Communist Party of Britain - South Yorkshire

The South Yorkshire Branch of @CPBritain. Fighting for a socialist society, peace & a green economy. Marxist-Leninists. DM’s open

[Communist Party of Britain - South Yorkshire @BranchYorkshire]

Quote of the day:
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
Karl Marx

[Communist Party of Britain - South Yorkshire @BranchYorkshire]

📢 Comrades! We invite you to join us at Raccoon Studios (S2 5TS) this evening where we will be joined by Hilary Cave of Derbyshire CND, who will draw on her experience to support our campaigns against the military industrial complex here in South Yorkshire.

[Morning Star @M_Star_Online]

Tomorrow's front page:

Stand together – New alliance marching in London today vow unity against far-right hatred

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Undercover cops were given explicit permission to target anti-arms campaigners, inquiry hears https://t.co/GlCVc7FFKC

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Why the working class should oppose assisted death: JOHN MCINALLY recommends that this rational, reasonable and devastating case against the End Of Life Bill be read by every serious socialist activist

https://t.co/Awx1fpmvwa

[Communist Party - Edinburgh Branch @cpb_edinburgh]

Basic decency? You might be a communist

#votecommunist #votechris

[Communist Party ☭ @CPBritain]

The Communist Party condemns the 'live fire' attack on British journalist, @SweeneySteve, as "yet another war crime perpetrated by Israel's military against media workers reporting from the front lines of Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon."

Steve Sweeney had specifically called out Israel's targeting of prominent Lebanese journalist Mohammad Sherri, who was killed along with his wife in Israeli airstrikes on Beirut yesterday.

Israel is now targeting Western journalists because it got away with murdering 235 Palestinian journalists in Gaza over the past two years.

Shrapnel was removed from Steve Sweeney's arm by Lebanese medical staff. The live footage of the moment of the Israeli airstrike clearly shows the commission of a war crime by an illegal invading army.

Keir Starmer must condemn this war crime against a UK citizen, offer full consular assistance to Steve Sweeney and end all diplomatic, intelligence and military support for Israel.

- ENDS

[Manifesto Press Co-operative @Manifesto_Press]

CULTURES IN RESISTANCE is a five-day cultural residential hosted by the Hans Hess Foundation starting 6 April. The event will be held at Wortley Hall in Sheffield and has a parallel cultural programme for 6-16 year olds, ‘Thinking Hands’. Keep an eye on our socials tomorrow for programme details and how to get involved.

[Morning Star South Yorkshire Readers & Supporters @MorningStarSY]

🚨 TONIGHT! 🚨

[Morning Star South Yorkshire Readers & Supporters @MorningStarSY]

🚨TOMORROW!🚨

[Manifesto Press Co-operative @Manifesto_Press]

TWO WEEKS TO GO - Manifesto Press authors @RogerAMck and @NigelUNI in discussion. Organised by the South Yorkshire Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group.

[Morning Star South Yorkshire Readers & Supporters @MorningStarSY]

Join Roger McKenzie & Nigel Flanagan for a wide ranging discussion hosted by the South Yorkshire Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group

🗓️ 7pm, Weds 18th March
⛪ CURC, 60 Norfolk St, Sheffield
https://t.co/F0aCPnY9GV

[Communist Party ☭ @CPBritain]

Today's @M_Star_Online front page:

Win transforms British politics – Victorious Greens make big claims as MPs and unions call for embattled PM to go

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[Communist Party ☭ @CPBritain]

Born this day, John Steinbeck weaponised literature against American capitalism. Whilst never joining the Party, his 1936 novel In Dubious Battle remains one of the few honest depictions of Communist organising in American fiction—centering a CP-led strike amongst California's apple pickers, showing the tactical discipline, violence, and sacrifice required when workers confront capital's armed defence of profit.

Steinbeck embedded with agricultural labourers and organisers, producing an unsentimental account of class struggle: police brutality, strikebreaking thugs hired by growers, and the material conditions that make revolution necessary. The novel was condemned as communist propaganda—because it was. It showed what the bourgeoisie fears most: dispossessed workers discovering their collective power.

