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Long live the martyrs of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 07 June 2010]
Before dawn on Monday 31 May, in international waters some 90 miles from Gaza’s coastline, Israeli commandos forcibly boarded a peaceful convoy of aid ships that was headed to Gaza city.
Exact numbers are still not known, but at least nine, and possibly as many as 20 volunteers aboard the main ship, the [i]Mavi Marmara[/i], were murdered by Israeli forces, who used live fire against the people on board. Dozens more were wounded and all passengers were then abducted to prisons in Israel.
The 800 volunteers trying to deliver 10,000 tonnes of vital aid to Gaza were from 40 countries and included parliamentarians, journalists, women, children and the elderly. Forty-two members of the ...
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Celebrate the life of Ho Chi Minh (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 13 May 2010]
Saturday 22 May 2010, 6.00pm
Saklatvala Hall, Dominion Road, off Featherstone Road, Southall, UB2 5AA
Speakers include Bui Duc Minh, First Secretary of the Vietnamese Embassy,
and Len Aldis, Secretary of the Britain-Vietnam Friendship Society.
It is the 120th anniversary of the birth of Ho Chi Minh. He led the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnamese people in a long and difficult struggle for national liberation and unification of the country.
Under his leadership, the small country of Vietnam threw out Japanese and French imperialism and then inflicted on US imperialism a very ignominious defeat.
This year also marks the 35th anniversary of the final rout of US ...
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Don't vote for bourgeois parties; join the fight against capitalism! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML and MLCP on 01 May 2010]
1 May 2010 sees the working-class masses all over the world standing on the brink of a serious confrontation with the imperialist ruling classes of the US, Europe and Japan.
The economic crisis of the whole capitalist system, which has slowly been building up steam since the 1970s, has finally proved impossible to contain. In 2007, the world was plunged into a world banking crisis and credit crunch that have been more devastating in their consequences on people's lives, livelihoods and wellbeing than any earthquake or tsunami - and the worst is still to come.
1 May 2010 is taking place just before a general election that will decide who will govern Britain on behalf of its capitalist ...
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Free the Gaza protestors! Jail the warmongers! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 28 March 2010]
When Israel launched yet another predatory assault upon Gaza’s defenceless civilian population a year ago, it triggered a worldwide wave of militant anti-zionist protest.
The death toll rose to 1,434, there was deliberate targeting and near total destruction of the already strained civilian infrastructure, including water and sewage works, hospitals and ambulance services, schools, houses and a UN warehouse where much of the food for the 1.5 million imprisoned Gazans was stored.
In spite of all attempts to spin the media, the glaring evidence of brutality had even conservative observers accusing Israel’s army of war crimes. Gerald Kaufman (Labour MP and long-time ‘friend of Israel’) ...
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Defend public services: fight capitalism! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 25 March 2010]
It is very good that workers should mobilise in defence of public services. To carry our struggle through to success, though, we must learn to translate these defensive skirmishes into an all-out counter-offensive against the system of capitalism itself.
The erosion of the post-war social wage began in the late 1970s and was already far advanced long before the overproduction crisis of capitalism was officially recognised, systematically undermining living standards for the mass of ordinary British people.
Every [i]direct[/i] attack on wages and conditions, whether in the form of job cuts, pay freezes, speed-ups, rostering by diktat or cuts to pension and redundancy schemes, has been ...
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End the British occupation of Ireland! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 15 February 2010]
The CPGB-ML urges all British workers to give full support to the campaign to reunite the Irish nation.
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels repeatedly taught that the British working class must support the Irish not only as a matter of justice for Ireland but above all in their own class interest.
It absolutely remains the case that the British proletariat will remain slaves to capital unless and until they stand on the side of the Irish people.
It is the brave and disciplined struggle of the Irish themselves which has translated a united Ireland from a lofty ambition into an impending reality, not the good offices of any Thatcher, Blair or Mo Mowlam.
As Comrade Gerry Adams noted ...
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Celebrate the Great October Revolution (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 03 October 2009]
[b]Public Meeting
Saturday 7 November 2009, 6.00pm[/b]
Saklatvala Hall, Dominion Road, Southall UB2 5AA
Speakers include:
[b]Bob Crow[/b], General Secretary, RMT Union
[b]Jack Shapiro[/b], Lifelong communist and British working-class hero
[b]Ranjeet Brar[/b], CPGB-ML
[b]Turkish comrade[/b], MLKP (Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Turkey and Northern Kurdistan
[b]Uphold the banner of communism![/b]
The great October Revolution of 1917 is by far the most progressive event in human history.
It ushered in the era of the downfall of imperialism and the victory of proletarian revolution. Despite all reverses, this is the era we continue to live in; and with capitalist ...
