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communist party of great britain (marxist-leninist)

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Civil liberties highlights

  • Trade unions / TUC directs its members’ anger into more meaningles busywork

    An email campaign to reverse anti-union laws? Really?

    30 Jan 2023 ,
  • Civil liberties / Minimum Service Bill is the latest salvo in the class war against workers

    No cooperation with union-busting anti-strike laws! 

    27 Jan 2023 ,
  • Civil liberties / Communists condemn cancellation of WPB anti-Nato meeting by Conway Hall

    The Conway Hall Ethical Society’s craven submission to ‘online intimidation’ gives the lie to its claim to uphold free speech.

    23 Jan 2023 ,
  • China / Covid: China changes gear

    As the People’s Republic moves on from the era of zero-Covid, western media are desperate to portray its decision as a sign of failure.

    15 Jan 2023 ,
  • Civil liberties / Free Julian Assange!

    The chilling persecution of honest journalism has only highlighted the unfreedom of bourgeois society and the lies and complicity of imperialist corporate media.

    5 Oct 2022 ,
  • Ukraine / Free Ukraine’s Kononovich brothers, jailed communist youth!

    As part of its suppression of political activity, the Ukrainian stooge regime has banned communist organisations and imprisoned their leaders.

    19 Sep 2022 ,
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange must be freed – a plea from his wife Stella Moris

    This battle is not to only save a single journalist from gross injustice but to defend the right of all workers to access and speak the truth.

    29 Jul 2022 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / ‘Bill of shame’ spits in the face of ‘Troubles’ victims

    British attempts to whitewash war crimes in Ireland make clear once again: there will be no ‘reconciliation’ until reunification.

    25 Jul 2022 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Assange, the 21st-century inquisition

    It is not one man who is on trial, but the people’s right to access meaningful and reliable information.

    18 May 2022 , Lalkar
  • Divide and rule / Monstrous plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda

    The main target of anti-immigrant rhetoric is the British working class, which remains disunited and powerless when racist lies flourish.

    17 May 2022 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Paltry Partygate fines for Boris and Sunak are a slap in the face for British workers

    The ‘us and them’ reality of British class society has never been clearer.

    25 Apr 2022 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Iniquitous new borders bill aims to make citizenship-stripping routine

    Are we entering a time where any outspoken opponent of the present system can be rendered stateless and deported?

    19 Mar 2022 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Chris Mullin: Is another honest journalist about to be put behind bars?

    West Midlands police are still pursuing a vendetta against the veteran reporter who revealed their corruption and incompetence.

    4 Mar 2022 , Proletarian
  • Canada / Solidarity with the Freedom Convoy of Canada

    The arteries of the Canadian capital are clogged to the point where Canada’s whole rotten capitalist system is having a heart attack.

    23 Feb 2022 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange loses extradition appeal; British ‘justice’ exposed to the world

    On the insincere assurances of US lawyers, a British court has decreed that it would be safe for Mr Assange to be handed over to their country’s tender mercies.

    13 Jan 2022 , Lalkar
  • Education / No academic freedom to support Palestine

    Bristol academic sacked for refusing to bow to the diktat of the zionist world lobby.

    18 Dec 2021 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Imperialism’s global conspiracy against Julian Assange

    Corporate media maintain their silence as the persecuted journalist and publisher remains behind bars, though convicted of no crime.

    10 Dec 2021 , Lalkar
  • Education / Prof David Miller and the zionist campaign to crush dissent on campuses

    The list of truths that we are being told we must not utter in public spaces continues to grow, but truth has a way of winning out.

    12 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Anglo-American plot to assassinate Julian Assange on London’s streets

    Will the authorities now be forced to cease their decade-long persecution of the world’s most celebrated journalist?

    13 Oct 2021 , Proletarian
  • Ecuador / Chevron’s disgraceful persecution of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger

    Instead of paying billions in damages owed for horrific pollution of Ecuador’s rainforest, the oil giant is hounding and demonising its accusers.

    13 Sep 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray: British state locks up elderly journalist on spurious charges

    In Britain today, any journalist who becomes an inconvenience to the ruling class can expect to be ruthlessly targeted.

    9 Sep 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Reform of the Secrets Act is another brick in the wall

    While the ‘opposition’ sits on its hands, the ruling class is rolling out more legislation designed to suppress working-class discontent.

    5 Aug 2021 , Proletarian
  • USA / Whistleblower Daniel Hale sentenced to 45 months in US prison for drone leak

    ‘I am here because I stole something that was never mine to take – precious human life.’

