Incase you missed it, here is Les Doherty's and Phil Katz's excellent tribute to Harry Pollitt which was published in the Morning Star on Saturday... Les Doherty secretary of the Manchester Communist Party and Phil Katz CP centenary project officer pay tribute to a much loved and respected leader of the Party, Harry Pollitt who died sixty years ago today. On 27th June the Greater Manchester CPB branch pays tribute to former CPGB chair and general secretary Harry Pollitt who died on this day 60 years ago, at the age of 69. Pollitt was born in Droylsden in conditions similar to those describ ..read more

Build working class unity, says veteran anti-apartheid campaigner. At a Black Lives Matter rally today (13 June) in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, the rally’s organiser, Morning Star supporter Pete Stevenson, read out this stirring message from veteran anti-apartheid campaigner and communist Ken Keable. There were over 200 people at the rally and the message was warmly received. Social distancing was strictly observed. Message from Mr Ken Keable of Stoke-sub-Hamdon, Somerset: In 1968, when I was 23 years old, and again in 1970, I was sent into apartheid South Africa to help the African National ..read more

The Communist Party robustly opposes the Conservative Government's Immigration 2020 proposals and offers a new approach. This week, the CP, ahead of an important meeting (6 June) of its anti racist anti fascist commission, published a pamphlet by Vishnu Sharma ’No racist immigration laws’ available in our shop as a digital download. Below is an excerpt from the briefing document outlining our response to the proposals. Introduction In the midst of the Covid 19 crisis Government pushed ahead with its points-based immigration system. Both Labour and Employer Groups criticised the move. Employ ..read more

Comrade Barry Brooks, from the soon-to-be-launched CPB Burnley Branch took a trip to Blackpool on Saturday to join Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre TUC to protest the Tory party conference. Read on for the Lancashire Lowdown… After an unexpected late cancellation of the planned national protest by the TUC it was a pleasant surprise to receive notice that the Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre TUC had taken the decision to go alone and protest the Tory Party spring conference. A few hundred trade unionists, activists, campaigners and locals eager to let current Tory regime know exactly what the working class t ..read more

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In the 50 years since the massacre of innocent British Citizens by the British State, there is still much to be done by the government to accept responsibility for the role that it played on Bloody Sunday. In this weekend’s edition of the Morning Star, Mick Carty, general secretary of the Connolly Association and Richard Rudkin, a former British soldier that served in Northern Ireland, highlight the lies and harm that past and current governments have perpetuated, and the role of the mainstream media in their unchecked repetition of these lies. No change there then. The propaganda spread a ..read more

Celebrations from a previous Independence Day taken from Nhân Dân Newspaper CP member and student of MA Political Science, Kyril Whittaker discusses the significance of Việt Nam’s Independence Day, and congratulates Việt Nam and his family and friends who are members of the CPV on this special day. On this day in 1945 Uncle Hồ read the declaration of independence in Việt Nam, this declaration for the first time declared Việt Nam as an independent country, free from French colonialism and Japanese Fascism. Sadly, we all know what the following period of Vietnamese history he ..read more

Beware Path Thieves! The battle for access rages on... Veteran rambling activist, and CP member Rob Hargreaves explains that the battle to defend access rights in the countryside and open areas around our towns has never been more pressing. There is a common misapprehension that the battle to win public access to open spaces in Britain was won, and settled for all time, by the Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout. If only that were true. For although events on Kinder Scout in April 1932 amount to what is arguably the most successful example of direct action ever seen in the United Kingdom, the figh ..read more

Manchester communist, Jude, reports back from last month's Kinder Scout commemoration. On the 22nd May a group of around twenty Young Communist League members, Communist Party members and Morning Star supporters from around the North gathered at a bus stop in the small Pennine town of Hayfield to commemorate the Kinder Scout trespass. Alongside local Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion branches the YCL and party members paused at the foot of the memorial for an inspiring speech by Dave Toft from the Hayfield Kinder Trespass Group, where Benny Rothman and the trespassers had gathered some eig ..read more

Our branch WhatsApp blew up last week over the proposed European Super League. We invited a couple of comrades to put their thoughts down for the blog, and they did not disappoint. First up, Dom gives us his wry take on the whole sorry tale... In a way, it was quite beautiful while it lasted: after the announcement late on Sunday 18th of April, up ‘til Tuesday, the owners of 12 of the biggest clubs in Europe achieved the impossible and united football supporters of all teams, politicians of all persuasions, all national newspapers and rival owners in condemning their plans for a European Sup ..read more