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End the imperialist occupation of Afghanistan (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 27 September 2009]
What are British and American troops doing in Afghanistan? Why is the resistance to them so fierce? Why are dozens of soldiers being killed and even more being maimed for life?
The media put forward a variety of ‘reasons’ for the military intervention of US and British imperialism and their allies in Afghanistan, ranging from it being necessary to suppress al-Qaeda and keep the streets of Britain safe, to bringing democracy to Afghanistan, to stopping the oppression of women by the Taliban, to wiping out the cultivation of opium poppies
In fact, these are all just excuses to gull the gullible. The US’s real interest in Afghanistan is the construction of pipelines to carry oil from the ...
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The German Nazis committed the Katyn massacre: why are we being lied to?
(pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 23 June 2009]
The hype surrounding the film [i]Katyn[/i] suggests that ‘we’ have been misled for years into thinking that it was not the Soviets but the German Nazis who committed the massacre of Polish officers at Katyn.
The opposite is the case. The most cursory examination of history books and the internet will prove that we have been told over and over again that it was the Soviets who committed this heinous crime – and in most cases the possibility that it could have been the Germans is not even mentioned.
[b]The facts[/b]
The fact is that the bodies were shot by the Nazis and with German bullets. These bullets were still in the bodies when they were exhumed.
Goebbels, who masterminded ...
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Stop the War says: no cooperation with war crimes! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 18 June 2009]
At its National Conference in April, Stop the War Coalition passed the following resolution:
[b]No cooperation with war crimes[/b]
This conference condemns Britain’s continued involvement in the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and calls for the immediate recall of all British troops from both these countries.
While the City of London’s [i]financial elite[/i] sought to benefit by joining arms with the US to seize Iraq’s oil wealth and manipulate her domestic and foreign policy to their advantage, this conference affirms that the entire bloody debacle has always been contrary to the interests of the vast majority of British workers, who have consistently demonstrated their ...
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Workers of all countries, UNITE! Jobs for ALL! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 16 May 2009]
Goaded beyond endurance by the efforts of our masters to heap on our backs the burdens of the economic overproduction crisis, workers are serving notice on their exploiters that the ‘contagion’ of mass militancy now sweeping through Greece and France cannot for ever be kept from our shores.
In light of the mass walk-outs at oil refineries and the occupation tactics adopted by Visteon workers in Enfield and Belfast, it is clear that resistance to the crisis is entering a new stage. This is a time of great danger for the working class, and also a time of great opportunity for revolutionary advance.
[b]Capitalism launches class war …[/b]
For bosses worried that French proletarian ...
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No cooperation with Israeli war crimes! Victory to Palestine! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 16 May 2009]
[b]War crimes[/b]
Israel has been committing war crimes in Palestine for 60 years. Ethnic cleansing, massacres, evictions, illegal occupation and colonisation of land, denial of human rights and basic facilities to occupied people, illegal seizure and destruction of houses, crops and property, collective punishment of the entire population ... the list goes on and on, and has been well documented ever since 1948.
In recent months, Israel has clamped down still further on supplies of medicine, food, water and fuel into the Gaza Strip, further exacerbating the humanitarian crisis there. These crimes against Palestinian civilians by the Israeli state are not new, but mounting awareness ...
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Workers have the POWER to change the world; let’s USE it! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 01 May 2009]
[b]Make the capitalists pay for their crisis! [/b]
2009 is fast becoming a year synonymous with capitalist economic crisis on a scale not seen since the Wall Street crash of 1929. Giants of finance capital have collapsed, and the Labour government has responded by giving banks hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ money: robbing the poor to pay the rich.
Workers’ outrage is fully justified, but, in truth, not yet broad enough in its scope, for these are but exaggerations of the daily actions and normal workings of capitalism, whose entire system of wage slavery rests on the [i]perpetual[/i] looting of the wealth created by the labouring masses.
It is abundantly clear that, as long ...
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Support the Postal Workers!
No Privatisation!
No stealing of pensions!
Break the Link with Labour!
(pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 24 February 2009]
The CWU has inevitably been considering breaking the link with Labour. Now the decision by the Labour Government to con-cretely move ahead with privatisation of the Royal Mail has brought matters further to a head.
In the run-up to Christmas, the government revealed moves in the campaign to privatise the Royal Mail by stealth: plans to invite an infusion of private capital. To sweeten the brew still further, former Communications Workers Union (CWU) general secretary Alan Johnson, now reincarnated as the Health Secretary, defended these back-door privatisation plans in Cabinet, insisting that they represented the postal service’s only hope of survival.
This put the CWU on a collision ...
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Hands off Gaza! Victory to the resistance! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 09 January 2009]
The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) resolutely condemns Israel’s despicable and cowardly military onslaught against the people of Gaza, and it reaffirms its unreserved solidarity with the Palestinian people.
