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WW2 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 ,
  • Europe / Western politicians’ crocodile tears for one genocide while conducting another

    The hypocrisy and venality of western politicians knows no bounds, stops at no lie and baulks at no crime.

    31 Jan 2025 , Proletarian
  • British politics / A brief history of British Trotskyism

    A plethora of groups with one real purpose: to confuse and disgust the working masses and keep them away from genuinely revolutionary politics.

    1 Jan 2025 , Lalkar
  • World history / Albert Einstein’s address to the Jewish Council for Russian War Relief, 1942

    ‘The tempo of Russia’s development in the last 25 years has been so tremendous that it has scarcely a parallel in history.’

    1 Jan 2025 , Lalkar
  • Media / Declassified UK: an ideological defence mechanism for a dying system

    How the imperialists allow criticism of past offences in order to whitewash the crimes of the present.

    18 Jul 2024 , Lalkar
  • France / What would a real ‘popular front’ look like in France in 2024?

    Under cover of ‘uniting against fascism’, French workers are being asked to align themselves with the true instigators of fascism and war.

    11 Jul 2024 ,
  • Russia / Daily Mail doxes young people on their return from Russian festival

    Why did Russia’s hosting of an international youth festival provoke such a hysterical reaction from British media?

    4 Apr 2024 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Inspirational women: Spanish-born Soviet spy Colonel Africa de las Heras

    An outstanding comrade who devoted her life to defending the Soviet Union in its battle against imperialism and imperialist-backed fascism.

    6 Mar 2024 , Chekist Monitor
  • France / Red salute to French resistance fighter Pierre Pranchère

    One of France’s last remaining WW2 communist resistance fighters has died at the age of 96.

    24 Jan 2024 ,
  • World history / Who are the imperialists to accuse others of ‘terrorism’?

    Thoughts on the barefaced hypocrisy and doublespeak of the real mass-murdering terrorists.

    20 Jan 2024 , Proletarian
  • USA / The murderous legacy of Henry Kissinger

    Kissinger’s amoral, genocidal crimes showed him to be a faithful representative of the US elites whom he served all his life.

    6 Dec 2023 , Middle East Eye
  • Korea / DPRK tells UN of its need to ‘urgently build up self-defence capabilities’

    North Korean ambassador reports on the difficulties faced and overcome by people’s Korea and challenges the UN to live up to its supposed role.

    24 Oct 2023 , WAP
  • Canada / ‘Sieg heil’ in the parliament of Canada

    How did my country suddenly end up in the global headlines? What is the dirty secret that has been hidden in plain sight for so long?

    23 Oct 2023 , Proletarian
  • Canada / Association of United Ukrainian Canadians condemns honouring of Nazis

    The fascist-aligned section is vocal and prominent, but Yaroslav Hunka does not represent all Canadians of Ukrainian origin.

    15 Oct 2023 ,
  • History / Rewriting history, rehabilitating nazism

    All those who ever wondered how the Nazis’ crimes could have been allowed to happen only need to watch our western politicians and media today.

    15 Oct 2023 ,
  • History / ‘The lessons of history …’

    No matter how carefully our environment is manipulated, in the end, truth will out.

    10 Oct 2023 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / Zelensky sidelined, Canada’s Nazi gaffe and Biden struggling to change tack

    As a third Ukrainian army perishes to no avail, now even the west is looking thin of donors when Zelensky rattles the collecting tin.

    2 Oct 2023 , Proletarian
  • Film and TV / Film review: Oppenheimer

    While the USA continues to trumpet itself as the home of free speech, this is only allowed so long as what is said poses no threat to imperialist domination at home and abroad.

    15 Sep 2023 , Lalkar
  • Russia / Who blew up the Kakhovka dam?

    With Ukraine’s ‘offensive’ failing, and the western psyop brigade keen to talk about everything except battlefield realities, it is not hard to see who benefits.

    9 Jun 2023 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / Zelensky piling up his millions as Nato tries regime change via assassination

    Washington continues to stoke the fire in Ukraine, but the blowback may refuse to remain safely in Europe.

