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Culture highlights

  • Divide and rule / Imperialist society can’t be ‘decolonised’; fight racism by building for socialism

    While state power remains in the hands of a tiny exploiting class, workers will continue to be divided by racism.

    21 Feb 2022 ,
  • Poetry / Poem: ‘Liberals’ & ’Death’

    By Irish poet Kevin Higgins.

    30 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
  • India / Legendary Indian athlete Milkha Singh dies from Covid, aged 91

    The incredible life story of the ‘Flying Sikh’ exemplified the triumph of determination over adversity.

    21 Jul 2021 , Lalkar
  • World history / Film review: Judas and the Black Messiah

    A searing reminder of the need for class unity in the battle for socialism.

    8 Jun 2021 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Book review: The East Was Read by Vijay Prashad

    An excellent collection that reminds us of the urgent need for a cultural renaissance amongst the working and oppressed masses.

    26 Mar 2021 , Lalkar
  • Media / British ban of Chinese news channel is another step towards open warfare

    The mainstream media is spreading cold war propaganda against China in support of the imperialists’ drive to an all-out conflagration.

    10 Feb 2021 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Book: Bandit Capitalism: Carillion and the Corruption of the British State

    A meticulously researched exposure of outsourcing and corruption that falls short of finding either the true culprit or the way out for impoverished workers.

    3 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • Climate change / Book review: The Uninhabitable Earth

    While giving admirable details regarding the facts of climate change the author fails to draw the crucial conclusion – that you need to be red to be green.

    23 Jul 2020 , Lalkar
  • Books / Polish hack writes laughable fantasy on ‘feeding dictators’

    As the crisis of capitalism continues to destroy lives, anticommunist hirelings are churning out increasingly blatant and ridiculous lies.

    22 May 2020 , Proletarian
  • Health / Covid-19 treatment handbooks issued compiling frontline experience

    China's gift to the world is hard-won knowledge: ‘The real remedy for epidemics is not isolation, but cooperation.’

    20 Mar 2020 ,
  • Film and TV / #EatTheRich: Parasite film review

    A searing and at times hilarious critique of south Korean class society, ultimately let down by its inability to offer any real way out.

    19 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
  • Film and TV / Mr Jones: anti-Soviet propaganda gets thumbs up from Ukrainian president

    The same old tired lies are being recycled under the guise of ‘fresh evidence’ in order to remind workers they must not think about taking state power.

    14 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • Cuba / Alicia Alonso: architect of Cuba’s socialist ballet

    A true daughter of the masses, whose talent and art was put at the service of the people and the building of a new society.

    20 Dec 2019 , Lalkar
  • Film and TV / Film review: Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You

    A faithful depiction of the horrors of today’s contract workers, marred by its total pessimism.

    8 Dec 2019 , Proletarian
  • Film and TV / Film review: Joker

    A real controversy, a true subversion, or merely a storm in a teacup?

    2 Nov 2019 ,
  • Britain / Bury FC: a victim of capitalism

    One more reason for workers to burn with indignation against a social order that can never be made to serve their interests.

    15 Sep 2019 , Proletarian
  • Music / A worker reviews Shostakovich’s fifth symphony in concert

    Shostakovich’s greatest triumph arose from Soviet life, reflecting its optimism and spirit.

    21 Aug 2019 , Lalkar
  • USSR / An introduction to the life and times of Maxim Gorky

    Celebrating 150 years since the birth of the great Soviet writer and pioneer of socialist realism.

    23 Jun 2019 , Lalkar
  • Culture / Promotion of proletarian culture

    The battle for culture is a vital front in the class war. Promoting proletarian art is part of building a revolutionary consciousness among workers in Britain.

    12 Nov 2018 ,
  • USSR / Andrei Zhdanov: Principles underlying Soviet literature and art pt 2

    Part two of a biography of an extraordinary servant of the proletariat.

    23 Oct 2018 , Lalkar
  • USSR / October 100: The Red Army choir

    Culture by and for the people, uplifting hearts and spirits, and reinforcing the struggle for socialism.

    25 Aug 2018 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Andrei Zhdanov: On the principles underlying Soviet literature and art

    Part one of a biography of an extraordinary servant of the proletariat.

    1 Aug 2018 , Lalkar
  • USSR / Soviet ballet: dancing the heritage of humanism

    How socialist realism, serving the people, sparked unparalleled creativity.

    27 Jun 2018 , Proletarian
  • Film and TV / Film: The Death of Stalin

    It’s bad history and bad art, but Armando Iannucci’s film has put the wind up bourgeois critics for quite other reasons than those.

    15 Jun 2018 , Proletarian
  • Poetry / Poem: They Say that Both Sides are to Blame?

    Media lies keep the working class divided and weak. What's the way out?

    24 Apr 2018 , Proletarian
  • Poetry / Poem: You’re A Comrade Still

    by Rhiannon Owens-Sullivan

    1 Oct 2017 , Proletarian
  • Sport / Hillsborough 28 years on

    Will the victims get justice at last?

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Join the CPGB-ML’s annual anti-imperialist barbecue

    In celebration of famous proletarian victories in Korea and Cuba.

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • Education / Education under attack

    Capitalism in crisis is wrecking our children’s future; it’s time to wake up and fight back.