[b]Israeli brutality and arrogance[/b]
Since the start of Israel’s bombing campaign, on 23 December 2008, several hundred Palestinians – including many children – have been killed, and thousands more have sustained critical injuries. Israel claims that its targets have been exclusively military, but this is manifestly false. For example, more than 50 people (including an entire family of seven young children) were killed when, on 7 January, Israel bombed a UN ...
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Celebrate the Great October Revolution (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 20 October 2008]
Uphold the banner of communism!
The great October Revolution of 1917 is by far the most progressive event in human history. It ushered in the era of the downfall of imperialism and the victory of proletarian revolution. The history of almost the entire 20th century was shaped by the tremors set in motion by this gigantic earthquake in the erstwhile Czarist Russia.
Defying all predictions, and in the teeth of bitter hostility on the part of the overthrown exploiting classes as well as of international imperialism, the Soviet proletariat went on to build a powerful socialist state and a powerful socialist economy, in which planned production to satisfy the constantly rising needs of the ...
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Time to face it: capitalism must go! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 13 October 2008]
The convulsions that we are witnessing in the world financial system are the distressing symptoms, the death throes, of the capitalist system of organising human society.
We stand at a veritable milestone in human history because, with the death of capitalism, the whole era in which human society has been divided into exploiters and exploited, with one class owning the important means of production, while another can only live by serving those rulers, will finally end.
Although this division of human society into ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ was always inequitable, nevertheless by freeing up sections of humanity from the daily grind of productive labour, class society historically made ...
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Change the world; join the communists (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 01 October 2008]
[b]Introducing …[/b]
The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), Britain’s only consistently anti-imperialist and revolutionary political party, was founded in 2004.
Unlike all other political parties in Britain, our party has no interests separate from those of the international working class and oppressed peoples. We are proud to stand in the tradition, and to base ourselves on the teachings, of such great revolutionary leaders as Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao.
We stand in solidarity with nations and peoples around the world who are fighting imperialism, whether it is with a gun, a pen or a voice.
We support the brave men, women and children of Palestine, ...
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Celebrate China’s National Day (pdf)
[issued by Hands off China on 07 September 2008]
Saturday 4 October, 6.30-9.30pm Saklatvala Hall , Dominion Road, Southall, UB2 5AA
Speakers include: Jack Shapiro, Veteran friend of China Saklatvala Hall , Dominion Road, Southall, UB2 5AA Organised jointly with the CPGB-ML Saturday 4 October, 6.30-9.30pm Kojo Gottfried, Former Ghanian ambassador to China Harpal Brar, Chair, CPGB-ML; Editor, Lalkar Keith Bennett, Expert in Asian politics Taimur Rahman, CMKP (Pakistan)
Organised by Hands off China and the CPGB-ML.
Campaign info
The Hands off China campaign is being set up in the light of the vitriolic and deceitful propaganda campaign being waged in the imperialist press against China, as well as the protracted campaign being ...
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Reasons to support China (pdf)
[issued by Hands off China on 31 August 2008]
Socialist and anti-imperialist states have always been subjected to slanders and accusations by the imperialist press and academia. The endless clamour about ‘human rights abuses’ is a tired old technique for deceiving people. As Malcolm X once said: “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
Here we present five important facts about New China.
[b]Life in China is better since the revolution[/b]
The Chinese Revolution (1949) and the birth of New China marked the end of feudal backwardness and over a hundred years of brutal semi-colonial domination and humiliation.
• Life ...
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The working class has the POWER to stop the war. Let’s USE it! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 27 August 2008]
[b]Dismal failure for imperialism[/b]
Despite the best efforts of the US and Britain, the war on Iraq has proven to be an unmitigated disaster for imperialism. The Iraqi resistance has succeeded in frustrating every strategy and every surge, and we are now at a point where the resistance has all but won the war.
The strategic debate for the US and its allies is no longer about how to win; it is about how to withdraw with minimal losses, leaving a few crucial bases and painting defeat as victory.
In spite of all the extra troops, the black propaganda, the psychological warfare, and the attempts to incite civil war, the resistance refuses to wane. Over the course of last year, 899 ...
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Hands off China launch meeting (pdf)
[issued by Hands Off China on 30 June 2008]
HANDS OFF CHINA Launch Meeting
Saturday 19 July 2008
6-9pm
Kings Cross Neighbourhood Centre,
51 Argyle Street
London WC1H 8EF
Speakers include:
- Jack Shapiro – Veteran Friend of China
- Harpal Brar – Chairman, CPGB-ML; Editor, Lalkar
- Keith Bennett
- Others invited
The Hands off China campaign is being set up in the light of the vitriolic and deceitful propaganda campaign being waged in the imperialist press against China, as well as the protracted campaign being waged by the US and its allies aimed at destabilising, weakening and encircling the country. Ignorance and misinformation about China is widespread in Britain, even in the working class movement; hence the ...
