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Jul 1, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
DRAMATIC COURTROOM APPEAL - from the Kononovich brothers, on trial today.
“From the speech of the Kononovich brothers:
“Our case is completely fabricated from start to finish.”
“What are we charged with? Pro-Belarussian views are being charged. We are being tried for....
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our views. What kind of democracy can we talk about?”
“I want to appeal to the European left, to the Federation of Democratic Youth @wfdy1945fmjd.
Thank you, comrades.
You are holding actions in Europe near the Ukrainian embassies in support of us so that they let us go,
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Jul 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
SHOW TRIAL BEGINS - yesterday, 30 June the trial began of the Kononovich brothers. Democratic citizens in Britain including leading trade unionists honour these brave young communists and insist that all democratic norms be adhered to in court. Mikhail and Alexander...
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Kononovich we're hunted down and kidnapped by what turned out to be state authorities. According to one report, “The brothers were beaten to a pulp. Broken ribs, instead of a face - a mess. The medic was allowed to see them only a few months later...Now it's the court.”
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Jun 25, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
IN REMEMBRANCE OF HARRY POLLITT - Manchester communists gathered today outside Droylsden Library, to show their respects to the late Harry Pollitt.
Harry was the CPGB general secretary and a supporter of the Spanish Republicans during the Spanish Civil War.
Despite....
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Harry becoming a prominent national and international figure he never forgot his Lancashire roots. The roots he laid weren't forgotten and a plaque is affixed to Droylsden Library in his memory.
Droylsden had living conditions little better than those described by...
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May 28, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
On 18 March 1871, the people of Paris raised the red flag in defiance of both the French tricolour flying over Versailles and the German tricolour hoisted above the many forts occupied by the Prussians.
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The Parisian workers strove to put an end to exploitation and oppression. They fought under the red flag of internationalism, to re-organise society, with the creation of a universal socialist republic, one free from class divisions,
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May 28, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
LATE TO THE FEAST - characteristically @thetimes is the first vulture landing for an anti-union story. But this rehash is embarrassing as is the lack of objectivity of the academics quoted. For the record, Euro Maiden (2014) was a coup against an elected government.
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For the next 8 years, the coup government organised fascist irregulars to make war on Ukrainian citizens, which led to thousands of deaths in the Donbas and many more escaping further east. These acts were condemned in Congress and Parliament by a few honest politicians.
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May 16, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
ATTACK ON WORKERS’ LEADER - the Communist Party is clear that the two-fold attack on Alex Gordon. President of the transport workers, is part of a generalised mobilisation of the media against those who won’t take the impact of the cost-of-living crisis, without a…
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fightback.
Accusations that he is Pro Putin are deliberate disinformation, given that his consistent position is a matter of public record.
The real intent has, as a parallel, the denigration and arrest of Communist leaders in 1925 in the run up to the general strike the…
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Feb 25, 2022 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Stop War - Start the peace
The Political Committee of the Communist Party of Britain issued the following statement on February 25 2022:
The war between Russia and Ukraine is part of a wider conflict between capitalist powers, between Russia on one side and Ukraine…(1/16)
and the expansionist NATO powers on the other. Neither side in this war stands for the real interests of the peoples of Russia, Ukraine or of Europe more widely, which include living in peace and determine the future of their own society free from outside domination.
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Feb 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
THE ROOT OF THE CRISIS - is the US imperialist and European Union orchestrated Maiden coup in 2014, which brought out Nazis into government in Europe for the first time in 70 years. It placed them in the Army, absorbing neo-Nazi irregulars and in the interior ministry.
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Their first two acts were to repress the Communists and drive them out of Parliament, and to make war in the East.
The USA and EU has conducted a massive militarisation of the Ukraine, which has now been stepped up to alarming levels, whilst they have conducted a…(2/4)
Jan 18, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
ARMY CALLED TO IMPLEMENT CONSERVATIVE POLICY - rather than address the issues that drive people to make the dangerous journey northwards, Patel and the Conservatives prefer to stage The Nationalist Theatre of the Absurd in the Channel, Britain standing bravely alone…(1/6)
against families in dinghies.
Now it’s the turn of the armed forces to be leant on to implement Conservative party policy.
The Royal Navy is not expected to pursue the controversial and illegal Home Office policy of pushing back refugee dinghies towards France. (2/6)
Jan 16, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
BOLD LEFT ALTERNATIVE MORE IMPORTANT THAN JOHNSON’S FATE 🧵 Boris Johnson has turned Downing Street into the equivalent of an American speakeasy during Prohibition”, Communist Party general secretary Robert Griffiths told the party’s newly elected executive committee at…(1/9)
the weekend.
