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

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It is time to break out of suffocating ‘unity’ with those who serve our class enemies.

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How did the CPB appoint itself the gatekeeper of the British working-class movement?

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While the heroic resistance was defeating US and British imperialist forces, the British working class was effectively demobilised by its corrupted leadership.

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Starmer’s refusal to allow Corbyn to rejoin Labour has highlighted the true loyalties of the party’s supposed ‘left-wingers’.

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A steadfast and lifelong fighter against revisionism in the USSR.

USSR / In memory of Nina Alexandrovna Andreeva

Communists mourn the passing of one of Russia's foremost fighters against the counter-revolution and for the refounding of Soviet socialism.

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The leaders of the antiwar and trade union movements have refused to mobilise their members to prevent ongoing British complicity in a genocide.

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

Britain TV / Comrade Harpal on Lenin, opportunism and the Labour party

What is the role of the Labour party in British politics in general and in the working-class movement in particular?

History TV / Reform or revolution? WW1 and the split in socialism

What is the difference between Labour and the communists? How can the working class achieve socialism?

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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.

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?

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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?

British politics / Book: Britain’s Perfidious Labour party by Harpal Brar

An essential history for every sincere worker who wishes to make sense of the political landscape in Britain and find an effective way forward.

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.

British politics / Eulogies for Sturgeon highlight the fraud of Scottish nationalism

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