take a stand against the latest ‘colour revolution’ attempt by our imperialist rulers against a sovereign nation.

    27 Sep 2019 ,
  • 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
  • Working-class history / Peterloo in its historical perspective, part 1

    What was the background to the massacre of workers that took place in St Peter’s Field two centuries ago?

    21 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • Music / A worker reviews Shostakovich’s fifth symphony in concert

    Shostakovich’s greatest triumph arose from Soviet life, reflecting its optimism and spirit.

    21 Aug 2019 , Lalkar
  • 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
  • Germany / Buchenwald camp bans memorial for one of its most famous victims

    Ernst Thälmann was a role model for unbroken resistance to Nazi terror, even under the most brutal conditions.

    3 Aug 2019 ,
  • World history / A visit with Isabel Crook, lifelong soldier of the revolution

    Memories of a life lived in the service of the people.

    31 Jul 2019 , Proletarian
  • Palestine / Airbrushing history: Israel buries evidence of its racist war crimes

    Zionist secret services exposed attempting to ‘construct a more convenient version’ of history.

    27 Jul 2019 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Workers in eastern Europe and former Soviet states prefer socialism

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

    26 Jul 2019 , Proletarian
  • USSR / An introduction to the life and times of Maxim Gorky

    Celebrating 150 years since the birth of the great Soviet writer and pioneer of socialist realism.

    23 Jun 2019 , Lalkar
  • Ireland / The IRA plan to kill Michael O’Dwyer

    Irish national archives releases letter showing the close fraternal links between the Irish and Indian liberation movements.

    30 Apr 2019 , Lalkar
  • India / The Bengal famine: Churchill’s real darkest hour

    New evidence confirms British leader’s role in murdering millions of Bengalis.

    28 Apr 2019 , Lalkar
  • India / The Jallianwala Bagh (Amritsar) massacre

    The imperialist crime that put the final nail in the coffin of British rule in India one hundred years ago.

    11 Apr 2019 , Lalkar
  • 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
  • Cuba / Cuba 60: Hasta la victoria siempre!

    Progressive humanity continues to cheer the incredible achievements of the tiny island nation, made in the teeth of the imperialists’ determined and unceasing aggression.

    14 Feb 2019 , Proletarian
  • North Africa and Middle East / World War One in the middle east and its aftermath

    How British and French imperialism carved up the middle east with the backing of their US bankers.

    17 Jan 2019 , Lalkar
  • USSR / Book: Grover Furr’s Mystery of the Katyn Massacre

    This impartial examination of all available evidence proves irrefutably that the Nazis were responsible for the mass murder of Polish officers in 1941.

    15 Dec 2018 ,
  • 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 ,
  • USSR / Andrei Zhdanov: Principles underlying Soviet literature and art pt 2

    Part two of a biography of an extraordinary servant of the proletariat.

    23 Oct 2018 , Lalkar
  • China / China celebrates Marx’s 200th birthday

    CPGB-ML participates in major international conference with other communist parties from around the world.

    19 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
  • Namibia / European holocaust had roots in Africa, now Namibia is suing Germany

    The genocide committed against the Namibian Herero and Nama people sheds light on the Nazi holocaust of jewish and other European peoples in WW2.

    29 Aug 2018 , New Eastern Outlook
  • USSR / October 100: The Red Army choir

    Culture by and for the people, uplifting hearts and spirits, and reinforcing the struggle for socialism.

    25 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 ,
  • USSR / Andrei Zhdanov: On the principles underlying Soviet literature and art

    Part one of a biography of an extraordinary servant of the proletariat.

    1 Aug 2018 , Lalkar
  • USSR / Soviet ballet: dancing the heritage of humanism

    How socialist realism, serving the people, sparked unparalleled creativity.

    27 Jun 2018 , Proletarian
  • Film and TV / Film: The Death of Stalin

    It’s bad history and bad art, but Armando Iannucci’s film has put the wind up bourgeois critics for quite other reasons than those.

    15 Jun 2018 , Proletarian
  • World history / Fifty years since the murder of Martin Luther King Jr

    A leader, one of many, murdered because they came to identify capitalism as the cause of the misery of the US masses.

    25 May 2018 , Proletarian
  • South Africa / Tribute to Comrade Winnie Mandela

    The mother of the South African nation has died, but her legacy continues to inspire new generations in the struggle for complete national liberation.

    9 May 2018 , Lalkar
  • 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 ,
  • USSR / The October Revolution and the east

    How the Russian revolution of 1917 brought socialism to the oppressed peoples of Asia.

    21 Apr 2018 , Proletarian
  • USSR / 65 years since the death of Josef Stalin, hero of the oppressed

    By his deeds shall he always be known.

    9 Mar 2018 ,
  • North Africa and Middle East / Philby senior and his role in British imperial treachery in the middle east

    The secret manoeuvrings of British imperialism to take over control of Arabia as the Turkish empire was ousted during WW1.

    1 Mar 2018 , Lalkar
  • 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
  • Trade unions / Derek Robinson: the passing of a working-class hero

    A staunch and fearless union leader, one of an increasingly rare breed.

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • Palestine / One hundred years since the Balfour declaration

    A sordid document in the shameful history of British imperialism.

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Editorial: The future belongs to communism

    1 Oct 2017 , Proletarian
  • Housing / What did the October Revolution do for us? 2. Housing

    The second in our series of articles examining the impact of the October Revolution of 1917 on the lives of workers in Britain.

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • Cuba / Farewell Comrade Fidel Castro. Eternal glory to you!