    29 Jul 2021 , The Intercept
  • Civil liberties / Metropolitan police branded ‘institutionally corrupt’

    An unsolved murder and a persistent family have laid bare a catalogue of dishonest dealings by police stretching out over decades.

    28 Jun 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Workers Party statement: No to Covid passports

    There is no medical justification for the imposition of such documents; they are not aimed at protecting our health but at the surveillance and control of workers.

    31 May 2021 ,
  • Civil liberties / Kill the Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill!

    A marked increase in police violence against workers has already been in evidence even before the new policing bill has passed into law.

    24 May 2021 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Police Bill: capitalism gears up for the class struggles to come

    Our rulers are in a hurry to pass new laws while the excuse of Covid lingers and before workers have woken up to the true scale of the present economic crisis.

    7 Apr 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / BLM, XR: No reds under the bed … yet

    Our rulers are nervous that workers may start to put up really meaningful resistance to imperialist domination, despoliation and war.

    2 Apr 2021 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Shrewsbury 24: Justice delayed is justice denied

    Workers must start to organise themselves so as to be able to demand justice now – social justice for all.

    30 Mar 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Mairead Maguire nominates Assange, Manning, Snowden for Nobel peace prize

    Irish peace prize winner explains how the bravery of these three whistleblowers inspires peace-loving workers everywhere.

    24 Feb 2021 , Lalkar
  • Media / Big Tech and the end of dissent: First they came for Donald Trump

    The useful idiots of the liberal left are cheering while tech giants clamp down ever harder on freedom of speech.

    17 Feb 2021 , Proletarian
  • France / Macron government attempts to suppress exposure of police brutality

    French workers continue to set an example in resisting the encroachments of the powerful upon their rights.

    29 Jan 2021 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange: the persecution continues

    Years of unwarranted imprisonment and torture do not look likely to end any time soon, despite the denial of the US’s extradition claim.

    18 Jan 2021 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange victorious, for now

    Judge’s ruling makes it clear that the principles supposedly protecting free speech and honest journalism remain in peril.

    5 Jan 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange extradition trial: Shameful martyrisation continues

    Kafka’s dystopian vision has been brought to life in the heart of the British injustice system.

    22 Dec 2020 , Lalkar
  • Yemen / British soldier arrested for protesting collusion in Saudi’s Yemen war

    ‘I’ve seen enough not to speak out and I’d rather sleep peacefully in a cell than stay silent for a pay cheque.’

    29 Sep 2020 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Media freedom? Show me the MSM journalist opposing the torture of Assange

    11 Sep 2020 ,
  • Civil liberties / Under cover of Covid-19: trial by jury is under attack

    The abolition of workers’ right to a jury trial could be the final nail in the coffin of the justice system in Britain.

    14 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / The Coronavirus Act 2020

    Jumping on the excuse of Covid-19, parliament has rammed through a host of draconian measures unrelated to the health crisis.

    19 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange: The truth will set him free

    Many questions remain to be answered about the conduct of Julian’s defence.

    18 Jun 2020 ,
  • Pay and conditions / Barclays spies on its own staff

    The banking giant is using ‘Big Brother tactics’ to monitor staff and keep their noses to the grindstone.

    6 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray: Assange’s armoured glass box is an instrument of torture

    ‘They are attempting to make him kill himself – or create the conditions where his death might be explained away as suicide.’

    4 Mar 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 4

    The British state is lying about the validity of the US extradition treaty – and it knows it.

    2 Mar 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 3

    The sham show-trial at Woolwich reveals how brazenly our rulers will flout their own rules when it suits them to do so.

    1 Mar 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 2

    It has been demonstrably proved in court that the US knows its own charges against Assange are untrue.

    1 Mar 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 1

    This shameful show trial is being exposed by one of the few people in the court who is prepared to tell the truth to the outside world.

    29 Feb 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / John Pilger: Julian Assange must be freed, not betrayed

    Australia and Britain are helping to get the WikiLeaks editor extradited to the USA, which is preparing a lifetime of torture for the ‘crime’ of exposing the truth.

    22 Feb 2020 , JohnPilger.com
  • Civil liberties / UN: Britain and US guilty of torturing Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning

    This illegal and brutal repression must not be allowed to succeed in its aim of terrifying workers into submission.

    7 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Avtar Jouhl: lifelong class fighter against racism

    Comrade Avtar reflects on a life of struggle in the IWA and the trade unions from the 1950s to the 1990s.

