The condition of the Filton 24 detainees and the demands of the Palestine Action hunger strikers are overwhelmingly absent from mass media, which prefer to fill our screens with distracting, misleading and even fabricated images and narratives aimed at lining up public sympathies with imperialist aims.

https://thecommunists.org/2026/01/14/news/prisoners-for-palestine-jaques-baud-imperialist-media-machine/

Representatives of the British Chapter of the Antifascist International visited the Venezuelan embassy in London yesterday to sign the book of condolences for the fallen heroes and martyrs of the 3 January attack by US imperialism.

Honour and Glory!
No to complicity with British involvement against sovereign Venezuela!
Free President Maduro! Free Cilia Flores!
Venceremos!

When one dies
In the arms of a grateful homeland,
Death ends, prison is shattered;
Life, at last, with dying, begins!

Oh, more than a world, more! When glory
Snatches us from this narrow dwelling,
The spirit grows,
Heaven opens, the world expands
And among worlds we dawn.

Despot, look here how your blind
Anxious yearning conspires against you:
Look upon your striving and your impotence, and then
Look upon that corpse you conquered,
Who died with a hymn in his throat,
Who mutilated expires in your arms
And rises in the arms of glory!

Let your vengeful hand not waver;
Let not the one who moans nor the one who weeps stop you:
Kill, despot, kill!

For he who dies before your impious fury,
Heaven opens, the world expands!

José Martí


Cuando se muere
En brazos de la patria agradecida,
La muerte acaba, la prisión se rompe;
¡Empieza, al fin, con el morir, la vida!

¡Oh, más que un mundo, más! Cuando la gloria a esta estrecha mansión nos arrebata,
El espíritu crece,
El cielo se abre, el mundo se dilata
Y en medio de los mundos se amanece.

¡Déspota, mira aquí cómo tu ciego
Anhelo ansioso contra ti conspira:
Mira tu afán y tu impotencia, y luego
Ese cadáver que venciste mira,
Que murió con un himno en la garganta,
Que entre tus brazos mutilado expira
Y en brazos de la gloria se levanta!

No vacile tu mano vengadora;
No te pare el que gime ni el que llora:
¡Mata, déspota, mata!

¡Para el que muere a tu furor impío,
El cielo se abre, el mundo se dilata!"

youtu.be/E5resAyI4dk

Our general secretary, Ranjeet Brar, speaks with Crispin Flintoff and Rahmeh Aladwan about the use of the “IHRA definition of antisemitism” to repress free speech in Britain.

The IHRA definition Has been adopted by the NHS at Wes Streeting’s insistence.

Since speaking here, Rahmeh has - unbelievably - arrested for the 4th time for alleged “antisemitism” on the basis of the IHRA definition!!

Support the campaign to kick the definition out of the NHS - and out of Britain!

HANDS OFF IRAN! Party statement

As west-backed provocateurs unleashed violence and tried to create social breakdown, huge numbers of people turned out to show their support for the government and the revolution in the face of outside attack.

The funeral of three-year-old Melina Asadi, who was murdered during during one such terrorist shooting spree, attracted a massive crowd, while a government-called mobilisation on 15 January brought at least one million Iranians to the streets in defence of their country’s sovereignty and independence.

Aiming to fragment the population and cause chaos, the imperialists have instead promoted the cause of national unity.

https://thecommunists.org/2026/01/17/news/hands-off-iran-oppose-anglo-american-regime-change-psyops/

Into the enemy’s lair! Comrade Ranjeet Brar speaks outside Wes Streeting’s constituency office in Ilford North.

We want to send Streeting a clear message: We will never accept the racist IHRA ‘definition of antisemitism’ as a restriction on our political rights. We will never be browbeaten into silence. We will never stop opposing your genocide in Palestine!

Mr Streeting may be being groomed to be our next prime minister, but he belongs before a people’s tribunal for his complicity in crimes against the people – of Britain and of Palestine.

https://youtu.be/33DS7cnUifU?si=MHtPold0Vc2zXVpC

Mr Assange’s complaint notes that ‘There is a real risk that the funds derived from Nobel’s endowment have been or will be intentionally or negligently diverted from their charitable purpose to facilitate aggression, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.’

https://thecommunists.org/2026/01/01/news/julian-assange-criminal-complaint-nobel-foundation-instrument-of-war-peace-prize/

https://thecommunists.org/2026/01/18/news/kick-ihra-definition-antisemitism-out-nhs/

The IHRA definition of antisemitism was ‘declared adopted’ by British health and social care minister Wes Streeting in November 2025.

Right to Protest Ltd has launched a judicial review to stop this measure, and to defend the ability of all who support Palestine and oppose the genocide being perpetrated against the Palestinian people to speak freely.

