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Friday 30 July 2010
Public Meetings 7pm
MONDAY 9 AUGUST 7pm
Protest against the Cuts Budget22 JUNE 2010Women, the unemployed, the ill and frail will be the biggest losers from the Con-Dems' slash-and-burn budget - and there will be no economic recovery. Cuts will drive Britain to ruin Two hundred marchers demonstrated in Princes Street, Edinburgh, on Wednesday evening against the budget. Speakers from Unite, EIS, PCS, CWU, the Green Party, and others addressed marchers carrying banners and flags from CND, Unison, NASUWT, EIS, UCU, PCS, Right to Work, Communist Party, Scottish Socialist Party, and others. As well as voicing opposition to the cuts at national level, the march heard of the opposition to Edinburgh Council's "Alternative Business Model" plans to sell off local services. Communist Party branch banner carried plus 4 flags. 200 Party budget leaflets given out to passers-by on Princes Street. It was very good to be able to say "Today's budget explained – today's response from the Communist Party!" when giving out the leaflets! It worked really well, the presentation of the leaflet on the website and its local printing and distribution. In Glasgow 150 Unison members gathered at lunch time in George Square to protest against the cuts and in early evening 200 gathered to protest against the attack by the ruling class on workers living standards. Banners from Unison, EIS, Clydebank TUC, along with other campaign groups present. The Communist Party had a colourfull stall with Party flags stuck in the flowerbeds. The stall did good business and tourists took photograghs of the comrades.
Britain's Communist Party Condemns Israeli Attacks on Aid ConvoysJune 2010'The Israeli state believes it has the right to kill anybody, anywhere under any circumstances', Kevin Halpin reported to the Communist Party's political committee on Thursday.
Britain's Communists called for national and international action to 'bring the rogue state of Israel under control'. This should include a trade embargo, withdrawal of the invitation to Israel to join the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and - following the lead given by South Africa, Ecuador and Nicaragua - recalling Britain's ambassador from Israel. Pointing out that no arms had been found on the Gaza convoy vessels, Mr Halpin also insisted that Turkish civilians had every right to try to repel unlawful boarders in international waters. He dismissed Israel's announcement of an inquiry into the convoy killings because it is 'like armed robbers offering to investigate their own bank raid'. According to the veteran Communist leader, 'Turkey alone has the right under international maritime law to conduct an inquiry into an attack on its flagged vessel', and should be supported by the United Nations to do so. The Communist Party urged full support for demonstrations of solidarity with the Palestinian people and reiterated its call for lifting the blockade on Gaza and ending the 'collective punishment' inflicted on them for electing a Hamas government in free and fair elections. Following discussion with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Party's political committee also announced that its own campaign to 'Free Marwan Barghouti' and all political prisoners in Israeli jails will be launched at the Communist University of Britain at the end of July. The following are articles from the Morning Star The Glasgow North West Communist Campaign - an Analysis
The Communist vote was not significantly lower than that of other Left parties with less demanding ideological platforms. The leader of the SSP Colin Fox got 319 votes (0.7 per cent of the poll against Marc’s 0.5 per cent) in Edinburgh SW. The TUSC votes in Glasgow North and North East were 287 and 187 respectively. Tommy Sheridan gained 931 votes in Glasgow SW where the SSP in 2005 had secured 1,666. COMMUNIST MANIFESTO 2010Communist Party to unveil its UK election manifesto
SCOTTISH COMMUNIST 2010 MANIFESTO
UK Manifesto launch @ BBC.
