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Marxism highlights

  • USSR / Harpal Brar: Soviet victory over fascism – a festival of progressive humanity

    The Soviet Union’s colossal contribution to the second world war cannot be overstated – it is up to us, communists, to protect this legacy.

    15 May 2025 ,
  • USSR / Josef Stalin – hero of the working class

    Seventy-two years ago a great leader of the proletariat died, but his legacy is now emerging stronger than ever.

    16 Apr 2025 , Marx Engels Institute
  • USSR / Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review, pt 1

    ‘Much of Stalin’s youthful political style derived from that of his master and political exemplar, Lenin.’

    1 Jan 2025 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Joti Brar interview: ‘We are links in the long chain of revolution’

    Marx and Engels bequeathed essential values for every generation of revolutionaries: humility, service, dedication, discipline, sacrifice.

    17 Oct 2024 , Za Pobedu!
  • British politics / No votes for genocide-enablers or Nato warmongers!

    We are calling on workers to help the campaigns of, and give their votes to, all candidates standing on an anti-genocide, anti-Nato and anti-Labour platform.

    11 Jun 2024 , Proletarian
  • Leaflets / Open letter to CPB: Give up the Labour party and take the revolutionary path

    Sincere communists must make a serious appraisal of their work at this time of deepening crisis and renewed struggle.

    16 Nov 2023 , Proletarian
  • 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 ,
  • China / How China is developing mass involvement in local governance

    The CPC is working at the local level to build social cohesion and stability, deepening its connections with the people.

    19 Sep 2023 , Proletarian
  • 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 ,
  • Working-class history / Long live May Day!

    Workers have made immense sacrifices in the great struggle of labour against capital; have shed rivers of blood in their quest for a better life and real freedom.

    1 May 2023 , Lalkar
  • USA / Message to US workers: Britain sending depleted uranium to Ukraine

    The imperialists can seem incredibly powerful, but in fact their dominance is declining and their rule is showing signs of senility and decay.

    10 Apr 2023 ,
  • 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
  • USA / Anticommunism in the USA: the spectre remains

    The spectre of communism haunts the US Congress 175 years later.

    13 Feb 2023 , Marx Engels Institute
  • Italy / Remembering the history and achievements of Italy’s communists

    The militant and heroic legacy of our movement is much needed as an inspiration for the struggle that faces us today.

    21 Jan 2023 ,
  • Philippines / Jose María Sisón, father of the Filipino revolution

    Tribute to a long life lived in the service of the liberation of humanity.

    12 Jan 2023 , Lalkar
  • Peru / Peru’s fragile socialist government ousted by a soft coup

    Can the anger and energy of the Peruvian masses be channelled so as to realise their dreams of liberty and socialism?

    9 Jan 2023 , Lalkar
  • China / Xi Jinping to CPC: The times are calling us, and the people expect us to deliver’

    The last five years have indeed been ‘truly momentous and extraordinary’ ones in China’s history and development – and the next five look likely to be even more so.

    23 Nov 2022 , Friends of Socialist China
  • Environment / Environmentalists: time to look your gift horse in the mouth

    The misguided actions of the environmentalist movement are annoying workers and harming the aims they espouse.

    11 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis!

    The capitalists have shown themselves to be entirely unable to run their own system for the benefit of society.

    4 Nov 2022 ,
  • China / Joti Brar on the history and future of the Chinese communist party

    ‘The stronger China becomes industrially, technologically and militarily, the more it is able to help poorer countries break free of the stranglehold of debt slavery.’

    3 Oct 2022 , China Reports
  • Capitalist crisis / Crisis is inescapable while capitalism remains

    The working class’s historic role is to put an end to profit-driven capitalism and to build a new, socialist society in its place.

    4 Jan 2022 ,
  • USSR / Tribute to Comrade Tamila Yabrova, 1929-2021

    A steadfast and lifelong fighter against revisionism in the USSR.

    28 Dec 2021 , Lalkar
  • Peru / Abimael Guzmán: death of a great revolutionary leader

    Comrade Guzman may be dead, but so long as the conditions that gave rise to his movement remain, Peru’s rulers will continue to fear his name.

    22 Dec 2021 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Paul Turek: passing of a working-class fighter

    Our party mourns the loss of a true class-conscious proletarian and a staunch fighter for socialism.

    24 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / UBI: a recipe for universal misery

    Our demand must be for meaningful work in a society free from poverty, unemployment and insecurity.

