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The Communists

communist party of great britain (marxist-leninist)

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Birmingham highlights

  • Sport / A tale of two chants: Why Starmer now casts even the police as antisemitic

    Why is the government so keen to let violent and racist Israeli thugs loose on Birmingham’s streets?

    22 Oct 2025 ,
  • Disputes / Government and council investing heavily to defeat Birmingham bin strike

    What is at stake is not merely the future of a few hundred workers, but the question of who should pay for the capitalist crisis.

    1 Oct 2025 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / The Spark: Transport strikes, the bin men, British steel and more

    The first issue of our industrial news sheet examines recent cases of trade union leaderships failing their members and the wider working class.

    1 Oct 2025 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Birmingham bin workers smelling rats

    Neither the council nor the unions seem in any hurry to bring this dispute to a conclusion. Workers are left wondering why.

    1 Jul 2025 , Lalkar
  • Disputes / Birmingham’s gone bust! But why are workers told to pay?

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

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

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

    3 Apr 2025 , Proletarian
  • Education / Burden on students becoming unbearable as fresh rent hikes planned

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

    5 Jul 2023 , Proletarian
  • Environment / Workers party hosts popular rally against LTN scheme in Birmingham

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

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

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

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

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

    4 Feb 2021 , Proletarian
  • Housing / Foreign investors head to Birmingham housing market

    As London property prices nose-dive, investors are hoping to make a quick buck out of new-build apartments in the country’s second-largest city.

    18 Jul 2019 , Birmingham Worker
  • Education / Thousands of children are taught in classes that are too big

    Reverse privatisation and create an education system that serves the real needs of both society and individuals.

    4 Jul 2019 ,
  • Disputes / Brum bin strike concludes with a payout

    A new deal was concluded in March to appease workers’ anger at secret payouts to GMB members during the 2017 strike.

    24 Mar 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Refuse, resist! Brum rubbish collectors ready to strike as council talks fail

    Brummie binmen are days away from an all-out strike, clashing once again with a Labour council that has rewarded scabs and blacklisted strikers.

    20 Jan 2019 , Sputnik
  • Lay-offs and closures / FT leaks plans by Jaguar Land Rover to axe 5,000 jobs

    The joy of capitalism: unemployment is the workers’ reward for enriching the company's owners.

    21 Dec 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • Lay-offs and closures / Support Asda Queslett workers’ fight for jobs

    Don’t let machines come before jobs, nor profit before people.

    19 Dec 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • Disputes / Birmingham: Two-faced council breaks promises to binmen and residents

    Birmingham’s militant binmen deserve our full support as their dispute looks set to break out again this Christmas.

    1 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / British workers demand Brexit!

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

    27 Sep 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Support Birmingham’s homecare workers

    Before Labour councillors privatise the service completely.

    19 Sep 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • Social wage / Poverty on the rise as Birmingham’s Labour council freezes burial fees

    Rates of child poverty are soaring in Britain’s major cities; Labour councils are as impotent and callous as all the rest.

    14 Jun 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Should workers vote in Birmingham’s council elections?

    The answer to this question lies not in absolute principles, but in the day-to-day tactics of the class struggle.

    2 May 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • British politics / From Gaza to Balsall Heath – international man of peace

    Sammi Ibrahim is standing as a communist candidate in local elections in Balsall Heath, Birmingham.

    29 Apr 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • British politics / Birmingham Worker candidate speaks out on behalf of working-class youth

    What can British youth do about the poverty, exclusion and alienation they face today?

    29 Apr 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • British politics / Birmingham Worker candidates fighting for women and children

    Communist candidates highlight the role of the Labour party in implementing austerity on behalf of the ruling class.

    29 Apr 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • Disputes / Birmingham’s binmen conclude their strike … for now

    A ‘new’ deal has been offered that appears to make some concessions, but which demands more work for the same money.

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Binmen on strike in Birmingham

    More council cuts = more rats! Birmingham’s refuse workers are mounting strong resistance to the latest austerity plans of the city’s Labour-led council.

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian

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Birmingham video

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

    A heartfelt tribute in memory of Comrade Avtar Jouhl, courageous Marxist-Leninist who gave so much to our movement and will be sorely missed.

    20 Nov 2022, Proletarian TV

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