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Southall’s Saklatvala Hall was the scene for a lively and spirited public meeting organised by the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) in solidarity with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on Saturday 12 June 2010.The meeting welcomed the participation, for the first time since 1966, of the DPRK in the football World Cup, which … [Read more…]

Statement issued 18 June by CPGB-MLWith the release, on 15 June 2010, of the report by the Saville Inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday in Derry on 30 January 1972, the British state has finally been forced to admit what the Irish people, and people throughout the world, have known for the last 38 … [Read more…]

The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (CPGB-ML) and friends met on the evening of 8 May at Saklatvala Hall to pay tribute to the memory of its late honorary President, cde Jack, and other members of the Shapiro family.  This was not a mournful meeting but a celebration of the lives of outstanding communists.  … [Read more…]

On 8 April the USA signed a new ‘arms control’ treaty with Russia with the published aim of controlling and limiting the spread of nuclear weapons. Communists and anti-imperialists the world over know only too well that this treaty won’t prevent the spread of nuclear weapons to terrorist states such as Israel; it is of … [Read more…]

It can never be said that the struggle against apartheid in South Africa was a waste of time or a pointless exercise that changed nothing.  It certainly did not change everything but it was a necessary step in the struggle to emancipate a people who have been impoverished and brutalised by a system that not … [Read more…]

The south east Asian nation of Thailand is in the grip of an increasingly profound revolutionary crisis, which may yet end in a bloody crackdown and the reassertion of openly dictatorial rule by the wealthy elite around the royal family and the military top brass or, as we fervently hope, the coming to power of … [Read more…]

It seems that the ‘objective’, ‘unbiased’ BBC is not quite as objective and unbiased as its masters in Britain’s imperialist bourgeoisie would have us – and the rest of the world – believe. The broadcaster has just been forced to apologise to the Venezuelan embassy for statements made by the well-known television historian Simon Schama … [Read more…]

There have been the most extraordinary efforts made throughout Europe in the past few years to re-write the history of the Second World War, designed primarily to foster the myth that communism is merely a form of fascism.  For this reason, hack historians are going overboard to deny the glorious role played by the Soviet … [Read more…]

Occupation wades deeper in Iraqi bloodAll carefully crafted pretence that it was now “all over bar the shouting”, with the occupation supposedly winding down, the resistance dormant and Iraq returning to “business as usual”, was rudely dispatched by the violent upheavals accompanying and following the election.According to the testimony of eyewitnesses recorded by the New … [Read more…]

In the first four months of 2010, relations between the United States and China have never been out of the headlines for long, reflecting the complex and multi-faceted relationship between the world’s leading imperialist power on the one hand, and the world’s leading developing (and socialist) nation on the other; the relationship between that bilateral … [Read more…]