“The poor South” against the “rich North”?

Blame our bloody fate! Blame the God that hates us! Blame our stupid heads! Blame, more than anything else, the wine! Who is to blame? Who is to blame?…no mouth Continue reading →

Karl Marx no longer exists

from the Hungarian communists The Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party has held its 25th Extraordinary Congress 11 May 2013 in Budapest. We have changed the name of the party. Our party Continue reading →

Religious extremists bomb Communist Party of Bangladesh HQ

  On 5th of May, 2013 Hefajote Islam (a grand alliance of Islamic extremists) and Jamat-e-Islami’s armed militants attacked the Central Office of the Communist Party of Bangladesh(CPB) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Continue reading →

A people’s policy on Europe

by Robert Griffiths Some English and British nationalists tend to oppose the EU because they fear or resent close relations with foreigners. However, as in the case of Ukip, this antipathy Continue reading →

Jerónimo Carrera: A lifetime in the front line

Features by Ryan Mallett-Outtrim After nearly 70 years of incessant political activism, the president of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) Jeronimo Carrera died on May 29. His grandson Ulysses Continue reading →

May Day greetings from 21centurymanifesto

In the May 2013 issue of 21centurymagazine Rosa Luxemburg on the idea of May Day on the march; May Day posters from around the world; a call to the Labour Continue reading →

A call to the labour movement

The Tory-LibDem government is attacking the living standards and democratic rights of workers and their families on a scale not seen in Britain since the 1930s. It is an integrated, Continue reading →

May Day reflections

by Robert Griffiths According to a Special Branch report in 1942, general secretary Harry Pollitt criticised left-wing MP S.O. Davies at a clandestine meeting of Communist Party trade unionists.   Continue reading →

Left unity

 By Michael Ford Left unity is the motherhood-and-apple-pie of socialists.  The unspoken (and sometimes spoken) assumption is that if only the left could crack the unity problem – the Rubik’s Continue reading →

May Day appeal

MAY DAY DECLARATION 2013: WE WILL NOT BECOME THE SLAVES OF THE 21ST CENTURY 24 April 2013 The World Federation of Trade Unions appeals to all the trade union organizations Continue reading →