    24 Aug 2020 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Rising inequality following the 2020 crisis of overproduction

    Mushrooming inequality has the capitalist class spooked, for they fear the consequences.

    29 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / JK Rowling’s stance against the thought police

    The author’s brave stance in defence of reality must be defended, and her hysterical detractors exposed as the reactionary bullies they are.

    9 Jul 2020 , Lalkar
  • China / Communist Party of China celebrates 99th birthday

    Special issue of China Insight highlights the achievements of the CPC since its foundation in 1921.

    7 Jul 2020 ,
  • Canada / Communists globally mourn the passing of Comrade Michael Lucas in Toronto

    Known to friends of the Soviet Union as the editor of the Northstar Compass, Michael was a selfless and dedicated internationalist.

    23 May 2020 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / A call to arms: This May Day, fight together against imperialism

    Workers’ parties sign international revolutionary anti-imperialist manifesto.

    1 May 2020 ,
  • 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.

    3 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Red salute to our beloved Comrade Deborah Lavin

    Her funeral is to be live-streamed since large gatherings are prevented by the present pandemic conditions.

    30 Mar 2020 ,
  • British politics / John Hepple: a life of working-class struggle

    A true son of the working class, one of so many who have given their lives to the fight for a better world.

    25 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
  • USSR / International communists on the attack against anti-Stalin lies

    Workers will never find courage in their own strength until they have learned to see through the exploiters’ lies about socialism.

    8 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • British politics / The Brexit election and the birth of the Workers party

    As Boris prepares a fresh assault on the trade unions, what does the election result mean for workers?

    29 Dec 2019 , Lalkar
  • USSR / Why do we celebrate the October Revolution?

    Workers need to take inspiration from the achievements of October; an example that our rulers would prefer us to forget.

    2 Dec 2019 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / New recession will hit workers still paying the price of the last one

    The capitalist system is unable to find a way out of the downward spiral of overproduction, crisis, austerity and war.

    10 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Interview: What does our party stand for?

    Responses to a Turkish journalist about Britain, Brexit, Boris, the workers’ movement and the wider world.

    27 Aug 2019 , Proletarian
  • Greece / Greek parliamentary elections and the demise of the Syriza government

    A case study in the irresistible laws of capitalism.

    1 Aug 2019 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Teach children to kick against gender stereotypes, not gender itself

    The party of the working class must above all be the purveyor of truth.

    26 Jun 2019 ,
  • Divide and rule / The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’

    We do not advocate and we cannot allow the bourgeoisie to impose this divisive ideology upon us.

    23 Mar 2019 ,
  • British politics / Challenges facing communists in Britain today

    Objective conditions for the creation of a revolutionary movement are improving, but much work needs to be done to take advantage of those conditions.

    14 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Identity politics are anti-Marxian and a harmful diversion from the class struggle

    Refuse to allow our movement to be hijacked by hostile class forces!

    7 Dec 2018 ,
  • British politics / Building an active party

    Capitalism creates its own gravediggers. We must organise them into a mighty liberating army.

    5 Dec 2018 ,
  • USSR / October Revolution 101: the future belongs to communism

    October changed the world forever, and the genie can never be put back in the bottle. Only socialism offers a decent future free from crisis, poverty and war.

    7 Nov 2018 ,
  • British politics / Build an information network capable of bringing the truth to British workers!

    For workers to win the battle against capital, they must be armed with a correct understanding to guide their revolutionary struggle.

    26 Oct 2018 ,
  • British politics / Our party’s internationalist tasks: building a revolutionary party

    What does it take to make a revolution here at home?

    24 Aug 2018 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / 200 years since the birth of Karl Marx

    The founder of the modern proletarian movement who gave his life to furthering the science of class struggle.

    25 Apr 2018 ,
  • British politics / ‘Socialist’ McDonnell shocked by communists on May Day

    Reactionaries shun the hammer and sickle as the devil shuns holy water!

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Reclaiming May Day for the working class

    A day of proletarian pride.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Poetry / Poem: Of Mine and Me

    1 Dec 2014 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Wonga watch

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

    1 Aug 2012 , Proletarian
  • 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.

    1 Oct 2009 , Proletarian

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Marxism video

  • Capitalism or communism TV / Joti Brar and Garland Nixon episode 11: Bourgeois ‘stability’ or socialism?

    In an era of rising social discontent, more and more people are questioning what they used to believe was the ‘natural’ state of affairs.

