British politics / Corbyn Project 2? What could possibly go wrong?

As the imperialists ramp up their drive into WW3, the Corbynistas are back demanding we all fiddle while Rome burns.

Civil liberties / Palestine Action: Genocide resisters added to ‘terrorism’ proscription list

We are being slow-walked into an openly totalitarian regime, while the organised labour movement sits idly by.

British politics / Tribute to Comrade Harpal Brar: Immortalising a revolutionary legend

Kenyan communists’ militant tribute to our party’s departed founder.

Palestine / Heroic people of Gaza continue to resist murderous infamy

British workers must resolutely oppose the imperialist Labour party, which is complicit in, and the active perpetrator of, the Palestinian genocide.

Media / Gary Lineker – the price of speaking out

The punishment administered to this high-profile football pundit is a warning to all: complicity or silence are the only acceptable responses to imperial slaughter.

Working-class history / Obituary: Anne Scargill

A shining example of proletarian leadership, Anne wonderfully proved Mao Zedong’s famous saying that ‘Women hold up half the sky’.

British politics / Starmer’s army

What’s really behind the ‘Strategic Defence Review’ and the government’s eagerness to get Britain ‘ready for war’?

Palestine / The wall of silence on the Gaza genocide is finally starting to crack

Like thieves shunning the scene of their crime, media and politicians are suddenly scrambling to distance themselves from Israel.

Korea / CPGB-ML launches Hands off Korea campaign

As the war drive against the DPRK intensifies, solidarity with the Korean people should be an absolute priority for workers everywhere.

British politics / Starmer’s sleaze

It is becoming clearer by the day that Labour serves monopoly capital and is preparing for a civil war against the working class.

Social wage / People’s Assembly puts on show of fake outrage over ‘Tory Starmer’

Ever hopeful of rescuing their reputations and keeping a lid on working-class discontent, the fake left are at it again.

Society / What have the residents of Spalding got against the people of Gaza?

The media plays a vital role in desensitising British people to the sufferings of their fellow workers.

Film and TV / TV review: Adolescence

Netflix’s latest liberal mind rot.

Civil liberties / Case dismissed after Palestine Action blockade of Instro Precision arms factory

Courts are once again balking at convicting those who act to disrupt the activities of the US/British/Israeli genocidal war machine.

Palestine / Gaza: the struggle continues

No cooperation with genocide. Defend our rights. Anti-zionism is not a crime!

Korea / Letter to north Korea in praise of its selfless fraternal solidarity with Russia

New solidarity organisation expresses appreciation for the internationalist and socialist example set by the brave people of the DPRK.

Capitalist crisis / Starmer’s failing militarism

As the drive to war ramps up, the contradictions of decaying imperialism are on full display.

Health / A nurse’s view of the continuing sabotage of the NHS

Our health service is well advanced on the road to total privatisation.

Russia / Russia is a bulwark of the anti-imperialist world

It is incumbent upon all progressive humanity to defend Russia from imperialist aggression and lying propaganda.

Korea / Long live a sovereign and socialist People’s Korea!

The DPRK continues to stand as a model of courage and steadfastness in the defence of socialism and sovereignty.

Social wage / The poverty crisis and our demands

Workers did not cause the economic crisis, but they are expected to pay the price through austerity and war.

Society / The struggles of the youth

Capitalism has nothing to offer our young people except a lifetime of servitude to a system that crushes their spirits.

Health / No euthanasia!

Workers must demand proper health and social care, and dignified, comfortable retirement homes and hospices for the sick and elderly.

Divide and rule / Immigration, class unity and the fight against racism

Our party is committed to opposing the divide-and-rule tactics used to stop the British working class from using its collective power.

British politics / No illusions in bourgeois democracy

The Labour party and all its ‘left’ hangers-on continue to work day and night to restore workers’ illusions in parliamentary elections.

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.

Civil liberties / Bourgeois democracy and fascism

The march towards authoritarian dictatorship can be countered with by a party imbued with revolutionary optimism.

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.

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.

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..

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Palestine / Gaza ceasefire: Palestinian resistance celebrates significant victory

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.’

Industry / Starmer government pushing fresh sell-off to hedge fund vultures

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Capitalist crisis / Labour means austerity, racism, repression and war

So where are the trade unions?

Civil liberties / It’s a free country, isn’t it?

On the creeping fascistisation of British society.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.’

