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communist party of great britain (marxist-leninist)

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Oil highlights

  • Europe / Food bank crisis in Europe

    As our rulers double down on their war against Russia, workers across the EU are suffering rising hunger and fuel poverty.

    22 Jan 2023 , Lalkar
  • Yugoslavia / What is happening in Kosovo?

    It is impossible to make sense of rising tensions in Serbia without knowing the post-socialist history of the Balkans and imperialist geopolitical aims.

    19 Jan 2023 , Lalkar
  • Russia / Price cap stunt will not stop Russian oil trade

    But it will deepen and expand the fissures within the imperialist camp itself, as the demise of the west accelerates.

    6 Jan 2023 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Happy new year?

    There is no reform that could enable this profit-hungry system to serve the needs of the working people.

    3 Jan 2023 ,
  • Qatar / Qatar at the crossroads?

    Can US pressure force Qatar to sever its economic ties to Iran and Russia?

    31 Dec 2022 ,
  • Climate change / What a Cop-out!

    Even the most inveterate supporters of capitalism have been forced to admit that the UN’s climate mechanism has been taken over by the oil lobby.

    26 Dec 2022 , Lalkar
  • Brazil / Can Lula get Brazil back on track?

    Much has changed since Lula’s first presidency. While the economic situation is far more difficult, international shifts could work in the country’s favour.

    10 Dec 2022 ,
  • Turkey / Iran and Turkey hit Washington’s Kurdish proxies in Iraq and Syria

    Failing US hegemony is making itself felt in some surprising ways – and none of them bode well for the imperialists.

    9 Dec 2022 ,
  • World / Imperialist aggression hastens demise of US hegemony and the rise of Brics

    As history moves on, new alliances are being formed that are more in tune with the real balance of forces in the world.

    25 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
  • Czech Republic / Czech communist leader on the mass movement against Nato’s war

    Josef Skála explains what is driving the huge protest movement that has rocked his country to its foundations.

    13 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
  • Environment / Environmentalists: time to look your gift horse in the mouth

    The misguided actions of the environmentalist movement are annoying workers and harming the aims they espouse.

    11 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / Ukraine referenda: Russians exercise their right to self-determination

    From now on, attacks or threats against these safeguarded territories will be dealt with as attacks against any other part of Russia.

    10 Nov 2022 , Lalkar
  • Europe / Liz Truss’s message to the USA seconds after the Nord Stream attack: ‘It’s done’.

    The former prime minister’s leaked iPhone messages convince Russia that British forces blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines.

    2 Nov 2022 , Finance Twitter
  • Azerbaijan / Azeri chauvinism used by imperialists to set Russia’s borders on fire

    War has broken out again between Armenia and Azerbaijan, but who does it really benefit?

    21 Oct 2022 , Proletarian
  • Germany / Germany is under pressure. Something’s got to give

    As the economic crisis deepens and political panic spreads, the future of a unified European imperialist block is looking ever more shaky.

    19 Oct 2022 , Proletarian
  • Energy / Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse: fracking is back on the agenda

    Whichever way they turn, Truss and co are tying themselves in knots trying to escape the Gordian knot of the energy and inflation crises.

    10 Oct 2022 , Proletarian
  • Germany / Pipeline terrorism: Who benefits?

    Western media allegations denouncing Russia’s alleged act of (self) sabotage make no sense, either politically or economically.

    5 Oct 2022 ,
  • Germany / Closure of Nord Stream 1: another own goal for Europe

    It is not Russians but European who are facing hunger and blackouts as a result of the EU’s failed sanctions war.

    9 Sep 2022 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / EU quietly rowing back on self-defeating sanctions against Russia

    In the face of the abject failure of their economic war, EU leaders are trying to salvage what they can without admitting to a U-turn.

    7 Sep 2022 , Proletarian
  • Climate change / Demonising fossil fuels will not tackle the environmental crisis

    Only nationalisation of the energy sector will allow us to make rational plans to safeguard both our energy supplies and our future.

    2 Apr 2022 , Proletarian
  • Kazakhstan / Failed ‘colour revolution’ in Kazakhstan

    Quick and decisive action by Russia and the CSTO has dealt a blow to the USA’s nefarious schemes in central Asia.