    10 Nov 2019 , International Socialist
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange in court: unmistakable signs of torture

    Unless Julian is released shortly he will be destroyed. If the state can do this, then who is next?

    28 Oct 2019 , Craig Murray
  • USA / US workers force child migrant concentration camp to close

    Homeware staff strike against their employers’ profiting from privatised detention camps.

    14 Aug 2019 ,
  • Divide and rule / Racial profiling revealed in Home Office visa processing

    African academics are routinely being denied entry to attend conferences and seminars in Britain.

    10 Aug 2019 ,
  • Housing / Right-to-rent and work checks promote racism and victimise the most vulnerable

    Forcing landlords and employers to check the immigration status of tenants and employees has led to a surge in homelessness among non-white workers in Britain.

    11 Jun 2019 ,
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange facing extradition to the United States

    Why is the WikiLeaks founder being targeted now, and what happens next?

    23 May 2019 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning!

    Injustice and oppression will never be defeated unless at every turn they are resolutely resisted, whatever the cost.

    23 Apr 2019 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Branding the wage slaves

    British companies are starting to experiment with microchipping their staff as a way of keeping tabs on their movements.

    24 Dec 2018 ,
  • Divide and rule / Prison report reveals truth about Britain’s dreadful concentration camps

    If one can judge a society by how it treats its prisoners, British imperialism continues to plumb new depths of baseness and depravity.

    3 Sep 2018 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Editorial: Our demands

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • France / French elections produce … more of the same!

    An opportunity further to upset the applecart in Europe has been lost, but the imperialists’ glee is likely to be short-lived.

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • Society / Letter: So you want to be a hero?

    A reader puts some pertinent questions to any young person thinking of joining the armed forces.

    1 Apr 2017 , Proletarian
  • British politics / How the scabs were ditched, and other dirty laundry of 1989-90

    The latest release of cabinet papers gives us a further insight into the secret doings of our ruling class.

    1 Dec 2016 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Police lies revealed at Hillsborough; Orgreave must be next

    Inquiry reveals police guilt for 96 unnecessary deaths in Sheffield, and highlights the militarised and anti-worker culture that grew out of the political policing of the miners’ strike five years earlier.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Big Data is watching you: the snoopers’ charter

    Unparalleled levels of intrusive mass surveillance are to be legitimised by the Investigatory Powers Bill.

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / The human cost of prisons for profit

    A Proletarian reader recounts his best friend’s descent into despair and eventual suicide while imprisoned on an indeterminate sentence. This article has been previously published in the Morning Star.

    1 Oct 2015 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / YOUTH UPRISING 2011: Bourgeois ideologues battle for control of the working-class movement

    Protesters under attack from state repression, rabid propaganda and rotten ideology.

    1 Jun 2011 , Proletarian

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  • Drive to war
  • Fascism
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Civil liberties video

  • Civil liberties / Joti Brar on RT: New laws on strikes and protests aim to contain workers’ anger

    Instead of helping workers weather the inflation crisis, our rulers are preparing to suppress any future rebellion.

    16 Jan 2023, Proletarian TV
  • Divide and rule / Harpal Brar on Avtar Jouhl: Above all he was a fighter for socialism

    A heartfelt tribute in memory of Comrade Avtar Jouhl, courageous Marxist-Leninist who gave so much to our movement and will be sorely missed.

    20 Nov 2022, Proletarian TV
  • Health / Dr Bob Gill on Julian Assange: Media censorship is key to NHS privatisation

    Just like the various imperialist wars, the NHS has become a funnel for vast sums of public money to be passed into private hands via profits and dividends.

    8 Oct 2022, Proletarian TV
  • Civil liberties / British citizen Graham Phillips placed on UK sanctions list

    Is the government about to start seizing the assets of every citizen it doesn’t like, without even the pretence of a legal process?

    5 Aug 2022,
  • Divide and rule / A ‘luxury lifestyle’? The shocking abuse culture at immigrant detention centres

  • Health / Comrade Ranjeet on MoATS: ‘The government has failed the people’

Civil liberties theory

  • Civil liberties / Red scare and yellow peril: challenging the new McCarthyism

    Many self-identifying leftists are going along with the imperialist campaign to vilify China, including by cheering on attempts to crush all debate and dissent.

    23 Feb 2021, Lalkar
  • Tunisia / Intifada in Tunisia and the fall of Ben Ali

    The long-awaited harbinger of a wider revolt against reactionary Arab regimes.

    1 Dec 2010, Proletarian

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