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
Years ago, communist party historian VG Kiernan wrote a pathbreaking book, the ‘Lords of humankind’ in which he mapped the culture wars of imperialism, with crude attempts to capture high moral ground, as a prelude to wars of greed and … Continued
‘This Tory government will face a heavy reckoning for its disastrous response to the COVID-19 crisis’, Communist Party general secretary Robert Griffiths told the party’s online executive committee meeting at the weekend. He pointed out that that Britain had the … Continued
Order now, a bumper 48-page edition of Communist Review #96, currently rolling off the presses, and ready for distribution mid-July. You can purchase or subscribe easily here. Purchase includes a digital download with print copy to follow. With a subscription … Continued