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Decent homes for all! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 11 May 2008]
The CPGB-ML stands for the right of everyone to be decently and affordably housed. When the working class has taken state power and ownership of all important means of production, including land, housing will be allocated to everyone, and considerable priority will be given to ensuring that as quickly as possible everybody’s housing conditions are of a standard that will satisfy all.
In socialist countries, such as the DPRK, Cuba and the former Soviet Union, a small payment towards the cost of maintenance and repairs is all that is required to live in a home that has enough rooms for the size of the family it contains.
Although housing will almost certainly all be state-owned under ...
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Break the link with Labour! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 28 April 2008]
With crisis and war besetting capitalist society, it has never been more important for workers to unite as a class. Those public-sector workers who have come out on strike against the government’s wage freeze have demonstrated their readiness for a united battle in defence of living standards.
The last TUC conference passed a resolution, raised by the PCS union, urging the executive to lead and organise the fight-back in the public sector. A committee was duly appointed for this purpose – which to date has done precisely nothing.
Despite the willingness of public-sector workers and others to have a go, industrial action across the sector remains limited to a series of random ...
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Stop the privatisation of our schools! Free, quality education for all (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 24 April 2008]
The Labour government is in the process of privatising the school system by means of an array of different measures, each dressed up as a boon for teachers, parents and pupils.
[b]Private Finance Initiative[/b]
Schools have been the primary target of PFI. Major building work in schools is now almost invariably funded and managed by private profiteers, who make their investment back through payment of instalments.
Ostensibly, this is done in order to get the most ‘competitive’ prices and services; in reality, it is done in order to get taxpayers’ money into the coffers of massive construction companies and consultancy and management firms, whilst giving the illusion of lower ...
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‘Land of the free’ is a prison of nations (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 18 April 2008]
The United States puts itself forward as a ‘democracy’; it calls itself the ‘land of the free’; it considers that it has the right to police the world, the right to label other countries as ‘undemocratic’ or lacking in freedom; it imposes sanctions and wages wars in the name of ‘human rights’.
And yet the US state, along with its fellow imperialist vultures in Britain and elsewhere, is the worst violator of human rights in the world.
By waging unjust wars for economic and geo-political advantage, the US and its allies deny millions of people the most fundamental human right: the right to life.
Through its economic stranglehold over the third world, imperialism is responsible for ...
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End the occupation: victory to the Iraqi resistance! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 15 March 2008]
[b]Dismal failure for imperialism[/b]
Today, as we mark the fifth anniversary of the criminal and genocidal invasion of Iraq, it is clear that, despite the best efforts of the US and its increasingly disillusioned junior partner, Britain, the war has proven to be an unmitigated disaster for imperialism. Every strategy of the occupiers has been frustrated and every surge has been broken.
The 36,000 extra troops that landed in 2007 have been totally unable to contain the forces of the Iraqi resistance, which continues to grow daily in strength, stature and experience, and whose world-historic victory over the colonial occupiers is assured. For all the extra troops, for all the black ...
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Palestine is a British working-class issue (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 22 February 2008]
[b]Not just a humanitarian question[/b]
Karl Marx, commenting on the relationship between Britain and Ireland, famously wrote that “the nation that oppresses another nation forges its own chains”. This is still true today. So long as the British working class goes along with the actions of British imperialism for the sake of the few crumbs that it gets by way of payment for this complicity, it will remain impotent in the struggle against British capitalism and for socialism. This simple truth, seemingly obvious, is widely misunderstood or ignored in the British ‘left’. However, to continue to ignore it is forever to submit ourselves to the mercy of capital.
British imperialism has ...
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Celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Great October Revolution (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 10 October 2007]
[b]Uphold the banner of communism[/b]
The great October Revolution of 1917 is by far the most progressive event in human history. It ushered in the era of the downfall of imperialism and the victory of proletarian revolution. The history of almost the entire 20th century was shaped by the tremors set in motion by this gigantic earthquake in the erstwhile Czarist Russia.
Defying all predictions, and in the teeth of bitter hostility on the part of the overthrown exploiting classes as well as of international imperialism, the Soviet proletariat went on to build a powerful socialist state and a powerful socialist economy, in which planned production to satisfy the constantly rising needs ...
