• CP urges left to advance not retreat
    Thursday, February 13, 2020 from Home
    The left in the Labour Party and trade unions must stop retreating, according to Britain's Communists.  Reporting to the Communist Party's political committee on Wednesday evening (February 12), the party's trade union organiser...
  • The coronavirus outbreak has exposed the deep flaws of Xi’s autocracy | Richard McGregor
    Sunday, February 9, 2020 from Communism | The Guardian
    China’s political system was meant to be all-powerful, capable of dealing with any crisis. The death of one doctor has shaken that claim Soon after Li Wenliang succumbed to the coronavirus in Wuhan early on Friday morning, a drawing of...
  • Coronavirus, an opening for fascism and war
    Thursday, February 6, 2020 from Challenge Newspaper
    The outbreak of the latest coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, is a health crisis for the working class, a fascist tool for the Chinese bosses, and a racist opportunity for a deteriorating U.S. to attack their top imperialist rival. What the...
  • Coast-to-coast multiracial unity against racism
    Thursday, February 6, 2020 from Challenge Newspaper
    Los Angeles, February 5–“When the working class is under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!” The fight back in Los Angeles this time took the form of a documentary screening and forum against police brutality....
  • Impeachment Capitalist democracy in disarray, fascism on the horizon
    Thursday, February 6, 2020 from Challenge Newspaper
    The impeachment acquittal of openly corrupt U.S. President Donald Trump has exposed the disarray of the finance capitalist section of the U.S. ruling class. Overwhelmed by self-interest and chaotic infighting, these main-wing Big...
  • Stalingrad: Red Army smashed the fascists
    Thursday, February 6, 2020 from Challenge Newspaper
    February 2 is the 77th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad (1943), the turning point of World War II. It was when the communist Red Army defeated the Nazis, proving that fascism can be defeated. The Bolsheviks organized the Soviet...
  • Mexico rulers attack migrants, protect imperialist agenda
    Thursday, February 6, 2020 from Challenge Newspaper
    The Mexican National Guard, once again, repressed a caravan of Honduran migrants by badly beating them and firing tear gas at them. The migrants were trying to cross the border between Guatemala and Mexico. Several were arrested and...
  • Mark Shapiro, a communist for all seasons
    Thursday, February 6, 2020 from Challenge Newspaper
    Comrade Mark Shapiro, one of the original members of the Progressive Labor Movement (PLM) and the Progressive Labor Party (PLP), died on January 12 at 78. Mark was a communist whose life and influence spread throughout the working class and
  • Trump’s Israeli apartheid plan weakens U.S. Imperialism
    Thursday, February 6, 2020 from Challenge Newspaper
    On January 28, U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, unveiled an Israeli/Palestinian “peace” plan. The plan gives Israel significant parts of the West Bank and control of most of...
  • KKKop murders William; workers gear up to fight
    Thursday, February 6, 2020 from Challenge Newspaper
    Prince George’s County, February 5–Another police murder of a Black man happened just as the Community Justice Coalition (CJC) in Prince George’s County, MD was holding a conference call about police brutality!...
  • Shut down racist police, keep hospital open!
    Thursday, February 6, 2020 from Challenge Newspaper
    Bronx, January 20 –On Martin Luther King day (MLK day) the interfaith coalition joined with a Black church in the Bronx for the third year to emphasize the struggle aspect of MLK day. Antiracists workers in this mass organization,...
  • Jean Davis obituary
    Wednesday, January 29, 2020 from Communism | The Guardian
    My mother, Jean Davis, who has died aged 93, was a lifelong Marxist and trade unionist. She committed her life and career as a social worker to working against all kinds of inequality. She was born in Golders Green, north London, to...
  • France: declining empire & rising fightback
    Friday, January 24, 2020 from Challenge Newspaper
    The working class in France is on the move, with a bold and militant transit strike that has lasted more than six weeks and enlisted strong support from workers throughout the country (Odaxa poll, 1/8). At its peak, the action involved...
  • Ivan Passer obituary
    Friday, January 17, 2020 from Communism | The Guardian
    Director who was part of the ‘Czech film miracle’ in the 1960s but made his masterpieces in Hollywood Ivan Passer, who has died aged 86, was one of the new wave of Czech film directors who emerged during the social and cultural...
  • Communists warn of renewed Tory offensive
    Thursday, January 16, 2020 from Home
    Under Boris Johnson, the Tories are in a stronger position than ever to enforce the kind of anti-working class policies they have been pursuing since 2010', Liz Payne told the Communist Party's political committee on Wednesday evening...
  • Joint Statement of the Communist Party of Britain, the Tudeh Party of Iran and the Communist Party of the USA
    Monday, January 13, 2020 from Home
    The assassination on Friday 3 January 2020 in Baghdad, Iraq of Qasem Soleimani, the Commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ (IRGC) extra-territorial Quds Force, and Abu Mahdi al-Mohandis, Head of Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah,...