The manifesto highlights three key issues which the Communist Party believes are at stake in the election: the survival of the welfare state, the right to work and the right to organise freely in trade unions. The manifesto warns that all three are in danger. It calls for united resistance to the demands of big business that ordinary people pay for the crisis caused by the banks. Read more about the election manifesto launch GLASGOW NW: CP candidate Marc Livingstone statementVote 6 May 2010
From the days of Red Clydeside, through the UCS work-in and the campaign against the Poll Tax, Communists have always been and will continue to be fighting for the rights of workers like you and me. Over the next period we face a new battle against the so-called "savage cuts" in public spending which we are told must be made to pay for the banker's crisis. In North West Glasgow we see almost half young people under 24 without jobs, with youth services and community centres being cut, an acute shortage of affordable housing and the City Council preparing to privatise even more services. Whoever wins the election, we can expect a full frontal attack on working people and our communities. The Communist Party says we have to resist the phony agenda of cuts projected by the banks and big business. The Tories will never do this. The Labour Party will only be forced to do so if local communities and the trade union movement unite to say enough is enough: we will not pay for the banker’s crisis. As a young worker who has experienced all the difficulties of finding employment and housing, I see the need for organisation that can unite people for a progressive alternative, for peace, for full employment, for a sustainable future that protects our planet. A strong Communist vote will send a message to the bosses and their Tory and New Labour servants, that we reject their bankrupt system which gives million pound bonuses to bankers as a reward for wrecking the economy and forces working people to foot the bill, and it will show them that we are ready to fight back. Anti-fascist success in Edinburgh20 Feb 2010
Political Report to the January EC 2010John Foster, International Secretary of the Communist Party30 Jan 2010
The Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change Glasgow Anti-Cuts Meeting organised by Glasgow Unison branchplanned cuts expected to be around £30 million. 23 Jan 2010An Glasgow Anti-Cuts Meeting organised by Glasgow Unison branch was attended by 80 activists on Saturday (23rd Jan). Mike Kirby Unison Scottish Convener began by placing the meeting within the context of the Glasgow City Council budget meeting this coming Thursday, after which we will find out the extent of the planned cuts, expected to be around £30 million. Read more from Glasgow Anti-Cuts Meeting 2010 - United we standBliadhna Mhath UrThe British labour movement is heading for the rocks in 2010. The biggest rock on the horizon is the general election. If as still seems likely the Tories win in May or early June, then the ruling-class offensive against public services, trade union and employment rights and civil liberties will intensify. The poor and the elderly, single parents, the homeless and others who need the welfare state safety net will be hit by at least two massive waves of public spending cuts. The trouble is that this ruling-class offensive will continue even if new Labour is re-elected. Read more from Robert Griffiths, general secretary of the Communist Party of Britain. Some Highlights of 2009Scottish Communists work in a broad manner to gather as much suppport for progressive ideas, build wide movements and earn respect for Marxist-Leninist ways of working. We put a lot of effort into Marxist education, helping members and friends to see and understand the world with a class analysis. The following are a few highlights recorded in 2009, with much more to come in 2010!
See more for earlier years here in our media archive - masses of Marxist education and more! The movement is gathering momentum - The World Communist Movement exposes the international Capitalist recession and rally for a humane Communist future11th annual meeting of the world's communist and workers' parties in New Delhi
Financial and travel difficulties reduced the attendance in New Delhi from last year in Sao Paulo, Brazil, when more parties from Latin America were able to attend. Moreover, on this occasion, delegates due to arrive from Russia, Peru and Palestine were refused exit visas. Nonetheless, this year's three-day event drew together representatives from 57 parties in 48 countries from every continent. Morning Star Xmas Bazaar ReportQuotation from the Fighting Fund 9/12/09..... then up pop our wonderful Scottish comrades who not only knock the £14,000 barrier into a cocked hat, but nearly take the £13,000 one along with it. Helped by £20 from a Warlingham reader and £50 from our standing orders team, the Scots contingent's tremendous £980 from their Glasgow bazaar made a daily total of £1,050 and gave me real hope for the month. And all that despite the difficulties we face getting the paper to Scotland! Now that's what I call real socialist dedication. Donate to the Morning Star Online here. Glaswegians run SDL fascists off city centre streets
