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• Business friendly ‘socialism’ – Andy Burnham style

  [Issue: July/August 2026]

  In the beginning … there was a by-election in Makerfield.No, that’s not correct.In the beginning there was a problem for the Labour government that precipitated a by-election in Makerfield.Despite having a massive parliamentary majority, Labour has spent its first years in office doing precisely... [Read more]

• Beware Palantir

  [Issue: January/February 2026]

  Origins of PalantirOn 25 November 2025, The Guardian published an article, written by columnist Arwa Mahdawi, entitled ‘JD Vance might want to run in 2028 – but does he have a Palantir-shaped problem?’. The article explained that United States Vice-President JD Vance, with aspirations to run for... [Read more]

• The rise of Reform

  [Issue: November/December 2025]

  Reform are currently heading opinion polls, with 28% of people indicating their intention to vote for Reform at the next General Election. Of course, the next General Election is not expected until 2029 and opinion polls are designed not as much to gauge opinions as to form them. It could also be... [Read more]

• California – Riot and Reaction: a class war by any other name

  [Issue: July/August 2025]

  In early June 2025, a series of state-led immigration raids triggered widespread protests and clashes in Los Angeles and other US cities. Federal agents from ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raided a warehouse complex in the Fashion District and several Home Depot parking lots in... [Read more]

• OBITUARY – Harpal Singh Brar 1939-2025

  [Issue: March/April 2025]

  Harpal Singh Brar died at 10.10am Indian time (4.40am UK time) on 25 January 2025, at 85 years of age. He was at the home of his nephew Manpreet Singh Badal, in Chandigarh, India. His close comrade and leader of the CPGB-ML Ella Rule, as well as his daughter Joti, and sons Ranjeet and Carlos were... [Read more]

• The role of Britain’s Labour government, and the workers’ necessary response

  [Issue: November/December 2024]

  The ruling class wanted Labour in power to try to manage its crisis, knowing that it is better placed to wage war on workers at home and abroad.No one paying attention can have failed to notice how the steady undermining of the supposed ‘democratic freedoms’ enjoyed by workers in Britain – a... [Read more]

• Immigrants are our class brothers and their contributions are vital to support pensions and welfare benefits for all

  [Issue: May/June 2024]

  As the next General Election looms into view over a very dark horizon, the backroom boys and girls of the British bourgeoisie’s political parties, sit fashioning the various footballs to be used in staged games to put on a show for the voting public. One of the biggest and seemingly most... [Read more]

• Rishi Sunak – the third prime minister in 7 weeks

  [Issue: November/December 2022]

  On Tuesday 25 October, Rishi Sunak became Britain’s prime minister, replacing Liz Truss who had lasted a mere 44 days (from 6 September to 25 October), the shortest serving prime minister in British history. Sunak is the third prime minister in just seven weeks. His is the fifth consecutive... [Read more]

• Macron secures second term as French President, despite huge unpopularity, amid an “ocean of abstentions”

  [Issue: May/June 2022]

  News of Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the 2022 French Presidential election, broadcast worldwide before counting had closed, brought forth an audible sigh of collective relief from the global corporate neo-liberal elite. The City of London, Wall Street, the French Bourse, Washington, Westminster,... [Read more]

• The iniquitous and outrageous Nationality and Borders Bill

  [Issue: March/April 2022]

  Following on from the preparatory laws that have been added lately to the state armoury for oppressing workers and putting down any possible insurrections or even disagreements with government taken to the streets in protest, we now see the Nationality and Borders Bill sat in the Committee stage... [Read more]

• Inhumanity towards desperate asylum seekers

  [Issue: January/February 2022]

  Every so often Immigration is thrown back into the spotlight of media (and therefore, public) attention. Sometimes the attention is raised by a failed politician hiring a boat and causing a nuisance chasing around the English Channel with a film crew looking feverishly for an overloaded boat... [Read more]

• A critique of “Britain’s Road to Socialism” in the 21st century – The Programme of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) – PART TWO

  [Issue: July/August 2021]

  ImperialismThe BRS wisely informs us that “the chief characteristics of imperialism, therefore, are monopolisation, colonial or – in countries that have won formal political independence – neo-colonial super-exploitation, inter-imperialist rivalry and war.”Lenin defined the chief characteristics... [Read more]

• Hong Kong and the British government’s servile stupidity

  [Issue: July/August 2020]

  The latest anti-China hysteria being provoked in the UK around the protests in Hong Kong and China’s supposed culpability in connection with the coronavirus pandemic amount to nothing more than the screams of rage of a fading imperialist power confronted with a power which is swiftly rising to... [Read more]

• Crude jingoism deployed to boost President Trump in US mid-term elections

  [Issue: January/February 2019]

  Anyone who has access to a computer, a television, a radio or a newspaper has doubtless heard the news of the vast caravan of Central American peoples that was heading through Mexico, at the time leading up to the US mid-term elections. The participants were attributed with having the expressed... [Read more]

• Sanctions: The tectonic plates of the world order are beginning to shift as a consequence of imperialist parasitism

  [Issue: September/October 2018]

  It is an inescapable law of capitalism that there has to be a general striving towards monopoly. At a certain stage of development giant monopolies, as epitomised by the world’s multinational corporations, become so dominant that national governments become their handmaidens, representing the... [Read more]

• The Windrush scandal

  [Issue: May/June 2018]

  The Immigration Act 2014 provided for people to be liable to immediate deportation if they could not prove their right to remain in the UK. Not only that, it prohibited landlords from providing premises to such people and the NHS and banks from providing their services. It denied them the right... [Read more]

• After the election: what now?

  [Issue: July/August 2017]

   Crisis breeds chaosTo make sense of this election, the first thing that has to be understood is the context: the deep capitalist crisis of overproduction is creating conditions of chaos and uncertainty in all spheres of life. As in all the other capitalist countries of the world, the ruling... [Read more]

• President Trump – a loose cannon on the imperialist deck

  [Issue: March/April 2017]

  On 20 January 2017, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States of America. In his inaugural address, far from jettisoning his campaign rhetoric, he stuck to it with a ferocity that surprised his opponents and supporters alike. In the words of the New York Times, Mr... [Read more]

• Revisionists appraise the year ahead

  [Issue: March/April 2017]

  Robert Griffiths, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Britain, has outlined the revisionists’ perspectives on the international and domestic political situation at the start of 2017. We recommend all readers take ten minutes to read it in full... [Read more]

• Notes on the Labour and Tory Party Conferences 2016

  [Issue: November/December 2016]

  The Labour Party Conference started with a bang for the Corbynistas this year with the declaration of the last leadership election giving their messiah a massive 313,209 votes to 193,229 or 61.8% lead over the Right Social-Democratic factions man, Owen Smith. This was not in the end a surprising... [Read more]