    12 Mar 2022 , Lalkar
  • Economy / BP’s ‘cash machine’ goes into overdrive as workers’ energy bills soar

    Britain’s energy monopolies are enjoying a profit bonanza as their rivals disappear and Ofgem fixes prices on their behalf.

    11 Jan 2022 , Proletarian
  • Climate change / Cop26: Fiddling while the world burns

    Awash with fossil fuel lobbyists and corporate sponsors, the latest ‘climate conference’ was just another greenwashing exercise for monopoly capital.

    19 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Energy crisis: how imperialism manufactures ‘shortages’

    The monopolists are too busy vying for advantage to worry about the effects of their machinations on the lives of the workers.

    13 Nov 2021 , Lalkar
  • 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
  • Africa / President Idriss Déby of Chad: death of an imperialist puppet

    After decades of kleotocratic tyranny, French and US imperialists are working to ensure power passes to Déby's equally corrupt and unpopular son.

    26 May 2021 , Lalkar
  • Climate change / The profiteers are responsible for the environmental disaster in Texas

    The logic of capitalism means that our rulers consistently prioritise short-term profits over society’s long-term needs; even at the risk of their own extinction.

    20 Mar 2021 , Lalkar
  • Yemen / US falters over Yemen war, while Britain stops its ears

    While the US looks to hide its defeat behind talk of peace and principles, Britain continues blatantly to prioritise the interests of its arms manufacturers.

    12 Mar 2021 , Lalkar
  • USA / Trump’s lengthening shadow will stymie Biden’s return to the Obama ‘norm’

    Efforts to revive the halcyon days where Obama could sign off on endless drone assassinations and still be heralded as a beacon of ‘progress’ will not work.

    28 Jan 2021 , Lalkar
  • Syria / Syrian and Libyan oil: Washington’s hand in the till

    People across the middle east continue to suffer war and economic hardships as the price of living on top of coveted oil resources.

    6 Sep 2020 , Lalkar
  • Belarus / Hands off Belarus!

    What is motivating the latest attempted regime change operation in Europe?

    29 Aug 2020 , Lalkar
  • Lebanon / Tragedy in Lebanon

    The blast in Beirut port may prove to be the straw that broke the camel’s back.

    28 Aug 2020 , Lalkar
  • 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
  • Venezuela / Bank of England must hand back Venezuela’s gold

    Britain’s latest theft is part of a long history of looting and aggression against the Venezuelan people, who continue to struggle for their independence and freedom.

    8 Jul 2020 , Lalkar
  • Venezuela / Iran smashes US blockade on Venezuela with fuel delivery

    The axis of resistance is building its network of practical solidarity in the teeth of imperialist opposition.

    11 Jun 2020 ,
  • Pay and conditions / Offshore oil workers under threat

    Will trade unions now get off the back foot and start to mobilise their members into an active campaign of resistance?

    26 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • Iran / Britain is acting as the US’s sanctions lapdog; will it follow into all-out war?

    If the British imperialists fall in line with the US’s drive to war against Iran, they will share the bitter fruits of humiliation and defeat with their partner in crime.

    6 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • Climate change / COP25: Has anything actually been achieved to help save our environment?

    As the imperialists haggle and back-peddle, the simple truth is that you have to be red to be green.

    3 Jan 2020 , Lalkar
  • Iraq / Iraq stands at a crossroads

    Who is attempting to manipulate the just anger of the Iraqi people and why?

    2 Jan 2020 , Lalkar
  • North Africa and Middle East / Cheap drones and the shifting strategic balance in west Asia

    18 Dec 2019 , Lalkar
  • Syria / Losing the war, imperialism degenerates into open piracy in Syria

    Trump admits it’s all about the oil and moves to steal as much of it as he can.

    27 Nov 2019 , Proletarian
  • Syria / Trump pulls US imperialist troops out of Syria – as promised

    Why has this huge step towards Syria’s total liberation been greeted with such howls of rage by those on the self-identifying ‘left’?

