Class and capitalism
The only way to understand history and the current situation in Britain and the world is to understand class. Marx realised that all history is the story of the struggle between classes.
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1971: British troops out of Ireland, Ireland one nation!
The issue of northern Ireland is a still a test of workers’ internationalism, just as it was from 1922 when Ireland was split and Northern Ireland annexed. We look at how Workers and The Worker covered the despatch of British troops to northern Ireland...
Richard Dawkins and the dangerous delusion of religion
A new book by an Oxford professor subjects religious claims and attitudes to rational, scientific examination...
The Future is Ours
Political statement from the Communist Party of Britain Marxist-Leninist, 14th Congress, London April 2006. At the 2003 congress the Party laid out an analysis of the state of Britain and the class which has been utterly borne out by events. The questions for us to consider now are: Where do we go from here? What has changed? How do we strike out for a future?
London bombings
The barbaric bombing of Londoners on Thursday July 7th is to be utterly condemned, without reservation: Statement from the Central Committee of the CPBML.
EU constitution
After the magnificent votes against the EU Constitution in France and Holland, those here who want to try to save the tatters of a Treaty are desperate to deny a similar vote to British workers.
Principles for Progress
17 October 2004
Any worker reflecting on events today will see unbridled US aggression, record job losses in Britain’s manufacturing base, chaos in our schools and hospitals, the further undermining of our sovereignty by unceasing European Union integration.
Time to be ungrateful
This year will see a host of elections. Can the working class could use them to advance our interests? Or is there a better way?
Workers and the war
The commencement of overt hostilities against Iraq brings centre stage the struggle against the United States imperial way. Not since the heroic struggle of the people of Vietnam has the clash of interest between imperial aggression and sovereignty been so polarised.
Peace, Jobs, Power
Political statement from the 13th Congress of the CPBML, London, 21/22 April 2003. Capitalism is now in terminal decay, unable to feed, clothe, house, provide work for or meet the needs of the people of this country. From seeming synonymous with manufacture, capital is now its antithesis.
Class, Country and Control
1 October 2000
Document adopted at the Reconvened 12th Congress of the CPBML, October 2000.
The British Working Class and its Party
1 May 1969
The document agreed in 1971 at the Party's second Congress, was adopted subsequently as its programme. It has remained so ever since, unchanged, because its fundamental tenets are as true and important today as they were then. Includes the original preface by Reg Birch, and a new one written in 2001.