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The government’s dreaded (by the poor and needy that is) Universal Credit reform received a timely and eloquent slap down in the Financial Times on 19 October at the hands of Frank Field. The veteran right-wing Labour politician may not be able to see a future without capitalism but he does understand the benefits system … [Read more…]

It must be slightly irritating for a bourgeois politician, even the self-avowedly unflappable French president Émmanuel Macron, to realise that the sarcastic nickname pinned on him both by rival capitalist parties and by the organised working-class movement suggests that he’s a complete fraud and that his policies are doomed to failure. In fact, we know … [Read more…]

Bolton NHS Trust wanted to shortchange the Royal Bolton’s 600 hospital cleaners, porters and catering staff and create an underclass paid less than the NHS rate for the job. It planned to carry off this swindle via its wholly-owned shell company, ‘Bolton iFM’, which on paper is the employer. By this sleight of hand the … [Read more…]

In October care staff occupied the residential home in Stalybridge in which they worked to draw attention to the desperate situation in which both they and the elderly people in their care have been put. Carson House has been placed in special measures by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) after inspections in 2017 revealed nightmarish … [Read more…]

Five months of discussions and inner-party debate culminated in the eighth congress of the CPGB-ML, which was held in Birmingham in September. Branches, study circles and regional groups began the preparatory work in June and delegates registered with the party to attend over the summer. Only those with full rights were able to vote on … [Read more…]

Address by Central Committee member Paul Cannon to Congress 2018: resolution on proletarian culture I move this motion [see below] and ask Congress to take this opportunity to consider the harmful effects modern bourgeois culture is having on the class struggle and the threat it poses to continued human progress. All of us here are … [Read more…]

Presentation by Harpal Brar to the Stalin Society, London, 15 July 2018 This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, the greatest man ever. Born 18 May 1818, he died on 14 March 1883. During the 45 years of his activity as a revolutionist and a scholar, he revolutionised social science … [Read more…]

This congress notes the increasing drive towards more and bigger wars that is accompanying the deepening capitalist crisis of overproduction. Congress further notes the hysterical propaganda emanating from the bourgeois media in support of this drive, and the pernicious role such propaganda plays in neutralising the anti-war sentiments of the British proletariat. Congress notes also … [Read more…]

On Saturday 20 October the CPGB-ML took part in a protest organised by local residents and housing activists in Cambridge to stop the demolition of Montreal Square, a group of 18 houses built in the 1920s for railway workers. The area is now owned by Cambridge Housing Society who plan to knock down the 18 … [Read more…]

As the Syrian army moves towards completion of its task of liberating the entirety of the national territory, with Idlib now firmly in its sights, the waning of US influence and apparent preparations for the de facto withdrawal from occupation make it plain that imperialism is on the retreat. At the Helsinki Trump/Putin presidential summit … [Read more…]