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Labour party highlights

  • 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 ,
  • British politics / What is really meant by the demand for a ‘general election now’?

    It is true that Rishi Sunak’s appointment was undemocratic. But what do those calling for his ousting really want?

    5 Dec 2022 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Families face energy bills topping £5,000 this autumn

    Privatisation of the energy industry has put Britons at the mercy of world market prices – and no bourgeois party has a clue what to do about it.

    30 Aug 2022 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Labour is the party of Nato, the party of war

    Throughout Labour’s history, in and out of government, its leaders have always been unabashed cheerleaders for the crimes of imperialism.

    19 May 2022 , Proletarian
  • Housing / London’s great council housing fraud

    Politicians talk as if workers are fools, but no-one who has tried to live on a worker’s salary can swallow the London mayor’s lies about an increase in ‘affordable’ homes.

    2 May 2022 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Build the Workers Party of Britain

    The primary goal facing us today is the breaking of all bonds between the Labour party and the working class.

    5 Mar 2022 ,
  • British politics / Ninth party congress: We must connect our movement with the masses

    Important foundations have already been laid. Now we must expand and build on those in a principled and serious way.

    11 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Britain steps up diplomatic hostility towards China

    In banning the Chinese ambassador from Parliament, Britain is ramping up its pro-war stance.

    26 Oct 2021 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Palestine solidarity motion deepens division in the Labour party’s ranks

    Keir Starmer has already vowed to ignore the motion passed by an overwhelming majority of conference delegates.

    15 Oct 2021 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Labour party conference not a ‘safe space’ for women

    While Keir Starmer can’t say who has a cervix, one of his MPs is receiving death threats for defending women’s rights.

    14 Oct 2021 , Proletarian
  • Environment / Workers party hosts popular rally against LTN scheme in Birmingham

    An excellent example of socialists connecting with the community in order to advance their interests and raise their understanding.

    7 Aug 2021 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Liverpool scandal: Starmer cheers as the government sends in the commissioners

    Labour and Tory are two sides of the same dud coin; we should be grateful to Starmer for demonstrating this so clearly.

    29 Mar 2021 ,
  • British politics / The Big Ride for Palestine and the Labour party

    Tower Hamlets council’s decision to ban a fundfaising event for Palestine highlights the Labour party’s role as a tool of British imperial policy.

    9 Feb 2021 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Jeremy Corbyn suspended from the Labour party

    Sir Keir Starmer is doing everything in his power to ram home the lesson that Labour will never serve working-class interests.

    11 Nov 2020 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Workers party launches corona wealth tax campaign

    All progressives in Britain should be working to extend the reach of the Workers Party into the ranks of the working class.

    12 Oct 2020 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Workers party sets a course despite lockdown

    Weeks of lockdown have been used by the Workers party to speak to more than half a million people.

    2 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Hunger rising sharply as covid-19 lockdown combines with economic crash

    Why are we witnessing the obscene sight of workers going hungry in the midst of plenty?

    17 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Wirral’s binmen to strike?

    Outsourced waste collector Biffa is playing fast and loose with its workers’ pay.

    3 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
  • British politics / George Galloway: ‘The idea that the organs of the state are impartial is dead’

    Does this herald a moment when the working class in Britain gets back up off its knees and starts to fight again?

    16 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • Iran / Stop the US drive to war with Iran

    Red salute to axis of resistance General Soleimani; imperialists out of the middle east!

    4 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • British politics / The Brexit election and the birth of the Workers party

    As Boris prepares a fresh assault on the trade unions, what does the election result mean for workers?

    29 Dec 2019 , Lalkar
  • British politics / The Brexit election and the death of Project Corbyn

    What lessons can workers take from the last four years?

    12 Dec 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Brexit delayed again as general election called

    Following years of Parliament’s refusal to implement the referendum result, can an election break the deadlock?

    6 Nov 2019 , Lalkar
  • Climate change / The TUC and climate change: don’t mention the wars

    Unions tail-end middle-class eco protests and stoke illusions in ‘green’ capitalism.

    28 Sep 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Boris’s Brexit bombshell

    Can the warring remainer factions get themselves together and block Britain’s EU exit before 31 October?

    4 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Interview: What does our party stand for?

    Responses to a Turkish journalist about Britain, Brexit, Boris, the workers’ movement and the wider world.

    27 Aug 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Will Boris bottle Brexit?

    Johnson is loud in declaring himself ready for a no-deal EU exit, but is that just an electoral ploy?

    2 Aug 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / BBC’s anti-Corbyn hatchet job fails to land blow

    If Corbyn’s allies can't fight back against the Israeli lobby within their own party, what chance will they have against the power of British imperialism?

    14 Jul 2019 , The Electronic Intifada
  • British politics / Thousands of Labour voters and members angry over Brexit

    While the media focus on ludicrous ‘antisemitism’ allegations, workers are more interested in hearing JC explain his Brexit U-turn.

    12 Jul 2019 , Proletarian
  • Education / Thousands of children are taught in classes that are too big

    Reverse privatisation and create an education system that serves the real needs of both society and individuals.

