Number 10 attempts to fix Cummings leak
Dominic Cummings’s recent leak of memos sparks another Tory scandal.
Communist Party: ‘Capitalism equals cronyism and corruption’
“How the value of our public services contrasts to the whiff of corruption surrounding Tory politicians, the state and big business”, Communist Party general secretary Robert Griffiths remarked at the weekend. He was commenting after the party’s executive and election committees reviewed the biggest ongoing CP election campaign since the early 1980s.
Tory Party & David Cameron face corruption scandal
At the behest of Lex Greensill, a disreputable financier at the helm of a now collapsed firm, it has been revealed that David Cameron lobbied a senior Downing Street aide and the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock. Following the Treasury’s renunciation of Cameron’s efforts to assure the company access to a Covid emergency loan scheme, Cameron contacted a No 10 adviser, illustrating the exhaustive attempts the former prime minister was willing to use to guarantee political connections for Greensill Capital, which employed him as an adviser.
The Tories’ attack on democracy
James McLelland calls for the Left to unite against the Tories and their new Police Bill.
Communist Party: Sewell Commission on race falls at first hurdle
Tony Conway, convenor of the Communist Party’s Anti-Racist Anti-Fascist Commission issued a response for the Party to the whitewash report of the Tory Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities earlier this week.
Communist Party issues call for non-racist immigration and nationality laws
The Communist Party has issued a statement calling for new immigration laws to end decades of racist legislation and the Tories’ ‘hostile environment’, and, setting out the Party’s principles on immigration.
Communists warn of growing threat to freedoms
“Despite his reputation as a ‘Tory libertarian’, Boris Johnson’s government is now attacking democratic freedoms on a scale that cannot be justified by the Covid emergency”, Alex Gordon told a meeting of the Communist Party’s Political Committee on Wednesday evening (24 March 2021).
Merseyside Communists say no to Tory city takeover
Liverpool’s Communists have released a statement today (25 March 2021) attacking the imposition of Tory Commissioners on the City Council.
YCL: “keep the Tories on the run over Policing Bill”
The Young Communist League has issued a statement attacking the Tory Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill and calling for broad resistance to this authoritarian attack on our civil liberties.
Tory ‘Integrated Review’ pushes Britain closer to nuclear war
This week in Parliament, Boris Johnson published the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, described widely as the largest review of its kind since the end of the Cold War. Its publication comes after a string of related announcements, and an inflated defence budget last year.
