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Planned economy highlights

  • Cuba / Cuba responds to failed US-controlled summit: Our America deserves better

    With anti-imperialist sentiment on the rise once more, the USA is more terrified than ever of the infectious socialist example in its continental ‘back yard’.

    27 Jun 2022 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Food bank Britain

    British families are relying on charity to eat as the market and the government both fail to provide even such a basic necessity as food.

    20 Jun 2022 , Proletarian
  • Cuba / The heroes of Hotel Saratoga

    A tale of everyday solidarity in the streets of socialist Cuba.

    8 Jun 2022 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Why should the working class pay the cost of the capitalist crisis?

    Profiteering, taxation, money printing, social provision cuts, interest rate hikes ... are all combining to transfer the burden of the crisis onto the backs of the poor.

    16 Mar 2022 , Lalkar
  • China / China investing massively to address climate change

    China’s example shows the real way out of our climate disaster – but taken alone, even its great strides cannot be enough.

    5 Feb 2022 , Proletarian
  • 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 ,
  • Health / Covid has exposed the weakness of capitalism and the strength of socialism

    In highlighting the fatal flaws of capitalism, the pandemic has also given us a chance to pursue solutions with renewed energy and hope.

    2 Jan 2022 ,
  • China / China and Covid: working towards a global community of health for all

    While China has declared its vaccines to be a global public good, imperialist corporations continue to put profit ahead of health.

    17 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
  • Economy / ‘Just in time’ reveals the fatal inadequacy of market mechanisms

    Global supply lines have been designed with profit maximisation, not the needs of the people, in mind.

    16 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • China / What do Evergrande’s troubles mean for the Chinese and world economies?

    No amount of state intervention can break the connection between overproduction crisis and the market.

    9 Nov 2021 , Lalkar
  • Korea / Kim Jong Un: ‘Thanks to the anti-pandemic forces that protected us’

    As the Workers Party of Korea turns 75, the country holds a huge military parade, celebrating its latest victories over covid, natural disasters and imperialist threats.

    12 Jan 2021 ,
  • Health / Second spike looms: Boris opts for ‘whack-a-mole’ over having a good plan

    On every level, the performance of socialist countries in dealing with Covid-19 is putting the profiteering, anti-worker ethos of capitalism to shame.

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

    Workers’ parties sign international revolutionary anti-imperialist manifesto.

    1 May 2020 ,
  • Health / Covid-19: Why is it that Cuba can manufacture PPE, but Britain can’t?

    Britain’s frontline workers continue to put their lives on the line, paid in broken promises and empty gestures.

    28 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Society / Lessons of Covid-19 pt 1: Only workers can solve the problems created by capital

    Who are the real ‘key workers’ and why are they still being treated so badly?

    19 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Cuba / Socialist Cuba shows real international solidarity during Covid-19 outbreak

    People or profits? The coronavirus pandemic is bringing this question to the fore more sharply than ever.

    14 Apr 2020 ,
  • Korea / Kim Jong Un: North Korea’s future depends on strong science and tech

    The DPRK is determined to advance its development and raise living standards, despite the continual pressure of wargames and sanctions.

    24 Mar 2020 ,
  • China / China will beat the coronavirus

    While western hysteria is out of all proportion to the real scale of the emergency, the Chinese response has been swift and stunning.

    5 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • Climate change / COP25: Has anything actually been achieved to help save our environment?

    As the imperialists haggle and back-peddle, the simple truth is that you have to be red to be green.

    3 Jan 2020 , Lalkar
  • China / Building a prosperous and environmentally-conscious society

    A first-hand view of China’s march forward.

    17 Oct 2019 , Proletarian
  • Society / Hunger on the rise in Britain, despite economic ‘recovery’

    In-work poverty testifies as to who really paid to bail out the banks in 2008. And while hunger is on the rise, one-third of food produced every year is wasted.

    20 May 2019 , Proletarian
  • Science and technology / China charts new territory: the dark side of the moon

    Workers of all countries felt a justified surge of pride when the PRC’s lunar probe made a successful landing on the dark side of the moon.

    10 Mar 2019 , Proletarian
  • Korea / Kim Jong Un’s new year address: consolidate towards peace and prosperity

    North Korean leader calls on the people of the DPRK and their friends to guard the recent hard-fought gains and advance them further in 2019.

    15 Feb 2019 , Proletarian
  • Korea / Our party’s internationalist tasks: support for revolutionary Korea

    Why do we support the revolutionary government in Korea? How does this connect with our revolutionary tasks here at home?

