https://thecommunists.org/2025/05/01/news/is-britain-going-bust/Multinationals channel the overwhelming part of their profits through tax havens and countries with low taxation rates. The combined wealth of Britain’s 55 richest (known and listed) individuals increased by £35 million per day in 2024, thanks to their ability to extract wealth from th…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPQHz3OQnFcJoti Brar:Today I spoke with Garland Nixon about the crisis in the capitalist economies of the west and how their indebtedness and decline is making their war drive ever more urgent and desperate.We talked about how the war on Russia has backfired economically, politically, militarily and socially, and not…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/08/01/news/nato-fails-ukraine-imperialist-problems-worsening/The west’s propaganda war is also coming unstuck as looming defeat creates dissension in the aggressors’ ranks. The imminent fall of Konstantinovka is likely to spark a chain reaction, leading inexorably to the complete liberation of Donetsk from Nato’s fasc…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/07/01/news/history/stalins-library-geoffrey-roberts-resume-book-review-pt3/Stalin’s library shows that his geopolitical outlook was global. As a Bolshevik internationalist he paid attention to revolutionary struggles all over the world. Contrary to the myths peddled by Khrushchev and Trotsky and repeated endlessly by …

https://thecommunists.org/2025/08/19/news/stalin-durham-miners-gala-dmc-afraid/Why is a picture of Stalin banned by ‘labour movement custodians’ while genocide-supporting Labour leaders are feted? The organising committee of the Durham miners’ gala have fallen a long way since the days when their predecessors were reporting back from the Stalin-era…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/08/01/news/corbyn-project-2-what-could-go-wrong/As the imperialists ramp up their drive into WW3, the Corbynistas are back demanding we all fiddle while Rome burns.So far, working-class response to the proposed new party has been decidedly lacklustre, but a core of revisionist and Trotskyite activists are determined t…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/08/01/news/dundee-university-bankruptcy/The Blair-era policy of turning students into cash cows and universities into business units has come crashing down. Having exposed Britain’s higher-education institutions ever more deeply to the world market, and stripped them of much of their excellence in the process, interna…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/08/01/news/labour-party-enemy-working-class/Trade unions must break all links and dismantle their Labour-aligned bureaucracies. With a Labour government in charge of inflicting austerity and repression at home, and with Labour overseeing genocide and wars abroad, how can working-class organisations justify their conti…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/05/01/news/history/stalins-library-geoffrey-roberts-resume-book-review-pt2/‘Though overshadowed by Trotsky in historical memory, there were few Bolshevik leaders more important than Stalin in 1917.’ Contrary to the myths peddled by Khrushchev and Trotsky and repeated endlessly by anticommunist historians, Josef Stalin…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/08/01/news/snp-regional-managers-british-finance-capital/The nationalists have been as keen as any other bourgeois party to oversee deindustrialisation and the rise of a low-wage economy. In Scotland, as elsewhere in Britain, former centres of industry have been left to rot – or at best transformed into prettified tou…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/06/07/news/usa-surrenders-ceases-attacks-against-houthis/Trump proclaims a hollow ‘victory’ – but has to leave Yemen free to continue its blockade of Israel. After promising to ‘completely annihilate’ the Houthis, the USA has been forced into an abrupt U-turn. Trump may bluster about ‘victory’, but the truth is that t…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/07/01/news/obituary-anne-scargill/A shining example of proletarian leadership, Anne wonderfully proved Mao Zedong’s famous saying that ‘Women hold up half the sky’. Anne Harper (formerly Scargill) was the daughter of a mining trade unionist before she was the wife of one. She became legendary during the great miners’ …

https://thecommunists.org/2025/08/01/news/cpmk-harpal-brar-immortalising-revolutionary-legend/Kenyan communists’ militant tribute to our party’s departed founder. Comrade Harpal Brar’s theoretical and practical work set a tone for a new generation of revolutionaries, and helped Marxists all over the world to develop their understanding of capitalis…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/08/01/news/volgograd-airport-renamed-stalingrad/The ‘Soviet core’ of the Russian Federation continues to surface as the imperialists chip away at the paint. Not all their rewriting and weaponising of history, culture and religion can prevent the spectre of communism once more looming over the bloodsucking imperialist …