    The world mourns the passing of a great revolutionary leader, and celebrates the many enduring achievements of the revolution to which he dedicated his life.

    1 Oct 2016 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / Eurovision circus but no bread

    The imperialist media support for opponents of Russia, including criminals and/or fascists, is relentless and shameless.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / The 1916 Easter Rising remembered

    Irish revolutionary nationalists rose up against British rule a hundred years ago, in an event of world-historic significance.

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • Books / A Nobel prize for literature in the service of reaction

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

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • Australia / Ray Berbling: a life in struggle (1935-2015)

    Ray was a dedicated Australian Marxist-Leninist and a lifelong friend of the the Soviet Union.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • Korea / Ri Ul Sol, hero of the Korean revolution (1921-2015)

    Revolutionary veteran fighter and leader dies aged 94.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Follow the road of Great October!

    This message was sent by an Australian comrade to our party’s celebration of the 98th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, held on 7 Nov 2015

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Poem: Soviet Man

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / What did the Indian workers do for us?

    Harpal Brar gives a short history of the significant contribution made by the IWA (GB) to the British working-class movement, and points the way forward.

    1 Oct 2015 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Robert Conquest dies – but his lies live on!

    An anti-communist agent of British imperialism masquerading as a serious and objective academic.

    11 Aug 2015 , Red Youth
  • Europe / Seventieth anniversary of the victory over fascism marked in Moscow

    An excuse for an orgy of bourgeois lies and prevarication.

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

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

    1 Oct 2014 , Proletarian
  • China / Tiananmen Square: a US-backed attempt at counter-revolution

    How the US tried to apply its colour-revolution formula to China, complete with the big lie of a non-existent ‘massacre’.

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

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

    1 Oct 2012 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • Working-class history / The matchgirls’ strike of 1888

    A landmark victory in working-class history, with much relevance to the many workers today who are once more unorganised and unrepresented by any union.

    1 Jun 2008 , Proletarian

History topics

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  • World history

History video

  • USSR / The NHS is ‘communist’ – we owe it to the October Revolution, not to Labour

    What did the October Revolution do for us? Much more than most workers ever imagine.

    7 Nov 2019, Proletarian TV
  • History TV / WW2: The 70th anniversary of the victory over fascism

    What transformed WW2 from an interimperialist war into an anti-fascist one? Who really beat the Nazis and liberated Europe?

    22 Jul 2019,
  • USSR / The fall of the USSR – market socialism

    Can capitalist market forces be harnessed as the basis of a thriving socialist economy?

    30 Jun 2019, Proletarian TV
  • Britain TV / Revolution in Britain

    Capitalism cannot be regulated or reformed – it must be overthrown, and workers must build an organisation that is up to the task.

    24 Jun 2019,
  • USSR / Grover Furr on the continuing revolution in Stalin-era history

  • British history / British communism, 1920-1943

  • Capitalism or communism TV / Soviet communism – the truth

  • USSR / Paul Robeson, Stalin and the USSR

  • India / Jallianwala Bagh 100: what does it mean?

  • History TV / Paul Robeson testifying at the House Un-American Activities Committee

  • British history / Winston Churchill: hero or monster?

  • USSR / The fall of the USSR

  • Ireland / The Easter Rising of 1916 and the October Revolution of 1917

  • India / Poem: Comrade Bhagat Singh and Comrade Udham Singh

  • USSR / Soviet preparations for World War Two

  • Culture / Soviet ballet: dancing the classical heritage of humanism

  • Britain TV / October 100: Our future is socialism

  • USSR / October 100: Working people have no country – we must win one

  • Cuba / Cuba and the October Revolution

  • Laos / Laos independence and the October Revolution

  • USSR / October 100: Women’s liberation

  • USSR / October 100: Red Youth

  • USSR / October 100: Why does it matter?

  • World TV / October 100: DPR Korea pays tribute

  • History TV / Prof Grover Furr: anti-communist academia is ‘propaganda with footnotes’

  • History TV / Reform or revolution? WW1 and the split in socialism

  • History TV / Tribute to Marx on his 200th birthday

  • USSR / What you are supposed to think about Stalin and why

  • Working-class history / Billy Vincent – communist

  • Britain TV / Indian workers in Britain

  • History TV / US civil rights leaders: Paul Robeson

  • History TV / US civil rights leaders: Robert F Williams

  • India / Why hasn’t India had a revolution like China?

  • Theory TV / The origin and development of class society and the state

History theory

  • Working-class history / Lessons of the Communist (Third) International

    What can workers today learn from the experience of the Comintern?

    27 Oct 2019, Lalkar
  • Housing / Housing and architecture in the Soviet Union

    A variety of housing was built for working people designed to reflect the varied character, climate and context of the vast territories of the USSR.

    15 Apr 2019, Lalkar
  • Working-class history / Marx 200: A brief overview of an extraordinary life’s work

    Why does Marx's name still strike fear and loathing into the hearts and minds of the bourgeoisie so many years after his death? What is the legacy that refuses to die?

    19 Nov 2018, Lalkar
  • 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?

    1 Oct 2017, Proletarian
  • Culture / Celebrating Shakespeare: a Marxist-Leninist perspective

    Part 1. The times make the man: Shakespeare’s historical context

  • Theory / The dictatorship of the proletariat

    What kind of state will the workers need after the socialist revolution?

  • Theory / Lenin on party building

    What kind of organisation does the working class need if it wants to overthrow imperialism and build socialism?

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