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Social democracy highlights

  • 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 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Oxfam identifies inequalities in shocking detail, but provides no solution

    Price-gouging is a real monopoly practice. But is it really at the root of the global economic crisis?

    25 Aug 2023 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / EVENT: Trade unionism and working-class leadership

    Don’t sit on your hands; don’t fiddle while Rome burns! Your class needs you; the future of humanity needs you! Step forward and help make history!

    17 Jul 2023 ,
  • Trade unions / Mick Lynch, Sharon Graham and the capitulating left

    As the next election approaches, supposedly ‘radical’ trade unionists are lining up obediently behind Starmer and Labour, against the interests of their members.

    1 Jul 2023 , Class Consciousness Project
  • British politics / Communist message to Silk Mill rally: Ditch the Labour party!

    Don’t settle for social democracy when only scientific socialism has the answer!

    16 Jun 2023 ,
  • 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
  • British history / Twenty years later: the predatory imperialist war against Iraq

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

    4 May 2023 , Lalkar
  • British politics / The Labour left still lost in its labyrinth

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

    12 Apr 2023 , Proletarian
  • 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 ,
  • 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
  • Trade unions / After the strikes, what then?

    As union leaders look for the exit, their members’ anger is being directed towards yet another diversionary ‘vote Labour’ campaign.

    21 Mar 2023 , Proletarian
  • USA / Working-class antiwar rage sends US woke mafia into a head fit

    A broad coalition of those who really want to stop the US war machine faces silence from the media and insults from the ‘left’.

    11 Mar 2023 , Proletarian
  • Yemen / Yemen’s quest for self-determination continues unabated

    Despite conditions of siege and war, the Yemeni people are finding ways to lay the foundations of a diversified and more self-sufficient economy.

    26 Jan 2023 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Labour is the party of Nato, the party of war

    Throughout Labour’s history, in and out of government, its leaders have always been unabashed cheerleaders for the crimes of imperialism.

    19 May 2022 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Build the Workers Party of Britain

    The primary goal facing us today is the breaking of all bonds between the Labour party and the working class.

    5 Mar 2022 ,
  • British politics / Learn the lessons of the Corbyn project: break the link with Labour!

    Breaking the thousand threads that connect workers’ organisations to the Labour party is the biggest task facing us now.

    22 Feb 2022 ,
  • British politics / Ninth party congress: We must connect our movement with the masses

    Important foundations have already been laid. Now we must expand and build on those in a principled and serious way.

    11 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Palestine solidarity motion deepens division in the Labour party’s ranks

    Keir Starmer has already vowed to ignore the motion passed by an overwhelming majority of conference delegates.

    15 Oct 2021 , Proletarian
  • Environment / Workers party hosts popular rally against LTN scheme in Birmingham

    An excellent example of socialists connecting with the community in order to advance their interests and raise their understanding.

    7 Aug 2021 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Liverpool scandal: Starmer cheers as the government sends in the commissioners

    Labour and Tory are two sides of the same dud coin; we should be grateful to Starmer for demonstrating this so clearly.

    29 Mar 2021 ,
  • USA / Bernie Sanders drops out – again

    The great hope of the American left leaves his supporters in the lurch, putting his weight behind the establishment choice.

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

    Workers’ parties sign international revolutionary anti-imperialist manifesto.

    1 May 2020 ,
  • Social wage / Errol Graham and the unreported austerity pandemic

    Social murder in our midst is being hushed up by all arms of the state, hand in glove with media that are entirely uninterested in ‘speaking truth to power’.

    27 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • British politics / George Galloway: ‘The idea that the organs of the state are impartial is dead’

    Does this herald a moment when the working class in Britain gets back up off its knees and starts to fight again?

    16 Feb 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
  • British politics / The Brexit election and the death of Project Corbyn

    What lessons can workers take from the last four years?

    12 Dec 2019 , Proletarian
  • Climate change / The TUC and climate change: don’t mention the wars

    Unions tail-end middle-class eco protests and stoke illusions in ‘green’ capitalism.

    28 Sep 2019 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • British politics / BBC’s anti-Corbyn hatchet job fails to land blow

    If Corbyn’s allies can't fight back against the Israeli lobby within their own party, what chance will they have against the power of British imperialism?

    14 Jul 2019 , The Electronic Intifada
  • Divide and rule / Fighting the forces of fascism: persuasion, not force, is key right now

    What should meaningful antifascist work look like in present-day Britain?

    28 Jun 2019 ,
  • British politics / Vote Brexit on 23 May!

    British workers have demanded Brexit, and the failure to deliver it is exposing to them the fraud of our so-called parliamentary democracy.

    17 May 2019 ,
  • British politics / Galloway, Farage and the Brexit party

    British workers are set to keep demanding Brexit at the upcoming EU elections.

    7 May 2019 ,
  • British politics / Antisemitism is cover for a much deeper divide in Britain’s Labour party

    Breakaway MPs hope that smearing Corbyn will obscure the fact that they are remnants of an old political order bankrupt of ideas.

    5 Apr 2019 , Middle East Eye
  • British politics / ‘Neither Brexit nor austerity’ – the People’s Assembly and the yellow vest movement in Britain

    Pitting austerity against Brexit is misleading workers into supporting the interests of British imperialism and dividing rather than uniting workers in struggle.

    29 Mar 2019 ,
  • British politics / Five years without Tony Benn – Stop the War laments

    With friends like these, the working class doesn’t need enemies.