A tiny group of 80 thugs chanting slogans such as "No surrender to the IRA" were escorted out of Glasgow by police for their own safety after roughly 3,000 people turned out to protest against their anti-Muslim rally. Organisers said they were overjoyed by the response of Glaswegians to their call for a counterdemo on Glasgow Green. Read more .....Glaswegians run SDL fascists off city centre streets Crisis of CapitalismVideo Recording of Prof John Foster
What are the causes of the current crisis, Capitalism has been in crisis before, and there are solid lessons we need to draw from these times in order to combat the assault on the working class who will be made to pay for it. Watch the Crisis of Capitalism online.... Letter from new secretary of the Party in Scotland Tom Morrisonalso NATIONAL APPEAL TARGET £1845 FOR SCOTLANDWhile New Labour with their dismal record of war, privatisation, attacks on civil liberties and the welfare state etc deserve the distain of the British people the Tories will be even worse as can be seen by the anti-working class rants at their conference in Manchester. New Labour have paved the way for an even more vicious attack on working people and their families as the Tories move the political agenda even more to the right. It is too simplistic to say there is no difference between the Tories and New Labour. Because of the affiliation of the trade union movement to Labour the potential is always there to compel Labour to move to the left. There is no such possibility with the Tories. However it must be acknowledged that there has been little sign of the trade unions reclaiming the Labour Party for the labour movement and the constitutional changes brought in by the right wing make that all the more difficult to achieve. So what do we do? Read more from the new secretary of the Party in Scotland.... Two Big Bombshells at the TUCThe 2009 conference went out not with a whimper but with an almighty bangThere are rarely any fireworks on show at the last day of TUC Congress. It's a day for tying up loose ends and clearing up unfinished business, not heated debates and bold statements of intent. Not this year. The 2009 conference went out not with a whimper but with an almighty bang. Two of them, in fact. Drinks giant Diageo rejects offer to save jobsTurning their backs on 200 years of history in Port Dundas and Kilmarnock Diageo workers have been left shell-shocked after the drinks giant rejected a Scottish government proposal to save 900 jobs.
The company, whose operating profit for the year was up 10 per cent by £217 million to £2.44 billion, had been considering an alternative business proposal prepared by the Scottish government, but workers were told it had been rejected. Read more....... Toeing corporate lines - political posturing in Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's conviction
Forget the doubts over Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's conviction, which has already been questioned by the Scottish Criminal Case Review Commission two years ago. Leave aside the issue of legal process - 23 other terminally ill Scottish prisoners have been released on the same basis over the past three years. What is strange is that Labour leaders in Scotland should have taken up a cry started by the US-owned media, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats. 'Fascist party should not be on the BBC,' says CPB Britain's communists have condemned the BBC for inviting the far-right BNP onto Question Time, stating that the corporation has no duty to give fascists a platform. Speaking at the Communist Party of Britain's (CPB) political committee meeting, Anita Halpin said the election of fascist MEPs had not turned the BNP and its criminal leadership into a democratic, legitimate political party. The CPB said that it intends to launch a range of materials at the Communist University on November 6-8 celebrating the role of the Soviet Union in defeating fascism. No excuse for Afghan warLabour's great imperial folly, not for combating terrorism
It wasn't our original reason for invading. That was in theory to catch Osama bin Laden - remember him? - and in practice because the US told us to. But bin Laden is proving as elusive as Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. And so, just as with Iraq, we get a constantly shifting stream of alternative excuses to continue the occupation, none of them convincing. Preventing terrorism? Our occupation of Afghanistan is causing it. That is the simple truth that Brown either cannot understand or cannot admit. Read more from Labour's great imperial folly, not for combating terrorism Scottish Committee statement on the release of al Megrahi24 August 2009Scottish Communists meeting at the weekend welcomed the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi from Greenock prison. However with withdrawal of his latest appeal there is now little chance of a public enquiry and the truth of the Lockerbie atrocity being exposed. His conviction was based mainly on the identification by an individual who received a several million dollar US payout. The atrocity was probably in retaliation to the shooting down of the Iranian Airbus in 1988 killing 290 innocents with the Iranian connection being ignored by the US as it was about to invade Iraq in the first Gulf war. The hail of abuse directed by the US and others at the Scottish Government who refused to be bullied by the US, need to recall that the the crew of the USS Vincennces who shot down the Iranian Airbus where given a heroes welcome when they returned to port in San Diego. Kenny MacAsgill the Scottish Justice minister made the correct decision albeit the divine retribution of Magrhi's terminal illness claims were frankly embarrassing. The Scottish Committee also elected Tom Morrison as its new Secretary. Cuban Communist Party in ScotlandVideo of Nancy Coro Aguair, Central CommitteeNew Video available online
