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communist party of great britain (marxist-leninist)

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The state highlights

  • Civil liberties / France in flames after yet another racist police murder

    The divide between French ‘natives’ and ‘immigrants’ is constantly exacerbated in order to keep workers from making common cause against their rulers.

    2 Aug 2023 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Increasing state repression and the ‘non-personing’ of Nigel Farage

    The targeting of such a pro-imperialist figure is a warning to all those who might engage in acts of dissent against the establishment.

    25 Jul 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
  • Korea / Remembering the 1980 armed uprising against imperalism in Gwangju, Korea

    The spirit of Gwangju still burns bright amongst large sections of the Korean people, who yearn to reunite their country and free it from colonial rule.

    13 May 2023 , WAP
  • Civil liberties / Police officer David Carrick’s campaign of rape: a bad apple or a rotten barrel?

    News that the Met will now reopen the cases of a thousand officer complaints would seem to answer the question.

    17 Feb 2023 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / TUC directs its members’ anger into more meaningless busywork

    An email campaign to reverse anti-union laws? Really?

    30 Jan 2023 , Proletarian
  • British politics / What is really meant by the demand for a ‘general election now’?

    It is true that Rishi Sunak’s appointment was undemocratic. But what do those calling for his ousting really want?

    5 Dec 2022 ,
  • Health / Law on mandatory vaccination for NHS staff to be repealed

    In a last-minute U-turn, the beleaguered prime minister has realised that this is one battle he can do without.

    1 Feb 2022 , Proletarian
  • British politics / What can Boris’s ‘partygate’ tell us about the nature of capitalist Britain?

    It is not just one leader we need to replace, but the whole rotten and corrupt system he represents.

    18 Jan 2022 , Proletarian
  • China / US appoints itself arbiter of ‘democracy’: one more act of anti-China propaganda

    Invitation list confirms that to be counted as democratic one must be first and foremost a friend of the dictatorial US imperialist regime.

    9 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Anglo-American plot to assassinate Julian Assange on London’s streets

    Will the authorities now be forced to cease their decade-long persecution of the world’s most celebrated journalist?

    13 Oct 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray: British state locks up elderly journalist on spurious charges

    In Britain today, any journalist who becomes an inconvenience to the ruling class can expect to be ruthlessly targeted.

    9 Sep 2021 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Scandalous levels of public service corruption in Britain

    Is honest dealing by businesses and politicians compatible with capitalist society and the profit motive?

    7 Sep 2021 , Lalkar
  • Working-class history / Remembering the 2011 youth uprising

    Ten years on, the poverty, inequality and injustice that led to an outpouring of rage on England’s streets have only worsened.

    6 Aug 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Reform of the Secrets Act is another brick in the wall

    While the ‘opposition’ sits on its hands, the ruling class is rolling out more legislation designed to suppress working-class discontent.

    5 Aug 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Metropolitan police branded ‘institutionally corrupt’

    An unsolved murder and a persistent family have laid bare a catalogue of dishonest dealings by police stretching out over decades.

    28 Jun 2021 , Proletarian
  • World history / Film review: Judas and the Black Messiah

    A searing reminder of the need for class unity in the battle for socialism.

    8 Jun 2021 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Sewell report concludes ‘no institutional racism’ in British society. How?

    The whitewashers of the system and the self-identifying ‘social justice warriors’ form a perfect double-act, working to keep workers perpetually divided.

    27 May 2021 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Kill the Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill!

    A marked increase in police violence against workers has already been in evidence even before the new policing bill has passed into law.

    24 May 2021 , Lalkar
  • World / Five Eyes become four as New Zealand distances itself from anti-China action

    Workers have no interest in going along with the wave of anti-China propaganda that is preparing the ground for a devastating war.

    20 May 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Police Bill: capitalism gears up for the class struggles to come

    Our rulers are in a hurry to pass new laws while the excuse of Covid lingers and before workers have woken up to the true scale of the present economic crisis.

    7 Apr 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Media freedom? Show me the MSM journalist opposing the torture of Assange

    11 Sep 2020 ,
  • USA / Rebellion: fractures in America deepen after murder of George Floyd

    Will ‘taking the knee’, removing some statues and charging four policemen be enough to dampen the protests that have rocked the imperialist heartlands?

    5 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange: The truth will set him free

    Many questions remain to be answered about the conduct of Julian’s defence.

    18 Jun 2020 ,
  • Industry / End British export of rubber bullets

    British arms manufacturers continue to profit from these lethal ‘crowd control’ weapons.

    17 Jun 2020 ,
  • USA / US burning as working-class communities rise up against police brutality

    As Irish republicans used to say: when the law makers are the law breakers, there is no law.

    5 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray: Assange’s armoured glass box is an instrument of torture

    ‘They are attempting to make him kill himself – or create the conditions where his death might be explained away as suicide.’

    4 Mar 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 4

    The British state is lying about the validity of the US extradition treaty – and it knows it.

    2 Mar 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 3

    The sham show-trial at Woolwich reveals how brazenly our rulers will flout their own rules when it suits them to do so.

    1 Mar 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 2

    It has been demonstrably proved in court that the US knows its own charges against Assange are untrue.

    1 Mar 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 1

    This shameful show trial is being exposed by one of the few people in the court who is prepared to tell the truth to the outside world.

    29 Feb 2020 , Craig Murray
  • 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
  • Civil liberties / UN: Britain and US guilty of torturing Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning

    This illegal and brutal repression must not be allowed to succeed in its aim of terrifying workers into submission.

    7 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange in court: unmistakable signs of torture

    Unless Julian is released shortly he will be destroyed. If the state can do this, then who is next?

    28 Oct 2019 , Craig Murray
  • Books / Ian McEwan’s White Tooth

    The thinking woman’s Ruth Rendell.

    1 Aug 2012 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Rage against capitalism: working-class youth fight back

    The working class needs a general staff that can enable it to direct its anger in a constructive way.

    9 Aug 2011 ,
  • Civil liberties / YOUTH UPRISING 2011: Bourgeois ideologues battle for control of the working-class movement

    Protesters under attack from state repression, rabid propaganda and rotten ideology.

    1 Jun 2011 , Proletarian

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The state video

  • Health / Comrade Ranjeet on Kalima Horra: ‘Who benefits from a covid vaccine?’

    Why is there so little trust in the pharmaceutical industry in western imperialist countries?

    25 Dec 2020,
  • Capitalist crisis / Comrade Joti on RT’s CrossTalk: ‘No Trust’

    Can you trust a government that says with one breath there isn't enough money for public services and with the next bails out the banks?

    31 Jul 2020,
  • Theory TV / Marxism in the 21st century: is it still relevant?

    ‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.’ -- Karl Marx

    6 Feb 2020,
  • British politics / Comrade Joti interviewed by Caleb Maupin

    ‘The fundamental contradiction in the world today is between imperialism and the oppressed countries.’

    3 Nov 2019,
  • Theory TV / Anarchism or socialism?

  • Theory TV / Harpal Brar on the state and revolution

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

The state theory

  • Theory / Lenin lives!

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

    9 Feb 2023, Marx Engels Institute
  • 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?

    25 Jan 2022, Lalkar
  • 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
  • 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.

    8 Nov 2021, Lalkar
  • 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?

  • 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’.

  • USA / Who are the Capitol rioters?

    Why do so many on the ‘left’ refuse even to try to work amongst the mass of the working class?

  • USSR / Harpal Brar: Long live Leninism!

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

  • Theory / The dictatorship of the proletariat

    What kind of state will the workers need after the socialist revolution?

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