1951: the Festival of Britain [print version]
Seventy years ago, in the midst of post-war austerity and rationing, Britain found the will to create a remarkable, popular festival…
Britain
Britain
How the EU turned a vaccines crisis into a fiasco
The EU cannot hide its dismay at the success of Britain’s vaccination programme. And its attempt to strongarm Britain to make up for its failure backfired spectacularly…
A nation for tourism
Visitors from abroad recognise Britain as one nation – something tour operators are well aware of…
Glasgow 1919 – the legacy
Glasgow in 1919 was at the heart of British working class activity, but it’s worth separating the myth from the reality…
British Independence and the Working Class
1 February 2019
Political statement from the Communist Party of Britain Marxist-Leninist, 18th Congress, London, November 2018. Either we live in an independent Britain deciding our own future, or we become slaves to international capital.
Out of the EU! Rebuild Britain!
Out of the EU! Rebuild Britain!
Sunday 1 May 2016 19:30 to Monday 2 May 2016 18:30
Join us to celebrate May Day. We have meetings on 1 May in Leeds and London, and on 2 May in Edinburgh.
Click here for details.
No advance without Marxism
13 February 2016
Political statement from the Communist Party of Britain Marxist-Leninist, 17th Congress, London, November 2015. There can be no advance without Marxism, because Marx showed that only the eventual victory of the exploited class, the working class, represents a real future. Capitalism means only destruction and war. Here in Britain, we need our own unique vision of a working class future in order to fight and win in the present.
What makes us safe
In the “war against terror”, British governments have wilfully ignored the best ways of fighting it. It won’t be defeated by smart missiles or drones. It won’t be defeated by toppling secular governments.
Yes to Britain, no to the EU
This Party is for the union of England, Scotland and Wales in Britain. We are against separatism, because for a part of the British working class to leave Britain is not independence but secession, splitting. We are for Britain’s unity. We are also for Ireland’s unity.
How to house Britain
Housing has become a case of satisfying the greed of a tiny minority of capitalist speculators. And “build more houses” is not the answer to the housing shortage. Here are some alternatives…
Britain – not for sale
Occupied countries learn the hard lesson that when you lose something it can be difficult, and often impossible, to get it back later.
Oppose the dismantling of Britain. For a united working class
Oppose the dismantling of Britain. For a united working class
Thursday 26 February 2015 19:30
CPBML Public Meeting. Thursday 26 February, 7.30pm
The Sovereign Suite, Cosmopolitan Hotel, Lower Briggate, Leeds LS1 4AE
From all sides workers are told things will be better if we split our country into ever smaller units. Yet at the same time we’re told that we can’t live outside the European Union.
Come and discuss. All welcome.
After the vote - Rebuild Britain
19 September was a great day, a great victory – a day of unity when the people of Scotland finally spoke and buried the narrow aspirations of separatism…
Scotland’s false flag
The Scottish referendum is an attempt to turn the growing desire in Britain to be an independent country into its opposite, for Britain to be partitioned instead.
The early 1800s: national workers’ organisation arrives
It was during the first half of the 1800s that a nationally organised working class first emerged throughout Britain with centres in for example Sheffield, Birmingham, Leeds, Nottingham, Glasgow and the West Country.
Six calls to action
The Communist Party of Britain Marxist-Leninist held its 16th Congress in late 2012, a coming together of the Party to consider the state of Britain and what needs to happen in the future. Here we set out briefly six Calls to Action for the British working class.
Change Britain – Embrace Your Party
Political statement from the Communist Party of Britain Marxist-Leninist, 15th Congress, London, November 2009. The British government and the capitalist class internationally want us to believe that the working class cannot change anything, everything is beyond our control. We think differently.
Change Britain – Embrace Your Party
Change Britain – Embrace Your Party
Political statement from the Communist Party of Britain Marxist-Leninist, 15th Congress, London, November 2009. The British government and the capitalist class internationally want us to believe that the working class cannot change anything, everything is beyond our control. We think differently.
Consistently malign: British foreign policy since 1870
This historical survey of British foreign policy since 1870 shows it to be a consistently malign force in international affairs.
The Future is Ours
The Future is Ours
Political statement from the Communist Party of Britain Marxist-Leninist, 14th Congress, London April 2006. At the 2003 congress the Party laid out an analysis of the state of Britain and the class which has been utterly borne out by events. The questions for us to consider now are: Where do we go from here? What has changed? How do we strike out for a future?
The Future is Ours
Political statement from the Communist Party of Britain Marxist-Leninist, 14th Congress, London April 2006. At the 2003 congress the Party laid out an analysis of the state of Britain and the class which has been utterly borne out by events. The questions for us to consider now are: Where do we go from here? What has changed? How do we strike out for a future?
Principles for Progress
Principles for Progress
Any worker reflecting on events today will see unbridled US aggression, record job losses in Britain’s manufacturing base, chaos in our schools and hospitals, the further undermining of our sovereignty by unceasing European Union integration.
Principles for Progress
17 October 2004
Any worker reflecting on events today will see unbridled US aggression, record job losses in Britain’s manufacturing base, chaos in our schools and hospitals, the further undermining of our sovereignty by unceasing European Union integration.
Peace, Jobs, Power
Peace, Jobs, Power
Political statement from the 13th Congress of the CPBML, London, 21/22 April 2003. Capitalism is now in terminal decay, unable to feed, clothe, house, provide work for or meet the needs of the people of this country. From seeming synonymous with manufacture, capital is now its antithesis.
Peace, Jobs, Power
Political statement from the 13th Congress of the CPBML, London, 21/22 April 2003. Capitalism is now in terminal decay, unable to feed, clothe, house, provide work for or meet the needs of the people of this country. From seeming synonymous with manufacture, capital is now its antithesis.
Class, Country and Control
Class, Country and Control
Document adopted at the Reconvened 12th Congress of the CPBML, October 2000.
Class, Country and Control
1 October 2000
Document adopted at the Reconvened 12th Congress of the CPBML, October 2000.
The British Working Class and its Party
1 May 1969
The document agreed in 1971 at the Party's second Congress, was adopted subsequently as its programme. It has remained so ever since, unchanged, because its fundamental tenets are as true and important today as they were then. Includes the original preface by Reg Birch, and a new one written in 2001.