    1 Nov 2019 , Lalkar
  • Yemen / Saudi Arabia takes a flogging

    The Saudi dog has been beaten in full view of the US lion; and if the lesson is lost on imperialism, it may find itself embroiled in a fight that will undermine its very foundations.

    4 Oct 2019 , Proletarian
  • Syria / Turkey and US sign a robbers’ pact over Syria

    Kurdish nationalists must choose between unstable US-backed ‘self-rule’ and returning to a united Syrian fold.

    12 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • Iran / Britain falters onto the warpath against Iran

    With so much else on their plate, Britain’s rulers may not be keen to follow the US into yet another doomed war.

    6 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • Iran / False flags flying over Hormuz strait

    President Trump has yet to light the fuse on the war his hawks are pushing. If he does, the US will live to regret it.

    9 Jul 2019 , Lalkar
  • Iran / False flag in the strait of Hormuz?

    Could the extreme hawks in Washington be trying to force Trump’s hand to launch their hoped-for war against Iran?

    16 Jun 2019 ,
  • Libya / Libyan, migrant and European workers all pawns in the great imperial game

    The imperialists are desperate to carve up and plunder a way out of the chaos they have created in Libya, but unable to unite around a common strategy.

    21 May 2019 , Proletarian
  • Venezuela / Hands off Venezuela!

    The US will stop at nothing to get its hands on Venezuela’s oil. British workers must stop our own government from supporting this drive towards another criminal war.

    8 Feb 2019 , Proletarian
  • North Africa and Middle East / World War One in the middle east and its aftermath

    How British and French imperialism carved up the middle east with the backing of their US bankers.

    17 Jan 2019 , Lalkar
  • Venezuela / Support the Venezuelan people and President Maduro. No war for oil!

    British workers must side firmly with the masses of Venezuela in their struggle to forge their own destiny without outside interference.

    10 Jan 2019 ,
  • Energy / Government plans to push fracking through the back door

    If we want to save our planet, we’ll need to get rid of capitalism.

    11 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
  • North Africa and Middle East / Saudi vs Qatar: thieves fall out

    A sign of waning US imperialist power?

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • Energy / Frack flak buried

    The government is trying to push ahead with fracking despite environmental and economic objections.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Syria / The Syrian Arab Army advances

    26 Dec 2015 , Lalkar
  • Energy / Imperialism’s oil game

    What will be the outcome of the law of unforeseen consequences?

    1 Dec 2014 , Proletarian
  • Energy / Fracking the world away?

    Capitalism can’t be trusted to take care of our environment or our health.

    1 Aug 2013 , Proletarian
  • China / Uyghur provocations: oppose the balkanisation of China

    Riots in Xinjiang have been provoked by US imperialism, which is desperate to break the unity of China and the Chinese people in its pursuit of global hegemony.

    1 Jun 2009 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / Editorial: Imperialist agenda in Ukraine (2004)

    What is the true meaning and content of the so-called ‘Orange revolution’?

    1 Dec 2004 , Proletarian

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Oil video

  • World TV / Comrade Joti on RT’s CrossTalk: ‘New globalisation?’

    Are we witnessing the end of ‘globalisation’ as we have known it for about the last 40 years?

    22 Dec 2022, Proletarian TV
  • Saudi Arabia / The Duran: China and Saudi Arabia, a massive realignment

    Are the rats beginning to desert the sinking ship?

    20 Dec 2022, Proletarian TV
  • World TV / Scott Ritter and Ranjeet Brar: USA used 9/11 to justify global domination

    Only an understanding of imperialism can make sense of the global events of the last 25 years in general, and of the USA’s war drive in particular.

    26 Sep 2022, Proletarian TV
  • World TV / Ranjeet Brar: The relationship between the Ukraine conflict and oil

    Why does the USA pursue such a self-defeating strategy on oil?

    16 Sep 2022, Proletarian TV
  • Americas / Cuba’s view of Venezuela: Cuban ambassador to Britain speaks

Oil theory

  • Capitalist crisis / The oil slump and its ramifications

    In attempting to retain domination over the oil market, Saudi Arabia has alienated its most important ally, supporter and protector.

    19 May 2020, Lalkar

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