• 07779 123 243
  • info@cpgb-ml.org
  • newsletter
  • close
  • home
  • about

    • about the party
    • contact us
    • join
    • donate
    • eighth party congress
  • read

    • britain
    • industry
    • economy
    • world
    • society
    • environment
    • culture
    • history
    • theory
    • proletarian
  • watch

    • all tv
    • world
    • britain
    • capitalism or communism
    • history
    • marxist theory
  • join

    • join us
    • donate
    • become a supporter
    • international supporters
  • action

    • leaflets
    • papers
  • learn

    • marxist study programme
    • marxist videos
  • translated

    • french
    • russian
    • spanish
  • shop

    • shop home
    • party pamphlets
    • harpal brar books
    • party papers
    • stalin society pamphlets
    • marxist classics
    • socialist novels
    • subs and donations
  • links

    • red youth
    • lalkar
    • stalin society
    • photo gallery
search
+ sign up
all sections

The Communists

communist party of great britain (marxist-leninist)

  • home
  • about
    • about the party
    • contact us
    • join
    • donate
    • eighth party congress
  • read
    • britain
    • industry
    • economy
    • world
    • society
    • environment
    • culture
    • history
    • theory
    • proletarian
  • watch
    • all tv
    • world
    • britain
    • capitalism or communism
    • history
    • marxist theory
  • join
    • join us
    • donate
    • become a supporter
    • international supporters
  • action
    • leaflets
    • papers
  • learn
    • marxist study programme
    • marxist videos
  • translated
    • french
    • russian
    • spanish
  • shop
    • shop home
    • party pamphlets
    • harpal brar books
    • party papers
    • stalin society pamphlets
    • marxist classics
    • socialist novels
    • subs and donations
  • links
    • red youth
    • lalkar
    • stalin society
    • photo gallery
  • home
  • about
    • about the party
    • contact us
    • join
    • donate
    • eighth party congress
  • read
    • britain
    • industry
    • economy
    • world
    • society
    • environment
    • culture
    • history
    • theory
    • proletarian
  • watch
    • all tv
    • world
    • britain
    • capitalism or communism
    • history
    • marxist theory
  • join
    • join us
    • donate
    • become a supporter
    • international supporters
  • action
    • leaflets
    • papers
  • learn
    • marxist study programme
    • marxist videos
  • translated
    • french
    • russian
    • spanish
  • shop
    • shop home
    • party pamphlets
    • harpal brar books
    • party papers
    • stalin society pamphlets
    • marxist classics
    • socialist novels
    • subs and donations
  • links
    • red youth
    • lalkar
    • stalin society
    • photo gallery

Sanctions highlights

  • Capitalist crisis / Capitalists are causing inflation, not workers!

    It’s time for the hoary old myth about wages causing inflation to be put to bed. Higher wages lead to lower profits, hence the bosses’ opposition.

    29 Jan 2023 ,
  • Yemen / Yemen’s quest for self-determination continues unabated

    Despite conditions of siege and war, the Yemeni people are finding ways to lay the foundations of a diversified and more self-sufficient economy.

    26 Jan 2023 , Lalkar
  • 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
  • Science and technology / Microchips and monopoly: a new front in the global struggle

    What is the significance of the USA's quest to repatriate the complex chain of semiconductor production?

    10 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
  • Qatar / Qatar at the crossroads?

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

    31 Dec 2022 ,
  • Nicaragua / Oppose US ‘special measures’ against sovereign Nicaragua!

    Once again, the USA wants to starve an entire people into submission, simply because they have asserted their right to economic and political independence.

    27 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
  • Russia / British armed forces planned terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge

    Like the fool of ancient Chinese fable, the imperialists continue to lift rocks that merely break their own feet.

    19 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
  • Capitalist crisis / The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis!

    The capitalists have shown themselves to be entirely unable to run their own system for the benefit of society.

    4 Nov 2022 ,
  • Russia / West uses Putin’s birthday to ramp up demonisation and personal attacks

    But despite all the baseless allegations, reality is stubbornly resistant to imperialist propaganda.

