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In celebration of the lifelong service to the communist movement of Comrades Marie and Jack Shapiro, a memorial stone has been placed in Highgate Cemetery (opposite the grave of Karl Marx). Close family and friends, including representatives of the CPGB-ML, gathered there on Sunday 17 October (the day that Marie and Jack regularly celebrated the … [Read more…]

Over the past few years, the imperialist bourgeoisie has intensified its efforts to falsify history by maligning the achievements of communism, while at the same time hiding the crimes committed by imperialism.  In particular, an attempt is being made to equate communism with fascism.  The so-called Prague Declaration, recently circulated in the European Parliament under … [Read more…]

More than 7 years ago, on 13 November 2003 to be precise, India was announced as the host of the 2010 Commonwealth Games.  This was supposed to be an event to showcase an emerging Asian power on the world stage – and only a few months before the Games were staged, the Indian Organising Committee … [Read more…]

On Wednesday 20 October, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced his long-awaited public spending review.  Everybody knew that massive spending cuts were coming equal to around £81 billion over 4 years, but it was at last announced where the cuts would fall, and it became clearer whose jobs and benefits are most likely … [Read more…]

The instability and internal divisions besetting the ConDem coalition accurately reflect the panic and disarray of the capitalist class under conditions of worsening crisis, with the war against Afghanistan clearly being lost and the public deficit now standing at £165 billion. However the opportunity for the working class to take proper advantage of this relative … [Read more…]

Cutting the budget deficit drastically commands the support of all the bourgeois parties – Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem.  Before it was ousted from office following the May General Election, the Labour Government had announced its intention to half the budget deficit over a period of four years.  Taking over from Labour, and hugely encouraged … [Read more…]

Throughout the capitalist world, countries are said to be in recovery, as economic growth has been restored after several quarters of shrinkage. Thus: “In April 2009, at the time of the London G20 summit, the consensus of forecasts for global economic growth this year was 1.9 per cent. By last September it had reached 2.6 … [Read more…]

The Israeli massacre aboard the Mavi Marmara rather than deterring people has galvanised more to support actions to break the siege of Gaza. Just as the economic stranglehold Israel has maintained on the people of Gaza for the last 4 years in an attempt to undermine support for Hamas has failed, so too has its … [Read more…]

Efforts by Washington to retard Iran’s economic development, undermine her sovereignty and isolate her from the community of nations are backfiring badly.  The passage on 9th June of a watered-down sanctions resolution at the UN, hailed by Iran’s enemies as an international endorsement of Washington’s illegitimate challenge to the right of small nations to choose … [Read more…]

For nearly two years, the Iraq war has disappeared from the print and electronic media.  The story put about by Anglo-American imperialism, and propagated far and wide by its media stooges, is that the Bush “surge” of 2007 worked, that the Iraqi resistance has been defeated, and that the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) are able … [Read more…]