https://thecommunists.org/2025/06/03/news/testament-murdered-journalist/Hours before being killed in an airstrike, a Palestinian journalist describes Israel’s resumption of its scorched earth campaign in Beit Hanoun. To complement the imperialist media’s policy of refusing to cover (and/or deliberately misrepresenting) the many horrific acts that h…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/07/01/news/gary-lineker-gaza-price-of-speaking-out/The punishment administered to this high-profile football pundit is a warning to all: complicity or silence are the only acceptable responses to imperial slaughter. What happened to Lineker is not just about Palestine or a social media post; it is about the limits of …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WexE8LJPnRAToday I (Joti Brar) spoke with Garland Nixon about the contradictions at the heart of the declining imperialist camp.Why does the Trump regime need constantly to ‘talk up’ the markets, to talk up US military and economic power? Why do European imperialists agree to such humiliating terms when new ‘deals’ a…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/07/01/news/usa-israel-illegal-immoral-war-against-iran/While trying to reassert their hegemonic primacy, the imperialists continue to drop bunker-busters on their own feet. In the face of Iran’s devastating counterattack, Netanyahu fled the country, while Israeli citizens were not allowed to leave. They were not so mu…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/07/01/news/birmingham-bin-workers-smelling-rats-strike/Neither the council nor the unions seem in any hurry to bring this dispute to a conclusion. Workers are left wondering why Unions are strangely reticent to do anything meaningful to advance the Birmingham bin workers’ cause. Very few refuse workers, besides the fe…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/07/01/news/riot-reaction-california-los-angeles-ice-immigration-class-war/The ultimate strategy of the state is to divide the working class: to pit documented against undocumented, white against black, native-born against immigrant.Theatrical and violent immigration raids have nothing to do with legality or security –…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/07/01/news/gaza-heroic-people-resist-murderous-infamy/British workers must resolutely oppose the imperialist Labour party, which is complicit in, and the active perpetrator of, the Palestinian genocide.Weighing just 2kg, the photograph of emaciated five-month-old Siwar Ashour is the latest image to horrify workers all…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/05/01/news/solidarity-people-ecuador-election-fraud-gonzales-noboa/Evidence indicates that re-elected president Daniel Noboa is at the centre of a web of systematic corruption that includes state collusion with drug cartels. This information supports Luisa González’s contention that there is widespread corruption in t…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/04/10/leaflets/birmingham-bust-bin-strike/ Birmingham’s gone bust! But why are workers told to pay?No one has explained why some of the most hardworking and essential employees should bear the brunt of a crisis they had no hand in making.Subscribe! Donate! Join us in building a bright future for humanity!http://www.th…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/04/27/news/deepening-party-work-cultural-sphere/The struggle for socialism is not only a political and economic struggle but also a cultural and educational one. Through schools, media, art and entertainment, the capitalist system reinforces individualism, consumerism and passivity, obscuring the collective power of t…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/05/01/news/a-nurses-view-of-the-continuing-sabotage-of-the-nhs/Our health service is well advanced on the road to total privatisation. Amongst many scandalous signs of NHS decline, corridor care has become so widespread that hospitals are even advertising for ‘corridor care specialist’ doctors.Amongst many scandalous …

https://thecommunists.org/2025/07/01/news/usa-imperialist-bloc-save-failing-zionist-proxy-iran-war/Another day of waning global hegemony, another regime-change war launched by the west.Every day provides fresh evidence of Lenin’s famous dictum that ‘Imperialism seeks domination, not democracy.’ Workers must learn to see through the hysterical onsla…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/04/30/news/poverty-crisis-our-demands/Workers did not cause the economic crisis, but they are expected to pay the price through austerity and war.Subscribe! Donate! Join us in building a bright future for humanity!http://www.thecommunists.orghttp://www.lalkar.orghttp://www.redyouth.orgTelegram: https://t.me/thecommuni…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/06/17/news/poverty-crisis-our-tasks/ The current poverty crisis and our tasksLiving standards in Britain are continuing to deteriorate, and the rate of deterioration is accelerating. Monopoly capitalism in Britain is now returning to its ‘normal’ operations, whereby it bribes only a small section of the working class …

https://thecommunists.org/2025/04/30/news/no-euthanasia/ Subscribe! Donate! Join us in building a bright future for humanity!Workers must demand proper health and social care, and dignified, comfortable retirement homes and hospices for the sick and elderly. Horror stories from Canada and elsewhere show clearly that if assisted dying is legalised i…

https://www.youtube.c /watch?v=-33J30qu5wk http://www.thecommunists.orghttp://www.lalkar.orghttp://www.redyouth.orgYesterday I talked with Garland Nixon about the steady move towards totalitarianism in Europe. What does it mean that communism is being equated with ‘nazism’ and banned? What does it mean that civil disobedience and political dissent …

https://thecommunists.org/2025/06/13/news/usa-defeat-proxy-war-russia-setback-imperialism/Moscow is not going to be fooled into any settlement that doesn’t bring real security and deal with the original goals of the SMO. Unable to admit that they have been roundly defeated, the demented warmongers in the collective west are still looking for a way …

