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communist party of great britain (marxist-leninist)

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Workers rights highlights

  • Society / The struggles of the youth

    Capitalism has nothing to offer our young people except a lifetime of servitude to a system that crushes their spirits.

    30 Apr 2025 ,

  • British politics / No illusions in bourgeois democracy

    The Labour party and all its ‘left’ hangers-on continue to work day and night to restore workers’ illusions in parliamentary elections.

    30 Apr 2025 ,

  • Civil liberties / Bourgeois democracy and fascism

    The march towards authoritarian dictatorship can be countered with by a party imbued with revolutionary optimism.

    30 Apr 2025 ,

  • Civil liberties / The Labour party is the agent of increased political repression in Britain

    Starmer’s government was installed to disarm working-class resistance and destroy the pro-Palestine movement.

    30 Apr 2025 ,

  • Pay and conditions / Starmer ditches the promised ‘right to switch off’

    Confirming what might have been anticipated about how sincere the Labour party was in its pre-election pledges to bring in a ‘New Deal for Workers’.

    11 Mar 2025 , Proletarian

  • Palestine / Gaza ceasefire: Palestinian resistance celebrates significant victory

    While the war for liberation is far from over, the Israeli entity has been mortally wounded.

    16 Feb 2025 , Proletarian

  • Korea / Massive strikes called as crisis deepens in occupied Korea

    Underpinning the scandals around corruption and authoritarianism is the US imperialists drive to restart the Korean war.

    14 Dec 2024 , Proletarian

  • Industry / Starmer government pushing fresh sell-off to hedge fund vultures

    The Labour party grovels to Wall Street and the City of London.

    15 Nov 2024 , Class Consciousness Project

  • Civil liberties / Solidarity against police repression: Labour’s role in Gaza genocide

    The Labour party’s control over movements of solidarity and ‘opposition’ in Britain is key to the present impotence of the working class.

    14 Feb 2024 ,

  • Trade unions / TUC launches fake ‘campaign to defend the right to strike’

    A campaign most workers are unaware of, aimed not at overturning anti-worker legislation but at garnering votes for the perfidious Labour party.

    26 Jan 2024 , Proletarian

  • 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 ,

  • 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

  • Korea / South Korea: the ‘Land of Morning Calm’ is working itself to death

    Capitalist dystopia in action: behind the ‘economic miracle’, the daily grind keeps getting harder.

    27 Jul 2023 , Le Monde diplomatique

  • Civil liberties / Public Order Act: latest anti-worker legislation to outlaw protests and strikes

    Human rights in Britain? What human rights?

    11 Jul 2023 , Lalkar

  • France / Joti Brar: We are heartened and inspired by French workers’ fighting spirit

    Unfortunately, even the most militant of Britain’s trade union leaders seem keen to end the strikes here as quickly as possible.

    8 Jun 2023 , Communist Initiative

  • Trade unions / Model motion: Defy the anti-trade union laws

    Within the current legal framework, workers’ right to strike in Britain has been all but annulled. This situation must be reversed by means of collective action.

    4 Jun 2023 ,

  • 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

  • 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 ,

  • Education / Support our teachers; save our schools!

    It is not only their present ability to exist that Britain’s teachers are fighting for, but our children’s future.

    14 Mar 2023 , Proletarian

  • Pay and conditions / Pardeep Singh and Boohoo: sweatshop and semi-slavery conditions on the rise

    An immigrant worker whose punishment beating was filmed by his employer serves as a stark reminder of the true face of capitalist exploitation.

    6 Feb 2023 ,

  • Trade unions / TUC directs its members’ anger into more meaningless busywork

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

    30 Jan 2023 , Proletarian

  • Civil liberties / Minimum Service Bill is the latest salvo in the class war against workers

    No cooperation with union-busting anti-strike laws! 

    27 Jan 2023 , Proletarian

  • Civil liberties / Joti Brar on RT: New laws on strikes and protests aim to contain workers’ anger

    Instead of helping workers weather the inflation crisis, our rulers are preparing to suppress any future rebellion.

    16 Jan 2023 , Proletarian TV

  • Pay and conditions / Don’t make care workers pay for the crisis in social care!

    We must renationalise and reunite social care with healthcare, and pay all workers in the sector a decent wage.

    17 Apr 2021 , Proletarian

  • Industry / Leicester sweatshops keep their heads down despite covid panic

    Fashion industry gangmasters are riding out the storm, safe in the knowledge that it will be business as usual before long.

    17 Jul 2020 , Proletarian

  • Pay and conditions / Conditions at Yodel: report by a worker

    Workers in the logistics industry are being sweated at ever-more intense and unendurable rates.

    26 Jun 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

  • Economy / British trade agreements after Brexit

    By pinning all their hopes for Britain’s future on a US trade deal, our rulers are taking us out of the frying pan and into the fire.

    10 Jun 2020 , Proletarian

  • Pay and conditions / Barclays spies on its own staff

    The banking giant is using ‘Big Brother tactics’ to monitor staff and keep their noses to the grindstone.

    6 Mar 2020 , Proletarian

  • Pay and conditions / Amazon is bad for your health

    What a surprise: working too hard and too long leads to unsafe working environments.

    4 Mar 2020 , Proletarian

  • Disputes / Wirral’s binmen to strike?

    Outsourced waste collector Biffa is playing fast and loose with its workers’ pay.

    3 Mar 2020 , Proletarian

  • Pay and conditions / Offshore oil workers under threat

    Will trade unions now get off the back foot and start to mobilise their members into an active campaign of resistance?

    26 Feb 2020 , Proletarian

  • Pay and conditions / Union-busting at St Mungo’s homeless charity

    More pressure on workers in the charity sector, where a race to the bottom is well underway.

    4 Feb 2020 , Proletarian

  • Europe / How the EU is demolishing pensions

    We need to stand together in resisting the drive to make workers pay for the economic crisis of capitalism.

    2 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

  • Working-class history / Avtar Jouhl: lifelong class fighter against racism

    Comrade Avtar reflects on a life of struggle in the IWA and the trade unions from the 1950s to the 1990s.

    10 Nov 2019 , International Socialist

  • Society / The true level of unemployment

    Joblessness is being underreported by a factor of 200 percent.

    26 Oct 2019 , Proletarian

  • British politics / Capitalism can’t solve society’s problems, but working people can

    In the immortal words of Karl Marx: “Workers and oppressed peoples of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains; you have a world to win!”

    1 May 2019 ,

  • Sri Lanka / May Day message from Sri Lanka

    JVP calls for Sri Lankan workers to unify and struggle for socialist transformation in answer to the recent barbaric attacks on their country.

    1 May 2019 ,

  • 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 ,

  • France / France fights back against Thatcherite ‘reforms’

    French workers have only to see what has been done to the British working class in recent decades to understand the ramifications of their present fight.

    3 May 2018 , Lalkar

  • Disputes / Support the McWorkers: class against class!

    Organisation is a vital weapon in the fight for our rights.

    12 Feb 2018 ,

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Workers rights theory

  • Argentina / Role of the IMF in impoverishing countries – the case of Argentina

    How the imperialists use the debt trap to loot the wealth of and enforce their hegemony over oppressed nations.

    28 May 2024, Lalkar

  • Divide and rule / Book: Capitalism and Immigration

    Our strength is in our unity, and our rulers know it well.

    3 May 2023,

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