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communist party of great britain (marxist-leninist)

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British history highlights

  • British politics / A brief history of British Trotskyism

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

    1 Jan 2025 , Lalkar
  • British politics / French greetings to our party: ‘a guiding light in the fight against capitalism’

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

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

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

    26 Jul 2024 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Samuel Fielden: An English worker’s place in the origins of May Day

    A vivid account of the horrors and poverty that abounded in working-class life on both sides of the Atlantic when capital had free reign and workers no rights.

    18 Jun 2024 , Lalkar
  • Ireland / What exactly is the Orange Order celebrating?

    Why is a protestant militia, founded in 1795 to combat the influence of the Enlightenment and maintin colonial rule, still marching in Irish streets?

    12 Jul 2023 , The Irish News
  • Trade unions / Derby Silk Mill commemorations 2023: no communists allowed

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

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

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

    16 Jun 2023 ,
  • Trade unions / The real trade union barons

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

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

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

    4 May 2023 , Lalkar
  • Working-class history / Jenny Marx’s life of struggle and sacrifice in the cause of the working class

    A tribute to the woman who made a vital yet routinely overlooked contribution to the founding of scientific socialism.

    9 Mar 2023 , Lalkar
  • Divide and rule / Sound and fury: the hollowness of the woke v anti-woke debate

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

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

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

    15 Feb 2023 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Tribute to Comrade Avtar Jouhl

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

    20 Nov 2022 , Lalkar
  • Media / Dissecting the cliches of Anglo-American ethnocentrism

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

    26 Aug 2022 ,
  • British politics / Labour is the party of Nato, the party of war

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

    19 May 2022 , Proletarian
  • British history / Kim Philby: Hero of the working class

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

    4 May 2022 , Lalkar
  • Working-class history / Remembering the 2011 youth uprising

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

    6 Aug 2021 , Proletarian
  • Ireland / Britain’s dirty war back in the spotlight

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

    20 Jul 2021 ,
  • Disputes / Shrewsbury 24: Justice delayed is justice denied

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

    30 Mar 2021 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Communist George Blake dies in Moscow aged 98

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

    15 Feb 2021 , Lalkar
  • World history / Women in the victory over fascism

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

    21 May 2020 , Granma
  • Working-class history / Peterloo in its historical perspective, part 2

    As a result of the industrial revolution, a new class, the urban proletariat, was emerging onto the political and social scene in 1819.

    22 Dec 2019 , Lalkar
  • Working-class history / Avtar Jouhl: lifelong class fighter against racism

    Comrade Avtar reflects on a life of struggle in the IWA and the trade unions from the 1950s to the 1990s.

    10 Nov 2019 , International Socialist
  • Europe / Anniversary of the D-Day landings

    Why are the imperialists so keen to push the lie that the Normandy landings changed the course of WW2?

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

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

    21 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • World history / The origins of World War Two

    How did WW2 come about? And when were the opening salvos really fired?

    11 Aug 2019 , Lalkar
  • Ireland / The IRA plan to kill Michael O’Dwyer

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

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

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

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

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

    11 Apr 2019 , Lalkar
  • Working-class history / Constance Markievicz – class traitor, Irish republican and working-class hero

    London rally salutes the memory of Britain’s first woman MP.

    20 Feb 2019 , Proletarian
  • Sport / Hillsborough 28 years on

    Will the victims get justice at last?

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Remembering Comrade Clement Murphy-Shaw

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

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • Health / Cloak and dagger: the operation to kill the NHS

    The campaign to destroy the NHS is reaching its final stages: how did we get here and what can we do?

    1 Apr 2017 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Shrewsbury 24: Amnesty International shows its true colours

    Even forty years later, the ‘human rights’ champions are still not prepared to tell the full story of their collusion with Labour in keeping Des Warren locked up.

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

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

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • Books / Charles Dickens, champion of the poor

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

    1 Jun 2012 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Forget the jubilee, join the revolution!

    The Queen is not ‘ours’, but theirs. She is of and for that tiny handful of ruthless exploiters who keep the world’s people in poverty and servitude.

