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communist party of great britain (marxist-leninist)

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Unemployment highlights

  • Capitalist crisis / Labour means austerity, racism, repression and war

    So where are the trade unions?

    1 Oct 2024 ,
  • South Africa / The unfinished liberation struggle in South Africa

    Fulfilment of the 1955 Freedom charter, in particular land redistribution, remains the central demand of the poor black masses.

    21 Jul 2024 , Lalkar
  • Argentina / Victory of Javier Milei reveals the failure of Argentina’s popular forces

    How could a candidate with such an overtly anti-worker programme be elected by workers in dire economic straits?

    10 Dec 2023 ,
  • Leaflets / Open letter to CPB: Give up the Labour party and take the revolutionary path

    Sincere communists must make a serious appraisal of their work at this time of deepening crisis and renewed struggle.

    16 Nov 2023 , Proletarian
  • Britain / The collapse of Wilko

    Wilko stores across the country are expected to close over the next few weeks with the chain struggling to find a buyer.

    1 Sep 2023 , Class Consciousness Project
  • Divide and rule / Anti-immigration propaganda stirs up anger and rioting in Knowsley

    As the cost of living crisis brings suffering to workers, our rulers are once again using immigration to distract from their failures.

    17 Apr 2023 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / Selling Ukraine to the highest bidder

    Alongside the wanton sacrifice of its military-aged men, the total immiseration of Ukraine’s entire population by western imperialism continues apace.

    20 Sep 2022 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • 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
  • USA / US state revokes child protection laws instead of creating decent jobs for adults

    Wisconsin is planning to patch up the cracks in its faltering economy by getting children to work longer and later.

    10 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • Nicaragua / Nicaraguan ambassador: ‘In our country, democracy is in the hands of the people’

    Comrade Guisell Morales reminds us that capitalism, imperialism and sanctions kill; and that another world is possible.

    28 Oct 2021 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Keep on trucking: supply lines chaos as Covid and Brexit effects combine

    The obvious answer to the present shortage of skilled labour is to invest in training and to improve pay and conditions in the areas concerned.

    3 Sep 2021 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • Social wage / Unemployment and poverty set to rise as furlough ends and benefits are cut

    A brutal shock is in store for many workers as the temporary multi-tiered unemployment support system is slashed back to the bone.

    13 Jul 2021 , Proletarian
  • Housing / Ban extended, but evictions continue

    Behind the toothless legislation is a government, and parliament, inextricably intertwined with the landlord class.

    1 Apr 2021 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Jobless figures mount as Paperchase is latest retail chain to fail

    As the economic crisis is exacerbated by repeated lockdowns, company after company is going to the wall.

    7 Jan 2021 ,
  • Lay-offs and closures / Sunak extends furlough till April as jobless stats sow panic

    The number of redundancies continues to climb inexorably each month, despite all efforts to massage the figures and soften the blow.

    23 Dec 2020 ,
  • Social wage / Humbled by their own incompetence: ‘winter economic plan’ back to square one

    Lockdown exacerbates ruling class conflict over future for employers, employees, and unemployed.

    24 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Edinburgh Woollen Mill: the vultures circle

    Thousands of workers look set to lose their jobs, but the man whose fortune they made will have no trouble hanging onto his millions.

    19 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Insult to injury: government plans to cut Universal Credit boost

    Covid has exposed the injustice of below-poverty-line benefits. How will our rulers balance their need for cheap and desperate workers with maintaining social peace?

    29 Oct 2020 ,
  • Social wage / UBI: a recipe for universal misery

    Our demand must be for meaningful work in a society free from poverty, unemployment and insecurity.

    24 Aug 2020 , Proletarian
  • Society / Thinktank warns of massive rise in destitution in the wake of Covid-19

    The wonders of capitalism: five million Britons predicted to become destitute this year.

    10 Aug 2020 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Bosses press on with sackings as crisis deepens

    As the furlough support scheme comes to an end, the true depth of the economic crisis is becoming ever clearer.

