Put Council Housing Centre Stage in Political Debate
Writing in the Morning Star, columnist Glyn Robbins makes a powerful case for unions and housing activists to use the next 40 weeks running up to the general election, to make the building council residences centre stage in political debate.
Communists Warn: NHS is Under Threat Like Never Before
The NHS is under threat like never before, writes Steve Sweeney, well known scourge of the NHS privateers and CPB member.
People’s Assembly National Demonstration 21st June
The People’s Assembly has called a national demonstration against austerity on Saturday 21 June
Liverpool People’s Assembly Flourishes
Report from YCL North-West: Hundreds of people packed out the hall at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool to hear prominent members of several unions, Owen Jones and the Secretary of the People’s Assembly itself; Sam Fairbairn. People queued out of the doors and up the stairs to hear the what was to be said.
Communist Party Chairman Bill Greenshields calls for “Struggle to go Beyond Rhetoric”
Communist Party Chairman Bill Greenshields argues that austerity and war walk hand in bloody hand; and that history has shown that austerity agendas are a naked form of class warfare. On May 2 1933 the Nazis attacked and occupied the buildings of the trade union movement of the German working class
People’s Assembly National Demonstration 21st June
The People’s Assembly has called for a mass national demonstration on the 21st of June to oppose austerity and in support of an alternative. The YCL calls for a great mobilisation in support of this demonstration. We will be calling on branches and districts up and down the country to come to London for the march on Parliament. We say […]
Lifeworks Occupation: Health Trust Cuts Delayed by Brave Action
Plans to slash NHS mental health services in Cambridge to meet government-imposed budget cuts have been met with defiant resistance – Steve Sweeney who has helped organise solidarity, writes. An occupation of part of the Tenison Road building which hosts the Lifeworks service is approaching its sixth week
Scotland On The Breadline
In this article Young Communist League General Secretary Zoe Hennessy examines the devastating impact of the austerity agenda in Scotland. This article first appeared in the Morning Star 01/04/2014. During the last three decades neoliberalism has triumphed across Scotland and the rest of Britain. Our trade unions have been repeatedly undermined and humiliated by anti-union legislation and workers […]
Croydon Communists: ‘Build houses!’
Croydon communists — expose the failure of capitalism to resolve chronic housing shortage and call for a radical plan of rebuilding and regeneration. You can read the pamphlet here.
Communists in East England: Demand ‘Health for the people’!
Communists in the East of England are demanding an end to government plans for the break-up and privatisation of Britain’s health services in the area. In a searing criticism, well-known local health campaigner Steve Sweeney has written a pamphlet which demonstrates how government plans will lead to the dismantling of the NHS. You can download […]