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.

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.

Civil liberties / Julian Assange is free at last!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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’.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.’

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.’

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Palestine / British complicity in Gaza massacre

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

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.

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.

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.

Health / Are striking doctors really ‘greedy’ and ‘uncaring’?

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

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?

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.

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.

Capitalist crisis / Ofgem serves corporate energy profiteers

The energy regulators work, just not for workers.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

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.’

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?

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Civil liberties / Public Order Act: latest anti-worker legislation to outlaw protests and strikes

Human rights in Britain? What human rights?

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.

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.

Trade unions / Derby Silk Mill commemorations 2023: no communists allowed

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

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.

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!

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Trade unions / Defy the anti-trade union laws!

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

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.

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.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Trade unions / TUC directs its members’ anger into more meaningless busywork

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

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.

Civil liberties / Minimum Service Bill is the latest salvo in the class war against workers

No cooperation with union-busting anti-strike laws! 

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.

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.

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?

Capitalist crisis / Happy new year?

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

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!

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.’

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.

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.

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.

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.’

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Divide and rule / The Channel boat tragedy and Britain’s inhumanity to asylum seekers

Why is the plight of these desperate migrants being weaponised?

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Education / No academic freedom to support Palestine

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

British politics / Britain steps up diplomatic hostility towards China

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Economy / Scandalous levels of public service corruption in Britain

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.’

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

Industry / Government announces extra £16.5bn for military

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

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?

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.

Economy / City spivs raid the public purse

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

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.

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.

Syria / Dirty British propaganda war against Syria exposed

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

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.

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.’

Civil liberties / Media freedom? Show me the MSM journalist opposing the torture of Assange

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.

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.

British politics / Stop the War gets it wrong again

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Civil liberties / Julian Assange: The truth will set him free

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

Industry / End British export of rubber bullets

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

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.

Social wage / UBI: the ‘right’ to be idle or the right to work?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

Workers’ parties sign international revolutionary anti-imperialist manifesto.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.’

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Iran / Self-identifying ‘communists’ blame Iran

Self-defence is no offence; those who really want to stop war must stand with the resistance.

Iran / US imperialism digging its own grave ever faster in the middle east

Slavishly supported by Britain as it does so.

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.

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?

British politics / The Brexit election and the death of Project Corbyn

What lessons can workers take from the last four years?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

British politics / Boris’s Brexit bombshell

Can the warring remainer factions get themselves together and block Britain’s EU exit before 31 October?

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.

USA / US workers force child migrant concentration camp to close

Homeware staff strike against their employers’ profiting from privatised detention camps.

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.

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?

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?

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?

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?

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

British politics / Prosecuting Boris Johnson

Leaving aside the double standards of the case, misuse of the law is not in anyone’s interests.

British politics / British workers demand Brexit … TWICE!

The Brexit party’s win in the 2019 EU election has thrown the Tories into unprecedented chaos.

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.

British politics / Tribute to Comrade John Dempster

A staunch and determined comrade to the end.

Climate change / Letter: How can we deal with climate change?

Should workers ‘take a haircut’ to save the environment?

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.

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?

Civil liberties / Julian Assange facing extradition to the United States

Why is the WikiLeaks founder being targeted now, and what happens next?

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.

British politics / Galloway, Farage and the Brexit party

British workers are set to keep demanding Brexit at the upcoming EU elections.

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!”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

British politics / Five years without Tony Benn – Stop the War laments

With friends like these, the working class doesn’t need enemies.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Social wage / A third of British children live in poverty

A decade of austerity is taking a heavy toll on Britain’s families.

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.

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!

British politics / Building an active party

Capitalism creates its own gravediggers. We must organise them into a mighty liberating army.

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.

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.

Syria / No cooperation with imperialist war crimes in Syria

Refuse to help with the war effort; full support to the resistance!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Disputes / Support the Glasgow women’s strike for equal pay

But beware the Labour wolf in sheep's clothing!

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.

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.

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.

British politics / British workers demand Brexit!

It is not in our class interests to allow the referendum result to be overturned.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

British politics / Comrade Dave Coates: a life in the struggle

Red salute to a dear comrade and tireless fighter for the working class.

British politics / Our party’s internationalist tasks: building a revolutionary party

What does it take to make a revolution here at home?

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.

British politics / Is Corbyn racist?