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A vote for the bourgeois parties is a vote for internal suppression and endless war (pdf)
[issued by CPBG-ML on 17 July 2007]
Exploitation, suppression and war
In the forthcoming by-elections in Ealing Southall and Sedgefield the electorate is faced with effectively no choice. In the end it boils down to which representative of the bourgeoisie gets to manage affairs on behalf of the ruling class; which of them oversees the exploitation of the working class at home and the plunder and super-exploitation of oppressed peoples around the world. A vote for the bourgeois parties is a vote for exploitation, internal suppression and endless war.
Under a Labour government, and the Conservatives or the LibDems would do no different, attacks on working people are being stepped up - the gap between rich and poor is ...
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Support the postal workers! Break the link with Labour! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 11 July 2007]
The fact that over 95% of postal workers supported the first of the one day strikes called by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) was welcome proof of the continued readiness of workers to offer resistance to capitalism’s efforts to impose its crisis burdens onto their backs – even when hamstrung by the least auspicious leadership.
This well-merited slap in the face for Leighton, Crozier and co., provoked by their insulting offer of a 2.5% rise (a cut in real terms), the threatened loss of 40,000 jobs, and the progressive undermining of the public postal service, gives us a small taste of the much weightier blows that will be struck when organized labour at last frees itself from its ...
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Break the link with Labour! Defy the anti-trade union laws! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 24 April 2007]
May Day is a day for celebration of the working class – the class whose labour is the source of all capitalist profit. Yet, although the power of these workers is so infinite, the wealth they produce is taken from them by a small ruling class of billionaire exploiters, the bourgeoisie. The latter not only appropriates to itself the whole of the wealth of society but also takes over [i]political command[/i] over the whole of society, bending everything and everyone to its own purpose – the [i]maximisation of profit[/i].
Under the capitalist system, not only is there constant pressure on workers to work harder and longer, receiving less benefit in return, with endless attacks on wages, ...
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Condemn US-Ethiopian aggression against Somalia (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 03 March 2007]
Public meeting
Saturday 17 March 2007, 5.00pm
Saklatvala Hall, Southall
Dominion Road, off Featherstone Road, UB2 5AA
[10mins from Southall rail station, facing Dominion Car Park]
Speakers include: Mohammed Hassan (expert on Horn of Africa, Workers Party of Belgium)
Fed up with chaos, violence and insecurity, the overwhelming majority of Somali people rallied around the armed forces of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) which routed the US-backed warlords out of Mogadishu in June last year. For the first time in 15 years, ICU rule brought to the Somali people a semblance of order, national identity and the prospect of a peaceful future.
The US wanted to win back control of ...
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End the occupation: victory to the Iraqi resistance! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 20 February 2007]
In Iraq, the year 2006 closed with the judicial murder of president Saddam Hussein, the death of the 3,000th US soldier, the slaughter of nearly 700,000 innocent Iraqi men, women and children, and the wholesale destruction of Iraqi towns and villages.
[b]Defeat for imperialism[/b]
For all the carnage and devastation wreaked by it on Iraq, and the murder of its president, US and British imperialism are staring in the face of a most ignominious defeat.
The resistance attacks on the occupation forces have become ever more lethal and frequent – running at 180 a day. Even the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad is no longer under the control of the occupation forces and its ...
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Save the NHS from capitalist greed! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 10 November 2006]
[b]Giving away NHS to profiteers[/b]
It costs Cuba £100 per person per year to provide a free medical service to its people, and life expectancy in Cuba is similar to that in the UK and the US.
The NHS in Britain provides a service that in 1997 cost £650 per person per year, and which we are constantly told the government cannot really afford, the conclusion being that the only way of keeping the NHS is increasingly to involve the private sector. It is this involvement, however, that makes Britain's health provision so much more expensive than Cuba's, while being no more effective. Millions of pounds are being poured into the pockets of private pharmaceuticals companies and service ...
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Celebrate the October Revolution (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 05 November 2006]
Public Meeting: Celebrate the October Revolution
Saturday 11 November 2006, 7.00pm
Saklatvala Hall, Dominion Rd, Southall
Main Speaker: Giles Shorter, CPGB-ML
Including speakers and solidarity messages from:
New Communist Party
Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (ML)
Socialist Labour Party
The great October Revolution of 1917 is by far the most progressive event in human history. It ushered in the era of the downfall of imperialism and the victory of proletarian revolution. The history of almost the entire twentieth century was shaped by the tremors set in motion by this gigantic earthquake in the erstwhile Czarist Russia.
Defying all predictions, and in the ...
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You've got to be red to be green! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 05 November 2006]
Three major challenges face humanity today - poverty, war and the destruction of the environment.
Climate change
A certain amount of climate change is already unavoidable, but with preparation and adaptation, the worst of the disaster could still be averted. We need to implement methods of farming that do not add to global warming, for example, and to find strategies for food production that can stand up to more extreme weather patterns. Sea defences must be built and populations that are at risk of losing their homes relocated. Most urgently of all, we need to establish energy sources that don't emit carbon.
