. Workers and consumers in Britain have nothing to gain from joining US-EU and anti-China tariff wars, the Communist Party has warned. “Higher tariffs on our exports and imports would jeopardise investment, jobs and living standards”, General Secretary Robert Griffiths told the Party’s Political Committee last week, “especially given Britain’s trade deficit and a relatively...
. The Communist Party of Britain stands in solidarity with the Communist Party of Turkey and calls for the immediate and unconditional release of TKP members and other prisoners who have been detained and arrested in the recent protests against state repression! Below is a letter from our General Secretary, Robert Griffiths: Dear Comrades of TKP,...
Responding to today’s Labour Spring Statement (26 March 2025), Communist Party General Secretary Robert Griffiths commented: Chancellor Rachel Reeves has put on her tin-foil hat to announce the government’s intention to make Britain a “defence-industrial superpower”. This Spring Statement confirms Labour’s aim to be the war-mongering party of the military-industrial complex. Spending plans to...
Communist Party Chair Ruth Styles accused “capitalism’s resource wars” of creating tension, confrontation and violent conflicts around the world addressing the Party’s Executive Committee at the weekend. She pointed to Western-backed genocide in Palestine, catastrophic conflicts in Africa, the carve-up of Syria, and US threats to seize valuable mineral resources in Ukraine, Greenland and Canada...
“The first Cold War delivered half a century of lies about NATO, the US-led ‘arms race’, the non-existent ‘Soviet threat’ and US military bases in Britain – the new Cold War will be similar, but with deeper cuts to public services and social security programmes”, Carol Stavris told the Communist Party’s Political Committee on...
The Communist Party welcomes the TUC Women’s Conference vote to uphold women’s rights and reject proposals for full decriminalisation of prostitution. The Communist Party welcomes the clear decision by the TUC’s 2025 Women’s Conference in London this week to reject two motions supporting full decriminalisation of prostitution. Demands for decriminalisation of so-called ‘sex work’...
The Communist Party sends greetings to working women everywhere on International Women’s Day 2025! We stand together with women and girls throughout the world against the scourge of sex-based violence from wherever it comes. We reject racism, sexism and misogyny. We demand full protection of hard-won women’s rights and an end to exploitation, oppression and...
“Putting aside the political theatre of recent days, the overriding priority is to oppose the new arms race, build the anti-war movement and support peace in Ukraine”, Kevan Nelson told the Communist Party’s Executive Committee at the weekend. He said Prime Minister Starmer’s plan to increase British military spending to 2.5% of GDP would...
A Woman’s Body is not a Workplace! The Communist Party’s Women’s Commission is organising this webinar ahead of the TUC Women’s Conference (5 – 7th March) and International Women’s Day (8th March) which is open to all comrades and friends of the Party. Speakers include: Mary Davis, author of Women & Class and member...
Join the annual oration at Karl Marx’s grave at Highgate Cemetery, organised by the Marx Memorial Library, to celebrate the life, work and contribution of one of the greatest thinkers in human history. The event will feature speakers from across Britain’s trade union and communist movements as well as international guests. This year’s oration...
“A peace settlement is long overdue in Ukraine, so it’s time to stop the war and start the peace!”, Kevan Nelson declared on Tuesday evening (18 February 2025) following that day’s talks between the US and Russian governments, “But it’s a bit rich for British and EU politicians to complain about their own exclusion...
The Communist Party’s Political Committee has issued the following statement on the sexual exploitation of woman and girls. In a class based society, misogyny, sexual abuse and the objectification of women and girls are part of the oppression all women suffer because of their sex. The Communist Party of Britain supports and is playing...
Commemorate the life and political times of the outstanding activist and Communist Claudia Jones on 25 February at Highgate Cemetery, Swain’s Lane, London. Claudia Jones was a journalist and writer. She argued that people were attacked for their race, gender and class. She spent time in a US Jail and was deported to Britain...
“President Trump’s plans for US imperialism include the destruction of the Palestinian community in Gaza, in collaboration with Israel, as Britain and other NATO members do nothing to stop and actively support this genocide”, Georgina Andrews told the Communist Party’s Political Committee on Tuesday evening (28 January 2025). She said the US president and...
Holocaust Memorial Day is observed globally on the 27th of January, marking the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by soldiers of the Soviet Red Army in 1945. Nazi-fascism, the ideology which unleashed the most costly war in human history, is the same force which planned and carried out the mass...