What is behind the relentless campaign against Corbyn’s ‘antisemitism’ and ‘terrorist wreath-laying’ in our national media?

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.

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.

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.

British politics / The myth of Labour party antisemitism

On the zionist-backed campaign against Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour party.

Media / Bringing Julian Assange home

John Pilger on the significance of WikiLeaks and the rage of US imperialism against its founder.

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.

Media / Cambridge Analytica and the drive toward internet censorship

Corporate abuse of the internet is being used to justify censorship of independent media.

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.

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.

British politics / Celebrate and struggle on May Day: International Workers’ Day

We urgently need to reclaim the British working-class movement for socialism.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ireland / British government struggles with contradictory aims in Ireland

Reunification is the simple solution staring everyone in the face.

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?

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.

Housing / Housing shortage in the midst of plenty

It is not the right to buy that workers need, but the right to a home.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Disputes / Editorial: Message to Birmingham’s bin workers

Health / GPs resisting wholesale privatisation of NHS surgeries

It’s not just hospitals that are under fire.

Media / Media on trial

Independent journalists expose the lies of the liberal imperialist media such as the BBC, Channel 4 and CNN.

Divide and rule / British media go all out to spread racism and islamophobia

While the true interests of vulnerable children are callously disregarded.

Ireland / The DUPing of the British government

Theresa May’s majority is saved by the most backward elements in bourgeois politics.

Housing / Labour council pushes ahead with housing segregation in Haringey

The disgrace of social cleansing in London.

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.

Sport / Hillsborough 28 years on

Will the victims get justice at last?

British politics / Not so strong and stable after all: May loses Brexit gamble

The poisoned chalice of the British premiership.

Britain / Terrorist atrocity in Manchester

The MI6 connection.

British politics / Editorial: Our demands

British politics / ‘Socialist’ McDonnell shocked by communists on May Day

Reactionaries shun the hammer and sickle as the devil shuns holy water!

Trade unions / The fight-back of the low-paid

‘Precarious’ workers are doing it for themselves.

Working-class history / Remembering Comrade Clement Murphy-Shaw

An exemplary life given to the promotion of progressive and humanitarian causes.

British politics / Join the CPGB-ML’s annual anti-imperialist barbecue

In celebration of famous proletarian victories in Korea and Cuba.

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.

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?

British politics / Editorial: Brexit moves ahead

Article 50 is triggered.

Education / Education under attack

Capitalism in crisis is wrecking our children’s future; it’s time to wake up and fight back.

British politics / Birmingham council in financial crisis

A strike by binmen and other workers is inevitable.

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.

Palestine / What more can we do for Palestine?

“In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians.”

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.

Ireland / Northern Ireland assembly collapses in scandal

Northern Ireland assembly collapses in scandal.

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.

British politics / After Brexit: what next?

The anger of the proletariat must be turned against their real enemy – capitalism!

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.

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.

British politics / The Scottish response to Brexit

SNP pressing for another bite of the cherry.

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.

Trade unions / Unite says no to Brexit

Britain's biggest trade union backs monopoly capital's view on the imperialist exploiters' club.

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.

British politics / ‘Anti-zionism is not antisemitism’

Statement on ‘Labour’s problem with antisemitism’ from the Jewish Socialists’ Group.

British politics / Reclaiming May Day for the working class

A day of proletarian pride.

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.

Industry / Industry matters: TUC touts for the EU

British politics / Letter: Brexit – a historian’s view

The EU is an undemocratic institution created in order to oppress, exploit and wage war.

Social wage / Disgraceful neglect of the disabled in Britain

Official government policy: nobody knows you when you’re down and out.

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.

British politics / Health warning: capitalism kills

Latest assaults on society’s most helpless.

Health / Junior doctors’ fight to save our NHS betrayed

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.

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.

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.

British politics / Health warning: Austerity kills

The truth is out, notwithstanding official attempts to cover it up.

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.

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?

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.

Social wage / Benefit cuts: Who are the real parasites in our society?

Stealing from the poor for the benefit of the rich.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Syria / MI5 and the jihadists: an unholy alliance

Britain's secret services and reactionary islamists united against Syria.

Poetry / Poem: Of Mine and Me

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.

Working-class history / Downton Abbey, the Jolly George and Stop the War

Please, if we ask you nicely, will you? Pretty please?

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.

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.

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?

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.

British politics / Editorial: Jade Goody is a product of capitalist society