Wednesday, 03 December 2008
'The Queen's Speech proposals are a mixture of hot air, missed opportunities and malice', Communist Party general secretary Robert Griffiths declared today.
'Even as unemployment officially climbs above 2 million - although the real figure is nearer 3 million - the government is pressing ahead with its plan to drive people off incapacity benefit and into insecure, low-paid or non-existent jobs', he said, 'This brutal attack is a betrayal of the history, values and ideals of the Labour Party and labour movement which the trade unions cannot allow to proceed.
Saturday, 29 November 2008
The 10th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties was successfully held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 21-23, 2008, hosted by the Communist Party of Brazil. Sixty-five parties attended from 55 different countries.
The 10th meeting received a message from the President of the Federal Republic of Brazil, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, expressing his recognition of ‘all your struggles in defence of the workers and the poor’ and ‘your commitment to build a new economic international order‘.
Representatives of the parties delivered speeches on such themes as the international economic and financial crisis; worsening national, social, environmental and inter-imperialist contradictions and problems; the struggle for peace, democracy, sovereignty, progress and socialism; and unity in action of Communist and Workers’ Parties. The meeting allowed an important exchange of ideas to take place between the parties.
Friday, 28 November 2008
Britain's Communists launched a new campaigning leaflet to explain the current capitalist crisis and what can be done to counter the attacks on working people.
Thursday, 27 November 2008
'New Labour have not changed - they are using public funds to bolster capitalism instead of taking bankrupt monopolies into democratic public ownership', Kevin Halpin told the Communist Party political committee on Wednesday.
'Chancellor Darling's pre-budget statement sends the clearest signal that public services are going to be slashed to subsidise failing capitalist companies', he declared.
Saturday, 15 November 2008
'Barack Obama's election in the US represents a significant victory for the mass progressive and labour movement and a serious defeat for the warmongering neo-conservatives', Communist Party international secretary John Foster declared at the weekend.
'As US imperialism reorientates itself towards a softer, multilateral and hegemonic strategy, that people's movement needs our solidarity for new battles over trade union rights, Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and Cuba', he told the CPB executive committee.
Analysing the international economic crisis, Mr Foster highlighted 'the contradiction between the process whereby monopoly capital extracts super-profits and the state helps redistribute wealth in favour of the super-rich through deregulation, privatisation and anti-trade union laws'.