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Communist Party of Great Britain

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Type: Organization

Name: Communist Party of Great Britain

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

European Union

A people's policy on Europe

Some English and British nationalists tend to oppose the EU because they fear or resent close relations with foreigners.However, as in the case of Ukip, this antipathy rarely extends into areas such as Britain's subservient political and military relationship ... [Published Morning Star Online - May 09 2013]

Entities: European Union, United Kingdom, privatise, The Conservative Party (United Kingdom)

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Liberal Democrats

Communists condemn attack on asylum-seekers

Britain's Communists have condemned the Liberal Democrats for collaborating "in yet another vile attack on migrant workers and immigrants." Communist Party of Britain vice-chairwoman Liz Payne said a parliamentary Bill attacking immigrants or asylum-seekers ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 09 2013]

Entities: Liberal Democrats, Communist Party of Great Britain, Immigration

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

KPMG

Lower than vermin

According to a Special Branch report in 1942, Communist Party general secretary Harry Pollitt criticised left-wing MP SO Davies at a clandestine meeting of party trade unionists.Davies had addressed a rally demanding that the wartime ban on the Daily ... [Published Morning Star Online - May 01 2013]

Entities: Harry Pollitt, Remploy Ltd, KPMG, HBOS plc

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 1 reports

North Korean Ambassador to UK Defends Threats

(WASHINGTON) -- In a rare speech given to a foreign audience, the North Korean ambassador to the United Kingdom defended Pyongyang’s response to what he called U.S. and South Korea provocations.Speaking to the Communist Party of Great Britain, Hyon Hak-bong ... [Published 77 WABC RADIO - Apr 16 2013]

Entities: North Korea, Threat, United Kingdom

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

Margaret Thatcher

Communists push for more action

Workers everywhere should celebrate the resilience of the labour movement during Margaret Thatcher's funeral on Wednesday, said Communist Party of Britain chairman Bill Greenshields.He told the CP executive committee at the weekend: "The attempts by Margaret ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Margaret Thatcher, Communist Party of Great Britain, Industrial Action, Resilience, privatise

First reported Mar 27 2013 - Updated Mar 27 2013 - 1 reports

The Labour Party (United Kingdom)

The Spirit of ‘45

THIS IS A GUEST POST BY SACKCLOTH AND ASHES. Ken Loach doesn’t often make me laugh – and never intentionally – but his latest appeal for a ‘new party of the left’ (issued alongside Kate Hudson, not the one who got the Oscar for her role in ‘Almost ... [Published Harry's Place - Mar 27 2013]

Entities: Clement Attlee, The Labour Party (United Kingdom), Ken Loach, Ernest Bevin, Communist Party of Great Britain

First reported Dec 09 2012 - Updated Dec 09 2012 - 1 reports

Communist Party of Great Britain

Three generations of punishment

Sometimes it’s a little too easy to laugh at what seems to us the utter absurdity of North Korea’s ruling dynasty (now in its third generation) and the worship they shamelessly encourage. But we should never forget the sinister and brutal side of ... [Published Harry's Place - Dec 09 2012]

Entities: Andrew Murray, Trade Union, Communist Party of Great Britain

First reported Dec 04 2012 - Updated Dec 04 2012 - 1 reports

10 Years of Harry’s Place

This is a cross post from Phil of A Very Public Sociologist. The view represented is his own and does not represent that of Harry’s Place. We cross post it, with his permission, as it is about us and Phil knew Harry before Harry’s Place. According ... [Published Harry's Place - Dec 04 2012]

Entities: Anti-Semitism, Convulsion, Israel, Alliance for Workers' Liberty

Quotes

...Party of Britain vice-chairwoman Liz Payne said a parliamentary Bill attacking immigrants or asylum-seekers had become an annual event which "panders to racism and xenophobia instead of challenging it. "How many of the seven million people who voted Lib Dem in the 2010 general election wanted politicians who parrot the scaremongering agenda of the Sun and the Daily Mail, propping up a Tory government that is to the right of Margaret Thatcher?" Ms Payne also condemned the Queen's Speech proposal to fund new high-speed..."

Communists condemn attack on asylum-seekers [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 09 2013]

In July 1948, NHS founder Aneurin Bevan told his Manchester audience: "No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party that inflicted those bitter experiences on me. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin. They condemned millions of first-class people to semi-starvation."

Lower than vermin [Published Morning Star Online - May 01 2013]

...A spokesperson from Liverpool City Council said: "We did make the decision not to show the funeral on the big screen."