    1 Apr 2017 , 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
  • Poetry / Pat Adler : Poems from the Chinese revolution

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • Books / A Nobel prize for literature in the service of reaction

    Art and popular history can be powerful tools in manipulating people's minds, and the imperialists are well-versed in using both to bolster their parasitic rule.

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • USSR / Poem: Soviet Man

    Although the poet’s life was snuffed out in defence of his motherland, Strelchenko’s immortal work lives on, a beacon of light illuminating the power of Soviet socialism.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • Culture / Book: Go Set a Watchman

    A poignant tale of the difficulties of breaking away from reactionary traditions.

    1 Oct 2015 , Proletarian
  • Proletarian news / Red salute to Comrade John Taylor

    16 Sep 2015 , Proletarian
  • Film and TV / We Are Many: new film prettifies leaders of the anti-war movement

    We have the power to change the world, but are we allowing that power to be diverted?

    1 Jun 2015 , Proletarian
  • Theatre / Shrewsbury 24: United We Stand review

    Culture, education and entertainment are brilliantly combined in Neil Gore's moving and insightful play.

    1 Jun 2015 , Proletarian
  • Books / Review: The Casual Vacancy

    A novel by JK Rowling, televised by the BBC in three parts.

    1 Feb 2015 , Proletarian
  • Poetry / Poem: Of Mine and Me

    1 Dec 2014 , Proletarian
  • World history / Review: Prosperity’s Predicament

    A revealing eye-witness account of pre-revolutionary China by the CPGB-ML’s Honorary President, Isabel Crook.

    1 Oct 2014 , Proletarian
  • World history / Review: Ten Mile Inn by Isabel and David Crook

    This seminal work continues to bring the achievements and challenges of the Chinese agrarian revolution to life for English-speaking readers.

    1 Oct 2012 , Proletarian
  • Books / Ian McEwan’s White Tooth

    The thinking woman’s Ruth Rendell.

    1 Aug 2012 , Proletarian
  • Books / Charles Dickens, champion of the poor

    The first novelist to put working-class people at the heart of story.

    1 Jun 2012 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Downton Abbey, the Jolly George and Stop the War

    Please, if we ask you nicely, will you? Pretty please?

    1 Oct 2011 , Proletarian
  • Palestine / Channel 4’s The Promise breaks new ground for Palestine on British TV

    Drama breaks new ground on mainstream TV by portraying some of the brutality that characterises the state of Israel and shattering its claims to be a democracy.

    1 Apr 2011 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Book review: Striking a Light, the Bryant and May Matchwomen

    Louise Raw reveals the connection of these militant young East End strikers to new unionism, socialism and Irish republicanism.

    1 Apr 2011 , Proletarian
  • Theatre / Play: The Power of Yes by David Hare

    Explaining nothing, this play is aimed merely at letting off some steam without getting any nearer to a solution to society’s systemic problems.

    1 Oct 2009 , Proletarian
  • Film and TV / Deborah Lavin film review: The Motorcycle Diaries

    A reminder that communists and communism are not our enemy but the hope of the world.

    1 Oct 2004 , Proletarian

Culture topics

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Culture video

  • China / Review: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics by Harpal Brar

    Can the market really be made to serve the masses?

    21 Dec 2020,
  • British politics / Book: The Rise and Fall of Project Corbyn

    What should British workers conclude from this four-year experiment in ‘reclaiming the Labour party for socialism’?

    15 Aug 2020,
  • Culture / Shakespeare: bard of a rising class

    What is the secret of Shakespeare’s enduring appeal, and why should workers today be interested in his writings?

    10 May 2019, Proletarian TV
  • India / Poem: Comrade Bhagat Singh and Comrade Udham Singh

    Who are these men? What are they to me, these dead men from a land across the sea?

    13 Apr 2019, Proletarian TV
  • Culture / Soviet ballet: dancing the classical heritage of humanism

Culture theory

  • Theory / Book review: China’s Great Road by John Ross

    The battle between socialist and bourgeois ideas is not one in which workers can be neutral: on its outcome, humanity’s fate depends.

    1 Oct 2021, Lalkar
  • Sport / What can the European Super League teach us about monopoly capitalism?

    The monopolisation of football is teaching workers all over again some of the lessons taught to us by Lenin over a century ago.

    2 Jun 2021, Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Book: Identity Politics and the Transgender Trend

    Where is LGBT ideology taking us and why does it matter?

    5 Dec 2019,
  • Theory / Book: The Drive to War Against Russia and China

    Why do the US and British ruling classes seem so set on war with Russia and China, and what can the working class do to prevent such a cataclysm?

    22 Nov 2018,
  • Culture / Celebrating Shakespeare: a Marxist-Leninist perspective

    Part 1. The times make the man: Shakespeare’s historical context

  • Zimbabwe / Book: Chimurenga! The liberation struggle in Zimbabwe

    A vital lesson in the importance of solidarity with anti-imperialist national-liberation struggles.

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    Twenty-fifth anniversary of Comrade Kim Il Sung’s death

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    Backing Truss for PM means doubling down on war drive and economic pain

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    Free Ukraine’s Kononovich brothers, jailed communist youth!

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    The US has placed itself in charge over which nations get to eat

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