    4 Jul 2019 ,
  • British politics / British workers demand Brexit … TWICE!

    The Brexit party’s win in the 2019 EU election has thrown the Tories into unprecedented chaos.

    12 Jun 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / EU election: a second Brexit referendum. Do we really need a third?

    Britain’s Labour-Tory two-party political monopoly is cracking under the pressure of Brexit.

    6 Jun 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Vote Brexit on 23 May!

    British workers have demanded Brexit, and the failure to deliver it is exposing to them the fraud of our so-called parliamentary democracy.

    17 May 2019 ,
  • Disputes / Left-Labour-controlled Newham is not such a New Jerusalem

    Despite working for a Labour council and a Corbynite mayor, council workers in Newham face pay cuts and bullying.

    13 May 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Galloway, Farage and the Brexit party

    British workers are set to keep demanding Brexit at the upcoming EU elections.

    7 May 2019 ,
  • British politics / Antisemitism is cover for a much deeper divide in Britain’s Labour party

    Breakaway MPs hope that smearing Corbyn will obscure the fact that they are remnants of an old political order bankrupt of ideas.

    5 Apr 2019 , Middle East Eye
  • British politics / Brexit betrayal reveals the sham of bourgeois democracy

    Parliament has shown itself to be in direct opposition to the will of the people it theoretically represents.

    3 Apr 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / ‘Neither Brexit nor austerity’ – the People’s Assembly and the yellow vest movement in Britain

    Pitting austerity against Brexit is misleading workers into supporting the interests of British imperialism and dividing rather than uniting workers in struggle.

    29 Mar 2019 ,
  • Disputes / Brum bin strike concludes with a payout

    A new deal was concluded in March to appease workers’ anger at secret payouts to GMB members during the 2017 strike.

    24 Mar 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Five years without Tony Benn – Stop the War laments

    With friends like these, the working class doesn’t need enemies.

    22 Mar 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Brexit: Parliament does the hokey-cokey

    Splits and back-tracking by politicians combine with rampant media hysteria as Brexit day approaches and the ruling class searches for a way out.

    8 Mar 2019 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Bring on the no-deal Brexit!

    The ruling class is desperate to find a way out of its Brexit impasse, but hamstrung by its divisions.

    6 Feb 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Refuse, resist! Brum rubbish collectors ready to strike as council talks fail

    Brummie binmen are days away from an all-out strike, clashing once again with a Labour council that has rewarded scabs and blacklisted strikers.

    20 Jan 2019 , Sputnik
  • British politics / Brexit paralysis – government and opposition in a shambles

    As withdrawal day approaches, Parliament is at a standstill, and all sides equally at a loss as to how best they should proceed.

    31 Dec 2018 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Challenges facing communists in Britain today

    Objective conditions for the creation of a revolutionary movement are improving, but much work needs to be done to take advantage of those conditions.

    14 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Venezuela solidarity falling short

    British workers have the power to give real solidarity to Venezuela, which is in the front line of the struggle against the imperialist enemy.

    17 Nov 2018 , Lalkar
  • Disputes / Support the Glasgow women’s strike for equal pay

    But beware the Labour wolf in sheep's clothing!

    23 Oct 2018 ,
  • British politics / The mixed message of the IHRA definition of ‘antisemitism’

    Anti-zionism and opposition to the fascist activities of Israel must not be conflated with antisemitism.

    16 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Why is Corbyn under attack?

    It is not his alleged ‘antisemitism’ that offends the ruling class, but his refusal to give unconditional support to Israel.

    14 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Bosses’ pay soars

    While Labour business rep worries over ‘undermining public trust in business’!

    9 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / British workers demand Brexit!

    It is not in our class interests to allow the referendum result to be overturned.

    27 Sep 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Support Birmingham’s homecare workers

    Before Labour councillors privatise the service completely.

    19 Sep 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • British politics / Fascist tactics: How Jeremy Corbyn’s detractors are plotting to remove him

    The Labour leader’s opponents don’t care about antisemitism. They’ll just do anything to remove Corbyn.

    18 Sep 2018 , Middle East Eye
  • British politics / The myth of Labour party antisemitism

    On the zionist-backed campaign against Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour party.

    3 Jul 2018 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Celebrate and struggle on May Day: International Workers’ Day

    We urgently need to reclaim the British working-class movement for socialism.

    1 May 2018 ,
  • Leaflets / No to Nato warmongering; stop WW3! Hands off Syria!

    The timing of the imperialist missile strikes on Syria reveals their hopes of saving the defeated jihadis to inflict further suffering on the Syrian people.

    24 Apr 2018 ,
  • British politics / Socialism anyone? How much further is left for the CPB to fall?

    The self-identifying communists of the CPB leadership are plumbing new depths as they seek to prettify every pro-imperialist policy of the Labour party.

    21 Apr 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / The infamous ‘antisemitic’ mural

    Jeremy Corbyn has apologised for failing to notice an East End mural’s antisemitism and now supports its removal. Is he right?

    11 Apr 2018 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Council workers win skirmish with Manchester outsourcing cowboy

    The involvement of Labour councils in the outsourcing racket should make unions think twice about their generous donations to the party's coffers.

