A podcast to broadcast the reports of the Provisional Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain!
1 Biden 'plan for Gaza': more concerned about presidential election 2 (16.35) Starmer and Palestine: keeping in line with the US 3 (18.45) General election: Labour and the left 4 (30.40) Tories and Reform UK: where next? 5 (39.20) International move to the right 6 (53.55) South Africa: SACP has totally abandoned working class principles 6 (57.10) Ukraine: breakthrough nowhere in sight
Sima Asvadi - Thinking through Artificial Intelligence by CPGB-PCC
1 General election: Tories' disastrous start 2 (13.20) National service: desperate stuff! 3 (24.00) Migration and small boats: workers' organisation needed 4 (26.40) Other election issues 5 (35.05) Vote left if you can; make demands on Labour left candidates 6 (50.45) Sparts: 'frustrating' 7 (56.05) Gaza: ICC and ICJ reactions 8 (57.50) Ukraine: still a proxy US war? 9 (61.20) Climate: beyond human endurance
1 London demonstration: further clampdown on the cards 2 (8.25) Israeli split: permanent occupation of Gaza? 3 (20.40) Steve Freeman's delusional 'solution' 4 (34.55) Ukraine: military incompetence 5 (43.20) Corbyn: where is the anti-Starmer movement? 6 (49.30) Starmer: 'ocean apart' from the Tories? 7 (52.30) SWP: new internal procedure?
General election 2024 and communist perspectives - discussion and debate between the Spartacist League and the CPGB
1 Gaza: 'sympathy' and hypocrisy 2 (19.22) Labour resignations and 'bullying' 3 (23.32) Thames Water: wreckage from the failure of privatisation 4 (28.47) Global warming: dismal capitalist failure 5 (34.22) 'Anti-hate legislation': defend free speech 6 (40.07) Anti-Semitism and CPB: joining in pro-Zionist propaganda
1 US and Israel: Biden under pressure 2 (18.20) UK general election and the Tories 3 (19.50) Stabbing of Iranian broadcaster - by whom? 4 (22.40) Gaza: famine, disease and death 5 (26.15) DUP resignation: expect unionist splintering to continue 6 (37.10) Ukraine: the wider picture 7 (53.45) Reply to Netherlands comrade: programmatic details essential
1 Gove and 'extremism': Tories' anti-Muslim agenda revealed. 2 (29.06) Hester's attack on Abbott: good or bad for Tories? 3 (39.16) McDonnell on Abbott: what about the others? 4 (43.46) More Tory trouble. 5 (45.41) Middleton nonsense: begin with scepticism. 6 (58.36) Gaza: US complicity and duplicity.
Celebrating International Women's Day 2024, Mike Taber and Daria Dyakonova speak about their new book 'The Communist Women's Movement 1920‑22, Proceedings, Resolutions and Reports'. Introduction by Anne McShane
CU Spring 2024: Yassamine Mather - Iran and its Proxies by CPGB-PCC
CU Spring 2024: Marc Mulholland - Revolutionary Defeatism by CPGB-PCC
CU Spring 2024: Moshe Machover - Two-State, One-State Delusions by CPGB-PCC
CU Spring 2024: Mike Macnair - History of British Imperialism by CPGB-PCC
CU Spring 2014: Jack Conrad - Marxism and Just Wars by CPGB-PCC
1 Ukraine: World War I plus drones 2 (28.41) USA: state action to stop Trump second presidency? 3 (33.51) Increased arms spending and social-imperialists 4 (41.36) Gaza: Israel plans mass expulsions 5 (47.410) 'Islamic threat' and false anti-Semitism claims 6 (55.01) Lee Anderson and Reform UK 7 (56.56) George Galloway: SWP hypocrisy 8 (65.11) Let's debate the Sparts
1 Gaza demo in London: nonsense claims 2 (7.19) Gaza, Israel and Egypt: sorting through the contradictions 3 (13.09) Gaza and UK opinion: massive gulf with political class 4 (19.59) Gaza: Scottish Labour resolution - ceasefire now! 5 (21.09) Labour witch-hunt continues. 6 (24.44) But what about Starmer, the ex-Trotskyist? 7 (28.44) Political trends in the UK: bourgeois backing for Labour? 8 (35.49) Ukraine: situation on second anniversary of the war 9 (44.49) Putin, Russian contradictions and Navalny 10 (50.19) US interests: what next? The collapse of the centre and move to the right in the USA?
