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The Communists

communist party of great britain (marxist-leninist)

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VI Lenin highlights

  • USSR / Harpal Brar: Soviet victory over fascism – a festival of progressive humanity

    The Soviet Union’s colossal contribution to the second world war cannot be overstated – it is up to us, communists, to protect this legacy.

    15 May 2025 ,
  • USSR / Josef Stalin – hero of the working class

    Seventy-two years ago a great leader of the proletariat died, but his legacy is now emerging stronger than ever.

    16 Apr 2025 , Marx Engels Institute
  • USSR / Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review, pt 1

    ‘Much of Stalin’s youthful political style derived from that of his master and political exemplar, Lenin.’

    1 Jan 2025 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Joti Brar interview: ‘We are links in the long chain of revolution’

    Marx and Engels bequeathed essential values for every generation of revolutionaries: humility, service, dedication, discipline, sacrifice.

    17 Oct 2024 , Za Pobedu!
  • Sport / The Paris Olympics: a spectacle of imperialist decadence

    What were they thinking of? How the Paris Olympic Committee turned the 2024 opening ceremony into ‘one giant gay parade’.

    8 Oct 2024 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Benefit cap shock? Labour perfidy is nothing new

    Those surprised by the Starmer’s contempt for the poor would do well to study the party’s 100-year history of anti-worker crimes in office.

    26 Jul 2024 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Long live May Day!

    Workers have made immense sacrifices in the great struggle of labour against capital; have shed rivers of blood in their quest for a better life and real freedom.

    1 May 2023 , Lalkar
  • 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.

    2 Jan 2021 , Lalkar
  • Venezuela / Venezuela’s foreign minister: ‘Lenin’s definition of imperialism was correct’

    Workers’ representatives from the five continents meet in Caracas to forge ahead with world anti-imperialist struggle.

    26 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • USSR / International communists on the attack against anti-Stalin lies

    Workers will never find courage in their own strength until they have learned to see through the exploiters’ lies about socialism.

    8 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Stalin and the Bolsheviks of Transcaucasia, part 2

    How the communists led the fight against aggressive nationalism and established peace and socialism in the Caucasus.

    1 Jan 2020 , Lalkar
  • USSR / Why do we celebrate the October Revolution?

    Workers need to take inspiration from the achievements of October; an example that our rulers would prefer us to forget.

    2 Dec 2019 ,
  • China / Hail the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China

    We wish the Chinese people success in overcoming their enemies in the future as they have done in the past.

    24 Nov 2019 , Lalkar
  • USSR / Stalin and the Bolsheviks of Transcaucasia, part 1

    How the revolutionary communists established themselves as the leading force against tsarist oppression in the Caucasus.

    3 Oct 2019 , Lalkar
  • USSR / October Revolution 101: the future belongs to communism

    October changed the world forever, and the genie can never be put back in the bottle. Only socialism offers a decent future free from crisis, poverty and war.

    7 Nov 2018 ,
  • USSR / The October Revolution and the east

    How the Russian revolution of 1917 brought socialism to the oppressed peoples of Asia.

    21 Apr 2018 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Letter: Follow the road of Great October!

    The October Revolution remains, almost a century later, as humanity’s beacon of hope and inspiration.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian

VI Lenin topics

  • Actually-existing socialism
  • Fascism
  • Harpal Brar
  • Josef Stalin
  • Marxism
  • Media lies
  • US imperialism
  • VI Lenin
  • Victory over fascism
  • WW2
  • Anticommunism
  • Leninism
  • Revisionism
  • Anti-imperialism
  • Anti-imperialist Platform
  • British imperialism
  • CPGB-ML
  • Deborah Lavin
  • Friedrich Engels
  • Godfrey Cremer
  • Indian liberation struggle
  • Iraq war
  • Iris Cremer
  • Irish liberation struggle
  • IWA
  • Karl Marx
  • Libya war
  • Mao Zedong
  • Margaret Thatcher
  • Miners strike
  • Obituaries
  • October Revolution
  • Racism and immigration
  • Trotskyism
  • Zimbabwe liberation struggle
  • Zionism
  • Bourgeois democracy
  • International Working Womens Day
  • Labour party
  • London
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  • Prisons
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  • Drive to war
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  • Lenin 100
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  • Second International
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  • Lenin 150
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  • Donald Trump
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VI Lenin 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,
  • Theory TV / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Imperialism and war

    What do Marxist theory and working-class history teach us about war, and how should this knowledge inform our struggle for a just and lasting peace?

    19 Jul 2024, Proletarian TV
  • Theory / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: The immortal legacy of VI Lenin

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

    2 Feb 2024, Proletarian TV
  • Russia / Russian communists: Russia is fighting neo-nazism in Ukraine

    CPRF rebuts ahistorical assertion that Russia’s involvement in the Ukraine war is as an aggressive imperialist power.

    22 Apr 2023,
  • Theory TV / Harpal Brar: Lenin on party building (One Step Forward)

  • Theory TV / Ella Rule: Lenin on revolutionary theory (What Is To Be Done?)

  • USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Industrialising the USSR

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

  • USSR / The NHS is ‘communist’ – we owe it to the October Revolution, not to Labour

  • British history / British communism, 1920-1943

  • Theory TV / Harpal Brar on Trotskyism or Leninism?

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

  • USSR / October 100: Why does it matter?

VI Lenin theory

  • Working-class history / Obituary: Harpal Brar, revolutionary founder of the CPGB-ML

    Sixty years of dedicated service to the anti-imperialist movement by an outstanding revolutionary have left a lasting legacy for the British working class.

    5 Mar 2025, Lalkar
  • Theory / Book: Trotsky(ism): Tool of Imperialism by Harpal Brar

    Unless the pernicious influence of this Trojan horse is rooted out, our movement will succeed neither in stopping imperialist war nor in overthrowing imperialist rule.

    10 Dec 2024,
  • British politics / The dead weight of old slogans: how Trotskyists justify their sell-out

    The Euro-American fake left are hiding behind 19th-century slogans that have no relevance to anti-imperialist struggles.

    31 Oct 2024, Marx Engels Institute
  • USSR / JV Stalin: Trotskyism or Leninism?

    Josef Stalin’s decisive answer to the lies about October 1917 that Trotsky began to peddle straight after Lenin’s death in 1924.

    28 Jun 2024,
  • 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?

  • World history / On the current state and problems of the communist movement

    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?

  • USSR / Stalin: A great servant of mankind who belongs to the ages

    Truly, his name and his works will live on through the centuries.

  • Theory / Lenin lives!

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

  • 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?

  • 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?

  • 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 / Critique of the linguistic theory of Noam Chomsky

    What is behind the theory that language structures in the mind are inborn?

  • USSR / VI Lenin: To workers, soldiers and peasants!

    Decree issued by the second all-Russia congress of soviets of workers’ and soldiers’ deputies immediately after the revolution, 7 November 1917.

  • 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 / VI Lenin: The immediate tasks of the Soviet government

    Excerpt from the pamphlet by V I Lenin, written in April 1918.

  • Theory / Lenin on party building

    What kind of organisation does the working class need if it wants to overthrow imperialism and build socialism?

  • Theory / Lenin’s What Is To Be Done?

    What is the role of theory in the communist movement? How should it affect the work we do?

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