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A reminder that communists and communism are not our enemy but the hope of the world.

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Divide and rule / Working women’s liberation or bourgeois feminism?

The bra-burners and man-haters of the 1960s and 70s made our movement ridiculous, alienating the vast majority of working-class women.

17 Apr 2019, Proletarian TV

Deborah Lavin 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

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Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review, pt 2

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Tribute to Comrade Harpal Brar: Immortalising a revolutionary legend
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The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’
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Housing and architecture in the Soviet Union
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The SNP’s role as regional managers for British finance capital
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On the current state and problems of the communist movement

Deborah Lavin highlights

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.

British politics / Prosecuting Boris Johnson

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

Climate change / Yellow vests v Extinction Rebellion

Climate protestors’ leader accidentally gives away the ruling class’s agenda.

Social wage / Wonga watch

Workers’ indignation needs to be justly roused against this humiliation of our class.

Books / Ian McEwan’s White Tooth

The thinking woman’s Ruth Rendell.

Working-class history / The Victorian origins of workfare

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

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

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

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.

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.

Film and TV / Deborah Lavin film review: The Motorcycle Diaries

A reminder that communists and communism are not our enemy but the hope of the world.

Deborah Lavin topics

Deborah Lavin video

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

What did the early Marxists think about birth control and women's rights? How did their views differ from those of the liberal feminists?

Divide and rule / Working women’s liberation or bourgeois feminism?

The bra-burners and man-haters of the 1960s and 70s made our movement ridiculous, alienating the vast majority of working-class women.

Deborah Lavin 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.

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.

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