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The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which is 80 percent publicly owned and has been since it was rescued by £45bn of public money in 2008, has hit the headlines again for controversially paying out £421m in bonuses to its top employees despite announcing a figure of £3.5bn in annual losses. This takes the running … [Read more…]

On 6 April 2015 a much-heralded law came into effect introducing ‘pension liberalisation’. Under standard private pension schemes, a worker and their employer pay regular sums to an insurance company throughout the worker’s employment, building up a ‘pension pot’. On the worker’s retirement, this pot is used to purchase an annuity to produce a regular … [Read more…]

Racism is as American as apple pie. United struggle by the working class will end it. The murder of Michael Brown, a young black man, in Ferguson, Missouri by a white policeman on 9 August 2014, and the exoneration of his killer by the US ‘justice’ system, touched off a powerful wave of protests on … [Read more…]

37th Prague Theoretic-Political Conference on “The anti-communist disinformation about the causes, course and results of World War II; … the danger of a new rise of fascism”. Presentation by Harpal Brar on behalf of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) On 18 April. to mark the 70th anniversary of the Soviet victory over fascism, … [Read more…]

As US imperialism carries on bombing Iraq and Syria on the pretence of “fighting Islamic State terror”, whilst in reality destroying more of Syria’s infrastructure and furthering its divide-and-rule agenda in Iraq, a deadly serious fight against IS continues to be waged by Syria herself, assisted by all the genuinely progressive forces in the country. … [Read more…]

WORLD WAR I – 100th Anniversary TIME FOR THE TRUTH Last year, to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the first imperialist world war, the CPGB-ML and Stalin Society held a series of meetings. The purpose of these meetings was to refute the imperialist falsification of the meaning and essence of that war … [Read more…]

Shrewsbury 24 Some episodes in working class history remain stubbornly in the collective memory, resisting all efforts either to consign them to oblivion or ‘reinterpret’ them to make them fit the bourgeois falsification of history. One such episode was the persecution of building workers back in the Seventies, thrown into gaol for the ‘crime’ of … [Read more…]

One month on from the junta’s ill-fated winter offensive, the relief When the illegal junta in Kiev began its winter offensive on 18 January, Poroshenko and his NATO masters had high hopes that the breathing space that had been afforded by last September’s Minsk “ceasefire” accords would have given them long enough to replenish their … [Read more…]

The Republic of Yemen, the poorest state on the Arabian peninsula, is sinking deeper into political turmoil, carrying with it the risk of an all-out conflict, drawing in both regional and big powers and adding further to the chaos and war now gripping a huge region centred on the Middle East but stretching from West … [Read more…]

In mid February 2015 the Venezuelan authorities discovered and foiled a plot by rogue elements of the air force to stage a coup against the government that would start by the bombing of a series of strategic targets in Caracas with a Super Tucano counter-insurgency plane piloted by one José Antich Zapata. The planned targets … [Read more…]