Prospects For Nuclear Disarmament In Britain
Alan Mackinnon, secretary of Scottish CND & Scottish Committee member of the Communist Party, argues that the campaign to reject Trident needs to keep up the pressure both north and south of the border in 2014. This article first appeared in the Morning Star 20/01/2014. Last month a report from the House of Commons defence select committee highlighted the stark […]
No2EU Pours Scorn Over Osborne’s Empty EU Threats
Tory threats to leave the authoritarian neoliberal bloc are “hogwash”. This article first appeared as a feature in the Morning Star 16/01/2014. Chancellor George Osborne raised the prospect of Britain leaving the European Union yesterday if the 28-nation bloc fails to undertake fundamental reforms. Mr Osborne said more needed to be done to improve competitiveness, create jobs and […]
CP General Secretary Robert Griffths – “Socialism Does Work” at Oxford Union
Video of Communist Party General Secretary Robert Griffths recently speaking at the Oxford Union Debating Society arguing the case that socialism DOES work. The CP General Secretary demonstrates how proud we as communists should be of the legacy and the great achievements of the Soviet Union, and how the USSR along with the countries on the socialist […]
YCL General Secretary New Year Address
Comrades and friends, I would first like to thank the many of you who donated so generously to the YCL as part of our festive appeal. 2013 was a period of change for the YCL. Mick Carty stepped down as general secretary due to his age earlier this year, and I was elected in his […]
A Mixed Year for the Left in Britain
Communist Party General Secretary Robert Griffths looks at the highs and lows of the past year in politics. This article first appeared as a feature in the Morning Star 24/12/2013 Where stand Britain’s political parties at the close of 2013 and into the new year? The Tories should be feeling relieved and pleased. Technically, the economy has grown […]
YCL Xmas Appeal!
Comrades, Of the YCL, the CP, supporters of the working class and communist movement, I hope everyone has an enjoyable festive period as we come towards the end of 2013. Although we are an organisation guided by dialectical materialism – we appreciate that most people whether of faith or indeed without celebrate during the festive […]
A Rallying Call to Young Communists in the North-West!
Comrades, The YCL North-West District will be holding a meeting in order to rekindle the flame of communist activity amongst the youth in the North-West of England. The YCL seeks to build on a strong history of communist activism towards a socialist goal in Britain and urges you commit to the struggle by attending this […]
Communist Party Political Committee Report 11/12/2013
International secretary John Foster told the Communist Party’s political committee on Wednesday 11/12/2013 that Nelson Mandela ‘lived as a freedom fighter and died a freedom fighter, knowing that the fight had to continue’. He recalled Mandela’s words to gaoled Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti that ‘our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians’. This […]
Communist’s on Osborne’s Autumn Statement: “Good news for the rich, the City and big business”
Communist Party of Britain general secretary Robert Griffiths responded as follows to the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement today 05/12/2013 ‘The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement is good news for the super-rich, City speculators and the corporate fat cats. It hands yet more lavish subsidies to big business on top of the tax cuts on high incomes and monopoly […]
CP General Secretary on ‘Slave’ house couple ‘leaders of 1970s political cult’
CP General Secretary Robert Griffths on the so called ‘Communist’ Slave scandal on Channel 4 News http://t.co/fBJ5b2xNgk 25/11/2013 If one were to be brutally honest they were more of psychiatric interest than political interest.They had nothing to do with the mainstream leftwing and communist politics of the day. Robert Griffiths, General Secretary of the Communist Party of […]