    24 May 2023 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / Odessa after the massacre: nine years later the wounds are still fresh

    The west continues to ignore, downplay and misrepresent the trade unionists who were burned alive in Odessa’s trade union building by Nato’s fascist stormtroopers.

    2 May 2023 , Proletarian
  • Russia / Zyuganov to Putin: ‘Form a patriotic front against the imperial west!’

    Communist leader urges Russian president to reunite the country’s greatest heroes with the people.

    25 Apr 2023 , CPRF
  • Baltics / Condemn the demolition of monuments to the WW2 victory over Nazism!

    History is being rewritten and Soviet sacrifices are being desecrated as hundreds of WW2 memorials are dismantled across the Baltics.

    11 Apr 2023 ,
  • USSR / Glory to the heroes of Stalingrad!

    This titantic achievement of the socialist Soviet Union is one the imperialists are incapable of erasing or explaining away.

    30 Mar 2023 , Lalkar
  • Greece / Athens conference: anti-imperialist unity in the Balkans is pivotal for all of Europe

    Only by standing together can workers and oppressed peoples find the strength to defeat Nato’s bestial neo-nazi war machine.

    2 Feb 2023 , Proletarian
  • Czech Republic / Medieval inquisition returns to Europe as historical truth-tellers are put on trial

    Josef Skála and two other scholars are being prosecuted in Prague, charged with ‘expressing doubts’ about who perpetrated the Katyn massacre.

    31 Jan 2023 , Marx 21
  • Italy / Remembering the history and achievements of Italy’s communists

    The militant and heroic legacy of our movement is much needed as an inspiration for the struggle that faces us today.

    21 Jan 2023 ,
  • Yugoslavia / Neo-nazis smash up Yugoslav communist party headquarters

    British communists stand in solidarity with our Yugoslav comrades under attack from EU-backed fascist thugs.

    8 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
  • Media / Inside the world of imperialist mind control

    The upside-down world of corporate media lies: how fairy tales and disappearing facts keep workers in ignorance and fear.

    16 Oct 2022 ,
  • Russia / Vladimir Putin greets new regions with lesson on imperialism’s bloody history

    ‘The west is ready to cross every line to preserve the neocolonial system which allows it to plunder the world, thanks to its dollar and technology domination.’

    7 Oct 2022 , RT
  • Russia / First international antifascist congress held in Moscow

    Uniting those who oppose the spread of Nazi ideology – which remains, as before, an imperialist tool for the division and control of the world’s peoples.

    28 Sep 2022 , Lalkar
  • Media / Dissecting the cliches of Anglo-American ethnocentrism

    Former US ambassador calls on Britain and the USA to ‘come to the rescue’ of the world ... ‘again’.

    26 Aug 2022 ,
  • Ukraine / Is Russia’s advance in Donbass too slow?

    What accounts for the moderate pace of Russian progress in eastern Ukraine? Is it true that the speed is indicative of an imminent collapse?

    16 Jul 2022 ,
  • World history / Annette Beaumanoir: antifascist and anti-imperialist heroine of our times

    Legendary French resistance fighter and groundbreaking ‘Red Doctor’ who dedicated her long life to serving the people.

    20 May 2022 , 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
  • Media / Liberal journalism’s fury as Soviet symbolism returns to liberated Donbass

    True colours? Guardians of western values are agonising over the rout of the murderous thugs who have been rampaging for eight years in east Ukraine.

    16 May 2022 , Proletarian
  • British history / Kim Philby: Hero of the working class

    How the Soviet Union inspired a British establishment insider to devote his life to the cause of socialism and the socialist motherland.

    4 May 2022 , Lalkar
  • Ukraine / Nazis on the retreat as Russian encirclement bites in Ukraine

    President Putin’s declared objectives of demilitarisation and denazification look likely to be fulfilled.

    25 Mar 2022 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / View from a Russian communist: ‘Russia is not going to occupy Ukraine’

    How did it come to pass that fascist forces now dominate in this formerly socialist country? What is it that western media have not been telling us about the war?