1 Gaza: horrendous outcome expected 2 (29.20) Israel/Palestine: our solution 3 (35.25) David Miller: demand free speech 4 (41.05) AMOC: action needed beyond capitalist limits 5 (54.40) Putin interview: contrast to usual imbecility 6 (62.40) US elections: Trump on course for second term
1 US/UK attacks on Yemen, Syria and Iraq: unintended consequences? 2 (10.05) Joint declaration: delegitimising Israeli assault. 3 (21.00) Thousands still on the streets 4 (25.00) Suspended MP: don't oppose genocide! 5 (30.50) Anti-Zionism still equals anti-Semitism 6 (37.40) Israel planning mass expulsions? 7 (41.55) Long-term solution: minimum and maximum programmes clearly related 8 (54.35) United Ireland in our grasp? Delusional
1 Are we in a 'pre-war world'? 2 (34.20) 'Citizens Army' and the left 3 (42.40) Israel, ICJ and UNRWA 4 (49.40) Holocaust memorial day and anti-Semitism smears 5 (57.50) Trump verdict - still on track to win
Mike Macnair: Communist unity and its refuseniks by CPGB-PCC
1 Palestine: huge demonstrations continue 2 (9.45) Houthis: serving their own interests, not those of Iran 3 (28.00) Middle East: left illusions 4 (33.25) Confusions: minimum or maximum 5 (36.15) Taiwan: what about the 'communists'? 6 (43.15) Ecuador and the 'drug war' 7 (47.55) Post office and the postmaster scandal
1. Gaza: 'Pacification' and the possibility of regional conflict 2. (17.00) Israel's motives: politics, not gas and oil reserves 3. (32.30) South Africa charging Israel with genocide in the Hague 4. (35.30) 'The Telegraph', Tabytha Shapps and the redefinition of 'anti-Semitism' 5. (43.30) The Communist Party of Britain's softness on Zionism 6. (54.30) Police crackdown on those speaking out against genocide 7. (59.30) Rishi Sunak's polling 8. (60.10) Response to Andrew Northall on factionalism
1. Gaza and ethnic cleansing 2. (09:40) The problems involved in equating Israel and Hamas 3. (16:30) The Morning Star's confusion over the March Against Anti-Semitism 4. (29:35) Sunak and Meloni: much in common 5. (36:00) Elections in the Public and Commercial Services Union 6. (40:52) Thoughts on classifying the Soviet Union and its collapse
1. Gaza: shredding crocodile tears 2. (10.00) Propaganda war and ;legal creep 3. (44.45) Rwanda: Tory crisis 4. (48.20) Anti-union laws: learn the lessons from the past 5. (55.10) MAS: picking up flotsam and jetsam
Moshe Machover - The War in Gaza by CPGB-PCC
1. Netherlands: another 'traffic light coalition'? 2. (10.35) Argentina: election of an 'anarcho-capitalist' 3. (13.15) USA: Trump still the candidate to beat 4. (14.35) Genuine democracy is central 5. (24.30) Gaza: falsification of 'anti-Semitism' to boost Israeli propaganda 6. (47.35) Newham council by-election: left independent defeats Labour 7. (54.35) Net migration: 'slap in the face' 8. (57.55) Polemic - our tradition
1. Tories: rescuing the sinking ship? 2. (27.00) Nigel Farage comeback? 3. (34.40) Labour: Starmer still set to win next election 4. (47.55) Gaza: effective genocide 5 (54.15) Terrorism: the Marxist position
1. The Enormous pro-Palestine demo in London 2. (17:51) Arrests at the Demo 3. (26.01) A Critique of the SWP and the ‘River to the Sea' Slogan 4. (47.08) The Hottest year on Record and COP 28 5. (52.41) Socialist Appeal's ‘Communist Turn'
1 Israel/Palestine: 'inch by inch' 2 (14.45) Middle East repercussions 3 (23.45) The UN and western establishment 4 (35.25) Labour and Israel 5 (43.15) Palestine and free speech 6 (53.20) Where next? 7 (56.55) Trump re-election? 8 (57.55) SNP programmatic crisis
1 By-elections: a very likely Labour government 2 (8:15) Israel/Palestine: 'terrorism' and propaganda 3 (26:15) Ukraine: the 'forgotten war'
1 Aims of Hamas and Israel 2 (13.45) Reactionary response to protests 3 (18.45) Where next in the conflict? 4 (35.20) SWP nonsense 5 (42.20) Hamas: support and politics 6 (47.25) Left response: working class solution needed. 7 (60.15) Australia referendum 8 (61.00) Russia?Ukraine 9 (61.45) Prepare for the most rightwing ever Labour government
1 Ukraine: continued stalemate 2 (17.15) US presidency: Trump victory? 3 (29.00) Tory conference: Sunak's idiocy 4 (41.40) Labour conference: preparing for a Starmer government
