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The Communists

communist party of great britain (marxist-leninist)

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Crisis manifesto highlights

  • Trade unions / Communist work in the trade unions

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

    30 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
  • Trade unions / TUC leader endorsing Ukraine war is a betrayal of British and Ukrainian workers

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

    1 Mar 2025 , Lalkar
  • Education / Education union colluding with Labour against the workers

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

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

    So where are the trade unions?

    1 Oct 2024 ,
  • Social wage / Media blames workers for the corruption and fraud endemic to capitalist society

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

    25 Jul 2024 , Proletarian
  • British politics / No big winners in local elections – Sunak calls general election in a panic

    As loyal servants of imperialism, the Tories would rather see masses of their MPs wiped out than a few antiwar candidates get into Parliament.

    25 Jun 2024 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Gaza, inflation, Assange … Where are the trade unions?

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

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

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

    25 Apr 2024 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Model motion: No cooperation with genocide in Palestine!

    Trade unions must mobilise the organised power of the working class to force an end to British complicity in the zionists’ atrocities.

    29 Feb 2024 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Why is Manchester in poverty? Workers need socialism!

    What is at the root of the spiral of poverty and decay we are experiencing in towns and cities across Britain?

    27 Feb 2024 ,
  • World / Joti Brar: How can workers learn the truth if everyone is too scared to tell it?

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

    3 Nov 2023 ,
  • Disputes / Support pay restitution for doctors; defend the NHS!

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

    2 Oct 2023 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Is life under capitalism getting you down? Luckily, there’s a cure!

    Are you sad and depressed? Lonely? Anxious? Isolated? Worried about the future? You may be suffering from capitalism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    3 Jun 2023 ,
  • Trade unions / Defy the anti-trade union laws!

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

    22 May 2023 , Proletarian
  • France / The French working class fights on

    Already there have been isolated instances of gendarmes refusing to obey orders. If the cotagion spreads, will the rest of Macron’s state machinery be more reliable?

    12 May 2023 , Lalkar
  • France / Strikes in France demonstrate the benefits and limits of trade union action

    Why are French workers being forced to endlessly fight the same battles?

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

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

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

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

    14 Mar 2023 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Minimum Service Bill is the latest salvo in the class war against workers

    No cooperation with union-busting anti-strike laws! 

    27 Jan 2023 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Support our nurses’ struggle for decent pay!

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

    18 Nov 2022 , Proletarian

Crisis manifesto topics

  • Anti-union laws
  • Aslef
  • CPGB-ML
  • Crisis manifesto
  • CWU
  • Inflation
  • Labour party
  • Miners strike
  • NEU
  • Non-cooperation
  • NUM
  • RCN
  • Social democracy
  • Tenth congress
  • TUC
  • Unite the Union
  • 2008 crash
  • Austerity
  • Banks
  • Birmingham
  • Birmingham bin strike
  • Refuse disposal
  • British imperialism
  • Ukraine war
  • Children
  • GMB
  • Privatisation
  • Schools
  • Unison
  • Zero-hour contracts
  • Anti-imperialism
  • Arms industry
  • Colonial crimes
  • Drive to war
  • Fascism
  • Free speech
  • Gaza
  • Housing crisis
  • Julian Assange
  • Justice system
  • Media lies
  • Nato
  • NUJ
  • Oil and gas
  • Overproduction crisis
  • Poverty
  • Racism and immigration
  • Unemployment
  • US imperialism
  • War crimes
  • WW3
  • Zionism
  • 2020 crash
  • Benefits
  • Big pharma
  • Big tech
  • Corruption
  • Covid-19
  • Sanctions
  • Tax
  • Revisionism
  • Rishi Sunak
  • Stop the War
  • The state
  • Tory party
  • Trotskyism
  • Bourgeois democracy
  • General election 2024
  • George Galloway
  • Workers party
  • Anti-imperialist Platform
  • CIA
  • Eastern Europe
  • European Union
  • German imperialism
  • Leninism
  • Vladimir Putin
  • WW2
  • London
  • May Day
  • Hunger
  • Lawfare
  • Capitalist crisis
  • Imperialist war
  • Inequality
  • Refugee crisis
  • United Nations
  • BDA
  • Dentistry
  • NHS
  • Nakba
  • Manchester
  • October Revolution
  • Third International
  • Utilities
  • Marxism
  • Opportunism
  • BMA
  • Protests and strikes
  • Actually-existing socialism
  • Planned economy
  • CPB
  • Brexit
  • Enough is Enough
  • Gilet jaunes
  • PRCF
  • Workers rights
  • DPRK
  • Taiwan
  • Pensions
  • Debt
  • Japanese imperialism
  • Korean reunification
  • Korean revolution
  • PDP
  • South Korea
  • Emmanuel Macron
  • Students
  • Universities
  • RMT
  • Civil rights
  • Supply lines

Crisis manifesto video

  • British politics / The Communists’ message for May Day 2024: Where are the unions

    While Assange languishes in prison, the Gaza genocide continues and workers are hit by a cost of living crisis, Britain’s unions are essentially inactive.

    4 Jun 2024,
  • USSR / Joti Brar: The essential lessons of October

    Socialism proved that workers really can do without capitalists and that the needs of the masses can be taken care of.

    25 Dec 2023, Proletarian TV
  • Social wage / Heating and eating: the impoverishment of British workers

    What is driving the decline in living standards in Britain? If we tighten our belts for a while, can we expect things to get better soon?

    18 Dec 2023, Proletarian TV
  • Trade unions / Joti Brar: What happened to our trade unions?

    How can class-consciousness be raised amongst workers so that they are willing and able to use their power in both defensive and offensive struggles?

    6 Sep 2023, Proletarian TV
  • Trade unions / Alex Mckay: Trade unions can do more than fight for narrow wage increases

  • Korea / British delegate in Seoul: Global capitalist system teetering over the abyss

  • World / Paris Declaration: The rising tide of global war and our tasks

Crisis manifesto theory

  • Trade unions / Communist work in the trade unions

    How should Marxists approach union work? Which demands are most useful in developing workers’ class-consciousness?

    19 Jul 2024, Proletarian
  • Ukraine / On the essence of the Ukraine war and the lessons of Russia’s SMO

    What is the war in Ukraine really about, and what have we learned during the last two years of fighting?

    17 Jun 2024,
  • Divide and rule / ‘Stop the boats!’ The political football of the ‘immigration debate’ in Britain

    How the ruling class divides workers against one another and distracts our attention from the true causes of our misery.

    29 Apr 2024, Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Book: Manifesto for the crisis

    What do workers need to understand if they are to solve their problems for good?

    12 Jun 2023,
  • Capitalist crisis / It’s not the workers but the capitalists who are causing inflation

    It is the right and the duty of workers to demand a bigger share of the wealth their own labour has created.

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