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson: China breaking free of its past – in pictures
    Thursday, January 9, 2020 from Communism | The Guardian
    In November 1948, the great photographer went to shoot ‘the last days of Beijing’. He returned to China in 1958 to capture the results of the Maoist revolution. Images from both visits are brought together for the first time in an...
  • Britain recognises communist government of China - archive, 7 January 1950
    Tuesday, January 7, 2020 from Communism | The Guardian
    7 January 1950 : Unconditional recognition of Mao Zedong’s regime as the legitimate government of all China sees the withdrawal of support from Nationalists London, Friday Britain’s recognition of the Communist Central People’s...
  • CCTV installed at Karl Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery
    Wednesday, December 25, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    Cameras intended as vandalism deterrent after it was twice defaced this year Surveillance cameras have been installed in Highgate cemetery to watch over the tomb of Karl Marx after it was vandalised twice this year. The CCTV devices have...
  • Romania 1989: Ceaucescu goes down in blood - archive, 23 December 1989
    Monday, December 23, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    23 December 1989: Nicolae Ceausescu’s overthrow follows a week of carnage in which thousands of protesters against his regime were killed in cold blood President Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown yesterday and became a fugitive in the...
  • Romania comes to terms with monument to communism 30 years after Ceaușescu's death
    Sunday, December 22, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    Bucharest’s notorious Palace of the Parliament bears witness to the folly of dictator shot dead on Christmas Day 1989 Bucharest’s most notorious building sits atop a small hill in the centre of the city, appearing squat despite its...
  • Communists blame Brexit shift for Labour's defeat and urge movement's renewal
    Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from Home
    'Labour's shift towards a "Stop Brexit" stance did not turn millions of Labour electors into Tories overnight last week - but it did drive them to abstain or vote to "Get Brexit Done"', according to Britain's Communist Party.
  • The 50 best TV shows of 2019: No 3 – Chernobyl
    Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    This tale of the 1986 Soviet nuclear meltdown combined disaster movie and conspiracy thriller into a near-perfect example of TV making See our unfolding top 50 list More on the best culture of 2019 On the most basic level, Chernobyl was...
  • Thirty years on, will the guilty pay for horror of Ceaușescu orphanages?
    Sunday, December 15, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    By 1989, when the dictator was killed, up to 20,000 had died in Romania’s children’s homes. Now criminal cases may finally be brought They were the pictures that, for many across the world, were the defining image of the aftermath of...
  • Victims, not victors? The uniquely Czech debate over how to memorialise the Velvet Revolution
    Monday, December 2, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    Prague has long an uneasy relationship with monuments to its history – but 30 years since the fall of the communist regime, that could be about to change I used to think the saddest place in Prague was a prospect high above the Vltava...
  • Czechs scrap one-party rule - archive, 29 November 1989
    Friday, November 29, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    29 November 1989 : Communist prime minister promises to form a new government that will include other political parties and non-party members The Czechoslovak government yesterday bowed to overwhelming people’s power and agreed to the...
  • 'The ruling class fears a Corbyn victory' say Communists
    Tuesday, November 26, 2019 from Home
    'The British ruling class are doing as much as they can to prevent Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party from taking office as the result of the General Election', Carol Stavris told the Communist Party's executive committee last weekend....
  • The Guardian view on Hong Kong: a city on the brink | Editorial
    Monday, November 18, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    The authorities’ repression has only fuelled the crisis. It is up to them to de-escalate, as others should tell them Hong Kong is burning. The authorities continue to pour fuel on the fire. On Monday, the People’s Daily, the mouthpiece...
  • German newspaper investigates new owner over Stasi informer role
    Monday, November 18, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    Berliner Zeitung’s Holger Friedrich admits working for East German secret police A German newspaper has been forced to launch an investigation into its new owner after it was revealed he had been an informer for the East German secret...
  • Velvet Revolution dissidents warn against new threats to Czech freedom
    Sunday, November 17, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    On the 30th anniversary of the uprising, Václav Havel’s allies say the revolution’s ideals are again at risk Times have changed dramatically since Monsignor Václav Malý endured interrogations, beatings and the indignities of being barred...
  • Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution, 1989 - in pictures
    Saturday, November 16, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    Thirty years ago, Czech photographer Bohumil Eichler was working for a dissident student-run news agency when the Velvet Revolution began. His work from Prague has rarely been seen, until now. 5 images have been removed from this gallery...
  • Labour can win with bold policies and mass campaigining, Communists insist
    Thursday, November 14, 2019 from Home
    'Labour is beginning to gain ground in the General Election as its economic and social policies chime with the needs and aspirations of the mass of the people', the Communist Party declared on Wednesday evening (November 13). But CP...
  • The task of politics today is to scare the capitalists as much as communism did | Aditya Chakrabortty
    Thursday, November 14, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    The threat of the Soviet bloc forced western democracies to acknowledge the rights of workers and poor people As the big day dawned last weekend, Berliners held a huge street party, with more than 100,000 revellers gathering in the cold...
  • Communists attack Farage and urge Labour vote
    Monday, November 11, 2019 from Home
     In response to Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage's decision not to stand candidates against sitting Tory MPs, Communist Party general secretary issued the following statement today (Monday, November 11): "It is entirely in keeping...
