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communist party of great britain (marxist-leninist)

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Miners strike highlights

  • 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
  • British politics / The second coming of Jeremy Corbyn

    Can the clown car be kept on the road for long enough to fulfil its function?

    1 Oct 2025 , Proletarian
  • Sweden / Teddy-John Frank, lifelong Swedish communist and anti-imperialist

    A much respected comrade of our party’s founding chair, Harpal Brar, and a fine communist activist during the most difficult period for our movement.

    1 Sep 2025 , Lalkar
  • Working-class history / Obituary: Anne Scargill

    A shining example of proletarian leadership, Anne wonderfully proved Mao Zedong’s famous saying that ‘Women hold up half the sky’.

    1 Jul 2025 , Lalkar
  • 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
  • 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 ,
  • Culture / Benjamin Zephaniah – lifelong champion of the oppressed

    From the miners’ strike to Palestine, this working-class poet and author was steadfast in his opposition to British imperialism and its divide-and-rule tactics.

    5 Jan 2024 , Lalkar
  • Trade unions / Joti Brar: a personal account of anti-war struggle against the trade union bureaucracy

    Why is it so hard to get anything meaningful done via the existing trade union mechanisms?

    13 Sep 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
  • Trade unions / NHS pay offer exposes the limitations of trade unionism

    The NHS dispute has brought into sharp focus the inability of modern trade unions in Britain to advance working-class aims.

    29 Mar 2023 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Tribute to Comrade Avtar Jouhl

    An indefatigable fighter against racism and imperialism, and for socialism, which he knew held the only solution to humanity’s problems.

    20 Nov 2022 , Lalkar
  • Trade unions / Are Britain’s union bosses interested in helping their members fight back?

    As the crisis deepens, the ruling class is looking far more determined than the unions, where lions continue to be led by loyal Labour donkeys.

    16 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
  • Energy / Why is Britain importing coal from Australia and the USA?

    Is it fear of militant miners that keeps our rulers from reopening deep mines in Britain while we still have a need for coal?

    18 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Comrade Bridget Bell, dedicated fighter for the working class

    Bridget was highly respected for her work during the 1984/5 miners’ strike, and for her principled class position at all times.

    9 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • British politics / How the scabs were ditched, and other dirty laundry of 1989-90

    The latest release of cabinet papers gives us a further insight into the secret doings of our ruling class.

    1 Dec 2016 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Police lies revealed at Hillsborough; Orgreave must be next

    Inquiry reveals police guilt for 96 unnecessary deaths in Sheffield, and highlights the militarised and anti-worker culture that grew out of the political policing of the miners’ strike five years earlier.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian

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Miners strike video

  • British politics / Keith Bennett: Harpal Brar’s tireless efforts to unite Marxism with the masses

    It was his great misfortune to live in a period where ‘renegacy had become the fashion’.

    16 Jul 2025, Proletarian TV

Miners strike 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
  • Civil liberties / Role of the Labour government, and the workers’ necessary response

    The ruling class put Labour in power to try to manage the crisis, knowing that it is better placed to wage war on workers at home and abroad.

    28 Oct 2024, Proletarian

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