    3 Nov 2022 ,
  • 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
  • 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
  • Media / Inside the world of imperialist mind control

    The upside-down world of corporate media lies: how fairy tales and disappearing facts keep workers in ignorance and fear.

    16 Oct 2022 ,
  • 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 ,
  • Czech Republic / Czech people take to the streets in record numbers against Nato’s war in Ukraine

    Is this huge demonstration in Prague a sign of things to come across the European Union?

    22 Sep 2022 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • Yemen / Saudis continue to violate the truce in Yemen

    Despite ceasefire agreements, Saudi military attacks are ongoing, as is the brutal blockade of Yemeni ports, leaving millions at risk of starvation.

    8 Jul 2022 , Lalkar
  • Ukraine / As Russia completes Ukraine operation, fallout for the west is just beginning

    The reality of Europe’s much-vaunted ‘unity’ in support of Ukraine is that the EU is in the process of tearing itself apart.

    6 Jul 2022 , Lalkar
  • Russia / USA’s proxy war in Ukraine cementing the world anti-imperialist alliance

    Not only have the imperialists strengthened instead of crushing Russia, they have in the process given new confidence to independent-minded states everywhere.

    23 Jun 2022 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / Russia advances to liberate the Donbass

    Despite the floods of weaponry and propaganda from the west, Russia is slowly advancing its aim of denazifying eastern Ukraine. Again.

    6 May 2022 , Lalkar
  • Ukraine / The crisis in Ukraine is not about Ukraine. It’s about Germany

    In whipping up a provocation against Russia in Ukraine, the USA’s primary objective was to stop the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

    9 Mar 2022 , Lalkar
  • Venezuela / Landslide victory for Maduro and the PSUV in Venezuelan election

    The imperialists continue to cry ‘foul’ but even their most loyal proxies have been forced to recognise the result.

    27 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
  • Nicaragua / Imperialists incandescent as Nicaragua re-elects President Ortega in a landslide

    Meanwhile, the country is leaving the OAS after its attempts to have the election results overturned.

    16 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
  • Venezuela / Iniquitous lawfare: diplomat Alex Saab illegally kidnapped by US imperialism

    The US is attempting to shore up its waning hegemony by claiming the right to try and convict independent-minded individuals in every corner of the globe.

    22 Nov 2021 , Lalkar
  • 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
  • Nicaragua / Nicaraguan ambassador: ‘In our country, democracy is in the hands of the people’

    Comrade Guisell Morales reminds us that capitalism, imperialism and sanctions kill; and that another world is possible.

    28 Oct 2021 , Proletarian
  • Venezuela / The US has placed itself in charge over which nations get to eat

    The imprisonment of diplomat Alex Saab is a further indication of the lengths to which US imperialism will go in imposing its starvation sanctions on Venezuela.

    27 Oct 2021 ,
  • Ukraine / Russia puts Ukrainian junta in the dock

    Will the European court be interested in upholding the human rights of the people of Crimea and the Donbass?

    10 Aug 2021 ,
  • Cuba / Support the Cuban people as they defend their revolution

    The progressive people of the world are firmly with Cuba’s masses as they face a renewed onslaught of US interference and sabotage.

    7 Aug 2021 ,
  • Iran / US escalates tension with Iran in attacks at home and abroad

    But in doing so, it is only weakening its own already shaky position in the middle east.

    22 Jul 2021 ,
  • Britain / Britain commits to nuclear expansion in defiance of non-proliferation treaty

    What is behind the renewed imperialist drive to war?

    15 May 2021 ,
  • Venezuela / Venezuela elects a new national assembly headed by socialist coalition

    Venezuelans went to the polls on 6 December, overwhelmingly electing legislators who will serve their own interests, rather than those of imperialism.

    11 Feb 2021 ,
  • 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
  • USA / Joe Biden can’t rebuild the bridges burnt by Donald Trump

    Liberal commentators are heaving sighs of relief and hoping for a return to ‘business as usual’, but the days of US global dominance are ending.