  • I grew up in Stalinist Albania, where voting was pointless. In Britain it’s essential | Lea Ypi
    Monday, November 11, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    Election day is the one day when all citizens have equal power. It’s your duty to use it on behalf of those who cannot vote I have never voted in an election. Not because I didn’t want to but because I couldn’t. For my entire adult life,...
  • In place of Berlin’s Wall now stands a barrier of sullen resentment | Neal Ascherson
    Sunday, November 10, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    Reunification has only fed resentment and alienation among the ‘losers’ of the old East Germany But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme. The night the Berlin Wall opened...
  • The Guardian view on the fall of the Berlin Wall: history’s lessons | Editorial
    Friday, November 8, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    It was hailed as the definitive triumph of liberal democracy. Thirty years on, the lessons of 1989 look rather different “The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk,” wrote Hegel in the Philosophy of Right....
  • Communists for Labour victory and mass campaigning
    Monday, November 4, 2019 from Home
    The Communist Party reaffirms its commitment of September 23 to work for the election of a left-led Labour government in the forthcoming General Election. This is the only attainable outcome that would serve the interests of the working...
  • Reddest of the Reds
    Tuesday, October 22, 2019 from Home
    SO Davies, MP and miners' leader by Robert Griffiths STEPHEN OWEN DAVIES was one of the 20th century's great rebels. From working underground at the age of 12, he rose through the ranks of the South Wales Miners Federation and the Miners...
  • Monarchy and the Russian diaspora: Arcane arguments about Russia’s sovereigns could go mainstream
    Sunday, October 29, 2017 from Communism
    Main image:  AS A colleague writes in this week’s print edition, Vladimir Putin is in certain ways more comparable to an absolute monarch than to a constitutionally elected political leader, who might be hemmed by checks and...
  • Bagehot: Corbyn’s comrades and the Russian revolution
    Thursday, October 26, 2017 from Communism
    Print section Print Rubric:  The centenary of the Russian revolution is a good time to reflect on Labour’s leadership Print Headline:  Corbyn’s comrades Print Fly Title:  Bagehot UK Only Article: ...
  • Palace insiders: Many eastern Europeans feel nostalgia for the communist era
    Thursday, October 12, 2017 from Communism
    Print section Print Rubric:  Tourists revel in Iron Curtain kitsch Print Headline:  Palace insiders Print Fly Title:  Communist nostalgia UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  China’s Xi...
  • Life and soul of the Party: Xi Jinping has been good for China’s Communist Party; less so for China
    Wednesday, October 11, 2017 from Communism
    Print section Print Rubric:  China’s leader has been good for the Communist Party but not for his country Print Headline:  Life and soul of the party Print Fly Title:  Xi Jinping after five years UK Only...
  • Charlemagne: Exorcising Marx in France: Emmanuel Macron is trying to change France’s psychology
    Thursday, September 7, 2017 from Communism
    Print section Print Rubric:  Emmanuel Macron is trying to change nothing less than France’s psychology Print Headline:  Exorcising French demons Print Fly Title:  Charlemagne UK Only Article:  standard...
  • Monumental propaganda: Engels returns to Manchester
    Thursday, July 20, 2017 from Communism
    Print section Print Headline:  Engels returns to Manchester Print Fly Title:  Monumental propaganda UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  Britain faces up to Brexit Fly Title:  Monumental...
  • Bagehot: Labour is right—Karl Marx has a lot to teach today’s politicians
    Thursday, May 11, 2017 from Communism
    Print section Print Rubric:  The Labour leadership is right—Karl Marx has a lot to teach today’s politicians Print Headline:  The Marxist moment Print Fly Title:  Bagehot UK Only Article:  standard...
  • An extra mile: Filipino communists go back to war
    Thursday, February 9, 2017 from Communism
    Print section Print Rubric:  A 50-year-old conflict resumes Print Headline:  An extra mile Print Fly Title:  Communist insurgency in the Philippines UK Only Article:  standard article Issue: ...
  • Orthodox Christmas: Russia’s church is poised between two pasts and an unknown future
    Friday, January 6, 2017 from Communism
    Main image:  WHILE most Christians are putting away their Christmas decorations, a substantial minority of them are only now preparing to commemorate the Nativity of Jesus Christ. For some eastern Christians (those who refused...
  • The will to power: The life and times of Fidel Castro
    Saturday, November 26, 2016 from Communism
    Print section Print Rubric:  Cuba’s communist leader, who outlasted ten presidents of the United States, has died at the age of 90 Print Headline:  The will to power Print Fly Title:  Fidel Castro UK Only...
  • The conscience keeper: Obituary: Andrzej Wajda died on October 9th
    Thursday, October 27, 2016 from Communism
    Print section Print Rubric:  Andrzej Wajda, Poland’s greatest film-maker, died on October 9th, aged 90 Print Headline:  Obituary: Conscience-keeper Print Fly Title:  Andrzej Wajda UK Only Article: ...
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