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Saturday 4 July 2009
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What now for Labour?The lesson of the Glasgow East by-election defeat.New Labour policies are absolute poison to working class people and their communities - that's the lesson of the Glasgow East by-election defeat. In May of this year, the Communist Party of Britain held its fiftieth national congress. Once again, we characterised 'New Labour' as "the open representatives of monopoly capital in the Labour Party". In practice, this has meant the pursuit of pro-big business policies at government level, and a concerted attempt to utilise the trade union movement to that end. While there is nothing new in this, what is striking is the single minded determination with which Blair, and now Brown, have pursued their right-wing programme in the interests of big business..... Read more of this statement here... 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. Labour must change course - say Scottish communists
Wendy Alexander's resignation as Scottish Labour leader should be seen against that backdrop. The turmoil in Labour's ranks is a direct result of the systematic pursuit of reactionary policies at home and abroad...... Read the Communist Party in Scotland statement STUC 2008 Annual Congress: recorded Fringe meetingsInverness April 2008 Every April, trade unions & trade councils come together to formulate progressive policies
for working people.
Communist Party 50th CongressScottish delegation
We are also grateful to staff and friends at the Morning Star, the daily paper of the left, who covered the wide ranging debates, speakers & events.
Soon there will be available video footage from a range of international guests reporting on the Communist worker's movement across the world, and also the analysis and democracy in action from British communists. 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. Venezuela Students Fringe MeetingVideo now on line
So a fringe meeting was held, with Venezuelan students studying in Scotland giving first hand accounts of the building of a better world in Latin America, often in the face of US interference. Watch video from the Students Fringe here The revival of socialist ideas, socialist policies and the vision of a socialist society.Rob Griffiths, General Secretary of the CPB ROB GRIFFITHS looks at the possibility of an upturn in fortunes for the left. In 2008, only men and women over 45 might have some memory of the miners' strikes of 1972 and 1974. Many millions of younger people today have no such memories. Moreover, they have had little or no opportunity to learn about socialism, about its ideas or the policies which embody them. They know that something is deeply rotten about our society. But they neither see capitalism as the root of the problem nor socialism as the root of the solution. Where's the possibility of an upturn? Read on to find out..... 5 years on: Thousands turn out for Glasgow Anti War protest15 March 2008
THOUSANDS of peace protesters in Glasgow heard Scottish Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon call for troops to be withdrawn and the perpetrators of the Iraq war to be held to account at the weekend. Ms Sturgeon was speaking at Saturday's rally on Glasgow Green organised by the Stop the War Coalition and supported by the STUC, Scottish CND and the Muslim Association of Britain.
Organisers estimated that around 5,000 people joined the march through Glasgow city centre, which saw representatives from trade unions EIS and UNISON, Communist Party of Britain, Solidarity and the Scottish Socialist Party taking part.
Read more in our news section
MORNING STAR: the only socialist daily newspaperOn the day Socialist News from 3rd March - subscribe today!
MPs, MSPs, trade unionists & leading voices of the progressive & working class movement issued the following:
We welcome the re-launch of the Morning Star as a daily paper in Scotland. It makes a major contribution to the plurality and balance of the Scottish pressThe Morning Star has the support of all major trade unions & the Scottish Trades Union Congress.
It will be on open display in every RS McColl shop across Scotland and also other major newsagents. Latest Marxist Education ResourcesFriends & New Members school
Two of these sessions were recorded & are now on line:
Britain's Road to Socialism: An Introduction Iraqi Communist Party - the fight against SaddamMeeting recorded November 2007Iraqi Communists & partisans fought an amazing & heroic campaign against Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime through much of the 70's & 80's, a movement which is proudly remembered in Iraqi Kurdistan to this day.
Our profound thanks go to Comrades Abdul & Amer for bringing alive this period of struggle. It is humbling to be faced with the facts of this struggle, not least the chemical weapons attacks on Communists & Kurdish villages during the Anfal campaign. Yet it is encouraging to hear just how much was achieved & won against all the odds. Watch this meeting online here. Communist University 2007Videos completely online
If you couldn't attend the events in Croydon, then we hope that video recordings of these leading national and international speakers from the labour and anti-imperialist movements will be the next best thing. More avaiable in our media, education & documents sections. Unite Union backs the Morning Star - only real voice of the labour and trade union movement
UNITE has taken a substantial share in the co-operative Peoples Press Printing Society Ltd, which runs the Morning Star newspaper. And I, as Unite assistant general secretary, have also joined the Morning Star's management committee.
..it is still the only daily paper of the left and the only real voice of the labour and trade union movement. Read more....Working people are set to pay the priceRobert Griffiths on looming Capitalist crisis
From crunch to crisis - the greed of financial fantasy threatens the real world
The greed of financial fantasy threatens the real world.
ROBERT GRIFFITHS warns that working people are set to pay the price for a society run for the rich.
Financing the future - why the Scottish Parliament needs a new set of teeth
TWENTY years ago, when leftwingers were asked what kind of Scottish Parliament they wanted, they would reply: "A parliament with teeth."
It was a clumsy phrase, but they knew what they meant - a parliament with powers to intervene economically, particularly on jobs and industry. The teeth were for taking bites out of the corporate fat cats. Read more....have most SNP promises been scaled down or abandoned?Young Communists in Scotland - build a better future!
*Updated - YCL Section*. We have a number of young members and interested people in branches across Scotland. You can meet some of our members as we hold a Communist Party and YCL stall from around 1-3pm EVERY SATURDAY outside Border's Book Shop on Buchanan Street, Glasgow. If you would like to know more, get in touch with us or if you see our stall then introduce yourself! Our members are often at political events and demos with Communist Party flags. 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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"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."
Congratulations to delegates, fraternal visitors & participants who took part in a successful 50th
Congress of the Communist Party in Britain (24 May - 26 May).
