US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has appointed eight new people to the committee that issues official government recommendations on immunisations, days after removing all 17 previous members. In an announcement on X, Kennedy, a vaccine sceptic, said reconstituting the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (Acip) was a “major step towards restoring public trust...
US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, a vaccine sceptic, has removed all 17 members of a committee that issues official government recommendations on immunisations. Announcing the move in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, Kennedy said that conflicts of interest on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (Acip) were responsible for undermining trust...
“Keir Starmer’s government is sacrificing millions of working-class votes for the Labour Party on the altar of big business profits, militarism and war”, Communist Party General Secretary Robert Griffiths told our Party’s Political Committee on Tuesday evening (27 May 2025). “Scores of billions of pounds extra can be found for more nuclear weapons, to...
“History will record British military support for Israel as complicity with genocide”, Communist Party International Secretary Kevan Nelson declared at yesterday’s Executive Committee (10 May 2025). Recent reports indicate that Britain has sent 14 shipments of bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines and F-34 fighter jet parts to Israel since October 2023, while the RAF has...
Exeter Harbour Board is looking for three new members to join the committee. Exeter City Council is the Port Authority for the Exe Estuary, some non-tidal sections of the River Exe and the Exeter Ship Canal. This stretches from Blackaller Weir (in Bonhay Road, Exeter) to a safe water mark a mile off the Exmouth...
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The decision to recruit Morgan would appear a shrewd one by the MCC as it comes in the wake of an agreement to sell a 49% stake in London Spirit, the Lord’s-based franchise in The Hundred, to a consortium of tech billionaires. Morgan’s extensive experience of franchise cricket, in addition to his breadth of knowledge...
“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...
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...
“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...
Nothing symbolises the re-emergence of capitalism’s general crisis more clearly than president-elect Donald Trump’s refusal to rule out the use of force to retake the Panama Canal, to annex Greenland from fellow NATO member Denmark, and his willingness to use ‘economic force’ to make Canada the USA’s 51st state, Alex Gordon told the Communist Party’s...
‘Capitalism’s all-round general crisis is back with a vengeance in Britain and many other developed countries’, Communist Party General Secretary Robert Griffiths told our Party’s Political Committee on Wednesday evening (8 January 2025). ‘On every front from the US and Canada to Britain, France and Germany, ruling classes and governments are in turmoil. As...