This weekend's coronation was designed to maintain public support for an institution that embodies the gross inequalities, privilege and anti-democratic nature of our society.
Recognising that many people enjoy opportunities to gather together in response to appeals based on patriotism, tradition and ceremony, Britain's ruling class and its mass media have done all in their power to promote this spectacle.
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
The Communist Party of Britain on the coronation of Charles III and the monarchy
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Margaret Thatcher: Symbol of Capitalist Barbarism
The 8th of April marked the 10th death anniversary of the so-called “Iron Lady”, Margaret Thatcher. Following the announcement of her death, on 8 April 2013, spontaneous celebrations erupted in numerous working class neighborhoods throughout Britain.
The fact that thousands of Britons, old and young, welcomed happily the news of the Iron Lady's death wasn't a coincidence: Throughout her political career Baroness Thatcher made everything in order to establish herself as a fierce enemy of the working class.
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Britain’s Communists condemn racist Immigration Bill
'The Tory government at Westminster, the far right and the big business media are using every weapon to stigmatise migrants and asylum seekers instead of addressing the real economic and social problems facing working people and their families', he added.
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Communist Party of Ireland: On the "Northern Ireland Protocol" between EU and Britain
"The “Northern Ireland Protocol” negotiations are best characterised as part of the inter-imperialist struggle between the EU and Britain with regard to the latter’s future trading relationship and access to markets within that bloc. They are about securing Britain’s future relationship with the EU and are not about the Irish people north or south of the British imposed border.
Thursday, January 12, 2023
KKE: Statement on the Parthenon Sculptures
The Press Office of the CC of the KKE points out (here in Greek):
Friday, January 6, 2023
Britain: Young Communist League (YCL) calls for action against new Tory anti-strike laws
"This week’s announcement by Rishi Sunak’s Tory government that they intend to introduce new legislation attacking trade unions and the right to strike in Britain must be met with determined and united resistance by the labour movement.
Monday, November 21, 2022
British Communist Party (CPB) calls for a "united front" against monopolies
'Hopefully, the current ballots by Unison in the NHS and the two main teachers' unions NEU and NASUWT will strengthen the determination of unions to coordinate strike action and collective bargaining strategies in order to bust the Tory pay freeze and secure a real cost of living increase for workers', he added.
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Rishi Sunak, just another enemy of the working class
Rishi Sunak, a 42 years-old former Goldman Sachs employee, is the new leader of the British Conservative Party and third Prime Minister of the country in just two months.
The fact that Boris Johnson and Liz Truss are out of 10 Downing Street isn't a reason for celebrations as Sunak is just another political representative of monopoly capitalism and certainly an enemy of the working class.
Friday, September 9, 2022
Young Communist League on the death of Elizabeth II
The death of Elizabeth Windsor highlights to our generation and working people across Britain that the abolition of the monarchy remains a pressing and important issue.
It is fundamentally clear, now more than ever, that Britain must become a modern republic. A tiny interbreeding sect of a decaying aristocracy cannot and will never reflect the interests of working people in Britain.
Thursday, July 7, 2022
British communists on Johnson government's collapse: "Downing Street change not enough"
As the news of ministerial resignations broke, Britain’s Communists called for a united response from trade unions and campaigning movements to the cost of living, housing, climate change and food crises.
Friday, June 3, 2022
Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee: 70 years of hurt
By James Meechan*
Armed constables amass in Westminster; police drones and helicopters flutter in the skies; Her Majesty’s homeless subjects are cleared from the streets. Tom Cruise takes a moment out of promoting Top Gun: Maverick to gurn through a televised royal circus show. The bunting flies resplendently above emaciated high streets. ‘Midst the worst immiseration in 40 years, there’s momentous pomp, procession, and pageantry — the platinum motherfucking jubilee.
Saturday, May 21, 2022
British Communist Youth: No NATO, no nukes! Shut down all US bases in Britain!
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Air Force base in Lakenheath, Eastern England |
England has for many years been plagued with an unwanted menace, growing like cancer across its green fields and spilling over into its towns and cities. It began in the summer of 1949 when two groups of American B29 bombers arrived supposedly for “training purposes.” It was a short stay, the government said — they soon would be leaving us.
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
CPB: "The working class in Britain is facing the most vicious ruling class offensive in generations"
She highlighted the impact of massive energy price hikes which threaten to leave hundreds of thousands of families in the cold or going hungry.
'The soaring cost of living is prompting outbreaks of industrial action as workers across the public and private sectors demand higher pay to meet rising prices', the CP chair declared.
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
British communists say "No to Putin's war, no to NATO"!
'The working class and peoples of Ukraine, Russia and elsewhere will not be the winners of this war', Carol Stavris told the Communist Party's executive committee at the weekend. The CP women's organiser highlighted the huge and lasting impact of the Russian offensive on hundreds of thousands of women and children fleeing Ukraine.
Monday, January 31, 2022
50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday — Statement by the Communist Party of Ireland
Anniversaries are an opportunity to dwell upon and learn from past events and struggles, to identify past successes and failures. Fifty years ago the British state carried out an organised and sanctioned attack on the anti-internment civil rights march in Derry organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, in which the CPI played a central role, helping to establish and build that mass movement of working people.
Monday, January 3, 2022
Kim Philby Remembered: A traitor to his class
Photo: rbth.com |
“I have followed exactly the same line the whole of my adult life. The fight against fascism and the fight against imperialism were fundamentally the same fight”, Kim Philby was quoted as saying.
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
56th Congress of Britain’s Communist Party
According to the party's website, this year's Congress "will be the biggest congress of the Party since the 1980s, due to membership growth."
The Communist Party of Britain's Congress takes place every two years except in extraordinary circumstances and this Congress, set for November 2020, was delayed as a result of the pandemic.
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Australian communists condemn AUKUS agreement
"The Communist Party of Australia urges all its members and supporters to actively oppose the Morrison Government’s decision to join the AUKUS Agreement; to buy nuclear-powered submarines; to purchase cruise missiles and other offensive weapons; and for Australia to host more US troops, warships, weapons, and planes. The announcement was made at the 31st Australia-United States Ministerial Consultation in Washington.
Sunday, September 19, 2021
"No to AUKUS, war and imperialism", says Britain's YCL
The YCL completely opposes the reckless and aggressive actions of Boris Johnson’s Tory Government, at the command of their US puppet masters in the White House and the Pentagon, to create a new hostile pact aimed at attacking China and exerting imperialist control over South East Asia.
Saturday, August 21, 2021
Britain's Young Communist League holds its 50th Congress
On this occasion, the following article written by YCL's General Secretary Johnnie Hunter was published in "Challenge" magazine:
"Greetings and solidarity to all of the delegates attending the YCL’s historic 50th Congress this weekend at Ruskin House and to all the comrades and branches who have participated in Congress debate and discussion this year from the length and breadth of Britain.