President Xi Jinping’s 2024 New Year message
On New Year’s Eve, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered his 2024 New Year message via China Media Group.
The following is the full text of the message:
Longing for purpose
With the population becoming increasingly radicalised without an effective platform to express their anger, Ben Ughetti sets out how communists could offer a constructive outlet for popular dissent.
Spotify is tapped
Realising the revolutionary potential of the internet to challenge the commodification of music, capitalism needed Spotify to neutralise this threat, argues Michael Roch.
Things can only get better
As the Labour party look set to win power at the next election, Michael Roch argues that this exchange of power represents no victory for working people.
Honouring the heroes of Cable Street in 2023
As Communists in London prepare to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, Joe Smith reflects on just what it means to truly honour its heroes today.
Report back from Xinjiang
Aymeric Monville is a French philosopher, director of the Les éditions Delga publishing house in Paris, and deputy editor-in-chief of La Pensée magazine. We are pleased to re-publish the following report of his recent (August 2023) trip to Xinjiang, China.
The report responds directly to the obscene anti-Chinese propaganda that has been raging for several years in the Western media regarding ostensible human rights abuses against China’s Uyghur population.
The success of Chinese socialism
Kate Woolford and Rares Cocilnau examine China’s radical growth since the mid-20th century, and how her democratic structures, cooperative foreign policy and commitment to socialism have been maintained throughout this time.
Wrong Bosses
Eilis O’ Keefe makes the case for organising against bosses big and small.
The 51st Congress of the Young Communist League
Last weekend, Britain’s young Communists met in Croydon to vote on the ideology and activity that will now guide their branches for the next 24 months. John Wrawe reports on an ambitious and professional event.
Originally published in the Morning Star (02/09/23)
Interview with the Chairman of the Hungarian Workers’ Party (part 2 of 2)
In this second of two parts, Gyula Thürmer and Vince Lisztes of the Hungarian Workers’ Party exposit on Viktor Orbán, NATO, the future of socialism, and the Party’s efforts to recruit the youth.