“Of course, he’s unfit to be Prime Minister - but what many millions of people need more than a change of tenant at Number 10 is a government that will challenge monopoly power - not protect and subsidise it, including with a battery of new anti-democratic…(2/9)
Aug 16, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The USA funded a range of bigoted, misogynistic organisations preaching a twisted version of Islam in the 1980’s. This was all about disrupting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan: It gave the the world al-Quaeda, other groups inspired by their… 1/4 asiatimes.com/2021/08/taliba…
…example, and decades of misery for the Afghan people.
The cycle continues, at the end of 2020 the Americans unilaterally removed the East Turkestan Islamist Movement (ETIM) from its list of terrorist organisations. ETIM is a Islamist organisation with strong links…
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Jun 9, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A STEP FORWARD TO A GREAT UNION - the Communist Party has sent its congratulations to Unite AGS Steve Turner and the hundreds of branches which nominated him. Steve’s positive message of unity, leadership, opposing austerity and ‘fire and rehire’ and campaigning for a.... 1/5
...green industrial strategy to fightback against unemployment, has resonated with thousands of members.
Steve’s programme shows how the union can return to its organising and fighting roots. This has attracted support from many members including amongst those branches...
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Jun 8, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The Communist Party of Britain sends its solidarity and warm greetings to the Communist Party of Greece KKE on the occasion of your 21st Congress.
We salute your steadfast opposition to imperialism and your stance as a revolutionary party for socialism. 1/5
Today we see the grave threats to world peace posed by the United States and its allies, including Britain, coinciding with the manifest failure of all capitalist states to mobilise the resources needed to combat Covid-19.
We commend your party’s long struggle against...
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Dec 14, 2020 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
COMMUNISTS SLAM BREXIT TALKS 'CONFECTED THEATRE'
Britain's Communists have sounded a sceptical note about the extension of post-Brexit trade talks between the British government and the EU. (1/12)
Addressing the party's executive over the weekend, Alex Gordon said the continuing talks have 'an air of confected theatre about them, although these are performances that not many people might pay to watch'. (2/12)
Dec 11, 2020 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
This centenary year has seen a resurgence in publishing of books and pamphlets by the Communist Party. 📚
It has been a year where we discovered much about our history and the members who contributed so much to the shaping of the modern union, women's, anti-racist anti fascist, anti-imperialist and peace movements.
Nov 25, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Communist Party general secretary Robert Griffiths issued the following statement today (November 25) in response to Chancellor Rishi Sunak's one-year Spending Review: 1/6
Ten years of austerity cuts instead of massive investment in public services and productive industry has hugely increased the human and financial toll of the Covid crisis.
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Nov 25, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
TODAY we ask you to join us and share a virtual message of solidarity to women all over the world for the International Day for the Elimination of #violenceagainstwomen #MayTheVoicesOfWomenResonate 1/5
There has been a dramatic increase in violence against women. Femicide in Turkey, erosion of women’s rights in Poland & a worldwide rise of domestic abuse during the pandemic. #MayTheVoicesOfWomenResonate 2/5
Nov 1, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
12 noon today, Communist Party General Secretary Rob Griffiths will be live on our video channel youtube.com/c/CommunistPar… and facebook.com/CPBritain
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“Tory under-investment and privatisation have undermined our NHS, and led to one of the worst death rates in the world”, says Communist Party general secretary Robert Griffiths.
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Nov 1, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Join @NorthLondon_CPB TOMORROW for #StopFemicide, a public meeting with Kurdish sisters from Turkey, @dermangulmez (Ankara Women’s Platform), trade unionist @SenikSan and Laura Briggs, CPB. Tinyurl.com/cpb1917
Violence against women and femicide have been long-standing issues in Turkey, but recent years have seen a substantial increase.
Oct 31, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
PHONES RINGING RED - this weekend, communists across Britain are speaking to supporters and activists to reinforce a message of resistance and unity to face-down the drive “to marginalise socialists and left-wing ideas in the Labour Party and the wider labour movement.” (1/5)
In a statement Friday morning, the CP urged, “socialists and the Labour-affiliated trade unions must unite in solidarity with Corbyn, demand his reinstatement and fight to reverse the drive to marginalise the left in the Labour Party.” (2/5)
Oct 30, 2020 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
The Communist Party has released the following statement about the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party today (October 30 2020):
The suspension of Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party on the flimsiest of pretexts is not only a baseless attack on a longstanding fighter in words and deeds against all forms of racism, including anti-Semitism.