    15 Mar 2022 ,
  • USSR / Communist George Blake dies in Moscow aged 98

    One of Britain’s most committed cold war warriors, who went on to live out his years in peace in Russia.

    15 Feb 2021 , Lalkar
  • USSR / Where men die and legends are born – remembering the Battle of Moscow

    In the winter of 1941, Soviet forces outside Moscow exploded the myth of the Nazi war machine’s invincibility and stopped the fascist advance in its tracks.

    13 Feb 2021 ,
  • Poland / Poland signs humiliating surrender agreement with the US

    The Polish-US agreement is a surrender bill in all but name.

    30 Sep 2020 , Proletarian
  • World history / Women in the victory over fascism

    Without the brave and tireless efforts of women across the USSR and Europe, vanquishing the enemy would have been impossible.

    21 May 2020 , Granma
  • Film and TV / Mr Jones: anti-Soviet propaganda gets thumbs up from Ukrainian president

    The same old tired lies are being recycled under the guise of ‘fresh evidence’ in order to remind workers they must not think about taking state power.

    14 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • Palestine / The oligarch behind the world holocaust forum attended by presidents and kings

    As imperialists shed fake tears over the jewish holocaust, they continue to weaponise alleged ‘antisemitism’ to silence all criticism.

    28 Jan 2020 ,
  • Europe / EU legislates to erase the USSR’s role in defeating fascism

    But truth has a way of forcing its way through all the same.

    10 Oct 2019 , Proletarian
  • Europe / Anniversary of the D-Day landings

    Why are the imperialists so keen to push the lie that the Normandy landings changed the course of WW2?

    23 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • World history / The origins of World War Two

    How did WW2 come about? And when were the opening salvos really fired?

    11 Aug 2019 , Lalkar
  • Germany / Buchenwald camp bans memorial for one of its most famous victims

    Ernst Thälmann was a role model for unbroken resistance to Nazi terror, even under the most brutal conditions.

    3 Aug 2019 ,
  • India / The Bengal famine: Churchill’s real darkest hour

    New evidence confirms British leader’s role in murdering millions of Bengalis.

    28 Apr 2019 , Lalkar
  • USSR / Book: Grover Furr’s Mystery of the Katyn Massacre

    This impartial examination of all available evidence proves irrefutably that the Nazis were responsible for the mass murder of Polish officers in 1941.

    15 Dec 2018 ,
  • Namibia / European holocaust had roots in Africa, now Namibia is suing Germany

    The genocide committed against the Namibian Herero and Nama people sheds light on the Nazi holocaust of jewish and other European peoples in WW2.

    29 Aug 2018 , New Eastern Outlook
  • Germany / A tribute to East Germany’s General Heinz Kessler

    Defender of communism to the last.

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Poem: Soviet Man

    Although the poet’s life was snuffed out in defence of his motherland, Strelchenko’s immortal work lives on, a beacon of light illuminating the power of Soviet socialism.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • Europe / Seventieth anniversary of the victory over fascism marked in Moscow

    An excuse for an orgy of bourgeois lies and prevarication.

    1 Jun 2015 , Proletarian

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WW2 video

  • Korea / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: The origins of the DPRK

    How did a socialist state come to be formed in the northern part of Korea, and how has it become the world’s longest-surviving socialist country?

    27 Apr 2025, Proletarian TV
  • USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: imperialism and nuclear weapons

    What is the communist position on nuclear weapons in the age of imperialism?

    4 May 2024, Proletarian TV
  • World TV / Joti Brar and Garland Nixon: Palestine and Yemen, episode 2

    What makes Palestine so important to the imperialists and why can’t the USA stop digging its own grave?

    6 Feb 2024,
  • World TV / Joti Brar and Garland Nixon: Parasitic imperialism, episode 1

    Why do we describe the imperialist system as ‘decadent, parasitic, decaying and doomed’?