Please donate to the legal fund:
https://crowdjustice.com/case/defend-free-speech/

A pivot to the western hemisphere does not, as some wishful thinkers have suggested, reflect an acceptance of China’s rise and the inevitability of a multipolar world order.

On the contrary, the purpose of aiming to achieve hemispheric hegemony is to establish a stronger base from which to confront China – and Russia, and Iran, and the DPRK, and any other state that seriously pursues sovereignty and independence.

https://thecommunists.org/2026/01/01/news/trump-national-security-strategy-blueprint-hegemony/

Wrangling over who should pay for the next subsidy to Kiev shows a dawning realisation that no ‘lender’ can expect to be repaid.

With the battlefield frontlines creeping inexorably westward, the fractures between the various Nato and EU member states are continuing to grow as the aggressors look for ways to pass the buck of the economic and geopolitical disaster they have created.

https://thecommunists.org/2026/01/20/news/collapsing-ukraine-reparation-bond-irreparable-divides-europe/

The role of social democracy and the bureaucratic layer of the ‘professional-managerial-class left’ is clear, whether it be the British Labour party and those nominally ‘outside’ of it like Jeremy Corbyn, or the US Democrats and those nominally ‘outside’ of it like Cornel West.

It exists to prop up imperialism and tie the working class in the west to its own exploiters via social chauvinism, bribery, and the cooptation of our mass movements.

Millions of well-meaning workers are being misled by bourgeois education and history. Those of us who have an instinctive ‘gut reaction’ against Iran, but are not really sure why, need to stop and think: Am I victim of western media lies?

We must not allow ourselves to be duped by our class enemies. If we want to get free, we are going to have to remove the blinkers from our eyes and the traitors from our midst.

https://thecommunists.org/2026/01/21/tv/joti-brar-nick-cruse-fake-left-supports-regime-change-iran/

Our comrade Steve Sweeney is now bureau chief in Lebanon and one of a tiny number of people bringing information from the southern warzone. He features in this RT documentary (around 45mins in) about the channel's role in cutting through imperialist narratives around the world.

https://en.rtdoc.tv/films/2446-rt-20-years-of-questioning-more

The Morning Star’s recent headline claiming that at least 2,500 protesters have been killed in Iran is deeply troubling. The article led with the figure as though it were an established fact, implicitly assigning responsibility to the Iranian state, before citing HRANA as its source – again without scrutiny.

HRANA is not a neutral observer. It is a US-based organisation that has received funding linked to the National Endowment for Democracy, an outfit established in 1983 to do what the CIA previously did covertly: influence political outcomes in target states. It is headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia – a short drive from the CIA headquarters in Langley.

Casualty figures do not circulate in a vacuum, they are political instruments. Inflated or unverified numbers act as a softener – priming public opinion for sanctions, isolation, destabilisation or worse. Today it is ‘2,500 dead’. Tomorrow it becomes 5,000. Then 12,000. Some say 20,000. The ratchet only turns one way.

https://thecommunists.org/2026/01/22/news/morning-star-imperialist-lies-iran/

The latest round of the US-led hybrid war against China revealed just how badly weakened the machinery of imperial coercion has become.

Sanctions, tariffs, export controls and military pressure – the full spectrum of hybrid warfare – have repeatedly failed to produce their intended outcomes.

China has maintained its pursuit of industrial planning, technological advance and supply chain control, slowly and steadily undermining the imperialists’ advantages in sector after sector of economic activity.

https://thecommunists.org/2026/01/23/news/china-wins-latest-round-hybrid-war-usa-tariffs/

Solidarity with the Islamic Republic of Iran!

The last few weeks in Iran were marked by protests and civil war-like situations. Most leftists and communists in Germany uncritically supported the protests and encouraged its development towards a civil war. In doing so, they reproduced narratives and supposed facts propagated by imperialism and ignored counter-movements.

We contrast these positions with the actual circumstances and course of the protests. We show how such a positioning of the left—whether intentional or unintentional—helps in legitimizing the war course against Iran and is thus effectively directed against the interests of the Iranian people.

For if it is indeed a matter of supporting the Iranian people in their struggle for greater self-determination, our struggle must be directed against the economic war waged by means of sanctions and against the military preparations for war.

https://thecommunists.org/2022/11/14/tv/harpal-brar-lenin-party-building-one-step-forward-two-steps-back/

One year ago today, our founding Chairman Harpal Brar died. He has left behind a rich legacy of teaching and revolutionary work. Above all, he has left the living revolutionary legacy of our party, Britain's only communist party, the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist).

In this brilliant presentation he explains the importance of revolutionary theory and the revolutionary party of the Leninist type – and why British workers can achieve nothing without it.

As a mark of respect, and to honour his legacy - watch this presentation today.

And join us.

(YouTube link)