France fights back against Thatcherite ‘reforms’

The French bourgeoisie has thrown its latest President, Macron, into the class battle that it has been trying, unsuccessfully, to win for some years now. That battle is being forced by the French government and is, according to Macron and his stooges, ostensibly to ‘modernise’ the economy and break the grip of the trades unions. … [Read more…]

The origins of the British Legion, the bourgeois state and its demobilised troops

Introduction The British and Irish Communist Organisation is remembered amongst Marxist-Leninist circles in Britain for the outstanding role it played in defending Marxist political economy in the face of the revisionist betrayal of socialism in the USSR (in particular the pamphlets defending J V Stalin’s Economic Problems of Socialism). This organisation, born from Marxism and … [Read more…]

Tribute to Comrade Winnie Mandela

The much-maligned and often wilfully misunderstood Mother of the South African nation, Comrade Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, passed away at the age of 81 on 2 April 2018 following a long illness. Her place in history is guaranteed by her tenacity, heroism, and overwhelming ability to stand unflinching in the face of the murderous, openly racist apartheid … [Read more…]

200th Anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx

A 4.4-meter monumental bronze statue of Karl Marx presented by China as a gift to the great thinker’s hometown, was erected in Trier Friday ahead of celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary since Marx’s birth. Designed by famous Chinese sculptor Wu Weishan, the statue arrived last month in the Western German town Trier, where Marx … [Read more…]

Winter Olympic hopes for Korean reunification

The Winter Olympics in south Korea which took place this month (February 2018) may well go down in history as the ‘reunification Olympics’. Events have given real hope that progress will be made at last towards reunification of Korea, a project dear to patriots both south and north of the 38th parallel that has separated … [Read more…]

Syria: Imperialism’s bloody war of plunder and annexation

On Wednesday 7 February US coalition helicopter gunships launched a murderous assault on popular forces engaged in a reconnaissance mission against a suspected Daesh sleeper cell, leaving scores of militiamen dead or wounded. The reconnaissance sortie had been prompted by a recent surge in the shelling of patriotic forces, attributed to a surviving pocket of … [Read more…]

March in London to defend the NHS

On Saturday 3 February, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of London to protest against the on-going campaign to destroy the service, with similar demonstrations held in cities and towns across the country. Called by The People’s Assembly and Health Campaigns together, with unions and protest action groups advertising and organising transport … [Read more…]

Time to prise the leeches off the NHS

When the British bourgeoisie created the NHS as a bribe to the British working class to abandon any thoughts of travelling down the road to revolution, it necessarily took the Soviet healthcare system as a rough model. It did not, however, want to keep the private accumulation of profit out of the new system altogether … [Read more…]

Syria – the absolutely non-fake news

Addressing a packed meeting hosted by the CPGB-ML on 31 January, Eva Bartlett, an independent journalist who has visited Syria several times, talked about what she saw there and provided accounts from many ordinary Syrian citizens. Bartlett focused on the media propaganda war against Syria, exposing the many egregious lies told since the start of … [Read more…]

The thieving rich legally plundering working class pensions

A pensions crisis is looming for British workers – a crisis brought into sharp focus in the first instance by the collapse of construction firm Carillion. Around 29,000 members of the Carillion pension scheme face an uncertain future, with cuts to their pension likely to follow. The company’s collapse followed the growth of its pension … [Read more…]