Hong Kong and the British government’s servile stupidity

The latest anti-China hysteria being provoked in the UK around the protests in Hong Kong and China’s supposed culpability in connection with the coronavirus pandemic amount to nothing more than the screams of rage of a fading imperialist power confronted with a power which is swiftly rising to prominence in the world. Martin Wolf of … [Read more…]

Iran smashes the blockade on Venezuela

In a stunning display of solidarity and courage, Iran has successfully dispatched five Iranian-flagged tankers loaded with petrol to Venezuela, asserting the legal right of the two countries to trade with whomever they wish and breaking the criminal blockade imposed by US imperialism. From the moment the tankers set out from Iran in mid-May, Iran … [Read more…]

Bank of England must hand back Venezuela’s gold

When Hugo Chávez took power in Venezuela in 1998, a chain of reaction was set off among the Venezuelan comprador elite and the US imperialism it served. The stratagems and dirty tricks that have been used to take this country back to its former position of being ‘owned’ by the US are many and varied, … [Read more…]

UK Jobless total rockets

Even in the smoke and mirrors world inhabited by the official figures on unemployment and poverty, a world in which thousands of jobless are routinely airbrushed out as ‘economically inactive’ or ‘self-employed’, one can still glean some sense of the helter skelter disintegration of economic life in Britain, accelerated by the health emergency but having … [Read more…]

British Airways takes the money and runs

The Covid-19 crisis is highlighting the necessity for public ownership of all our vital services. As the aviation industry continues to reel under the collapse of demand attendant upon the health emergency, British Airways is the latest airline to announce at the end of April plans for sweeping job cuts, with as many as 12,000 … [Read more…]

BOOK REVIEW- The Uninhabitable Earth

April last year a terrifying, apocalyptic oeuvre took the literary world by storm. It describes the doomsday scenario should human civilisation neglect the problem of man-made climate change for too long – the rising sea levels inundating major cities and seriously reducing cultivatable land, the increasingly destructive weather patterns, the extra heat destroying many species … [Read more…]

ARRIVING SHORTLY: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, by Harpal Brar

Harpal Brar, in this book that will soon be available via the CPGB-ML website, puts forward the Marxist-Leninist position that commodity production and circulation, the existence of the market, is incompatible with communism, and that, therefore, it is the function of socialism to abolish the market. Revisionism, on the contrary, following in the steps of … [Read more…]

J K Rowling’s stance against the Thought Police

As is probably well known all over the world by now, the author of the Harry Potter books, J K Rowling has been targeted by self-styled trans activists because of a tweet she published gently mocking the attempt to avoid using the ‘gendered’ word ‘women’ by substituting ‘people who menstruate’. The political correctness enforcement brigade … [Read more…]