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communist party of great britain (marxist-leninist)

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GMB highlights

  • Trade unions / The Spark: Unions shilling for Labour on Ukraine, gender 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 Aug 2025 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Starmer’s army

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

    25 Jun 2025 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Scunthorpe steel debacle

    If strategic industries are to be saved, their only salvation is full nationalisation and administration according to plan not profit.

    26 May 2025 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • 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.

    12 Sep 2023 , Proletarian
  • 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.

    13 Jul 2023 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • Pay and conditions / Conditions at Yodel: report by a worker

    Workers in the logistics industry are being sweated at ever-more intense and unendurable rates.

    26 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / BA threatens to sack its entire workforce

    After rinsing the furlough scheme, the airline is now insisting that its staff should accept huge pay cuts or be sacked.

    16 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Offshore oil workers under threat

    Will trade unions now get off the back foot and start to mobilise their members into an active campaign of resistance?

    26 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / GMB protest at Rugeley Amazon

    British trade union seems more worried about defending the profits of shareholders than the interests of workers.

    21 Jul 2019 , Birmingham Worker
  • 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
  • Disputes / Cammell Laird strike suspended for now

    Workers’ resistance has led to a stay of execution at the Merseyside shipyard.

    3 Jan 2019 , Lalkar
  • Lay-offs and closures / Cammell Laird shipyard strikes

    Overproduction is hitting industry after industry, proving once more that capitalism cannot solve the problems of the masses.

    27 Dec 2018 ,
  • 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
  • Disputes / Support the Glasgow women’s strike for equal pay

    But beware the Labour wolf in sheep's clothing!

    23 Oct 2018 ,

GMB topics

  • Aslef
  • Birmingham bin strike
  • British imperialism
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  • Jeremy Corbyn
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  • Ukraine war
  • Unison
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  • Drive to war
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  • Steel industry
  • Austerity
  • Children
  • Crisis manifesto
  • Inflation
  • NEU
  • Privatisation
  • Schools
  • Zero-hour contracts
  • Anti-union laws
  • Revisionism
  • Rishi Sunak
  • Stop the War
  • The state
  • Tory party
  • AWL
  • Iraq war
  • Serbia
  • War crimes
  • WMD
  • Yugoslav war
  • CPB
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  • Anticommunism
  • Health and safety
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  • 2020 crash
  • Aviation industry
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  • Fire and rehire
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  • Amazon
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  • Birmingham
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  • Merseyside
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  • Inequality
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GMB 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

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