    22 Mar 2019 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • France / Macron compares French workers to Asterix and the Gauls

    Yet as the class struggle intensifies it is Asterix and Obelix who symbolically represent the determination to resist exploitation and oppression.

    22 Nov 2018 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Real antifascist work means engaging with workers, not dismissing them

    Every possible effort must be made to win duped workers away from backward ideas that act against their own class interests and help to keep them enslaved.

    13 Nov 2018 ,
  • British politics / The myth of Labour party antisemitism

    On the zionist-backed campaign against Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour party.

    3 Jul 2018 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Socialism anyone? How much further is left for the CPB to fall?

    The self-identifying communists of the CPB leadership are plumbing new depths as they seek to prettify every pro-imperialist policy of the Labour party.

    21 Apr 2018 , Proletarian
  • USA / Obamacare: going, going …

    Assessing the impact of ‘Trumpcare’.

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • Disputes / Shrewsbury 24: Amnesty International shows its true colours

    Even forty years later, the ‘human rights’ champions are still not prepared to tell the full story of their collusion with Labour in keeping Des Warren locked up.

    1 Aug 2016 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Crisis in the Labour party

    With every day it is becoming more apparent that war criminals are eminently more acceptable to the imperialist Labour party than a mildly anti-war leader.

    1 Aug 2016 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Tata: the vultures circle

    While the capitalist crisis continues to destroy workers' lives, our union leaders are still trying to push us down the blind alley of support for British imperialism.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Industry matters: TUC touts for the EU

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Health warning: Austerity kills

    The truth is out, notwithstanding official attempts to cover it up.

    1 Oct 2015 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Jeremy Corbyn: ‘resurgence’ of left social democracy may be shortlived

    Labour's new leader is already succumbing to pressure to give up his long-held positions on Britain's membership of Nato, the EU and more.

    1 Oct 2015 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Jeremy Corbyn: ‘Left’ Labour’s great white elephant

    All the wishes in the world cannot turn the imperialist Labour party into a vehicle for workers’ emancipation.

    16 Sep 2015 , Proletarian
  • Film and TV / We Are Many: new film prettifies leaders of the anti-war movement

    We have the power to change the world, but are we allowing that power to be diverted?

    1 Jun 2015 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Election circus over, the class struggle continues

    Workers don’t need Labour's ‘kinder’ cuts and ‘ethical’ wars; we need communist organisation to take on the ruling class and win.

    1 Jun 2015 , Proletarian
  • Greece / Crunch time for Syriza?

    The bloodsuckers are running out of ways to keep Greece paying out. The imminent explosion will rock the world’s financial systems.

    1 Jun 2015 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / Anglo-US imperialism ratchets up its bellicose stand against Russia

    As inter-imperialist contradictions sharpen, some trade unionists are already campaigning for a defence of the imperialist fatherland.

    1 Jun 2015 , Proletarian
  • Ireland / Sinn Féin: the voice of all Ireland

    The party of anti-imperialist nationalism continues to make headway in Ireland, as rivals north and south are exposed by the latest turns of the economic crisis.

    1 Feb 2015 , Proletarian
  • Europe / Syriza victory in Greek elections

    The Greek masses say No to austerity – but can Syriza save them?

    1 Dec 2014 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / The matchgirls’ strike of 1888

    A landmark victory in working-class history, with much relevance to the many workers today who are once more unorganised and unrepresented by any union.

    1 Jun 2008 , Proletarian

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Social democracy video

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

    How can class-consciousness be raised amongst workers so that they are willing and able to use their power in both defensive and offensive struggles?

    6 Sep 2023, Proletarian TV
  • Bulgaria / Ranjeet Brar: Brexit, Corbyn, the EU and the imperialist economic crisis

    Message to comrades in Bulgaria: the EU offers nothing to workers but an intensifiation of their exploitation, poverty and war.

    29 May 2023, Proletarian TV
  • USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Soviet Union defeating fascism

    Only an evidence-based analysis of WW2 can shed light on the true character of the Soviet Union’s victory over German fascist imperialism.

    16 May 2023, Proletarian TV
  • Disputes / Rail strike spreads as employers and government remain intransigent

    Our rulers are well aware that a victory for rail workers would boost the confidence of workers in other sectors, all suffering from the rampant inflation crisis.

    12 Aug 2022, Proletarian TV
  • Theory TV / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: The Communist International

  • British politics / Book: The Rise and Fall of Project Corbyn

  • British politics / Project Corbyn has failed: what next?

  • British politics / ‘Brexit means you won’t have to share the pain of Greek workers’

  • Britain TV / Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party exposed over Brexit U-turn

  • Britain TV / What can Corbyn’s Labour do for us?

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

Social democracy theory

  • 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’?

    1 Oct 2023,
  • 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.

    4 Aug 2023, Lalkar
  • 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?

    26 Apr 2023,
  • 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.

    17 Jan 2022, Lalkar
  • 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.

  • British politics / A critique of the CPB’s ‘Britain’s Road to Socialism’ in the 21st century, pt 2

    On every question of importance, the CPB has ditched Marxism in favour of servility to the imperialist Labour party.

  • 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.’

  • 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?

  • British politics / WPB storms Batley: ‘We intend to replace Labour as party of working class’

    George Galloway’s party took 22 percent of the vote and sowed chaos in the ranks of the Labour party in July’s West Yorkshire by-election.

  • Working-class history / Lessons of the Communist (Third) International

    What can workers today learn from the experience of the Comintern?

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