While most of the green lobby is agreed that alternatives such as wind, ...
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Weekend school: The Marxist theory of knowledge (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 25 September 2006]
11-12 November
Saklatvala Hall, Dominion Road, Southall, UB2 5AA
Being a Marxist means more than just reading Volume 1 of Capital; it also means understanding the Marxist method of analysis and being able to apply it to the current circumstances; being able to put theory into action in the context of the struggle of the working class against imperialist capitalism and for communism. Without such an understanding, we are helpless to make sense of current issues, in particular the ongoing struggle between exploiters and exploited.
The aim of this weekend school is to give an overview of the principles of Marxist philosophy. Topics include Dialectical and Historical Materialism, ...
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It's more than Blair that has to go! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 23 September 2006]
After another seven years of war abroad and repression at home, there is no longer much room for doubt about the motivations for these constantly escalating wars.
Inter-imperialist rivalries
The more liberal sections of the British ruling class, having once denied that such a thing as imperialism even existed, are now being forced to prove their democratic credentials to the British public by criticising US imperialism in increasingly clear terms. The motivators for this are:
i) the unfettered, horrifying violence which has been unleashed in recent years by imperialist wars and which has shocked the British population;
ii) a recognition that the wars being waged in ...
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Meeting (Southall): Victory to the Resistance in Lebanon and Palestine (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 09 August 2006]
The current situation demands an urgent response. It demands wholehearted support for the resistance fighters in Lebanon and Palestine from all working and oppressed people.
The present Israeli aggression against Lebanon and Gaza is a continuation of the politics of US imperialism through the agency of Israeli zionism. Its aim has nothing to do with so-called ‘kidnapped’ soldiers. It has everything to do with trying to destroy the resistance to Israeli and imperialist designs for Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, seizing control of Lebanon and weakening Syria and Iran.
But this military adventure by imperialism is not going according to its plans. It is meeting heroic resistance ...
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Victory to the Resistance in Lebanon and Palestine (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 05 August 2006]
The present Israeli aggression against Lebanon and Gaza is a continuation of the politics of US imperialism through the agency of Israeli zionism, its heavily armed military and nuclear base in the Middle East.
US/Israeli attack on Lebanon is doomed
The capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hizbollah on 12 July was used as a pre-text for the US-planned aggression by its zionist rottweiler on a scale that has astonished all progressive humanity. Lebanese infrastructure was smashed to smithereens, 100s of civilians killed and nearly a million made homeless. The Israeli military not only expected Hizbollah's fighting capacity to be decimated, but also the Lebanese population to be ...
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Hands off Iran (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 09 June 2006]
Anti-imperialist Iran
From the day that the Iranian people overthrew the regime of US imperialism's most beloved puppet, the Shah, the US has maintained a stand of unrelenting aggressive hostility towards the Iranian regime, even through the past decade, in which Iranian foreign policy has been characterised by a policy of efforts to mend its relations with imperialism.
Nothing Iran did, however, prevented the US from designating Iran a part of the 'axis of evil'; that is to say, a country where the US proclaimed itself to have the right to use 'pre-emptive strikes' to bring about regime change.
This is why today the US is trying, through the UN Security Council and threatened ...
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End the occupation: victory to the Iraqi resistance! Hands off Iran!
(pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 18 March 2006]
[b]Resistance getting stronger by the day[/b]
The twentieth of March 2006 marks the third anniversary of the commencement of the Anglo-American imperialist predatory war against the people of Iraq. We were initially told that we would witness a display of "shock and awe", resulting in a speedy victory for the US and its partners in crime. Three years later, the position of the imperialists is getting worse by the day, in inverse proportion to the growing strength and audacity of the heroic Iraqi national resistance. 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' is costing the imperialists waging the war very dearly indeed. Thus far, the US has spent approximately $210 billion, while Britain has spent £4 ...
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Palestine is a British working class issue! (updated March 2006) (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 11 March 2006]
Not just a humanitarian question
Karl Marx, commenting on the relationship between Britain and Ireland, famously wrote that "the nation that oppresses another nation forges its own chains". By this, he meant that, so long as the British working class continued its complicity in the exploitation and subjugation of the Irish people, so long as they continued to benefit economically from Ireland's labour and resources, its objective role would be to strengthen British capital, and consequently delay its overthrow.
The same principle applies today: so long as the British working class goes along with the actions of British imperialism for the sake of the few crumbs that ...
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Labour Party racism recruits for the BNP (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 26 October 2005]
The false argument is put forward nowadays that we must vote Labour because at least they are ‘better’ than the fascists.
