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communist party of great britain (marxist-leninist)

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Social wage highlights

  • France / Support the French strikers!

    France’s militant unions are joining forces with yellow vest activists in a serious challenge to Macron’s EU-backed assault on living standards.

    10 Dec 2019 ,
  • France / France goes on strike: can Macron survive?

    As militant trade unionists prepare to join yellow vests on the streets, the class struggle in France is moving into a new gear.

    30 Nov 2019 ,
  • France / One year on: the yellow vests and the class struggle in France

    What has fuelled the rise and sustained the popularity of the gilets jaunes movement in Britain’s nearest neighbour?

    19 Nov 2019 ,
  • Social wage / DWP dirty tricks are pushing the most vulnerable over the edge

    Private companies are being handsomely paid to prevent the sick from accessing benefits they have every right to.

    31 Oct 2019 ,
  • Britain / Bury FC: a victim of capitalism

    One more reason for workers to burn with indignation against a social order that can never be made to serve their interests.

    15 Sep 2019 ,
  • Health / Shameful levels of malnutrition in Britain

    Privatisation and cost-cutting in social care have led to shocking levels of neglect amongst the most vulnerable in our society.

    13 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • Social wage / ‘We often see grown men in tears – they can’t believe they’re here’

    Manchester reporter discovers dismay, rage and defiance in Oldham, a town bruised by universal credit and austerity.

    7 Aug 2019 , Manchester Evening News
  • Housing / Council tax becoming the new poll tax says report

    Thinktank investigation reveals the huge disparity in rates of payment between the poorest and richest households.

    16 Jul 2019 , Birmingham Worker
  • Society / Hunger on the rise in Britain, despite economic ‘recovery’

    In-work poverty testifies as to who really paid to bail out the banks in 2008. And while hunger is on the rise, one-third of food produced every year is wasted.

    20 May 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Privatisation directors’ fat salaries come from ripping off health service workers

    Sodexo and Mitie are the latest hospital outsourcing companies to face industrial action by staff over terrible pay and conditions.

    14 May 2019 ,
  • Disputes / Left-Labour-controlled Newham is not such a New Jerusalem

    Despite working for a Labour council and a Corbynite mayor, council workers in Newham face pay cuts and bullying.

    13 May 2019 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Fire Brigade Inc

    Cuts and outsourcing are part of the slow drive towards total privatisation of this essential service.

    12 Apr 2019 ,
  • Lay-offs and closures / Interserve: another outsourcing giant hits the wall

    In the pursuit of monopoly profits, another building corporation turned ‘public service provider’ has gone bust – and the public will be picking up the tab.

    6 Apr 2019 , Proletarian
  • France / Call from France’s first yellow vest assembly

    Even as it sinks out of sight in the British media, France’s popular rebellion is continuing and gaining momentum.

    30 Mar 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Brum bin strike concludes with a payout

    A new deal was concluded in March to appease workers’ anger at secret payouts to GMB members during the 2017 strike.

    24 Mar 2019 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Privatisation undermines the probation service

    The government has reneged on its promise to step in if the privateers failed to deliver.

    17 Mar 2019 ,
  • Disputes / South Western railworkers win battle to keep the guard on the train

    Safe and affordable public transport for all. Support our rail workers!

    19 Feb 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Refuse, resist! Brum rubbish collectors ready to strike as council talks fail

    Brummie binmen are days away from an all-out strike, clashing once again with a Labour council that has rewarded scabs and blacklisted strikers.

    20 Jan 2019 , Sputnik
  • Health / Newcross Healthcare: rinsing the public coffers

    The true face of privatisation in our public services, where greed and abuse are rewarded and people come last.

    15 Jan 2019 , Proletarian
  • France / France’s yellow vests fight on, despite concessions

    Social unrest in France is being driven by workers’ anger at continuous attacks on jobs, wages and living standards.

    5 Jan 2019 , Lalkar
  • Social wage / WH Smith gobbles up another 74 post offices

    Another step towards the complete dismemberment and privatisation of the mail service.

    22 Dec 2018 ,
  • Social wage / A third of British children live in poverty

    A decade of austerity is taking a heavy toll on Britain’s families.

    13 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • Housing / Grenfell Tower – another long and winding public inquiry

    Privatisation, subcontracting and the drive to maximise profits led to the inferno, but the ruling class will be hoping the inquiry can come up with a scapegoat or two on whom to pin the blame for its crimes.

    8 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • Housing / The housing crisis is lining private landlords’ pockets

    Housing benefit is acting as the ‘landlords’ bonus’, while provision of emergency temporary accommodation by private landlords is the ‘icing on the cake’.

    6 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Bristol bus protest highlights failing public transport in Britain

    Workers must demand renationalisation as the first step towards affordability, planning, and the sanity of a socialist economy.

    25 Nov 2018 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Universal credit: forcing the needy into ever more desperate poverty

    The government can look after the interests of the capitalists or the interests of the workers; it cannot do both.

    13 Nov 2018 , Lalkar
  • Sweden / Shootings, killings, cars on fire – what’s going on?

    All a sign of the irretrievable decadence of bourgeois society.

    21 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Theft of steelworkers’ pensions

    Successful campaigners lose up to half their entitlement, shafted after all by caveats in the small print.

    9 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Support Birmingham’s homecare workers

    Before Labour councillors privatise the service completely.

    19 Sep 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • Social wage / Poverty on the rise as Birmingham’s Labour council freezes burial fees

    Rates of child poverty are soaring in Britain’s major cities; Labour councils are as impotent and callous as all the rest.

    14 Jun 2018 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Privatised rail industry totters

    The resistance of rail workers to safety-cutting measures is bringing the question of renationalisation back onto the political agenda.

    19 May 2018 , Proletarian
  • Housing / Grenfell Tower: tragedy or crime?

    What was behind the devastating fire in north Kensington in June?

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Budget 2016: attacking the poor will not fix the economy

    Chancellor Osborne is finding that there is no escape from the world capitalist economic crisis.

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Disgraceful neglect of the disabled in Britain

    Official government policy: nobody knows you when you’re down and out.

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / New bill could pave the way for the final destruction of social housing

    Is this the end of social housing in Britain or the start of a fight-back?

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • Health / The junior doctors’ contract and the US corporate takeover of the NHS

    Dr Bob Gill explains the unreported and sinister drive behind the push for changing junior doctors’ contracts.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Benefit cuts: Who are the real parasites in our society?

    Stealing from the poor for the benefit of the rich.

    16 Sep 2015 , Proletarian
  • Ireland / Sinn Féin stands alone against austerity

    Both north and south of the border, Sinn Féin is once again showing that it is the only one of the main parties in Ireland that takes a sincere interest in the welfare of the masses.

    1 Feb 2015 , Proletarian

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Social wage video

  • USSR / The NHS is ‘communist’ – we owe it to the October Revolution, not to Labour

    What did the October Revolution do for us? Much more than most workers ever imagine.

    7 Nov 2019, Proletarian TV

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