Scottish Communists

Strathclyde University & Glasgow University Communist Societies presents - The Case For Communism.

Marc Livingstone, Chairperson of the Communist Party in Scotland and also Communist Candidate in the General and Scottish elections, sets out the case against Capitalism first, and then goes on to speak to the benefits of Communism. Finally, the floor was open for anyone to ask questions, so a session of discussion on the points raised finishes the video.

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Report back from the Western European Communist delegation to People's China in Autumn 2011. Communist Party of Britain formed part of this delegation, along with official Communist parties of Spain, Portugal, Greece, France and Italy. Between August 7 and 19, a delegation of representatives from eight western European communist parties - including the CP Britain, visited China. The invitation came from the Chinese Communist Party (CPC), then celebrating the 90th anniversary of its foundation.

Buy the full report by Robert Griffiths & John Foster in pamphlet form "Which Road for China?" here for £2.50 (including p&p) http://www.communist-party.org.uk/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=1&flypage=flypage-ask.tpl&product_id=230&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=178

The Capitalist banking Crisis - the tyranny of unregulated markets

The havoc of finance capital - IMF 1990's scandal BCCI investigation financial crash Barings Bank. Our savings are plugged into markets. Our jobs have been plugged into markets. Politics have been plugged into markets. Unregulated markets by their definition are unstable and volatile.

If we are looking for change, we must look to how to undermine the neo-liberal ideology.

Capitalist Globalisation - Communist Party of China

Cheng Enfu. Recorded at 21 Century Marxism 2011, London. Organised by the Communist Party of Britain.

21st Century Marxism 2011

A Revolutionary Politics presentation & workshop, recorded at 21 Century Marxism in London 2011.

Professor John Foster, International Secretary

Chair Robert Griffiths, General Secretary Communist Party of Britain

Main Presentation

Further Discussion

"What is to be done - where now after November 30th Strike?" Named after a popular Lenin pamplet on tactics, this was a Communist Party meeting with other Left forces, building on the success of the united trade union movement action in November 2011, which saw 20,000 march in Glasgow City centre.

Across the UK, millions of people struck and marched in dozens of towns and cities.

That action, co-ordinated with 30 other unions, was a powerful display of united trade union opposition to unfair and unnecessary cuts in pensions and of the depth of support for the alternative to the government's damaging economic policies.

The action has won growing public support and Ministers have undoubtedly been pushed further onto the defensive. Their wild claims about the strike and their misleading comments on public sector pensions have been exposed for what they are: desperate attempts to deflect attention from their unjust cuts in hard working public servants’ pensions to pay for a deficit caused by the greed of the banks.

Davie Brockett, NEC of Unite the Union

Tommy Morrison, Secretary of Clydebank Trades Council

Over 10,000 private soldiers - mercenaries, still remain, and the largest "embassy" in the world.

The Iraq War and subsequent occupation was one of the defining events of the past decade. When it came to Iraqis slaughtered, the Americans and their allies blithely pointed out "we don't do body counts". The Lancet estimated 654,965 excess deaths related to the war, or 2.5% of the population, through the end of June 2006.

As of April 29, 2008, the UNHCR estimated that over 4.7 million Iraqis have been displaced, with 2.7 million within Iraq and 2 million outside.

The Iraqi Communist Party was one of the fiercest opponents of Saddam Hussein while he was still a western-backed dictator. This meeting was recorded in 2007 with one of these comrades. The recording of this fine meeting was thought to be lost but was recently rediscovered. It is newly uploaded here.

2011 - The Iraqi Communist Party is still technically legal but has faced many obstacles - from vote rigging against it in elections to the assassination of its militants.  There were many arrests earlier in 2011 when it, as part of a wider alliance, it organised mass demonstrations in central Baghdad  against corruption and the erosion of living standards and welfare.  The trade union movement where it has many members has also faced legal bans over the past year.

40th Anniversary of the USC Work In - Lessons for today

Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) was a British shipbuilding consortium created in 1968 as a result of the amalgamation of five major shipbuilders of the River Clyde in Scotland. It entered liquidation amidst much controversy in 1971, leading to a famous "work-in" campaign at the company's shipyards, led by a number of Communist shop stewards, incuding Jimmy Airlie and Jimmy Reid.

Professor John Foster who co wrote the seminal book on the Work - In, and is also a Communist, addressed a public meeting of Clydebank Trades Union Council in October 2011 to celebrate 40 years of the world famous Work In, and to draw out the lessons which we can learn from it today in our fight against another Tory government and their cuts agenda.
The full videos of that meetingare online on the Clydebank TUC website  http://clydebanktuc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19:ucs-work-in-upper-clyde-40-years-on-lessons-for-today&catid=3:videos&Itemid=24

and are well worth watching, including the contributions from Communist Shop Steward Davie Torrence and school student Billy Macalaister, as well as a full and detailed further discussion.