Fascism – last resort of the ruling class
Of course it is true that if one has to have capitalism – ie, bourgeois rule – then bourgeois democracy is easier to live with than naked fascist repression.
As far as elections in Britain at this time are concerned, however, no matter how many council seats the BNP won, this would not lead to fascism, with its concentration camps for the murder of communists and ethnic minorities, or even deportations, since none of this suits the bourgeois ruling class at the present time.
This class will resort to fascism only ...
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Celebrate the October Revolution
(pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 12 October 2005]
Saturday 5 November 2005, 7.00pm
Saklatvala Hall, Dominion Rd, Southall
Speakers include:
Mohammed Hassan
Workers Party of Belgium
Expert in Middle Eastern affairs
Harpal Brar
CPGB-ML Chair
Editor of Lalkar
- Speeches
- Discussion
- Cultural programme
- Food and drink
The great October Revolution of 1917 is by far the most progressive event in human history. It ushered in the era of the downfall of imperialism and the victory of proletarian revolution. The history of almost the entire twentieth century was shaped by the tremors set in motion by this gigantic earthquake in the erstwhile Czarist Russia.
Defying all predictions, and ...
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End the Occupation: victory to the Iraqi resistance! No war for oil! (updated) (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 24 September 2005]
Today, when the war for cheap oil has only made oil more expensive, and resistance in Iraq is inspiring resistance all over the globe, even the friends of imperialism are forced to acknowledge the truth of the Mao's famous dictum that "imperialism lifts a rock only to drop it on its own feet". The imperialists' dreams for a pliant and plundered Iraq are lying in tatters.
Sovereign government?
The Basra incident (Sep 05) has exposed the occupiers' murky tactics and totally undermined the myth that the Iraqi puppet government has any real power. Two British soldiers, disguised as Arabs were stopped by an Iraqi police officer who discovered their cargo of explosives. ...
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Students: Welcome to your life! What next? (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 10 September 2005]
Leaving home and starting university is a challenging and exciting time.
This is a valuable chance to learn more about humanity's culture and achievements: its languages, arts and sciences; medicine and engineering; computing and electronics. All the accumulated knowledge of generations past, whose striving to understand their material environment bore fruits of knowledge and invention that transform our daily lives.
Many decisions will have led you to this point (what to study and where; whether to stay at home or to set out on a new footing), but many crucial ones remain. There is some knowledge, for example, that is not handed to us on a plate, whether it be life experience or a ...
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The blood of the London victims is on the hands of Anglo-American imperialism (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 03 August 2005]
The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) declares its sympathies with those who were wounded or died in the bombings in London on 7 July and extends condolences to the bereaved families.
We do this just as sincerely as we do to the bereaved families of the 100,000 plus victims of the British and US terror in Iraq, and hope that the British working class may begin to understand a little of the nightmare that the Iraqi people have lived through since the invasion and occupation of their country by our imperialist rulers.
End the occupation Victory to the resistance
We call for redoubled efforts on the part of the British working class to end the ...
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Palestine is a British working class issue (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 20 May 2005]
Not just a humanitarian question
Karl Marx, commenting on the relationship between Britain and Ireland, famously wrote that "the nation that oppresses another nation forges its own chains". By this, he meant that, so long as the British working class continued its complicity in the exploitation and subjugation of the Irish people, so long as they continued to benefit economically from Ireland's labour and resources, its objective role would be to strengthen British capital, and consequently delay its overthrow.
The same principle applies today: so long as the British working class goes along with the actions of British imperialism for the sake of the few crumbs that ...
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Join the fight against imperialism and for communism! No to reformism! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 15 May 2005]
All over the world (apart from in the few socialist countries that refuse to submit to imperialism's diktat), life for the impoverished majority is increasingly characterised by hunger, ill health, lack of educational facilities, lack of clean water etc.
Everywhere, basic human rights are being trampled on by the force of profit, which brings privatisation, war, occupation, poverty, devastation and Structural Adjustment Programmes. To put it simply, while the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer at an alarming rate.
A capitalist future - war and devastation
Since the collapse of the USSR and the socialist bloc in Europe, the main imperialist powers have lost their ...
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A vote for the bourgeois parties is a vote for internal suppression and endless war (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 20 April 2005]
Racist manipulation
The bourgeois parties are courting voters disillusioned by Labour and Tory alike by stimulating, aiding and abetting xenophobic prejudices. These prejudices help to blind many British workers to the fact that their problems - in finding good jobs, in securing adequate housing, pensions and social facilities etc - are problems intrinsic to capitalism, which only the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement with socialism can solve.
Ever since society split into minority exploiter and majority exploited classes, the minority ruling class has survived by deploying the maxim 'Divide and Rule', encouraging the exploited to blame each other for the ...