    1 Apr 2012 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / The Victorian origins of workfare

    Where did the government get the idea of subsidising free labour for big companies like Tesco?

    1 Apr 2012 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Downton Abbey, the Jolly George and Stop the War

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

    1 Oct 2011 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Book review: Striking a Light, the Bryant and May Matchwomen

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

    1 Apr 2011 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / The matchgirls’ strike of 1888

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

    1 Jun 2008 , Proletarian

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British history video

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

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

    1 Mar 2025,
  • British politics / Book launch video: Britain’s Perfidious Labour Party

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

    5 Feb 2024, Proletarian TV
  • Capitalist crisis / Garland Nixon and Joti Brar: The decay of western imperialism

    Why are poverty and inequality increasing fast within the imperialist heartlands, and what does it mean when imperialist ‘allies’ will turn even on each other?

    11 Aug 2023, Proletarian TV
  • Theory TV / Garland Nixon and Joti Brar: capitalism, imperialism, the ‘left’ and the Platform

    What motivates the drive to war? Why are workers in the west becoming so impoverished? How can we understand the times we live in?

    1 Jun 2023, Proletarian TV
  • Divide and rule / Dan O’Brien, Ranjeet Brar: immigration and the new ‘stop the boats’ bill

  • Theory TV / The global drive to war and the launch of the World Anti-imperialist Platform

  • Theory / Comrade Joti: Why our rulers hide the truth about socialist science

  • Divide and rule / Harpal Brar on Avtar Jouhl: Above all he was a fighter for socialism

  • USSR / Harpal Brar: Why celebrate the Soviet and allied victory over fascism in 2022?

  • Theory TV / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: The Communist International

  • Working-class history / Comrade Ella Rule on socialism and women’s liberation

  • Divide and rule / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Capitalism and immigration

  • Working-class history / Deborah Lavin: Early feminism, bourgeois and proletarian

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

  • British history / British communism, 1920-1943

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

  • British history / Winston Churchill: hero or monster?

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

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

  • Working-class history / Billy Vincent – communist

  • Britain TV / Indian workers in Britain

  • Ireland / Saville report: British murders on Bloody Sunday ‘unjustified and unjustifiable’

British history theory

  • Working-class history / Obituary: Harpal Brar, revolutionary founder of the CPGB-ML

    Sixty years of dedicated service to the anti-imperialist movement by an outstanding revolutionary have left a lasting legacy for the British working class.

    5 Mar 2025, Lalkar
  • British politics / Comrade Harpal Brar: a life entirely dedicated to the cause of socialism

    Our party’s founding chair has died, but his work lives on in a new generation of revolutionaries, both in Britain and around the world.

    26 Feb 2025, Proletarian
  • Theory / Book: Zionism by Harpal Brar

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

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

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

    10 Dec 2024,
  • World history / Josef Stalin on Winston Churchill and the spread of socialism to eastern Europe

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

  • World history / On the current state and problems of the communist movement

    What are the lessons communists need to learn in order to fulfil their historic role in the coming period of increased class struggle and deepening imperialist crisis?

  • British politics / Book: Britain’s Perfidious Labour party by Harpal Brar

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

  • Divide and rule / Book: Capitalism and Immigration

    Our strength is in our unity, and our rulers know it well.

  • British politics / Eulogies for Sturgeon highlight the fraud of Scottish nationalism

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

  • British politics / A critique of the CPB’s ‘Britain’s Road to Socialism’ in the 21st century, pt 3

    Eclectic and utopian, the CPB’s programme is full of pious wishes but its authors don’t seem to have the first clue about the realities of the state or of class war.

  • British politics / A critique of the CPB’s ‘Britain’s Road to Socialism’ in the 21st century, pt 2

    On every question of importance, the CPB has ditched Marxism in favour of servility to the imperialist Labour party.

  • British politics / A critique of the CPB’s ‘Britain’s Road to Socialism’ in the 21st century, pt 1

    What lies at the root of the CPB’s total inability to educate or inspire even a fraction of the working class?

  • Culture / Celebrating Shakespeare: a Marxist-Leninist perspective

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

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

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

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

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