On Friday 15th October, the Tory MP for Southend West, Sir David Amess, was fatally stabbed while he was holding his weekly constituency surgery. It is still unclear what the motivation that drove the attack was and the police still have not confirmed the full name of perpetrator. However, various media sources have named the … Continue reading Statement on Amess Murder
The best way to understand what happened in the recent Labour Party conference is to bear in mind some basic facts about the General Election of 2017, recounted by UNITE’s recently retired former General Secretary here: “Labour won 40 per cent of the vote. Since 1970, only two Labour leaders have achieved that: Jeremy Corbyn … Continue reading Starmerites and Zionists Attempt to Assassinate the Labour Movement
During the 2016 Brexit debate leading up to the referendum to leave the European Union, Boris Johnson sold Brexit as an answer to Britain’s economic and social problems against the backdrop of an emblazoned bus, with the now infamous lie that £350 million would be given to the NHS each week instead of membership payments … Continue reading The wheels come off Johnson’s Brexit Bus
New threat of imperialist nuclear war amid climate danger! Hot on the heels of the US cutting its losses in Afghanistan in August, comes the formation of AUKUS, a new imperialist bloc between the United States, Britain and Australia, transparently to target China in the Asia-Pacific region. This carries a potent war threat for the … Continue reading LCFI Statement on AUKUS: US tries to stop its own decline with a new anti-China imperialist ethnic alliance
By Ian Donovan The article in the 9 September Weekly Worker by Derek James, “Weapon forged in lies” contains a rather hysterical AWL-like attack on Socialist Fight, an organisation that defied the third-campist pro-Zionism of the CPGB little-league witchhunters and was purged from Labour Against the Witchhunt, Starmer style in 2018. The capitulatory politics of … Continue reading CPGB Islamophobes Echo Starmer Against Militant Anti-Zionism
The counter-revolution in the USSR was not fought, not even admitted and even less studied by those who claim to be revolutionaries today, beyond rare exceptions. The final destruction in the USSR, after 74 years of existence, in August 1991, was the biggest defeat of the working class and the communists in the last 50 … Continue reading Defeat in the USSR and its Aftermath
– 30 Years since August Coup and Collapse of the USSR. – Almost 20 years of imperialist occupation in Afghanistan collapses in days. – A critique of a flawed analysis of the counterrevolution and its effects The Russian October Revolution was the greatest event so far in human history. It was the first opportunity for … Continue reading LCFI Statement: Soviet-bloc Counterrevolution Still Traumatises Humanity
Communist Fight issue 6 is out now, in hard copy format. It features articles on Palestine, and the need for international workers action to liberate Palestine and fight the genocidal Zionist project through international workers revolutionary action. Also this issue focuses on the need to defend Cuba as a deformed workers state, in the context … Continue reading Communist Fight Issue # 6 Available Now!
To Liberate Palestine Needs Permanent Revolution “The-times-they-are-a-changing”: as one well known Palestine Solidarity activist, of Jewish origin, recently said, evoking Bob Dylan in a call for the formation of a new Palestine solidarity movement in Britain. They certainly are! Criticisms of Zionism that were considered taboo just a few short years ago are now becoming … Continue reading Fight Zionist/Imperialist Genocide! For International Workers Action!
At the time of the Industrial Revolution Britain gained the moniker of the ‘workshop of the world’. Its industrial strength made it the first truly capitalist industrial world power. Statues of its conquering heroes litter the cities of imperial Britain: Cromwell, Wellington, Rhodes, Clive, Churchill, Montgomery, and often from a slightly earlier period, those of … Continue reading Why is Labour Coming Apart? A Historical Analysis
