On 29th July a substantial motion on Ukraine, taking a firmly defencist position on the Donbass struggle against the far-right Ukrainian regime’s 8 year attempt at suppression of the Russian and Russian-speaking population there, was put to a national members meeting of the Socialist Labour Network. On the face of it, it was defeated by … Continue reading A principled intervention on Ukraine →

By Mark Andresen This summer’s plethora of industrial action across the UK has reminded us of the mainstream media’s historic disconnect between the priorities of the middle and working classes.   Sky reporter Kay Burley’s comedically out-of-touch questions to the RMT’s Mick Lynch in June was one of the more bizarre examples. ITV’s Richard Madeley’s … Continue reading BIAS, THE BBC AND THE STRIKE   →

Communist Fight issue #10 is now available This issue has two overriding and interlinked themes: the fight against imperialist war, and against the ruinous attacks on the working class and oppressed masses occasioned by the interlinked capitalist economic and environmental crises that are intertwined with imperialism’s wars. The lead articles on the front and back … Continue reading Communist Fight issue #10 now available! →

Mikhail Gorbachev died on 30th August aged 91. The architect of glasnost (openness)  and perestroika (reconstruction), his ‘reforms’ to the regime created by the political counterrevolution in Soviet Russia/USSR in the early 1920s, finally brought about the downfall of the first workers state after more than six decades of the political monopoly of a privileged, … Continue reading Mikhail Gorbachev: A Brief Obituary →

Free the Kononovych Brothers!  Free all Ukrainian Political Prisoners!  Restore political and media freedoms in Ukraine! 7pm British Summer Time, Thursday 25 August. Access details will be circulated closer to the date. Speakers from the UK, US and Ukraine. Mikhail and Alexander Kononovych, members of of the youth wing of the Communist Party of Ukraine … Continue reading International Online Campaign Meeting: Free the Kononovych Brothers!  →

The plan to deport refugees to Rwanda conceived by Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel is an initiative worthy of Jack the Ripper. It’s the next best thing to Auschwitz in the eyes of Patel and their fellow sickos. But Auschwitz is in Poland and for its own racist and xenophobic reasons, Poland will not consent … Continue reading Rwanda Deportation Sociopathy →

The Decline of the American Empire The 21st century has been marked by the decline of US imperialism. The US has been racking up military defeats and retreating in Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen and Ukraine. The hybrid wars it orchestrated in Hong Kong, Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Belarus and Kazakhstan have been defeated. And what worries imperialism is the unstoppable … Continue reading Against the new Coup! Lula president! For a National Meeting of Popular Committees of Struggle! →

This is the Communist Fight leaflet that was distributed on the TUC demo this afternoon. Demand FULL COMPENSATION for Inflation! NATO’s Nazi-Loving Sanctions and Tory Thievery Are Hammering us — ZERO TOLERANCE!! Working-class people are being crucified by profiteer-engineered inflation with parasites pocketing the loot. Sanctions against Russia, part of the proxy war that the … Continue reading Worker-Controlled Indexation of ALL Wages, Benefits and Pensions! (Leaflet for TUC demonstration) →

The first hundred days since Russia launched its military operations in Ukraine have shown two things. First, it is clear that the US and its allies hoped to use the war to destroy Russia’s ability to defend itself against imperialism. The second is that imperialism’s plans to defeat Russia ran into big problems. Russia is clearly winning the … Continue reading 100 days of Russian resistance in Ukraine against historic NATO offensive →