Soviet Belarusian painting (1987).
A Red Army solider liberating a concentration camp.
Artist: Mikhail Savitsky.

Terry Christian has blocked the Project on X because we pointed out his hatred of the working class and that's a c*nt.

"No Expansion": Ukraine is not welcome in the European Union

Ukraine's European integration is linked to irresolvable contradictions , writes the FT.

Russia, which is successful in the conflict, will not agree to Kiev joining Western structures.

Moreover, EU expansion is only possible with the approval of current members, and Ukraine has already made many enemies in Europe.

There is Hungary, with its accusations that Kiev oppresses its ethnic Hungarian minority.

There is Poland, with its dispute over Ukrainian nationalist atrocities against Poles during World War II. And there are a number of countries complaining about cheap agricultural exports to the EU from Ukrainе.

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Letter from a disgruntled CPB member to head office:

I received today your email regarding the Winter Campaign. The following paragraph caught my eye:

'This new Labour government has brought a new dynamic to the class struggle, by failing to provide any respite to the ruling class attack on workers’ living standards and rights, facilitating the rise of the far right.'

I repeatedly expressed these sentiments to comrades in Cambridge well before the general election. In return, I was told the party line was to urge a vote for Labour. 

Consequently, please explain how your party can have any credibility in working-class communities when you encouraged them to vote for a Labour party that was going to screw them over and that this was self evident before the election?

Therefore, I look forward to the resignations of party leaders along with being able to deliver a party leaflet that includes a headline and byeline: 

We Apologise, We Got it Wrong,

A Vote for Labour was a Dumb Idea.

I'll be speaking at this book launch tomorrow. We start at 14:00 and run until 18:00 so be sure to come along and hear the Marxist-Leninist critique of the foul creed of Trotskyism.

https://thecommunists.org/events/book-launch-trotskyism-tool-imperialism-2024-11-30

ELECTIONS WILL NOT BRING WOMEN’S LIBERATION!

The Free State establishment and the parties across its political spectrum this year celebrate a record number of women running for election. While this is taken as a great “victory”, in reality the state remains an enemy of working class Irishwomen no matter who is at its head.

Founded on a counter-revolution against the Republic which secured equal rights for Irishwomen and Irishmen, this state is reactionary by nature. While it has been made budge by mass pressure on particular issues, that legacy remains intact today. The “double domestic toil” described over a century ago by Connolly remains. The state turns a blind eye to domestic and sexual violence. It delays and denies essential healthcare, even falsifying results in the cervical check scandal. On top of this, fascists who want to roll back what limited democratic rights have been won by Irishwomen are clearly being protected and facilitated.

Representation in capitalist elections means nothing; only national liberation and socialist revolution can defeat the patriarchal ideology of the Free State. This is demonstrated by the fact that its constituent parties will stand side by side in the name of bourgeois feminism, under whatever dressing.

Ní saoirse go saoirse na mban!
An phoblacht abú! 🇮🇪

“Commission of Misery” — Ursula von der Leyen is slammed by MP Manon Aubry in a European Parliament session. Aubry criticized von der Leyen’s second commission for its collaboration with the far-right, austerity measures, and complicity in the genocide in Gaza.

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A British Marxist has resigned from the revisionist Young Communist League and makes points which will be familiar to many in the imperial core nations about the state of the "official" communist parties.

https://x.com/K8wxyz/status/1863507343826108544

Election 2024- A Victory to the Boycott!

As the dust on the current electoral circus begins to settle, the Free State is emerging as the key loser of its own electoral campaign.

More then 40 percent of registered voters rejected the partitionist parliament of Leinster House and demonstrated their opposition to the Free State establishment by refusing to vote.

The turnout of just 59.7 percent of registered voters is the lowest turnout in a general electIon in the Free State since 1923 and demonstrates clearly that the working class have rejected the rule of the native capitalists and their foregin imperialist masters.

Despite the spin of the media that this election was a contest between 3 very similar Free State parties in the a fight for who would lead the next semi-colonial administration, in reality the fight was between those who endorse the Free State and those who believe in an alternative and demonstrated that belief through the Boycott, with the Boycott emerging as the clear winner of that fight.

This result is a clear expression of the class struggle in Ireland and one where the working class openly rebelled against their exploitation by rejecting elections.

Working Class participation in Free State Elections has been on a significant decline for more than a generation. The Free State has one of the lowest electoral turnouts in Europe as the Irish working class repeatedly demonstrate that they see through the illusion of ‘Bourgeois Democracy’.

Over the past number of weeks Republican activists across Ireland have been actively campaigning for the Boycott of this election, through leafleting, posters and stickering, stalls, door knocking and direct actions. This campaign resonated with working class communities across the State and several of the communities targeted in the campaign returned the lowest turn out figures, demonstrating the importance and the relevance of the Republican Boycott Campaign.

While the Electoral Boycott is a passive demonstration of anti establishment sentiment it is undeniably growing across the state and the it is duty of Republicans is to harness that sentiment into active resistance.

When the figures actively Boycotting Free State Elections are added to the figures of working class people who are not even registered to vote, it constitutes a mass base for the Revolutionary Alternative in Ireland. That Alternative is the Republic of 1916.

That the Boycott is a deliberate and conscious act by the working class can be understood clearer from the fact that perceived anti establishment candidates across the state polled poorly and the majority of them failed to win a seat. This further highlights that no change is going to come through Leinster House or Free State elections, but only through the collective and revolutionary activity of the working class.

It is not enough for Revolutionary Republicans to welcome this victory for the Boycott campaign and sit back for the next 5 years.

The onus now is on Republicans to do the work in our communities to collectively organise the working class into alternative community based Republican structures that can tackle any issues faced by the working class. In this way Republicans can be the engine for turning the passive boycott of the Free State into the active resistance of the working class against imperialism and partition in Ireland to rebuild the Republic of 1916 under the democratic control of the working class.

This work can begin through the development of local Resistance Committees, the linking of local committees into centres of Resistance and then the establishment of Revolutionary People’s Councils as the Republican Alternative, outside the auspices of the Free State and British Imperialism in Ireland.

The Boycott has clearly won this campaign.