The Communist Party of Britain is urging labour movement bodies not to rush to judgment on the Uyghur question in China. The Beijing government has been accused of ‘genocide’ against the mostly Muslim population of 13 million people in the … Continued
‘State support for the capitalist monopolies and their profits is at the root of society’s major problems, including the Tory government’s disastrous handling of the Covid-19 crisis’, Bill Greenshields told a meeting of the Communist Party’s executive committee over the … Continued
Says Communist Party general secretary Robert Griffiths:“Today marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Red Army. The scenes which greeted those soldiers have rightly been described as a page from hell. In fact, Auschwitz turned out … Continued
‘Decades of underinvestment and privatisation in our health, elderly care and emergency services have produced Britain’s disastrous Covid death rate – the sixth worst in the world’, according to the Communist Party. Speaking to the party’s Political Committee on Wednesday … Continued
Communist Party of Britain general secretary Robert Griffiths and international secretary John Foster have today (December 26) released the following statement on the UK-EU Agreement on Trade and Cooperation: The UK-EU trade agreement is a compromise between the interests of … Continued
Britain’s Communists have sounded a sceptical note about the extension of post-Brexit trade talks between the British government and the EU. Addressing the party’s executive over the weekend, Alex Gordon said the continuing talks have ‘an air of confected theatre … Continued
Tony Conway launched a stinging all-round attack on the Tory government’s record at the Communist Party’s political committee on Wednesday evening. After welcoming the swift development and approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, he said it should it not divert … Continued
Ten years of austerity cuts instead of massive investment in public services and productive industry has hugely increased the human and financial toll of the Covid crisis. Now the economic recession which began early this year is going to bite … Continued
Britain’s Communists slammed the Tory government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic as an ‘incompetent and corrupt disaster’ at the weekend. ‘Millions of people are paying a heavy price for the government’s determination to put big business profits before public health, … Continued
The Communist Party has condemned Keir Starmer’s decision to refuse Jeremy Corbyn readmission to the Parliamentary Labour Party as ‘yet another attack on the left in the labour movement’. The CP political committee urged all socialists and trade unionists to … Continued