    25 Jan 2024, Proletarian TV
  • Greece / Nina Kosta and George Korkovelos: The crushing of the Greek revolution

  • World history / British delegate in Athens: We must learn the lessons of our history

  • Russia / ‘Empire of lies’. Russia sums up the anti-imperialist view to the UN assembly

  • Czech Republic / Interview with persecuted Czech communist Josef Skála

  • Russia / Donetsk communist leader: ‘No democracy in Ukraine’

  • Theory TV / Garland Nixon and Joti Brar: capitalism, imperialism, the ‘left’ and the Platform

  • China / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Chinese Revolution 2: The PLA and WW2

  • Korea / British delegate in Seoul: Global capitalist system teetering over the abyss

  • USSR / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: Soviet Union defeating fascism

  • World TV / Lavrov to UN: Who has even seen the ‘rules’ the west expects us to follow?

  • Russia / Russian communists: Russia is fighting neo-nazism in Ukraine

  • USSR / Harpal Brar: Why celebrate the Soviet and allied victory over fascism in 2022?

  • USSR / Journalist Steve Sweeney on Ukraine war – a personal account on Victory Day

  • Ukraine / Joti Brar: British people being subjected to a major psyop regarding Ukraine

  • Theory TV / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: The Communist International

  • History TV / WW2: The 70th anniversary of the victory over fascism

  • USSR / Grover Furr on the continuing revolution in Stalin-era history

  • British history / British communism, 1920-1943

  • British history / Winston Churchill: hero or monster?

  • USSR / Soviet preparations for World War Two

WW2 theory

  • Theory / KKE leadership slanders international antifascist forum in Moscow

    The Greek party’s leaders continue to rebrand Trotskyite formulae as ‘Leninism’ to cover their inexcusable treachery at a pivotal moment in history.

    25 May 2025, Youth Platform
  • Theory / Book: Zionism by Harpal Brar

    A racist, antisemitic and reactionary tool of imperialism. Read the book they want to ban!

    31 Dec 2024,
  • World history / Josef Stalin on Winston Churchill and the spread of socialism to eastern Europe

    How did the Soviet Union react to former prime minister Churchill’s notoriously anticommunist ‘iron curtain’ speech in 1946?

    10 Sep 2024, Lalkar
  • 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
  • USSR / Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 3

    Those who are in the business of fighting for the victory of socialism are duty-bound to make a study of the real Stalin, a giant in the history of our movement.

  • Ukraine / On the essence of the Ukraine war and the lessons of Russia’s SMO

    What is the war in Ukraine really about, and what have we learned during the last two years of fighting?

  • USSR / Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 2

    What is the truth about the commonly rehashed legends of the ‘gulag archipelago’ and of systematic antisemitism during the time of Stalin’s leadership?

  • USSR / Stalin – the History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo, pt 1

    Domenico Losurdo is one of the small minority of historians and thinkers who have the courage and candour to swim against the tide.

  • Georgia / Why reimagine Soviet Georgia?

    Despite 30 years of efforts to bury and vilify its memory, the resilience of communism remains undefeated.

  • 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?

  • British politics / Book: Britain’s Perfidious Labour party by Harpal Brar

    An essential history for every sincere worker who wishes to make sense of the political landscape in Britain and find an effective way forward.

  • 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’?

  • Russia / What is happening in the Russian economy?

    Enforced separation from the world market has reinforced moves back towards nationalisation and planning.

  • Ukraine / ANC veteran: ‘An anti-nazi patriotic war is not an interimperialist war’

    Seven decades of revisionist rot are revealed in the anti-Russia stance being taken by so many communist parties today.

  • Ukraine / Disappearing context: West created and backed Ukrainian fascists for 85 years

    The Azov battalion did not appear out of nowhere; fascism has been the imperialist tool of choice in Ukraine since the 1930s.

  • Ukraine / Western presstitutes rediscover international law after 77 years

    Will this admission turn out to have been a massive own goal?

  • Korea / Korean victory in the Fatherland Liberation War: 70 years on

    ‘Our people have inherited the heroic spirit of the generation who defeated the US-led gang in 1953 – a de facto confrontation between the rifle and the atomic bomb.’

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

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

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