The Challenge editorial board calls for a rejection of identity politics and liberal myths, proposing a nuanced approach to immigration that prioritises working-class interests and international solidarity.
Berkan Çelebi looks at the history of Bolivarianism, and makes a critical case in support of the progressive project.
On Saint George’s Day, Charlotte Jones explores the communist movement’s relationship with patriotism.
Chris Cargill evaluates the Berlin Wall, the factors leading to its construction and the predatory capitalist forces unleased on the East Germans after unification.
Ben Ughetti discusses the factors behind the left’s repellent image.
Michael Roch on the role of the “right to protest” in bourgeois democracy.
Nathan Hennebry discusses the Erskine hotel demonstrations of the past year and how deprived communities can fight for their living standards.
Charlotte Jones explores a marxist approach to leftist morality.
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)
