Our party must continue to take full advantage of every useful opportunity that arises to expand the reach of our revolutionary politics, while preserving the party’s cohesion and independence and avoiding the danger of liquidationism.

https://thecommunists.org/2025/04/27/news/learning-lessons-front-work/

Solidarity with the Ansar Allah! As Britain joins the US in the Imperialist bombing of Yemen, murdering civilians. The butchers apron, still running red with blood. The anti Imperialist fight gets more urgent with every passing day.

"Welcoming the liberation army to Saigon"
Huy Toan, 1975.

An interesting article on the EU’s military capability reveals how deeply intertwined it is with the United States. The author repeatedly stresses that the EU would struggle to operate militarily without U.S. support, yet fails to acknowledge the deeper truth: the dependency is not merely military, it is structural and economical.

The European Union itself is a creation of U.S. imperialism, designed in the aftermath of the Second World War to unify Western European capitalist states under American influence. Its purpose was twofold: to stabilise the region after centuries of conflict, and more importantly, to contain and undermine the spread of socialism from the East. Far from being a project of European sovereignty, the EU has always functioned as a mechanism for embedding U.S. interests into the very fabric of European governance, economy, and foreign policy.

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-military-support-nato-europe-armies-without-american-assistance-donald-trump/

V. I. Lenin
The “Disarmament” Slogan

An oppressed class which does not strive to learn to use arms, to acquire arms, only deserves to be treated like slaves. We cannot, unless we have become bourgeois pacifists or opportunists, forget that we are living in a class society from which there is no way out, nor can there be, save through the class struggle and the overthrow of the power of the ruling class.

In every class society, whether based on slavery, serfdom, or, as at present, on wage-labour, the oppressor class is always armed. Not only the modern standing army, but even the modern militia—and even in the most democratic bourgeois republics, Switzerland, for instance—represent the bourgeoisie armed against the proletariat. That is such an elementary truth that it is hardly necessary to dwell upon it. Suffice it to recall that in all capitalist countries without exception troops (including the republican-democratic militia) are used against strikers. A bourgeoisie armed against the proletariat is one of the biggest, fundamental and cardinal facts of modern capitalist society.

And in face of this fact, revolutionary Social-Democrats are urged to “demand” “disarmament”! That is tantamount to complete abandonment of the class-struggle point of view, to renunciation of all thought of revolution. Our slogan must be: arming of the proletariat to defeat, expropriate and disarm the bourgeoisie. These are the only tactics possible for a revolutionary class, tactics that follow logically from, and are dictated by, the whole objective development of capitalist militarism. Only after the proletariat has disarmed the bourgeoisie will it be able, without betraying its world-historic mission, to consign all armaments to the scrap-heap. And the proletariat will undoubtedly do this, but only when this condition has been fulfilled, certainly not before.

If the present war arouses among the reactionary Christian socialists, among the whimpering petty bourgeoisie, only horror and fright, only aversion to all use of arms, to bloodshed, death, etc., then we must say: Capitalist society is and has always been horror without end. And if this most reactionary of all wars is now preparing for that society an end in horror, we have no reason to fall into despair. But the disarmament “demand”, or more correctly, the dream of disarmament, is, objectively, nothing but an expression of despair at a time when, as everyone can see, the bourgeoisie itself is paving the way for the only legitimate and revolutionary war—civil war against the imperialist bourgeoisie.

A lifeless theory, some might say, but we would remind them of two world-historical facts: the role of the trusts and the employment of women in industry, on the one hand, and the Paris Commune of 1871 and the December 1905 uprising in Russia, on the other.

The bourgeoisie makes it its business to promote trusts, drive women and children into the factories, subject them to corruption and suffering, condemn them to extreme poverty. We do not “demand” such development, we do not “support” it. We fight it. But how do we fight? We explain that trusts and the employment of women iii industry are progressive. We do not want a return to the handicraft system, pre-monopoly capitalism, domestic drudgery for women. Forward through the trusts, etc., and beyond them to socialism!

I'll be at the Liverpool May Day march on Sunday this weekend with the comrades from the CPGB-ML North West branch. If you're in the area then be sure to come join us.

Berlin’s May Day protest has just kicked off. Thousands are marching against the cost of living crisis, rising fascism, militarization, and the genocide in Gaza. Police units from across Germany have been mobilized to the capital.

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"Peace to the world"
A little girl at the May Day demonstration in Moscow, 1964.