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Coventry car production dealt another killer blow (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 18 April 2005]
Ryton to lose another shift
Following closure of Jaguar's Browns Lane plant (at a direct cost of 1,100 jobs) and last year's shut down of Peugeot's fourth shift (losing another 700 jobs), we now learn that Peugeot is to close yet another shift this summer, at a cost of another 850 jobs! These losses affect far more people than simply the workers made redundant: those in companies supplying components to Peugeot, as well providing services to Peugeot workers also suffer. The 15 percent increase in production announced at Land Rover in Solihull will make up only some of the losses to the local economy. Worse news still is that Peugeot is widely expected to close down its ...
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Nationalisation of the railways will not be achieved without a fight! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 07 April 2005]
Nationalisation and capitalism
There are certain industries that even under capitalism, and even in the interests of capitalism, are generally best nationalised. Essential services that, in the interests of capitalism itself, must be maintained regardless of profitability are obvious candidates. This is why railways were nationalised in the first place - it wasn't done for the benefit of the working class!
But nationalisation also has its down side as far as capitalism is concerned. One the one hand, there are always parts of the industry that would be profitable if they were in private hands. When capitalism is in crisis and desperately looking for profitable ...
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Zimbabwe meeting 19 March 2005 (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML Central Committee / Zimbabwe Solidarity Front on 10 March 2005]
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Break the link with Labour! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 23 February 2005]
War abroad
In order to defend multinationals' profits, this government has waged unprovoked and illegal wars against Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq. More than 100,000 Iraqis have been killed in the last two years alone. Iran may well be next.
Meanwhile, it continues to occupy Ireland, using loyalist murder gangs, the rebranded RUC and secret services against the nationalist population whilst hypocritically blaming republicans for its own refusal to implement the Good Friday Agreement.
Lies about 'freedom' and 'democracy' in Iraq and Afghanistan have been exposed by the reality of indiscriminate cluster bombing and depleted uranium, brutal occupation at gunpoint, ...
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A decent pension is a right for all!
No pensioner poverty! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 03 February 2005]
It is often said that you can judge a society by the way it treats its old people. By such a standard, Britain must rank as one of the most uncivilised countries in the world.
While the ruling class likes to perpetuate myths about pensioners being a burden on society and poverty in old age being the fault of the poverty-stricken, the truth is that Britain has more than enough wealth to provide a decent life for all.
Recognising that:
- The cost of living is not significantly less for retired people than it is for people who work.
- Older people tend to require support from the health and social services.
- Those wholly or partially unable to look after themselves need access ...
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Jaguar closure: livelihoods destroyed in the interests of profit (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 27 November 2004]
Two years after the closure of Ford Dagenham with the loss of 1,900 jobs at Ford and over 13,000 among its suppliers in Croydon, Enfield, Leamington, Swansea and elsewhere, we are now facing closure of the Ford Jaguar plant in Coventry.
Jaguar is a name synonymous with Coventry, where car manufacture was first set up in 1896, and where as early as 1911 there were 7,000 car workers. This number, already down to 1,150 is now to be reduced to nothing, while no less than £50m will be lost to Coventry's economy, which has already lost Massey Ferguson and most of Marconi and seen a reduction of shift at Peugeot in the last two years.
Rover production at Longbridge vanished in 2000, with ...
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We salute Arafat's life; we mourn his death (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 11 November 2004]
The CPGB-ML and the anti-imperialist magazine Lalkar express their deep sorrow at the passing away of comrade Yasser Arafat, without a doubt one of the greatest anti-imperialist fighters of our time, and the most representative spokesman of the Palestinian people for over 40 years.
Arafat has been involved in every significant event in the history of the movement for Palestinian liberation since the late 1950s. He and others founded Fatah in 1957 in order, at first, to initiate and co-ordinate small military attacks against Israel with a view to reigniting the spirit of the Palestinian people and keeping alive the 'Palestinian issue'.
In 1968, he led the fighters of the Karameh ...
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End the Occupation: victory to the Iraqi resistance! No war for oil! (pdf)
[issued by CPGB-ML on 05 October 2004]
Today, when the war for cheap oil has only made oil more expensive, and resistance in Iraq is inspiring resistance all over the globe, even the friends of imperialism are forced to acknowledge the truth of the Mao's famous dictum that "imperialism lifts a rock only to drop it on its own feet". The imperialists' dreams for a pliant and plundered Iraq are lying in tatters.
Sovereign government?
Since the alleged 'handover of power' in June, the US's latest stooge in Iraq is the puppet Iyad Allawi, a CIA agent and gangster, exiled to London for the last 30 years. Allawi recently proved his credentials by pulling out a pistol and murdering six prisoners merely suspected of belonging to ...
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