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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
Museum of the CPC
Features / 18 August 2023
18 August 2023
ROBERT GRIFFITHS concludes his report on the international delegation of Communist parties to China, discussing the concept of modernisation and the status of women with his hosts
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Features / 11 August 2023
11 August 2023
In his third report on the delegation of Western communists, ROBERT GRIFFITHS describes discussions on Chinese union activism, working hours and productivity, and the emerging new cold war
New and old contend on the Guiyang skyline
Features / 9 August 2023
9 August 2023
In the second of four articles, ROBERT GRIFFITHS reports on the recent international delegation of Western communist parties to China
FACT-FINDING: Jinyuan Community director Yuan Qin with Judit
SPECIAL REPORT / 5 August 2023
5 August 2023
Recently, ROBERT GRIFFITHS led an international delegation to China at the invitation of the Communist Party of China. Here is the first of four reports
THE REMAIN ELITE: Then chancellor George Osborne (third left
Features / 27 April 2023
27 April 2023
Communist Party general secretary ROBERT GRIFFITHS asks what are the outstanding questions three years on from Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union
Tony Blair and George W Bush
Features / 14 February 2023
14 February 2023
Before a single bomb landed, the background to the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a reflection of the utter immorality and hypocrisy of the British ruling class, explains ROBERT GRIFFITHS
Xi Jinping meets Miguel Diaz
Features / 4 January 2023
4 January 2023
In the second half of his report, ROBERT GRIFFITHS looks at the newly increased role of trade and investment and the enduring socialist character of Cuba’s international relations, social model, attitude to religion, trade unions and elections
Meeting the current generation of revolutionary Cubans
Features / 2 January 2023
2 January 2023
ROBERT GRIFFITHS recently visited Cuba as a guest of the country’s ruling Communist Party. In the first of two reports, he looks at the country's Covid successes, economic challenges and impressive education system
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Report / 8 December 2022
8 December 2022
Britain's Communist Party leader ROBERT GRIFFITHS reports back from his recent visit to the Latin American country
Commie march
Features / 14 November 2022
14 November 2022
In an international address, ROBERT GRIFFITHS gives an overview of the tasks of the communist movement in Britain and worldwide
Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng leaves 11 Downing
Features / 26 September 2022
26 September 2022
The 'official opposition' mounted weak resistance to the mini-Budget and provided nothing in the way of a comprehensive alternative. Here, ROBERT GRIFFITHS lays out how we could start to really build a workers' economy and what it might cost
Welsh flag
Features / 5 August 2022
5 August 2022
Communist Party general secretary ROBERT GRIFFITHS asks what policies and constitutional arrangements are best fought for to secure socialism in Wales