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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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

As is abundantly obvious, the coronavirus is wreaking untold damage on the world economy, and on the national economies of every country on the planet. What the coronavirus has done is to act as the catalyst for the re-emergence with even greater force of the 2008 capitalist crisis of overproduction. The world was already teetering … [Read more…]

By Dr. Ranjeet Brar As I sit down to write this article, in the last week of April 2020, there is already enough information – and disinformation – about the corona virus pandemic (novel Corona Virus Disease 2019, SARS-Cov-2 or COVID-19) to fill an encyclopaedia. It is an all-encompassing topic around which have coalesced not … [Read more…]

Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) indicate that economic growth in the UK was already grinding to a halt even before the pandemic hit. In the three months to February the economy grew by just 0.1%. Worse, during February the economy actually shrank by 0.1%, long before lockdown. The ONS says that 29% … [Read more…]

For seventeen years British and US soldiers have been in occupation of Iraq. At first this occupation was openly acknowledged. Later it was presented as offering security to the US-sponsored regime which in turn ‘invited’ the troops to stay on. Gradually successive Iraqi governments, acting under popular pressure, have sought to set deadlines for the … [Read more…]

On Wednesday 8 April Senator Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race to become the Democratic Party candidate to face Donald Trump in the 2020 US presidential election. This was Mr Sanders’ second time of running to secure the Democrat nomination. Last time he was stitched up big-time by the Democrat hierarchy who wanted the … [Read more…]

The sudden collapse in March of the airline company FlyBe, announced in the middle of the night with no warning to the more than 2,000 employees, brings to an abrupt end a protracted disintegration that has felt like watching a car crash in slow motion. Slackening demand resulting from Coronavirus has been no more than … [Read more…]