The overwhelming defeat of the Tories must be our top priority at the local elections General secretary of the Communist Party of Britain ROBERT GRIFFITHS explains why his party argues for an overall Labour victory to put the workers’ movement in a better position to fight for real socialist politics
Tuesday 15th Nov 2022 The ‘general crisis of capitalism’ has returned with a vengeance In an international address, ROBERT GRIFFITHS gives an overview of the tasks of the communist movement in Britain and worldwide
Wednesday 28th Sep 2022 What would a labour movement Budget look like? The 'official opposition' mounted weak resistance to the mini-Budget and provided nothing in the way of a comprehensive alternative. Here, ROBERT GRIFFITHS lays out how we could start to really build a workers' economy and what it might cost
Sunday 07th Aug 2022 Where next for Wales? Communist Party general secretary ROBERT GRIFFITHS asks what policies and constitutional arrangements are best fought for to secure socialism in Wales
Saturday 18th Jun 2022 A rising tide of united protest and struggle Today’s mass demonstration can lay the foundations for a class-based people’s front to shift the balance of power in Britain, writes ROBERT GRIFFITHS
Monday 06th Jun 2022 As inequality grows, so too does South Africa's Communist Party South African CP general secretary BLADE NZIMANDE visited London last week. Robert Griffiths reports on a discussion with him ranging from Ukraine to Zimbabwe
Wednesday 11th May 2022 Starmer Labour's electoral Achilles heel General secretary ROBERT GRIFFITHS delivered the main political report to last weekend's Communist Party executive committee meeting. This is an edited copy of his report
Saturday 06th Nov 2021 What’s in store for the Communist Party’s 56th congress? ROBERT GRIFFITHS surveys the top subjects up for debate, including the drive to a new cold war, developments in the Middle East, Africa and the Americas, the working-class response to Covid — and more
Friday 29th Oct 2021 Beware ‘Santa Sunak’ and his temporary gifts Communist Party general secretary ROBERT GRIFFITHS comments on the Budget and Spending Review
Friday 01st Oct 2021 The origins of the Chinese 'lab leak' theory The theory that the Wuhan Institute of Virology in eastern China is to blame for Covid-19 is as old as the disease itself — it’s been widely debunked but is now pushed largely by anti-communist cranks and still used by imperialist agitators, explains ROBERT GRIFFITHS
Tuesday 24th Aug 2021 Why did the Soviet Union collapse and counter-revolution triumph? Gorbachev’s resignation as leader of the CPSU 30 years ago marked the beginning of the downfall of the USSR. While the Western nations rejoiced, the peoples of the former union saw the restoration of capitalism of a particularly violent and ruthless kind, writes ROBERT GRIFFITHS