Libraries stand up for free thought
23 June 2025
Librarians are standing up for freedom of thought and acting against censorship. They warn of growing threats to being able to offer books freely.
Free speech
Free speech
Theatres: stoking division
22 October 2024
A play in Manchester was cancelled due to divisive ideological disputes. This reflects a climate of censorship and the invasion of dogmatic viewpoints, neither healthy.
Free speech and discussion - crucial to Britain
Free speech is under threat – and in fighting for it workers can’t allow themselves to be sidelined by divisive laws and policies…
Census data concern
25 April 2023
The census should be a valuable source of data for national planning. But there are serious questions about the validity of the latest results.
Take charge
A new year lies ahead. Workers need to take stock of how far they have come as a working class, and how much still has to be done.
Free speech and open discussion under attack
Increasingly, media ownership and a growing unwillingness among a minority to tolerate diversity of thought are threatening open debate for our class. It’s an unwelcome and damaging development…
The value of academic freedom
Extreme anti-feminist activists at the University of Sussex have waged a campaign of harassment and threats against a distinguished analytic philosopher, Professor Kathleen Stock, demanding in posters and social media posts that the university sack her.
Discussion meeting (via Zoom): Freedom of speech, and why it matters
Discussion meeting (via Zoom): Freedom of speech, and why it matters
Tuesday 7 September 2021 19:00
Why is open discussion so vital to progress? Is it under threat, and if so from where? Who is trying to shut down discussion of the issues that matter to Britain? You’re welcome to take part or just listen in. Email info@cpbml.org.uk for an invitation and a link to the discussion.
Free speech has to be defended
28 May 2021
The report into events at Batley Grammar School in March has lifted supensions on the teachers involved. But it does not deal with the threat to free speech and educations posed by the fundamentalist demonstrations.