His later work, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), exposed California's agricultural system as a machine of super-exploitation—migrant families starved, criminalised for their poverty, violently suppressed when they attempted to organise. The book was banned and burned by California's landowning class. They understood what Steinbeck knew: that America's itinerant workers—internal refugees displaced by landlord consolidation and ecological disaster—were a surplus population rendered dangerous not by criminality but by their refusal to quietly starve.

For those of us fighting for liberation, Steinbeck's Dust Bowl migrants offer a parallel: populations made surplus by capitalism, simultaneously essential as cheap, flexible labour yet despised and persecuted for the very mobility that capital demands. Spatial displacement, enclosure, criminalised poverty—these aren't accidents. They're how capital manages its contradictions.

Steinbeck showed that the "dangerous classes" are dangerous only to property relations. His legacy belongs to the workers he depicted, not the liberals who sanitised him.

#JohnSteinbeck #ClassStruggle #WorkingClassHistory #CommunistHistory

[Morning Star @M_Star_Online]

Blockade of Cuba is now putting lives at risk, minister warns
https://t.co/KAMB6eqQPQ

[Communist Party ☭ @CPBritain]

USA Imperialist Hands Off Cuba! Webinar

7pm 26 February 2026

Featured Speakers:

• Rob Miller, Director of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign
• Micaela Tracey-Ramos, CPB Executive Committee
• Ismara Mercedes Vargas Walter, Cuban Ambassador
• Chair: Kevan Nelson, CPB International Secretary
• Alex Gordon, CPB General Secretary
• Georgina Andrews, YCL General Secretary

Register here 🔗 https://t.co/VrUN3xgwqN

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Fresh anti-government demonstrations rock campuses in Iran
https://t.co/cD3AmkRrjK

[Communist Party ☭ @CPBritain]

Born in Great Barrington while the smoke of the Civil War still hung in the rafters. He was the first of the dispossessed to breach the walls of Harvard. He took their PhD and used it as a skeleton key. In Berlin he saw the European machine from the inside and realised that the logic of the Kaiser and the logic of the Jim Crow south were fed by the same furnace. He returned to find a nation that wanted his silence but he gave them the Niagara Movement instead.

The prophet of the double consciousness. The man who diagnosed the split in the human soul before the state could patent the cure. He understood that the colour line was the primary fracture of capital. A jagged seam where the profit is ground from the marrow of the oppressed. For twenty years he edited The Crisis. He turned the printing press into a frontline. He saw the NAACP grow teeth and then he saw them try to blunt them. He abandoned the academic cloisters for the raw heat of the pavement. He traded the quiet of the library for the roar of the Party.

He saw the American empire for what it was. A blood soaked machine built on stolen breath and the calculated hunger of the masses. In 1935 he wrote Black Reconstruction and tore the mask off the historians. He proved that the General Strike of the slaves was the pivot upon which the world turned. The FBI came for him in his eighties. They handcuffed a titan for the crime of wanting peace. They tried to break a man who had already outlived their empires.

He joined the Communist Party at ninety three. A final middle finger to the state that tried to cage him. He died in Ghana. A citizen of the world he helped set on fire. He left as the colonial shroud began to tear. He died on the very eve of the March on Washington. He knew the ink of the scholar is a lie unless it is spilled alongside the blood of the revolutionary.

#WEBDuBois #SocialistHistory #ClassStruggle

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Former RMT president Alex Gordon elected as leader of the Communist Party of Britain
https://t.co/26eX6WawGu

[Communist Party ☭ @CPBritain]

First words from our new General Secretary, Comrade Alex Gordon:

The Communist Party Executive Committee has done me a great honour by electing me to the role of General Secretary. I am conscious of the enormous political responsibility and trust placed in me personally and the duty of every Party member to work for a united front against austerity, imperialism and war in a period when capitalism general crisis is intensifying.

Our Party's focus is on building unity between trade unionists, campaigners for housing, health and essential public services and against the poverty, racism and war fever that reactionary media and political forces promote to divide working class people.

2026 marks the centenary of the British general strike and the 90th anniversary of the formation of the International Brigades in both of which our Party played a leading role. We are conscious of the legacy we inherit. We will build the Marxist party of the Labour movement in Britain.

Our Flag Stays Red!