    26 Aug 2018 , Proletarian
  • Germany / A tribute to East Germany’s General Heinz Kessler

    Defender of communism to the last.

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • Korea / Korean leader determined to preserve an optimistic faith in the future

    The people of the DPRK stand proud in defence of their socialist homeland.

    1 Dec 2016 , Proletarian
  • Cuba / Farewell Comrade Fidel Castro. Eternal glory to you!

    The world mourns the passing of a great revolutionary leader, and celebrates the many enduring achievements of the revolution to which he dedicated his life.

    1 Oct 2016 , Proletarian
  • Korea / Striving for socialism, reunification and peace in Korea

    North Korea’s leader vows that the country will keep advancing “under the unfurled red flag of the revolution”.

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • Cuba / Reflections on a first-time visit to Cuba

    A CPGB-ML member reports on his visit to the island of freedom.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Poem: Soviet Man

    Although the poet’s life was snuffed out in defence of his motherland, Strelchenko’s immortal work lives on, a beacon of light illuminating the power of Soviet socialism.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • China / Tiananmen Square: a US-backed attempt at counter-revolution

    How the US tried to apply its colour-revolution formula to China, complete with the big lie of a non-existent ‘massacre’.

    1 Jul 2014 , Lalkar
  • Social wage / Wonga watch

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

    1 Aug 2012 , Proletarian

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Planned economy video

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

    The looting of countries abroad and the forcing down of pay and conditions at home are both caused by the same drive for maximum profit.

    29 Apr 2022,
  • Divide and rule / Joti Brar: ‘Nobody is telling women how socialist society will lift their burdens’

    If working-class women knew what socialism can offer them, they'd be queueing up to join the revolution.

    26 Apr 2022,
  • USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Industrialising the USSR

    The Bolshevik party’s planned socialist development brought a backward nation from the ashes of a devastating civil war to victory over fascism in 1945.

    22 Apr 2022,
  • USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Soviet farming – revolution in the countryside

    The question that faces small farmers everywhere remains: collectivisation via bankruptcy and agribusiness takeover or collectivisation via socialist farming?

    19 Feb 2022, Proletarian TV
  • USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: How the October Revolution changed the world

  • China / Harpal Brar on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

  • Capitalism or communism TV / Comrade Ranjeet: Our struggle is an international one

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

  • Capitalist crisis / Comrade Joti on RT’s CrossTalk: ‘What reset?’

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

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

  • USSR / Comrade Harpal: October Revolution message 2020

  • Health / Coronavirus: NHS privatisation and the US second wave

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

  • Health / Coronavirus: The truth about ‘overpopulation’ and ‘herd immunity’

  • Health / Coronavirus: What do the experts say?

  • China / Coronavirus: a message of solidarity to China

  • USSR / The fall of the USSR – market socialism

  • Theory TV / What is Marxism? 2. Marxist economics

  • Cuba / Marx 200: Message from Cuba: Revolution teaches

  • Capitalist crisis / Economics 101: Capitalism

Planned economy theory

  • 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.

    15 Apr 2022, Lalkar
  • Theory / Is inflation good for you?

    What is really at the root of the inexorable rise in prices?

    5 Dec 2021, Proletarian
  • 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.’

    20 Oct 2021,
  • 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.

    1 Oct 2021, Lalkar
  • China / Greetings to the Communist Party of China on its 100th anniversary

    Throughout the last tumultuous century, socialism has scored victory after victory in China, fully justifying the people’s faith in its superiority.

  • 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’.

  • Capitalist crisis / The economic crisis and coronavirus

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

  • Housing / Housing and architecture in the Soviet Union

    A variety of housing was built for working people designed to reflect the varied character, climate and context of the vast territories of the USSR.

  • China / Chinese forum discusses humanity’s shared future

    Why is China so far ahead of the imperialist countries in its development of green technologies?

  • Cuba / Cuba 60: Hasta la victoria siempre!

    Progressive humanity continues to cheer the incredible achievements of the tiny island nation, made in the teeth of the imperialists’ determined and unceasing aggression.

  • Working-class history / Marx 200: A brief overview of an extraordinary life’s work

    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?

  • USSR / October 1917: the defining event of our epoch

    What is the significance of the events in Russia one hundred years ago for workers in Britain today?

  • USSR / JV Stalin: The tasks of economic executives

    Excerpt from Stalin’s speech to the first all-union conference of leading personnel of socialist industry, February 1931.

  • Theory / Time to face it: capitalism must go!

    Only a planned economy designed to meet people’s needs can solve the problems of disease, poverty, inequality, war and environmental degradation.

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