Polexit looming?

Just 17 years ago, when Poland and Hungary joined the EU, western imperialism was rubbing its collective hands with glee as what they perceived to be a noose, tightened around the neck of now capitalist, but still independent, Russia.  The influence of even right wing eastern European states within the EU, however, has had a … [Read more…]

Jobs are available – let asylum seekers in and let them work!

Britain is in the middle of an acute shortage of workers in low-paid, long-houred and only short-term secure jobs.  Basically, jobs without much of a future for the worker who is temporarily employed in them. Experts tell us its all the fault of Brexit, while others tell us that it’s all caused by the pandemic!  … [Read more…]

Abimael Guzman – death of a great revolutionary leader

On 11 September 2021 the death was announced of 86-year old Comrade Abimael Guzman, otherwise known as Chairman Gonzalo, in a Peruvian prison. He had been incarcerated for nearly 30 years, his crime being to have led a major insurgency in Peru which had come close to overthrowing the puppet Peruvian government that took its … [Read more…]

Tribute to Comrade Tamila Yabrova 1929-2021

(Excerpts from the tribute given by the COMMUNIST FRONT (ITALY)) It’s with deep sorrow that we learned that, at 08:30 on 3 September 2021, the indomitable heart of comrade Tamila Yabrova stopped beating. She died at the age of 92 from … COVID-19 … in Kiev. …The international communist movement loses with her a legendary … [Read more…]

A curate’s egg: Shapps’s ‘Great British Railways’ scam

The train operating company Southeastern, run by Go-Ahead, is the South East franchise holder. Or at least it was until the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, abruptly withdrew the franchise amid a welter of fraud allegations, sending Go-Ahead’s share values down by 25 percent. The main allegations concern advance payments made to the company to cover … [Read more…]

The NHS, the Covid pandemic and the private insurance takeover

Resolution passed unanimously by the Congress of the Communist Party of Great Britain (ML) meeting on 8-10 October 2021. This Congress notes that the Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the fundamental crisis that has been engineered within our beloved but much abused National Health Service over a 40-year period, by successive Labour, Conservative and LibDem … [Read more…]

Afghanistan – imperialism beats a humiliating retreat

The summary departure of US troops from Afghanistan and collapse of the mercenary Afghan army further seriously weakens US dominance in the Middle East, widens cracks in the warmongering imperialist coalition and usefully undermines the prestige of capitalist class rule over the home populations of the imperialist heartlands. The entire country of Afghanistan is now … [Read more…]

Solidarity Resolution in support of the Communist Party of Cuba, proposed by the Workers’ Party of Korea

The imperialists are becoming more blatant in their attempts to topple the socialist system in Cuba. The recent anti-government protests in Cuba are a product of the relentless manoeuvres against the country staged by the US over a long   period of time to obliterate the Cuban revolution. Since the victory of the Cuban revolution, the … [Read more…]