1 Climate: Sunak's U-turn 2 (19.40) Demography crisis: prioritise social needs 3 (30.50) Ukraine: continuing stalemate 4 (38.20) Russell Brand: celebrity culture of abuse 5 (45.45) Comrade Downing's misunderstandings
1 Trump vs Biden - then what? 2 (13.05) TUC congress: positive and negative 3 (25.40) Continued anti-left campaign 4 (33.45) Labour left confusion 5 (37,55) Russia/North Korea: response to US hegemony 6 (43.20) Iran protests: symbol of the veil 7 (45.20) Russell Brand: entertainment and power 8 (50.00) HS2: railway madness 9 (53.30) 'Anti-Semitism': false accusations exposed 10 (55.50) Misunderstanding Jack Conrad
Fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende's Popular Unity government in Chile. Speaker: Mike Macnair
1 Ukraine: ongoing stalemate 2 (12.55) Biden's visit to Vietnam and US anti-China strategy 3 (20.50) Current strikes: purely defensive action 4 (28.20) Party finances: bourgeois support for Starmer's Labour 5 (33.30) Chile: 50th anniversary of anti-Allende coup 6 (39.20) Proud Boys and Trump: follow-on from US constitutional crisis 7 (44.20) Scotland: a pro-EU SNP and an SWP popular front
1 Trump charged: constitutional crisis? 2 (14.45) Sunak's pledges: NHS shambles 3 (34.45) Climate chaos 4 (40.40) Ukraine stalemate 5 (46.50) Transform: worthless popular front
1 Climate change: quantity and quality 2 (15.00) By-elections: most conservative ever Labour government on the cards 3 (34.05) Ukraine: fragility of the regime 4 (47.35) Spain: march of the right 5 (53.35) Israel: crucial vote
1 Israel: colonial-settler expansionism 2 (13.55) BDS: SCG disgrace 3 (16.20) Israel-Palestine: regional solution essential 4 (30.00) Ukraine: Russia's damp-squib offensive 5 (42.40) Climate change: huge global disruption 6 (51.00) Scotland drug laws: legality essential everywhere 7 (58.10) The left and the police: people's militia needed 8 (59.30) Migration: 'small boat problem' will remain
1 Ukraine: war of attrition 2 (13.45) Boris Johnson: still a 'somebody' 3 (20.10) Iran/Israel: don't count on 'peace' 4 (25.10) China: USA timing things carefully 5 (28.40) Abortion: a woman's right to choose 6 (31.45) Migration: principled response needed 7 (38.50) Tories: BDS equals 'anti-Semitism' 8 (43.10) Strike wave: resisting pay cuts
1 Climate change: why 1.5 degrees matters 2 (19.00) Ukraine: 'armchair general' scepticism 3 (33.20) Turkish and Greek elections: what about the working class? 4 (40.00) Northern Ireland: Sinn Fein advances at unionist expense 5 (47.10) National Conservatives and 'cultural Marxism' 6 (62.20) Degas sculpture: judge by artistic quality
25 years of the Good Friday Agreement by CPGB-PCC
1 Jeremy Corbyn: pro-establishment campaign continues. 2 (8.35) SNP v Labour: anti-Toryism. 3 (14.55) SWP: elections v strikes 4 (25.55) US decline: significance of Trumpism 5 (34.10) War on drugs 6 (42.45) Elon Musk and artificial intelligence: moral panic 7 (50.55) Teachers: right not to be overworked 8 (56.35) Slave trade: reparations diversion
1 Climate change: IPCC's 'runaway train syndrome' 2 (14.45) Banking crisis: which way out? 3 (23.20) Ukraine stalemate: we need revolutionary defeatism 4 (28.50) French pensions: retirement and our demands 5 (34.25) Strikes: political strategy needed 6 (39.55) Met report: institutional racism and the nature of the police 7 (47.55) Teachers and Ofsted bureaucrats
1 Saudi-Iran deal: 'great-power' as well as regional crisis 2 (14.45) Small boats and asylum-seekers: for free movement and workers' organisation 3 (31.30) Gary Lineker: not just 1930s Germany 4 (42.15) Strikes: syndicalism or principled political unity? 5 (48.55) PCC statement: free speech, not 'safe spaces'
Comrade Kevin Bean addresses the March 5th Online Communist Forum Kevin's talk follows on from his recent article in the Weekly Worker: https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1432/sunaks-brexit-deal/ Organised by CPGB (www.communistparty.co.uk) and Labour Party Marxists (www.labourpartymarxists.org.uk)
1 Proxy war in Ukraine and China's '12-point plan'. 2 (18.05) London demonstration: 'Peace' or 'Arm Ukraine'! 3 (27.15) Northern Ireland protocol: divisions within establishment 4 (30.35) Scotland: the culture war and SNP divisions