Britain’s Communists condemn ‘Barbarous murders’ at Charlie Hebdo and Western ‘hypocrisy’
‘Britain’s communists condemn without reservation the barbarous murders in Paris of journalists and other civilians by jihadist terrorists’, Communist Party of Britain General Secretary Robert Griffiths declared at the weekend during the first meeting of the CPs new executive committee
Statement of the Communist Party of France on Charlie Hebdo Murders
Statement of the Communist Party of France on the murders at the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ offices. French communists salute ‘Charlie Hebdo’ and its determination to express the values of Freedom, Equality and Fraternity. National Unity: All of France rises against reactionary murderers
WW1 – Opposing Imperialist Wars: Then & Now
A Young Communist League Scotland film, featuring Johnnie Hunter (YCL Scottish Organiser) & Dr Alan MacKinnon (Chair of Scottish CND). With the British Establishments attempts to turn 2014 into a celebration of the start of WW1 & portray the Great War as a noble & unavoidable conflict fought to preserve “freedom”, obvious parallels begin to […]
CP General Secretary to the Independent: ‘Come clean on Cuba’
Communist Party General Secretary writes to editor of the Independent over misreporting of the facts around Cuba and America
Electoral Gains for Japanese Communists
Japanese communists almost tripled their seats in the country’s general election on Sunday (14/12/14), which saw right-wing premier Shinzo Abe comfortably retain his overall majority. Article by Kenny Coyle, Communist Party Member and columnist on Asian politics. This article first appeared in the Morning Star 18/12/14
Communists welcome release of remaining Cuban political prisoners held in USA
The Communist Party of Britain and the Young Communist League welcome the release of the three remaining Miami Five prisoners unjustly held by the United States for the past sixteen years
Imagining A Britain Without Trident
On November 31 more than 1,500 people demonstrated at the gates of Faslane Naval Base demanding that, irrespective of the outcome of Scotland’s independence referendum, Trident still has to go. Alan MacKinnon is a member of the Communist Party’s Scottish Committee and Secretary of Scottish CND. This article first featured in the Morning Star 09/12/2014
WFDY Statement in Solidarity with the Student Movement in Mexico
Statement from the World Federation of Democratic Youth in Solidarity with the Student Movement in Mexico. The militancy of the student movement in Latin America and vocation of art has had memorable milestones that have defined an established history of popular struggles, especially those related to democratization, free and qualitative education. At any point of the […]
No Remembrance March for Ukrainian War Nazis!
Veterans of Hitler’s SS and their supporters are marching this Sunday, 16 November 2014 to the cenotaph in London, in commemoration, they claim, of Ukraine’s fallen ‘in all wars’. By commemorating the fallen of ‘all wars’, they explicitly include those who fought with Hitler’s Wehrmacht and SS in Ukraine, as well as far-right and neo-Nazi paramilitaries […]