    7 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / BA threatens to sack its entire workforce

    After rinsing the furlough scheme, the airline is now insisting that its staff should accept huge pay cuts or be sacked.

    16 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Jobless total rockets

    As the economic crisis bites, over a million workers in Britain have been forced precipitously onto the breadline.

    24 May 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 ,
  • Economy / Covid-19 furlough scheme: a bonanza for big business

    While thousands of workers find themselves without a job, bosses are cashing in on the ‘free money’ of the furlough scheme.

    30 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Economy / QuickQuid – cut and run

    Having extorted millions from struggling austerity-hit families, the US-backed payday lender is pocketing its loot and getting out.

    30 Oct 2019 ,
  • Society / The true level of unemployment

    Joblessness is being underreported by a factor of 200 percent.

    26 Oct 2019 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Jobs massacre at Jaguar Land Rover confirmed

    Overproduction not Brexit is to blame. But if there really are too many cars in the world, what are workers to do?

    16 Jan 2019 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / FT leaks plans by Jaguar Land Rover to axe 5,000 jobs

    The joy of capitalism: unemployment is the workers’ reward for enriching the company's owners.

    21 Dec 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • Lay-offs and closures / Support Asda Queslett workers’ fight for jobs

    Don’t let machines come before jobs, nor profit before people.

    19 Dec 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • Society / Meaningful employment is a right for all

    Useful work well done for collective benefit brings personal fulfilment. A society that can't provide such work to its members is not fit for purpose.

    28 Oct 2018 ,
  • Lay-offs and closures / BHS workers facing loss of jobs and pensions

    This is not the ‘unacceptable face’ of capitalism; capitalism itself is unacceptable.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • USA / The rise of Donald Trump: a revolt against the establishment

    The anger of poor white workers in the US may be misdirected for now, but it is real and it is growing.

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Industry matters: pay ‘rises’ belied by decline in real wages

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Steel industry in terminal decline

    The only way to save the steel industry in Britain is to fight class against class.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • Proletarian news / Industry matters: Amazon unveiled

    1 Oct 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
  • USA / Baltimore uprising reveals working class’s revolutionary potential

    When revolutionary science and organisation come together with the power and anger of the US’s poor, there will be no stopping them.

    1 Jun 2015 , Proletarian
  • 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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Unemployment video

  • Working-class history / The life and times of Sylvia Pankhurst

    A remarkable woman with a big heart, who devoted herself heart and soul to the cause of the downtrodden and oppressed masses.

    1 Mar 2025,
  • British politics / Ella Rule: ‘Proletarian revolution is our number one objective’

    For a revolution to succeed it must be led by a competent revolutionary party, closely linked to the masses and trusted by them.

    3 Aug 2024, Proletarian TV
  • Capitalist crisis / Red Youth: Marxism can channel the anger of our youth into revolution

    Decaying capitalism offers young people only alienation and misery. The path to a positive future lies in harnessing our energies against the present system.

    28 Nov 2023,
  • Divide and rule / Dan O’Brien, Ranjeet Brar: immigration and the new ‘stop the boats’ bill

    Who is to blame for declining living standards, and what is the role and purpose of immigration legislation?

    23 Apr 2023,
  • Capitalist crisis / Comrade Ranjeet: ‘Cost of living crisis is inseparably bound up with capitalism’

  • Social wage / Queues for food reach 2km in London

  • Capitalist crisis / The unenviable plight of the self-employed

  • Health / Comrade Ranjeet on MoATS: ‘The government has failed the people’

Unemployment theory

  • World history / Josef Stalin on the Labour party and Nato

    ‘The Labour government has agreed to turn Britain into a military and air base for the United States of America to attack the Soviet Union.’

    5 Sep 2024, 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,
  • Lay-offs and closures / Job cuts and factory closures; the car industry in Britain

    As automation and overproduction combine to wipe out industrial jobs, what is the answer to this seemingly insoluble problem?

    12 Mar 2019, Lalkar

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