    23 Apr 2025, Proletarian TV
  • Britain TV / Red youth: Why I joined the CPGB-ML

    Any communist party that is serious must succeed in harnessing, training and directing the energy of our revolutionary youth.

    6 Jan 2025, Proletarian TV
  • World / Joti Brar: The growth of world war and the tasks of anti-imperialists

    There is the real possibility of a wave of critical defeats for the imperialists that could shift the balance of forces decisively in favour of the working masses.

    29 Jul 2024,
  • Theory / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: The immortal legacy of VI Lenin

    Why does Lenin’s life and work continue to inspire a century after his death?

    2 Feb 2024, Proletarian TV
  • World history / British delegate in Athens: We must learn the lessons of our history

  • Trade unions / Joti Brar: What happened to our trade unions?

  • Czech Republic / Interview with persecuted Czech communist Josef Skála

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

  • Economy / Bank of England ‘economist’ to workers: accept poverty, stop asking for a pay rise

  • Russia / Russian communists: Russia is fighting neo-nazism in Ukraine

  • USA / Report from the anti-imperialist Summit Against Hypocrisy in Washington DC

  • 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

  • Theory TV / Harpal Brar: Lenin on party building (One Step Forward)

  • Theory TV / Ella Rule: Lenin on revolutionary theory (What Is To Be Done?)

  • British politics / Book: Britain’s Road to Socialism?

  • Capitalism or communism TV / Comrade Ella tells Chinese conference: ‘A decent future is ours for the taking’

  • China / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Chinese Revolution 1: Birth of China’s Red Army

  • China / Ella Rule: China’s history confirms that workers need a scientific socialist party

  • USA / To US workers: ‘Only class politics can save us from the rampaging monopolists’

  • Divide and rule / Joti Brar: ‘Nobody is telling women how socialist society will lift their burdens’

  • USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Industrialising the USSR

  • USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Soviet farming – revolution in the countryside

  • USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: How the October Revolution changed the world

  • World TV / Comrade Joti on RT’s CrossTalk: ‘Crystal Ball 2022’

  • Cuba / Cuba and Covid: ‘To be internationalist is to pay off our debt to humanity’

  • China / Serve the people! On the 100th anniversary of the CPC

  • Capitalism or communism TV / President Maduro: The significance of the Communist Manifesto

  • China / Review: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics by Harpal Brar

  • Theory TV / Friedrich Engels: founding father of scientific socialism

  • USSR / Comrade Harpal: October Revolution message 2020

  • Capitalist crisis / Comrade Joti on RT’s CrossTalk: ‘No Trust’

  • Divide and rule / Comrade Joti on RT’s CrossTalk: ‘Wokist Cult’

  • World TV / Comrade Joti on RT’s CrossTalk: ‘Rethinking globalism’

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

  • Theory TV / Marxism in the 21st century: is it still relevant?

  • British politics / Comrade Joti interviewed by Caleb Maupin

  • Divide and rule / George Galloway: identity politics is not socialism

  • Capitalism or communism TV / The end of history – or the end of capitalism?

  • USSR / The fall of the USSR – market socialism

  • Theory TV / Anarchism or socialism?

  • Britain TV / Revolution in Britain

  • British history / British communism, 1920-1943

  • Theory TV / The Communist Manifesto

  • Capitalism or communism TV / Marxism, dialectics and the Labour party

  • Theory TV / Harpal Brar on the state and revolution

  • Divide and rule / Michael Parenti on the absurdity of IdPol oppression hierarchies

  • Divide and rule / The women’s movement in Britain

  • Divide and rule / Women’s liberation needs socialism

  • USSR / October 100: Working people have no country – we must win one

  • Cuba / Cuba and the October Revolution

  • Laos / Laos independence and the October Revolution

  • USSR / October 100: Women’s liberation

  • USSR / October 100: Why does it matter?

  • Theory TV / Why do Marxists support the Syrian government?

  • Capitalist crisis / Economics 101: Capitalism

  • Britain TV / Our vision: Harpal Brar on the tasks of the party

  • History TV / Tribute to Marx on his 200th birthday

  • Theory TV / Dialectical and historical materialism

  • Working-class history / Billy Vincent – communist

  • Britain / May Day election message for British workers

  • Theory TV / The origin and development of class society and the state

Marxism 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: 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,
  • Kenya / Message to Kenyan communists: Our struggle is one!

    The unfinished liberation struggle in Kenya has led to the outward semblance of independence without any real sovereignty.