    21 Jan 2021 ,
  • Iran / Is the US about to launch an all-out war against Iran?

    Incapable of learning from experience, the war hawks are once more banging the drum for yet another criminal, genocidal but ultimately futile war in the middle east.

    16 Jan 2021 , Proletarian
  • Cuba / USA adds Cuba to ‘state sponsors of terror’ list without a shred of justification

    Is this a parting shot aimed at stirring up trouble by Donald Trump?

    14 Jan 2021 ,
  • Korea / Kim Jong Un: ‘Thanks to the anti-pandemic forces that protected us’

    As the Workers Party of Korea turns 75, the country holds a huge military parade, celebrating its latest victories over covid, natural disasters and imperialist threats.

    12 Jan 2021 ,
  • 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
  • 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 ,
  • Venezuela / Using the covid crisis: British and US military massing off Venezuelan coast

    Reckless and desperate attempts are being made by US imperialism to encircle and crush Venezuelan socialism.

    25 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Venezuela / Venezuela brings charges against the USA for genocidal sanctions regime

    While imperialists use the corona pandemic to pile on more pressure, the eyes of workers must be opened to the inhuman brutality of the profit system.

    16 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Cuba / Socialist Cuba shows real international solidarity during Covid-19 outbreak

    People or profits? The coronavirus pandemic is bringing this question to the fore more sharply than ever.

    14 Apr 2020 ,
  • Korea / Kim Jong Un: North Korea’s future depends on strong science and tech

    The DPRK is determined to advance its development and raise living standards, despite the continual pressure of wargames and sanctions.

    24 Mar 2020 ,
  • Venezuela / Venezuela’s foreign minister: ‘Lenin’s definition of imperialism was correct’

    Workers’ representatives from the five continents meet in Caracas to forge ahead with world anti-imperialist struggle.

    26 Jan 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
  • Venezuela / British communists join march and rally in Caracas

    International conference calls on workers everywhere to refuse to cooperate with the imperialist aggression against Venezuela.

    11 Sep 2019 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • Venezuela / British workers support Bolivarian government and people of Venezuela

    British progressive organisations stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters under attack in Venezuela.

    9 Aug 2019 ,
  • 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
  • China / China’s resistance to the US trade war

    Defensive measures by the People’s Republic are accelerating the very process the US has been trying to halt.

    5 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 ,
  • Turkey / Relations weakening between Ankara and its Nato allies

    The overproduction crisis is taking its toll on the stability of Erdogan’s AKP government, moving it away from unquestioning support for imperialism.

    5 May 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 ,
  • China / Huawei executive arrest – a provocation too far

    The US's persectution of Meng Wanzhou represents a dangerous escalation of its trade war against China.

    30 Dec 2018 , Lalkar
  • Venezuela / Full support to revolutionary Venezuela and its leadership

    The only way to secure the people’s gains is the defeat of imperialism and the complete overthrow of the capitalist system in Venezuela.

    17 Nov 2018 ,
  • Venezuela / Resounding success for Nicolás Maduro in presidential election

    The Venezuelan masses are fighting back valiantly against US imperialist attempts to bring about regime change.

    4 Jun 2018 , Proletarian
  • Korea / Socialist Korea refuses to be intimidated by imperialist sanctions

    The DPRK will not be denied the right to develop the necessary technology to defend itself and to improve its people’s lives.

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • Cuba / A new victory for the Cuban revolution

    After re-establishing diplomatic relations with the US, the lifting of the blockade, among other matters, will be indispensable for the normalisation of relations.

