Cuban leaders are opening up on problems from poor food production, lack of exports, emigration, black-market scalping, and mismanaged ‘liberalisation’ of state control of the economy, writes W.T. Whitney Jr.
Eben Williams examines the contribution of Joseph Stalin to the CPGB’s programme, and the relationship he had with its General Secretary, Harry Pollitt.
Nathan Hennebry reflects on his experience at the COP26 protest in Glasgow, and the distinctions between liberal and working-class environmentalism.
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:
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.
Realising the revolutionary potential of the internet to challenge the commodification of music, capitalism needed Spotify to neutralise this threat, argues Michael Roch.
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.
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.
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.
Charlotte Jones 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.
Eilis O’ Keefe makes the case for organising against bosses big and small.
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)
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.
In this first of two parts, Gyula Thürmer sits down with Eben Williams to discuss the history of socialism in Hungary, the situation of the Hungarian people, and his memories of working under Prime Minister János Kádár.
General Secretary of the Young Communist League, Johnnie Hunter, sets out the vital task of the delegates attending our 51st Congress this weekend.
This weekend the Young Communist League’s 51st congress will meet at Ruskin House, Croydon, the contemporary home of Britain’s resurgent communist movement. The event will welcome over 100 delegates, representing branches, districts and nations from across Britain, to discuss and debate the current position and the future plans of our Party and YCL.
Johnnie Hunter discusses the Western propaganda effort to smear China and how confronting regime narratives is central to opposing the new cold war.
Willie Gallacher served as a Communist MP for West Fife in Scotland from 1935-1950, and as a member of the Red Clydeside movement, where he played a very important part in the rise of socialism in Britain. Here we republish his writings on his meetings with Lenin, ahead of the formation of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920:
After the National Conservatism conference, Ben Ughetti examines the reinvention of conservative politics, and how the left should understand and counter it.
In light of the increasingly tumultuous state of world affairs, Johnnie Hunter discusses the need for a revived peace movement in Scotland and the rest of Britain.
