To mark the 70th anniversary of the General Strike of May 1926, the Weekly Worker will carry contemporary articles from the communist press each week
Manifesto of the Communist Party
From The Workers’ Weekly, paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain, February 5 1926
Before parliament adjourned, one of its last acts was to debate the imprisonment of the 12 communists sentenced at the Old Bailey in November last ... To the communist prisoners have been added some 60 Welsh miners sentenced for various terms on a charge based upon the incidents inevitable in a bitterly fought industrial struggle.
... Following these convictions, industrial and political events have led rapidly to the point of crisis ...
Truly the employers in mass have gone out of their way to underline the premier’s threat (last July) that “The wages of every worker must come down.” Not content with this, the government - as pliant a tool as a brutal capitalist class ever had - has commenced an assault upon the unemployed ...
In face of these attacks the Communist Party holds that the only possible defence for the workers is vigorous counterattack. The whole working class and its organisations, political and industrial, must cooperate in a sustained and determined demand for safeguards to our rights ...
The parliamentary leaders of Labour must voice this demand immediately parliament opens. The rank and file must compel them to take this lead. The TUC general council should take up the work of organising the necessary backing.
- Demand the release of the communist prisoners
- Demand the release of the Welsh miners ...
- Demand work or maintenance for the unemployed ...
- Demand a guaranteed minimum living wage ...
- Form workers’ defence corps ...
All together for a general advance.
The Executive Committee
Communist Party of Great Britain
Number 129
Thursday February 8 1996
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Partisan campaign shows the way forward
The Socialist Labour Party’s first election campaign was an energetic,
committed and buoyant one
Party notes: Keep it coming
Letters
Communist advance; Sense of relief; Dedicated revolutionary; CPUK?
Clean break with Labour
Phil Felstead is one of the ex-miners in Hemsworth who worked throughout
the SLP campaign. He worked at South Kirkby colliery until it closed in
1988 and was then forced into redundancy as a result of his militant record.
Lee-Anne Bates spoke to him about the SLP
The stakes are high
We know that capitalism is not an eternal system, but one that will destroy
itself sooner rather than later. Our job is to make sure it does not destroy
us in the process, writes Danny Hammill
Scottish socialist alliance: Building a revolutionary
party
Saturday’s Scottish Socialist Alliance meeting is Glasgow is an important
political event. The meeting will be presented with proposals from the
organisation’s Steering Group designed to deepen and extend the unity
of the SSA’s constituent elements. Mary Ward - leading member of
the Communist Party in Scotland - gave us her views on the way forward.
Opening up the debate
John Milligan, Lanarkshire branch secretary of the RMT, was a member of
the Labour Party for many years, and left over the poll tax and different
industrial issues. He is involved both in organising SLP meetings in Scotland
and in the Scottish Socialist Alliance. Nick Clarke spoke to him
Supplement
Anarchist arrogance
Danny Hammill reviews Albert Meltzer's I couldn’t paint golden
angels: sixty years of commonplace life and anarchist agitation
Gruesome stuff
Eddie Ford reviews Seven
Turkey and Greece: On the brink of war
Aziz Demir calls for a united working class front across the Aegean divide
against the war-mongering bourgeoisie
Critique, OP and the CPGB
Bob Smith - For a Permanent Party Polemic Committee
SWP, trade unions and strikes: Reasons to be cheerful
Communist press: Russian elections: for or against capitalism?
Unity around programme
Statement by the Revolutionary Democratic Group on current relations between
the RDG (faction of the SWP) and the PCC(CPGB)
For a reforged Communist Party of Great
Britain
Minimal platform agreed by the Provisional Central Committee, CPGB and
For a Permanent Party Polemic Committee (faction of the CPGB)
No short cuts
Against imperialism, for the working class
In brief
The great ticket robbery; Fire fighters ballot for more strikes; Refugee
centre
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