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The government has introduced a series of measures clearly designed to destroy council and housing association housing and force working class people to pay vastly inflated rents for their accommodation. Families going into these types of housing (‘social housing’) are to be robbed of their security of tenure. Some who would have been given social … [Read more…]

The above seminar was held near Brussels, Belgium, on the above dates. Fifty-two communist and workers’ parties from 43 countries participated in its deliberations. The CPGB-ML was represented by Harpal Brar and Ella Rule. After considerable discussion, General Conclusions on the seminar theme were agreed upon and have been signed by the majority of the … [Read more…]

Comrade Jasbir’s untimely death at the age of only 49 has been a great loss not only to her family but also to the cause of women’s emancipation in Britain. She was a devotedly active member of the Indian Workers’ Association (GB), in which capacity she worked tirelessly both for more women to become involved … [Read more…]

27 July 2013 marks the 60th anniversary of the Korean people’s great victory in their Fatherland Liberation War against US-led imperialism. The great success of the Korean people and their Soviet and, above all, Chinese allies in fighting US imperialism and the combined forces of 15 countries, including British imperialism, to a standstill is rightly … [Read more…]

Whatever illusions remain in the Labour party’s commitment to propping up capitalist rule come rain or shine should have been shattered by “Red Ed ” Miliband’s latest foot-in-mouth U-turn on welfare reform. In truth, nobody could really claim lack of warning for the Labour leader’s shambolic retreat from his earlier “left” posturing. Every speech on … [Read more…]

Background We are in the midst of the deepest crisis of capitalism since the late 1920s. Like all capitalist crises, this is a crisis of overproduction, notwithstanding the fact that it had made itself most forcefully felt in the financial sphere. This is to be expected since the feverish speculation in stock markets, bonds, derivatives, … [Read more…]

This month’s news has featured yet more attempts by western imperialism to suppress its Chinese competitors, this time by slapping big import tariffs on the $27 billion worth of solar panels China sells to Europe each year. The EU’s trade commissioner, Karel De Gucht, announced on Tuesday 4 June that he was imposing an 11.8% … [Read more…]

With the success of the Syrian forces in sweeping the rebels out of Qusair, thereby simultaneously severing the terrorists’ lifeline to their fellow sectarians in the north east of Lebanon and re-enforcing the government’s links to those in Lebanon who offer neighbourly support, the West can no longer be left in any doubt how the … [Read more…]

The situation that Edward Snowden, US security service whistle-blower, finds himself in is almost like something out of a Hollywood block-buster where the hero/anti-hero spills the beans on a plot to take over the world by some mysterious group within US security services, goes on the run around the world and finally returns to America, … [Read more…]

On the 60th anniversary of the death of Joseph Stalin, we began a series of articles on the epoch- making achievements of the Soviet Union. In March we reproduced a survey of Stalin’s life by Andrew Rothstein, a very prominent leader of the then-revolutionary CPGB, first published in the Daily Worker, in March 1953. We … [Read more…]