Comrades gathered across Britain at the weekend to honour the return of the International Brigaders in October 1938, whose legendary battle against fascism continues to resonate today, writes LYNNE WALSH JOURNALIST Martha Gellhorn, reporting on the volunteers who fought fascism … Continued
Trade unions should beware Boris Johnson’s ‘Build Back Better’ strategy because it will demand a high price from workers and their families, the Communist Party warned at the weekend. Former union president Bill Greenshields told the party’s online executive committee … Continued
The Communist Party of Britain has condemned Azerbaijan’s ‘unprovoked attack’ on Nagorno-Karabakh, its continuing assault on Armenia and the direct military involvement of NATO member Turkey. At an online meeting of the party’s Political Committee on Wednesday evening (October 7), … Continued
The outcome of the Belarus presidential elections was declared on 9 August. The official results gave Alexander Lukashenko 80 per cent of the vote and Svetlana Tikhanovskaya 10 per cent. The results were recognised by Russia, China, Vietnam, Venezuela, Nicaragua, … Continued
Over the weekend of 3/4 October, young communists conducted home to home leafleting on estates in Cable Street scene of a famous battle against fascism in 1936. The three day campaign included a street stall, giant projection of a film … Continued
You can read here, information on the latest developments in Venezuela and how the communists are combatting the counter-revolution. These briefings include an analysis translated into English from the PCV and a complimentary analysis from the Americas Workgroup of the International … Continued
Communist Party Anti-Austerity commission report-back. Download and distribute to all members. Entitled, ‘The Fight for Jobs & the Right to Work‘, the report discusses how members can get involved in the growing fightback against workplace closure and the jobs cull.
The August meeting of the Communist Party executive agreed a schedule of events to step-up commemoration of its centenary. These include major online meetings and conferences: Cable street forever! (4 October), Salute the Volunteers for Liberty in Spain (17 October), Launch of Communist … Continued
Britain’s Communists have attacked Keir Starmer’s ‘shameful surrender’ to the anti-socialist, anti-Corbyn storyline on ‘anti-Semitism’ peddled by the Labour Party’s traditional right-wing enemies. In an online meeting of the CP political committee on Wednesday evening, Ben Chacko condemned the new … Continued
The anti-socialism of the Observer/ Guardian group of newspapers has sunk to a new low with the reproduction on Sunday (July 19) of postage stamps issued by Ukrainian Nationalist groups in exile during the Soviet era. Some of these stamps, published in the Observer and … Continued