    19 Nov 2024, Proletarian
  • USSR / JV Stalin: Trotskyism or Leninism?

    Josef Stalin’s decisive answer to the lies about October 1917 that Trotsky began to peddle straight after Lenin’s death in 1924.

  • USSR / Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 3

    Those who are in the business of fighting for the victory of socialism are duty-bound to make a study of the real Stalin, a giant in the history of our movement.

  • Divide and rule / Book: Identity Politics or Class Politics?

    What are the origins of identity politics? And why are they so inimical to the working class’s struggle for socialism?

  • Theory / Lenin’s work remains a guide for our time: an introduction

    What is it about VI Lenin and his work that remains so essential to the working class a century after his death?

  • USSR / Lenin’s work remains a guide for our time

    What are some of the key lessons we need to take from Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the coming period of rising revolutionary struggle?

  • 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?

  • Theory / How the KKE uses Marxist terminology to cover its retreat from Marxism

    What is the impact of the anti-Marxian theory of the ‘imperialist pyramid’?

  • World history / Lessons of 1914: Imperialism means war

    Reams of WW1 historiography serve only to conceal the essence of that terrible conflagration – which gave birth in its turn to the era of proletarian revolution.

  • Capitalist crisis / Book: Manifesto for the crisis

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

  • Divide and rule / Book: Capitalism and Immigration

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

  • USSR / Chinese Marxist: The evaluation of Stalin is essentially an ideological struggle

    Ever since Khrushchev, when any revisionist or bourgeois ideologue wants to attack socialism, they first attack Josef Stalin, great architect of Soviet socialism.

  • 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?

  • USSR / Stalin: A great servant of mankind who belongs to the ages

    Truly, his name and his works will live on through the centuries.

  • Theory / Lenin lives!

    Why do the workers need a communist party; and what should communists be doing that no one else can?

  • Capitalist crisis / The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis

    Economic crises are an inescapable feature of life under the market system. Socialist planning is our only way out.

  • Korea / Kim Il Sung: 110 years since the birth of Korea’s great revolutionary leader

    Workers all over the world have much to learn from this great Marxist, whose birth is celebrated in the DPRK as the Day of the Sun.

  • Russia / Who benefits by falsely labelling Russia as ‘imperialist’?

    There is a growing and disturbing trend for self-styled ‘communists’ to join the Nato bandwagon in denouncing ‘Russian imperialist aggression’.

  • Theory / Connecting Marxism with the masses is the number one priority of communists

    Individually and as a collective we must constantly reassess whether our effort is being wisely spent.

  • USSR / The fight against bureaucracy in the Soviet Union under Stalin

    What do we mean when we talk about bureaucracy? How did it manifest in the Soviet Union? What was done by Stalin and the Bolsheviks to counteract it?

  • 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.

  • Theory / Yanis Varoufakis and Diem25: erratic Marxism and consistent anticommunism

    It is scientific socialism that workers need, not plausible lies about how to ‘fix’ social democracy, the EU, and capitalist imperialism itself.

  • USSR / Marxism v liberalism: HG Wells talks to Stalin

    ‘If Roosevelt makes a real attempt to satisfy the interests of the proletarian class, the capitalists will put another president in his place.’

  • Theory / Book review: China’s Great Road by John Ross

    The battle between socialist and bourgeois ideas is not one in which workers can be neutral: on its outcome, humanity’s fate depends.

  • 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?

  • Working-class history / Marx and Engels on the Paris Commune

    150 years on, Marx’s vivid portrait of the world’s first working-class government still impresses with its ‘short powerful strokes of such clearness and truth’.

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    Those who would change the world must first understand it: Marxist economics is the antidote to bourgeois voodoo.

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    In fighting capitalist exploitation and the war danger, workers will ultimately seek a way out through socialist revolution.

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    Why does Lenin hold such an honoured position in the lexicon of socialist leaders? A century later, what can we learn from his teachings?

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    What is behind the theory that language structures in the mind are inborn?

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    Why does Marx's name still strike fear and loathing into the hearts and minds of the bourgeoisie so many years after his death? What is the legacy that refuses to die?

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    Marxist philosophy is not a science above other sciences; it is an instrument of scientific investigation.

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    US tariffs have increased the uncertainty in an already volatile system, and represent a new milestone in its aggressive policy towards China.

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    Living in an imperialist country, where the movement is weak and at a low ebb, it is easy to get discouraged or disillusioned with communist work.

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