    16 Sep 2015 , Proletarian

Sanctions topics

  • Anti-union laws
  • Drive to war
  • Inequality
  • Inflation
  • Overproduction crisis
  • Poverty
  • Protests and strikes
  • Sanctions
  • Ukraine war
  • Vladimir Putin
  • Ansarullah movement
  • Anti-imperialism
  • Food industry
  • Hunger
  • Josef Stalin
  • Leninism
  • Media lies
  • Social democracy
  • Trotskyism
  • Yemen war
  • 2020 crash
  • Supply lines
  • Eastern Europe
  • European Union
  • Nato
  • Oil
  • US imperialism
  • Outsourcing
  • South Korea
  • Taiwan
  • Technology
  • Trade war
  • Arms industry
  • Fascism
  • War crimes
  • Gulf autocracies
  • No Gulf War
  • Covid-19
  • CPGB-ML
  • Green technology
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Latin America
  • Native Americans
  • Sandinistas
  • Women
  • Brics
  • British imperialism
  • Crimea
  • Emmanuel Macron
  • Liz Truss
  • Opec
  • Enough is Enough
  • Housing crisis
  • Marxism
  • Bourgeois democracy
  • Free speech
  • Stop the War
  • WW2
  • Tax
  • Utilities
  • Justice system
  • United Nations
  • Amnesty International
  • Bernie Sanders
  • One Belt One Road
  • SCO
  • CPC
  • CSTO
  • Cold war
  • George Galloway
  • Bolivarian revolution
  • OAS
  • C19 vaccines
  • Ninth congress
  • Lawfare
  • Chinese revolution
  • Cuban revolution
  • Jeremy Corbyn
  • Labour party
  • Lockdown
  • NHS
  • Workers party
  • Unemployment
  • MH17
  • Actually-existing socialism
  • Cuba blockade
  • Joe Biden
  • Syria war
  • Boris Johnson
  • Donald Trump
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Imperialist war
  • DPRK
  • Korean revolution
  • Planned economy
  • Kurds
  • Libya war
  • Banks
  • Hugo Chavez
  • Capitalist crisis
  • Science
  • Lenin150
  • VI Lenin
  • WW3
  • Non-cooperation
  • Steel industry
  • Fidel Castro
  • Big tech
  • Eighth congress
  • Nuclear power
  • Space
  • Barack Obama

Sanctions video

  • Capitalist crisis / Kwarteng’s budget: less red tape – fewer workers rights

    Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng are working hard to ‘save’ the economy... By stripping away rights and putting the City of London first.

    3 Oct 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
  • 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,
  • World TV / Comrade Joti on CrossTalk: ‘Russia and the Global South’

    As the west tries to hold onto its global hegemony by any means necessary, developing countries are increasingly standing together to resist.

    5 Jul 2022, Proletarian TV
  • Ukraine / Comrade Ella on Kalima Horra: How did the world react to the Ukraine conflict?

  • Venezuela / Venezuelan ambassador: ‘They will see the kind of democracy we have’

  • Venezuela / Comrade Joti reports live from Venezuela on George Galloway’s MoATs

  • World TV / Venezuela – the hidden agenda

Sanctions theory

  • Capitalist crisis / It’s not the workers but the capitalists who are causing inflation

    It is the right and the duty of workers to demand a bigger share of the wealth their own labour has created.

    25 Jan 2023,
  • Capitalist crisis / The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis

    Economic crises are an inescapable feature of life under the market system. Socialist planning is our only way out.

    4 Nov 2022, Proletarian
  • Cuba / Cuba 60: Hasta la victoria siempre!

    Progressive humanity continues to cheer the incredible achievements of the tiny island nation, made in the teeth of the imperialists’ determined and unceasing aggression.

    14 Feb 2019, Proletarian
  • Economy / Sanctions: a self-defeating weapon

    The tectonic plates of the world order are beginning to shift as a consequence of imperialist parasitism.

    1 Sep 2018, Lalkar

popular content

  • 1

    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.

  • 2

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

  • 3

    Free Ukraine’s Kononovich brothers, jailed communist youth!

  • 4

    No to Nato warmongering; stop WW3! Hands off Syria!

  • 5

    EU legislates to erase the USSR’s role in defeating fascism

  • 6

    How do we defend the NHS?

  • 7

    Assassination of Donetsk leader stalls Minsk peace talks

  • 8

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

  • 9

    Cambian Childcare: End this chattel slavery

  • 10

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

back to top
  • membership
  • subscribe
  • contact us
  • feedback
  • red youth
  • lalkar
  • why the cpgb-ml?
  • stalin society