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On Saturday 20 October the TUC called on the working class to march, once again,  up to the top of the hill (Hyde Park Corner in this case) and march back down again.  Thousands did exactly that: at one point, roughly halfway through, there were as many coming out as there were going in!  Numbers … [Read more…]

Hugo Chávez and the ‘Great Patriotic Pole’ (GPP), the alliance of left parties led by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) – which includes the Venezuelan Communist Party (PCV) who supported and worked for the Chávez campaign – have won a comfortable victory in the Venezuelan Presidential Elections.  The size of the victory, with … [Read more…]

Comrade Wissal Farha Bagdache, the president of Syrian Communist Party, has passed awayThe Central Committee of Syrian Communist Party mourns Comrade Wissal Farha Bagdache, the president of Syrian Communist Party, who has passed away on Sunday 21st October 2012.Comrade Wissale Farha Bagdache was born in 1930 and joined the Syrian Communist Party in 1945. She … [Read more…]

Thirty years ago, a highly successful vilification campaign was launched against Mao Zedong, saying that a massive famine in which 27 to 30 million people died in China took place during the Great Leap period, 1958 to 1961, which marked the formation of the people’s communes under his leadership. The main basis of this assertion … [Read more…]

The government’s Universal Credit scheme will replace housing benefits, jobseeker’s allowance, tax credits, income support, employment and support allowance with a single payment, there will a maximum of £350 per week (including rent) paid to single claimants and maximum of £500 (including rent) for a family of no matter what size. Meaning a family of … [Read more…]

“Bourgeois newspapers are maintained by large sums of capital.  Workers’ newspapers are maintained by funds collected by the workers themselves”  V.I.LeninLenin, leader of the Bolshevik Party, inspirer of the October Revolution, paid close attention to the development of a working-class press, which he saw as decisive in the revolutionary struggle against capitalismThis month we express … [Read more…]

The Norwegian committee that selects the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize have upset one or two people this year with their choice of the European Union (EU) as the recipient of the (supposedly) prestigious prize for 2012.  The EU received the prize for its contribution to “the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and … [Read more…]

The extradition of British citizens to the US for trial on charges which do not relate to them personally committing any crime in the USA, or even, in many cases, ever having been in the US, is an affront to natural justice and another example of the biggest bully in the playground making the rules … [Read more…]

In Britain…The announced closure next summer of the Ford Transit van factory in Southampton with the loss of up to 1,500 jobs, plus the closure of part of Fords Dagenham site at the same time, is but the latest convulsion in the global overproduction crisis, a crisis that is nowhere more obvious at present than … [Read more…]

To Iris and Katt with comradeship and sympathy from a comrade and friend on the sad death of Comrade Godfrey CremerThis has been a hard year with losses felt by many comrades and it seems like only a few months since we mourned the passing of Val.  I know how hard it is to accept … [Read more…]