No arrests during procession as funeral passes off peacefully and 'good riddance' protesters are ... [Published Mail Online UK - Apr 17 2013]

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A people's policy on Europe [Published Morning Star Online - May 09 2013]
Communists condemn attack on asylum-seekers [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 09 2013]
Contradictions in the Ukip brand [Published Morning Star Online - May 09 2013]
What's behind the advance of Ukip? [Published Morning Star Online - May 08 2013]
Peter Oborne should stop apologising for Mahmou... [Published Spectator - May 02 2013]
Lower than vermin [Published Morning Star Online - May 01 2013]
No arrests during procession as funeral passes ... [Published Mail Online UK - Apr 17 2013]
Thatcher funeral: No arrests during procession ... [Published Mail Online UK - Apr 17 2013]
The MMR - a Reply to Some Critics [Published Mail Online - Peter Hitchens - Apr 17 2013]
North Korean Ambassador to UK Defends Threats [Published 77 WABC RADIO - Apr 16 2013]
Communists push for more action [Published NewsRT.co.uk - Apr 15 2013]
Lord Thurlow: High Commissioner to Nigeria and ... [Published The Independent - Mar 28 2013]
Big Pharma?s little critics [Published Spiked Online - Mar 28 2013]
The Spirit of ‘45 [Published Harry's Place - Mar 27 2013]
The SWP’s Hatred of Feminism (Part I.) [Published Harry's Place - Mar 17 2013]
Killing Jews is Simple [Published Harry's Place - Feb 25 2013]
End of a saga [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Feb 08 2013]
Lenin on "Left-Wing" Communism in Great Britain [Published Thomas Riggins' Blog - Jan 23 2013]
Government prepares to dissolve South London Na... [Published World Socialist Web Site - Jan 11 2013]
Resolution of SEP (UK) Congress: “The SEP and t... [Published World Socialist Web Site - Jan 08 2013]
Three generations of punishment [Published Harry's Place - Dec 09 2012]
10 Years of Harry’s Place [Published Harry's Place - Dec 04 2012]
An educated, erudite lynch mob [Published Spiked Online - Oct 24 2012]
She Town: a drama of working class life in pre-... [Published World Socialist Web Site - Oct 13 2012]
Between Clio and party [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Oct 08 2012]
Scott McLemee on Eugene Genovese: Changing Your... [Published Brad DeLong - Oct 03 2012]
Scott McLemee on Eugene Genovese: Changing Your... [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - Oct 03 2012]
Sharp fall in number of UK university students [Published World Socialist Web Site - Sep 06 2012]
How Special Branch infiltrated Anti-Apartheid M... [Published Guardian Unlimited - Sep 27 2005]

Blogs

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The MMR - a Reply to Some Critics [Published Mail Online - Peter Hitchens - Apr 17 2013] I reproduce below a long (and rather snappish) attack on me, published a by Michael Ward, a person I’ve never met (but who seems to dislike my views on illegal drugs) and much-posted on Twitter. I am responding to it because the ‘Times’ columnist and ...
The Spirit of ‘45 [Published Harry's Place - Mar 27 2013] THIS IS A GUEST POST BY SACKCLOTH AND ASHES. Ken Loach doesn’t often make me laugh – and never intentionally – but his latest appeal for a ‘new party of the left’ (issued alongside Kate Hudson, not the one who got the Oscar for her role in ‘Almost ...
The SWP’s Hatred of Feminism (Part I.) [Published Harry's Place - Mar 17 2013] The crisis in the Socialist Workers Party has brought an issue for Trotskyists to the forefront: that of feminism. Richard Seymour has commented “students, are yelled at in [SWP] meetings, denounced for ‘creeping feminism.’” Feminism has become a dirty ...
Killing Jews is Simple [Published Harry's Place - Feb 25 2013] This is a cross post from Stand for Peace Over the past few decades, the unholy alliance in the West between Islamist groups and the far-Left has appeared resilient to ideological differences. But while these groups have collaborated in support ...
Lenin on "Left-Wing" Communism in Great Britain [Published Thomas Riggins' Blog - Jan 23 2013] Thomas RigginsThere was no Communist Party in Great Britain when Lenin wrote "Left-Wing" Communism an Infantile Disorder [LWC] (the Communist Party of Great Britain was founded a few months later at the end of July 1920). Nevertheless, Lenin devoted ...