https://thecommunists.org/2025/05/01/news/starmer-labour-failing-militarism/As the drive to war ramps up, the contradictions of decaying imperialism are on full display. Britain, being the oldest imperialist country, is by far the most degenerated. Its industrial base has been left to wither away to the point where the militarily necessary mass pro…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/05/01/news/duterte-farce-international-justice-philippines/Duterte’s ICC indictment is a punishment beating aimed at all those who might try to steer a neutral course as the imperialist war drive intensifies. Rodrigo Duterte is being hounded not because of any crimes he may have committed against the Filipino people b…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/05/01/news/russia-dprk-military-cooperation-anti-imperialism/Nato’s reckless invasion of Kursk has totally backfired, leading not to a triumphant advance but to the total defeat of its proxy war against Russia. The development of active military cooperation between Russia and People’s Korea should be welcomed by all p…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/06/05/news/care-workers-strike-against-poverty-scotland/Low pay has become such an issue in the care sector that up to 30 percent of vacancies are unfilled. The issue of low pay is at the heart of decaying public health and social care provision in Britain. Privatisation has turned our vital public services into cash …

https://thecommunists.org/2025/05/01/news/containment-confrontation-cold-hot-drive-to-war-china-usa/Common prosperity or common destitution? The drive to war against China must be resolutely opposed. China has made considerable efforts to show the world that its aim is peaceful coexistence and mutual and beneficial development. But the imperialists…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/04/30/news/struggles-of-youth/Capitalism has nothing to offer our young people except a lifetime of servitude to a system that crushes their spirits. Not only will a socialist society solve their problems and open up a bright future for them and for future generations, but the energy and enthusiasm of the young genera…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/06/16/news/starmer-labour-sleaze-corruption/It is becoming clearer by the day that Labour serves monopoly capital and is preparing for a civil war against the working class. Labour, Tory ... same old story! Bourgeois politicians are indistinguishable in office because they have all made the same deal with the devil: p…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/06/20/news/culture/art-has-a-side/In defence of socialist realism and a culture of the working class. Imperialism doesn’t stop at borders. It doesn’t just invade with bombs. It invades with narratives. It invades with textbooks, Netflix series, university syllabuses, art galleries and think tanks. It grooms a new gene…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/05/16/leaflets/gaza-the-struggle-continues/No cooperation with genocide. Defend our rights. Anti-zionism is not a crime! Unable either to hide their complicity or to justify it, western countries are turning to over repression to try to criminalise the Palestine solidarity movement. In the face of this attempt to sile…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/06/04/news/peoples-assembly-fake-outrage-tory-starmer-labour-austerity/Ever hopeful of rescuing their reputations and keeping a lid on working-class discontent, the fake left are at it again. As with the antiwar movement, so with the anti-austerity movement, what began life as a vibrant and motivated mass movement mad…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/05/26/news/scunthorpe-steel-debacle/If strategic industries are to be saved, their only salvation is full nationalisation and administration according to plan not profit. After decades of the slow decimation of their industry, the mood among Britain’s remaining steel workers is one of grim despondence. Something more …

https://thecommunists.org/2025/06/23/news/wall-of-silence-cracking-gaza-genocide/Like thieves shunning the scene of their crime, media and politicians are suddenly scrambling to distance themselves from Israel. With popular outrage continuing to grow, and the war to crush all middle-eastern resistance movements failing, the imperialists are despera…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/06/25/news/starmers-army/What’s really behind the ‘Strategic Defence Review’ and the government’s eagerness to get Britain ‘ready for war’? Labour has come out clearly for more war and more austerity. So where are the trade unions?Subscribe! Donate! Join us in building a bright future for humanity!www.thecommunists.or…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/05/01/news/general-gerasimov-russia-victory-in-kursk/Despite throwing in huge numbers of Ukraine’s best men and the west’s best armaments, Nato’s invasion force has been utterly destroyed. While announcing a total victory over the invading Ukrainian forces in Kursk, Russia’s military chief of staff included informatio…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/04/27/news/build-party-scientific-socialism/Only a party that follows Marxist dialectics and Leninist organisational principles can hope to lead the working class to liberation. ‘Material force must be overthrown by material force; but theory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses.’ – Karl …

https://thecommunists.org/2025/06/22/news/cpgb-ml-launches-hands-off-korea-campaign/As the war drive against the DPRK intensifies, solidarity with the Korean people should be an absolute priority for workers everywhere. Life in the liberated socialist north of Korea is a far cry from the ridiculous propaganda tropes that inundate workers in the wes…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/05/27/news/what-has-spalding-got-against-gaza/The media plays a vital role in desensitising British people to the sufferings of their fellow workers. The BBC’s entirely fictitious and criminally complicit framing of the zionists’ war crimes in Gaza as ‘nice white people v awful brown terrorists’ must not be allowed to…

https://thecommunists.org/2025/04/30/news/no-illusions-bourgeois-democracy/The Labour party and all its ‘left’ hangers-on continue to work day and night to restore workers’ illusions in parliamentary elections. Workers have been losing their faith in elections and the political process for decades. It is the job of communists to help them develop t…