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The political map of the Republic of Ireland has undergone an unprecedented change as a result of the general election held in that state on 25 February 2011.Occurring against the backdrop of the impact on Ireland of the eurozone crisis, which has seen Ireland forced into a humiliating £72 billion EU-IMF bailout to rescue its … [Read more…]

In developments of great magnitude, wrote Marx, “Twenty years are no more than a day – though later on days may come again in which twenty years are embodied” (‘Letter to Engels’, 9 April 1863).The current revolutionary struggles in Tunisia and Egypt furnish yet more proof of the correctness of the above profound observation.  Tunisia, … [Read more…]

In the wake of the two-month-long Franco-Prussian war of autumn 1870, which saw the French capitalist state resoundingly defeated (with its self-styled emperor, Napoleon III, being captured on the battlefield) and witnessed the birth of a united Germany, the workers of Paris briefly established, for the first time, a dictatorship of the proletariat, the rule of … [Read more…]

The following article is based on a speech delivered by a representative of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) at a meeting, ‘Evolving China and Africa Relations – an alternative to Western domination?’, organised by A Just African Movement for Unity (AJAMU), in north London on Saturday 19 February 2011.________________________________Although … [Read more…]

After a year of leaks, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, in particular an April video taken from a US helicopter in Iraq in 2007 showing GIs shooting at least 12 innocent Iraqis like rabbits, has emerged, thanks to the response of the US authorities, as a hero.  Beginning in July 2010, his site issued … [Read more…]

The 17th World Festival of Youth and Students was held at the Pretoria Show Grounds, South Africa, during the week beginning 13 December.  Red Youth, the youth wing of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist Leninist) (CPGB-ML) was represented by Comrades Paul Cannon and Ranjeet Brar.  As the responsibility for organising the Youth and … [Read more…]

Finding the lies about, and distortions of, revolutionary leaders of the Soviet Union, the policies of the Soviet Communists, and the actions of that once great state is quite easy; virtually any bourgeois paper, TV programme or internet blog site can be depended on to serve that up. However, it is those who pose as … [Read more…]

As this current crisis of overproduction deepens and our government cuts benefits, jobs, public services and raises tuition fees etc, while telling us that “we are all in this together” (the loyal opposition agrees the principle of cuts but would carry out the details differently), we are treated to the view of the inequality of … [Read more…]

Student revolt breaks the opportunist spellNovember’s student invasion and occupation of the Conservative Party’s national headquarters at Millbank took pretty much everyone by surprise.  Chancellor Osborne’s spending review had sparked angry local demonstrations and a London march organised by the National Shop Stewards’ Network (NSSN) and the Rail and Maritime Transport Union, but drew nothing … [Read more…]

Shaker Aamer is a resident of Battersea, just south of the Thames in London. He has not lived there for a long while, but his wife, who is a British citizen, and four children still live there. His youngest son has never seen him. For over 8 years he has been locked away in Guantanamo … [Read more…]