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Claudia Jones
Features / 27 February 2025
27 February 2025
From McCarthy’s prison cells to London’s carnival, Jones fought for peace and unity while exposing the lies of US imperialism, says ROBERT GRIFFITHS, in a graveside oration at Highgate Cemetery given last Sunday
For a worker’s Budget, tax the fat cats
Features / 4 November 2024
4 November 2024
In the second of two articles on Labour’s weak Budget, ROBERT GRIFFITHS argues that Britain’s massive private wealth and offshore tax havens show clear potential for radical redistribution through progressive taxation
Budget
Features / 3 November 2024
3 November 2024
In the first of two articles, ROBERT GRIFFITHS argues that despite a parliamentary majority, Labour’s timid Budget fails to seize a historic opportunity and lacks the ambition needed to address Britain’s deep social and economic crises
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Features / 30 September 2024
30 September 2024
As the People's Republic turns 75, ROBERT GRIFFITHS details how British communists championed Chinese sovereignty against imperialism, weathering the political storms of the Sino-Soviet split and collapse of the USSR to rebuild relations for the modern era
Sitaram Yechury
Features / 19 September 2024
19 September 2024
The leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) rose from campus politics to become a key strategist in building coalitions, shaping India’s politics through skilled negotiation and an unwavering commitment to Marxism
Newly elected Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gives a speech
Features / 9 July 2024
9 July 2024
Communist Party leader ROBERT GRIFFITHS dissects the election results, looking at all of the political spectrum, from the hard right to the far left, and assesses the political landscape it reveals
A well-armed ‘worker-commando’ unit of trade union miner
Features / 31 May 2024
31 May 2024
Although he was a legendary organiser in South Africa — where he was an early advocate of racial unity, and he was finally buried with honours in Moscow — it is in his native Wales that this hero needs recognition, writes ROBERT GRIFFITHS
PAdemo
Features / 1 May 2024
1 May 2024
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
Whittington Estate
Features / 9 March 2024
9 March 2024
ROBERT GRIFFITHS reviews last Wednesday's Budget, outlining the obvious alternatives — that are not even radical let alone socialist — the government could have adopted to fix the sinking ship that is our economy
Gaza family
Features / 9 January 2024
9 January 2024
At the first meeting of the Communist Party’s new executive at the weekend, general secretary ROBERT GRIFFITHS delivered the main political report
Gareth Miles
Features / 22 September 2023
22 September 2023
The prominent novelist, playwright and communist died on September 6, aged 85. His final interview was with longtime comrade Robert Griffiths for the Star’s Welsh language supplement in August, translated here
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Features / 11 September 2023
11 September 2023
ROBERT GRIFFITHS looks ahead to the Communist Party of Britain’s forthcoming congress