    11 Mar 2018 ,
  • Leaflets / Why hasn’t Stop the War stopped a war yet?

    Fifteen years after the 2 million-strong demo against the invasion of Iraq, why is the anti-war movement's record so dismal?

    6 Feb 2018 ,
  • Disputes / Birmingham’s binmen conclude their strike … for now

    A ‘new’ deal has been offered that appears to make some concessions, but which demands more work for the same money.

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Editorial: Message to Birmingham’s bin workers

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / British media go all out to spread racism and islamophobia

    While the true interests of vulnerable children are callously disregarded.

    1 Oct 2017 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Binmen on strike in Birmingham

    More council cuts = more rats! Birmingham’s refuse workers are mounting strong resistance to the latest austerity plans of the city’s Labour-led council.

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • Housing / Labour council pushes ahead with housing segregation in Haringey

    The disgrace of social cleansing in London.

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Not so strong and stable after all: May loses Brexit gamble

    The poisoned chalice of the British premiership.

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • British politics / ‘Socialist’ McDonnell shocked by communists on May Day

    Reactionaries shun the hammer and sickle as the devil shuns holy water!

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Shrewsbury 24: Amnesty International shows its true colours

    Even forty years later, the ‘human rights’ champions are still not prepared to tell the full story of their collusion with Labour in keeping Des Warren locked up.

    1 Aug 2016 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Chilcot report: devastating exposure of the British establishment

    Blair hung out to dry in an attempt to divert attention from the continuing crimes of British imperialism.

    1 Aug 2016 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Crisis in the Labour party

    With every day it is becoming more apparent that war criminals are eminently more acceptable to the imperialist Labour party than a mildly anti-war leader.

    1 Aug 2016 , Proletarian
  • British politics / ‘Anti-zionism is not antisemitism’

    Statement on ‘Labour’s problem with antisemitism’ from the Jewish Socialists’ Group.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Industry matters: TUC touts for the EU

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Health warning: capitalism kills

    Latest assaults on society’s most helpless.

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Corbyn’s attempts to reform the Labour party rebound

    Lessons in the futility of trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Jeremy Corbyn: ‘resurgence’ of left social democracy may be shortlived

    Labour's new leader is already succumbing to pressure to give up his long-held positions on Britain's membership of Nato, the EU and more.

    1 Oct 2015 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Jeremy Corbyn: ‘Left’ Labour’s great white elephant

    All the wishes in the world cannot turn the imperialist Labour party into a vehicle for workers’ emancipation.

    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
  • British politics / Election circus over, the class struggle continues

    Workers don’t need Labour's ‘kinder’ cuts and ‘ethical’ wars; we need communist organisation to take on the ruling class and win.

    1 Jun 2015 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / General election results: the Scottish context

    The faith of the Scottish workers in the SNP will inevitably be dashed.

    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
  • 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

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Labour party video

  • Disputes / Rail strike spreads as employers and government remain intransigent

    Our rulers are well aware that a victory for rail workers would boost the confidence of workers in other sectors, all suffering from the rampant inflation crisis.

    12 Aug 2022, Proletarian TV
  • 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,
  • British politics / Project Corbyn has failed: what next?

    Can the Workers party become the new home that workers in Britain so desperately need?

    23 Apr 2020,
  • Britain TV / Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party exposed over Brexit U-turn

    In full election mode, Corbyn, like Boris, is busy telling the people what he thinks they want to hear.

    20 Jul 2019, Proletarian TV
  • Capitalism or communism TV / Marxism, dialectics and the Labour party

  • Britain TV / Comrade Harpal on Lenin, opportunism and the Labour party

  • Britain TV / Harpal Brar on the myth of Labour antisemitism

  • Britain TV / Stop the War’s campaign for a Labour ‘anti-war’ government

  • British politics / General election 2017: what did it mean?

  • Working-class history / Billy Vincent – communist

  • Britain TV / Indian workers in Britain

  • Britain TV / Corbyn mania: Jez we can?

Labour party theory

  • British politics / A critique of the CPB’s ‘Britain’s Road to Socialism’ in the 21st century, pt 3

    Eclectic and utopian, the CPB’s programme is full of pious wishes but its authors don’t seem to have the first clue about the realities of the state or of class war.

    17 Jan 2022, Lalkar
  • British politics / A critique of the CPB’s ‘Britain’s Road to Socialism’ in the 21st century, pt 2

    On every question of importance, the CPB has ditched Marxism in favour of servility to the imperialist Labour party.

    8 Nov 2021, Lalkar
  • British politics / A critique of the CPB’s ‘Britain’s Road to Socialism’ in the 21st century, pt 1

    What lies at the root of the CPB’s total inability to educate or inspire even a fraction of the working class?

    1 Sep 2021, Lalkar
  • British politics / WPB storms Batley: ‘We intend to replace Labour as party of working class’

    George Galloway’s party took 22 percent of the vote and sowed chaos in the ranks of the Labour party in July’s West Yorkshire by-election.

    10 Aug 2021, Proletarian
  • 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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