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Since April 2016 the RMT, the railway guards’ union, has been struggling to hold the line against attempts by Southern Rail, subsidiary of Govia Thameslink (GTR), to universalise the practice of ‘driver only operation’ (DOO). Under this system, guards are stripped of all their operational responsibilities, including responsibility for seeing that all doors are safely … [Read more…]

Troubles in the Labour Party Historically it is the Tories who have torn themselves apart over Europe. Today it is the Labour Party which does so. Whilst Ken Clarke was the only Tory MP to vote against the government’s Article 50 bill, 52 Labour MP’s defied the party whip in voting against the bill. These … [Read more…]

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela strongly condemns and rejects the arbitrary and extraterritorial actions by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), of the Department of the Treasury of the United States of America (USA) against the Executive Vice-President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Tareck El Aissami. These actions, which seek to validate the … [Read more…]

The end of January saw an escalation in the violence in the Donbass. Fascist militias, backed up by the regular army, launched a series of assaults on the civilian population. Under covering shell fire from the Ukrainian army, paramilitaries infiltrated the disengagement line, in clear violation of the Minsk agreement. They met with stiff resistance … [Read more…]

New legislation was passed in Cuba to ensure greater maternity protection for working mothers, with the aim of encouraging a greater birth rate and addressing population aging. Author: Yaima Puig Meneses internet@granma.cu february 10, 2017 Marked by population aging and an increasingly low birth rate, the demographic outlook in Cuba continues to be complex. To … [Read more…]

 Astana The first successful attempt to bring the ‘armed opposition’ into a common peace process with the Syrian government began on 23 and 24 January in the Kazakhstan capital of Astana. Further talks ensued on 6 February and continued on 15-16 February. These talks, brokered by Russia and unfolding in the wake of the liberation … [Read more…]

On Friday 17 & Saturday 18 December Vanessa Beeley, independent journalist recently returned from Aleppo, reported on the liberation of that city to two meetings organised with the support of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) in Bristol and Birmingham respectively. In Bristol over 80 people gathered under the auspices of Bristol Against Imperialism, … [Read more…]

Robert Griffiths, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Britain, has outlined the revisionists’ perspectives on the international and domestic political situation at the start of 2017. We recommend all readers take ten minutes to read it in full (http://www.communist-party.org.uk/britain/75-political-report/2308-ec-political-report.html). The report succinctly demonstrates the total subservience of the CPB to Labour Party politics, their … [Read more…]

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Great Socialist Revolution in Russia. It was an epoch-making event which changed the world and which continues to shape our present-day reality. The October Revolution was not a purely Russian phenomenon; it had, and has, great international significance. In the course of this year we shall be … [Read more…]

Part III The non-Semitic origins of modern Jewry The Zionist claim to the territory of Palestine bases itself on the premise that according to the Old Testament of the Bible, taken literally, God promised that land to the Jews after they escaped from slavery in Egypt. Not only did God promise the land to the … [Read more…]