Cuban revolution: Scotland's communists salute you! First Bus Workers Strike Aberdeen ScotlandJuly 2009Newsflash - UNITY BOOKS NOW ONLINEMeeting you needs for progressive materials
Unity Books has an extensive range of new and second hand books, including a wide selection of Marxist texts and histories of the British and international labour and socialist movement. With over 1110 titles, Unity Books offers you a unique range of progressive materials. New Pamphlet: Scotland's Future
This new pamphlet puts the detailed position of the Communist Party on modern Scotland. Only the united force of working people across all the nations of Britain will be able to roll back, and eventually break, the power of big business and its state apparatus. Scotland's future depends on building this wider unity. Order by Post: Contact us including payment of £3.10 (2.50 + 0.60 p&p) Order Online SoonAs part of building Communist understanding, Unity Books & Parxis Press will soon be offering ONLINE Scotland's Future and a wide range of new & secondhand Marxist books. Check back soon for details. A World in Turmoil - current shifts in the world balance of forcesJohn Foster on the Communist Party of Britain's international resolution In the lead-up to its 50th congress, JOHN FOSTER runs through the Communist Party of Britain's international resolution. CURRENT shifts in the world balance of forces will provide a central focus of discussion at the forthcoming 50th congress of the Communist Party.
The dominant international position of US imperialism has received a significant check over the past two years and the general crisis of the capitalist system has deepened and become more complex. Read more the Communist Party's international analysis..... Free market fatality - exposing the myth of the free market, and their obituaryRobert Griffiths exposes the myth of the free market
THE myth of the "free market" is finally dead and not before time. Its pulse ceased - it didn't have a heart - on Monday April 21.This was the day that the Bank of England, at the behest of the Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Chancellor Alistair Darling, announced its willingness to hand Britain's banks at least £50 billion in Treasury bills.
This bail-out to save the money and housing markets is the biggest in British history. Communist Party in ScotlandThis is a compilation of images from campaigning work of Communists in Scotland - from peace work to Pride Scotia!
In short....Our rules state that "this necessitates a revolutionary transformation of society, ending the existing capitalist system of exploitation and replacing it with a socialist society in which each will contribute according to ability and receive according to work done. Socialist society creates the conditions for advance to a fully communist society".
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'The slaughter aboard the Gaza convoy ship Mavi Marmara is an extension of the serial killing of men, women and children carried out for decades in the occupied Palestinian territories, in defiance of basic human rights and international law', he declared.
Marc Livingstone, the Communist Party’s candidate for the Glasgow North West constituency, has launched the Communist Party’s Manifesto for Scotland. 13 April marks the start of the official election campaign. View the 
The so-called Scottish Defence League was prevented from assembling or marching in Edinburgh on Saturday. Police restricted the movements of the few tens of fascists to a very few venues, before escorting them out of the city, leaving the day to the 2000 Scotland United anti-fascists who listened to spirited speeches from every major political party, including Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill, Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray and city leader Cllr Jenny Dawe, from faith groups, the NUS, and Unite Against Fascism. The antifascists then formed up for a colourful march from Princes Street to the Meadows.Banners included those from the PCS, EIS, FBU, CWU, the UAF, Hope Not Hate, the SSP and the Communist Party.
The following political report was delivered to the Executive Committee of the Communist Party.
International Secretary John Foster gave the Political Report which focussed on three issues:
"May 2007 saw Scottish politics enter new territory. For the first time in half a century Labour slipped into
2nd place electorally... a major change in political horizons. Electors have shown that they want something better than
New Labour's neo-liberal policies ... Scotland's future has become the subject of active debate."
