Communists from Britain and internationally came together on Saturday 27th February in a special webinar paying tribute to the life of Mark Ashton former general secretary of the Young Communist League and founder of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners. Organised … Continued
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
Professor John Foster, Internation Secretary of the Communist Party, sets out the tasks of the Left in response to Johnson’s Brexit deal and ongoing negotiations. THE first thing to say about the UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement with the EU … Continued
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko and reporter Steve Sweeney speak to Venezuelan ambassador Rocio del Valle Maneiro Gonzalez in October, 2019. THE US-sponsored bid by Venezuelan pretender Juan Guaido to summarily declare himself president and take over the government seems … 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
The Communist Party of Britain condemns the recent declaration by the United States, the Israeli Government and the Kingdom of Morocco supporting and recognising Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara. This declaration is in violation of UN resolution 621 (1988) … 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