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Method behind madness It would be wrong to conclude from the foregoing that there is no method in the madness of the ruling bourgeoisie. Immigration controls, with their implied message that immigrants, not capitalism, are the problem, divide the working class by pitting its indigenous section against the foreigners. As such they are a powerful … [Read more…]

The General Strike was the most momentous event in the history of the British working class since the defeat of the Chartist movement in the middle of the 19th century. The first question concerns the causes of the General Strike. How could the General Strike take place in Britain – the land of capitalist might … [Read more…]

Frederick Engels once commented that “the most repulsive thing here [England] is the bourgeois ‘respectability’, which has grown deep into the bones of the workers. I am not at all sure, for instance, that John Burns is not secretly prouder of his popularity with Cardinal Manning, the Lord Mayor and the bourgeoisie in general than … [Read more…]

This year is the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising in Ireland. We honour the Irish men and women who rose up against British Rule over Ireland and held the British occupying army at bay in Dublin in 1916. We especially pay homage to those who gave their lives in the fighting or were judicially … [Read more…]

The election victory of Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza marks a momentous sea-change for the Palestinian struggle for self-determination. It demonstrates very clearly that the Palestinian population have had enough of a failed peace process whereby the Palestinians are forced into making more and more concessions whilst the Israelis continue to hold them … [Read more…]

On the occasion of the New Year Juche 95 (2006), Rodong Sinmun, the official organ of the Workers’ Party of Korea Central Committee, Josoninmingun and Chongnyonjonwi issued the following joint editorial in their papers. Last year Juche 94 (2005) was a year of fruitful efforts and a year of great creation and change replete with … [Read more…]

Under the auspices of a Preparatory Committee for the celebration, formed by representatives of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), the New Communist Party, the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), the Society for Friendship with Korea and others, a meeting was held on Saturday 14 February 2006 at Saklatvala Hall in Southall, west … [Read more…]

The coming 20 March marks the third anniversary of the commencement of the Anglo-American imperialist predatory war against the people of Iraq. Before the end of April, the aggressors had captured Baghdad and illegally overthrown the regime of the elected Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein. George W Bush, against the backdrop of a banner reading ‘Mission … [Read more…]

On 2 February 2006, the Board of the International Atomic Energy Commission, under heavy pressure from US imperialism, finally “referred” Iran to the Security Council of the United Nations, due to meet on 6 March. From the day that the Iranian people overthrew the regime of US imperialism’s most beloved puppet, the Shah, the US … [Read more…]

Ours is not the first generation to encounter migration on a vast scale. 200 million people, representing 3% of the global population, work outside their countries – double the number of migrants 25 years ago. This new wave of migration (for which there are several reasons to which we shall turn later on), especially that … [Read more…]