Communist Party - Merseyside Branch

The Merseyside Branch of the Communist Party of Britain. @CPBritain

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Delegates enjoying a select screening of the fantastic ‘London Recruits’ with a special introduction and welcome by Comrade Ronnie Kasrils 📽️

Internationalism has always defined our movement. It demonstrates that another world is possible and waiting to be born 🌍🕊️🚩 #ForwardToAUnitedFront #CP57

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Delegates are arriving and we’re almost ready to kick off at Ruskin House for our 57th Congress 👥🗣️🚩 #ForwardToAUnitedFront #CP57

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Building the Communist Party and the united front

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A congress for the working class: Communist Party chair RUTH STYLES on this weekend's 57th Congress of the Communist Party

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There's no bigger priority for the Communist Party than building solidarity with Palestine, Congress hears as Gaza crisis worsens

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Belgian transport unions refuse to load and unload weapons going to Israel (both via ports and airports) and call for an immediate ceasefire.

#LETGAZALIVE #CeaseFireInGaza #SolidarityWithPalestine

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Communist Party industrial organiser ANDY BAIN explains how union-led mass resistance campaigns have become a key strategy in fighting back against neoliberalism since the pandemic https://t.co/DMW9BSTlqI

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On the third day of the International Dilemmas of Humanity conference, participants discussed how to address the environmental crisis from a socialist perspective and issues of human dignity, reports ZOE ALEXANDER https://t.co/14ErfHlSh4

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Socialism ‘is the only possibility’ for progress, Dilemmas of Humanity conference in Johannesburg hears https://t.co/7TUnGFLATO

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On this day in 1987, president of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara, was overthrown & assassinated in a French-backed coup led by his former associate, Blaise Compaoré.

Sankara, a Marxist revolutionary, pan-Africanist & devout anti-imperialist, assumed power at the age of 33.
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From #London to #Aberdeen, and many places in between, the message is clear 🕊️🇵🇸✊

• Stop the attacks on #Gaza!
• End the criminal occupation!
• Free #Palestine!

Get involved and support the Palestine Solidarity Campaign @PSCupdates 📱💻

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The latest instalment in the series of articles building up to our 57th Congress 👇🚩

Will Dry explains the democratic structure and process of the main decision-making body of Britain’s 103-year-old Communist Party 🗣️📕🗳️

#ForwardToAUnitedFront #CP57

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The Communist Party is calling on members and supporters, socialists and trade unionists to mobilise for peace, support this weekend's demonstrations and take the arguments against war into every workplace in Britain.

We demand the withdrawal of British armed forces which have been sent to the Middle East in the past days - as well as the withdrawal of all British troops and bases already stationed in the region.

The danger of even greater British military intervention in Palestine and the wider the Middle East is clear and imminent.

The Labour Party and TUC conferences both indicated that government foreign policy would go unchallenged. Now the region and people of the world stand to pay the price for this cowardice.

No to war and intervention!
Fight for peace!

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza

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With the cold setting in once again the Tories have no plans to address fuel poverty and the right wing Labour leadership have ruled out public ownership or any meaningful plans to support working people. All the while the energy monopolies are making super profits ❄️🔋💷

The Communist Party is demanding that energy and fuel prices are cut to an affordable rate and frozen. This could easily be funded by a rise in corporation tax and an emergency tax on the obscene profits made by energy monopolies in the last two years.

We’re also calling for an above inflation rise in the Winter Fuel Allowance for the 8 million citizens who receive it already.

These are measures to get us through the winter months. But the dominance of energy giants is the real issue.

All of these companies must be nationalised and the energy sector taken into public ownership to guarantee capped prices and the reinvestment of all profits for public good, not to line the pockets of shareholders.

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The third session of the Communist Party in Liverpool planned for 16/10/23 will be postponed until further notice.

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The Communist Party of Britain expresses solidarity with the Palestinian people at this time of an escalation of resistance to the criminal occupation of Palestinian land by the state of Israel.

The events occurring this weekend are the entirely predictable response of a people to military occupation, apartheid and constant attack and humiliation.

The full responsibility for the current situation rests not only with the current far-right Netanyahu government, and with the increasingly cruel strangling since 2007 of Gaza and of all occupied territories, but with all the historic injustices inflicted upon the Palestinian people.

The deaths of civilians and crimes against them on both sides must be avoided and condemned. However, it must be clearly understood that horrific crimes are perpetrated against the Palestinian people daily by the Israeli military and state backed settlers, armed and funded by the USA and other imperialist powers including Britain. Collective punishment of the people of Gaza is a war crime and must cease immediately.

It is clear, now more than ever, that the only solution can be an end to the criminal occupation, an end to racial apartheid and crimes against civilians and the implementation of a two-state solution based on pre-1967 borders establishing an independent Palestinian state.

The Communist Party rejects the actions and statements by the British government to criminalise solidarity actions with the Palestinian people, including the measures in the Anti-Boycott Bill.

We call on all Party members, trade unionists and socialists to support and attend solidarity actions with Palestine taking place across Britain including in London on Monday 9 October and to step up support for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel.

Executive Committee
Communist Party of Britain

8 October 2023
London, Britain

#FreePalestine #Palestine #Gaza #GazaUnderAttack #hamasattack #Israel

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“In the end however we must change the system which brought the climate and environmental disaster now unfolding before our eyes.”

“As we have seen over recent months and weeks, we cannot expect those who have so much invested in keeping things the way they are to make the changes our world and our country need to save them for ourselves and future generations.”

“On climate and the environment, capitalism has failed — it has to be socialism or extinction.”

#ForwardToAUnitedFront #CP57

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As our 57th Congress at the beginning of November approaches, we explain what Congress actually is and why it is so important to our party 🗣️🗳️🚩 #CP57 #ForwardToAUnitedFront

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The life of anti-racism activist, communist, journalist, and “founding spirit” of the Notting Hill Carnival, Claudia Jones, was commemorated by English Heritage on Thursday 5 October with a blue plaque at her former home in Vauxhall.

The Communist Party was represented at the unveiling by David Horsley and veteran anti-racist and anti-imperialist activist Winston Pinder.

Jones was just 49 when she died in 1964. She was buried in Highgate Cemetary alongside Karl Marx. The inscription on her headstone describes her as “a valiant fighter against racism and imperialism, who dedicated her life to the progress of socialism and the liberation of her own black people.”

Jones was born in Trinidad and moved to New York, where she became a committed communist. She was imprisoned in the McCarthy trials and then extradited to Britain in 1955. At her sentencing, she said she was committed to fighting “for full and unequivocal equality for my people, the Negro people, which as a Communist I believe can only be achieved allied to the cause of the working class”.

After the Notting Hill race riots in 1958, she became a community organiser and started an event which would become the Notting Hill Carnival.

We honour her legacy, which continues to inspire activists and campaigners against racial and class oppression everywhere #claudiajones #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #communisthistory #communistparty #communistpartyofbritain #communist #nottinghill #nottinghillcarnival

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We’re growing and increasing our activity the length and breadth of Britain 👥📈

Next month, our 57th Congress will meet to plan the next chapter.

Now is the time to join the Party 📝🔴

If not you, who? If not now, when?

#ForwardToAUnitedFront #CP57

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