Yassamine Mather explores the legacy of the Pahlavi dynasty in Iran on the 100th anniversary of Reza Shah Pahlavi declaring himself King of Persia.CPGB-PCC

Update from the most recent meeting of Forging Communist Unity held on 8 March 2025CPGB-PCC

Trump. Reform split. Jack Conrad with the PCC political report. 9 March 2025CPGB-PCC

Political report from the Provisional Central Committee focuses on the fallout from the meeting between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump in the White House Oval Office.CPGB-PCC

Jack Conrad provides an update on discussions towards communist unity between the CPGB, Talking about Socialism (TAS), and the pro-Party faction in Prometheus.CPGB-PCC

Live analysis of the German election results as the first exit polls were published.CPGB-PCC

1 Ukraine consternation: US intentions re Europe2 (11.10) Trump, 'the king'3 (13.00) Israeli bodies: subsequent propaganda4 (14.50) Forging Communist Unity programme: agree or accept?CPGB-PCC

Roxy Hall from the Revolutionary Communist Organisation (Australia) on Marxism and Trans LiberationCPGB-PCC

Mike Macnair from the CPGB Provisional Central Committee on Marxism and Trans LiberationCPGB-PCC

2025-02-25 Communist Forum - Jack Conrad PCC political report by CPGB-PCCCPGB-PCC

2025-02-09 Communist Forum - Mike Macnair - Forging Communist Unity by CPGB-PCCCPGB-PCC

Communist Forum 2-2-25 - Yassamine Mather on DeepSeek AI by CPGB-PCCCPGB-PCC

Political report from the Provisional Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Jack Conrad. 2 February 2025CPGB-PCC

OCF 8-12-24 by CPGB-PCCCPGB-PCC

OCF 1-12-24 Ian Spencer: Marxism and Psychoanalysis by CPGB-PCCCPGB-PCC

OCF Syria Yassamine Mather on the Fall of Assad by CPGB-PCCCPGB-PCC

1 Ukraine stalemate: NATO boots on the ground?2 (28.40) Assisted dying: global political question3 (40.25) Farming: defend small farmers against big capital4 (48.50) Cop29: increased climate threat under Trump5 (51.55) ICC arrest warrants: symbolic blow to IsraelCPGB-PCC

1 Justin Welby and the Church of England: representative of the establishment's nation-state2 (21.30) Trump's appointees: collection of lackeys and oddballs3 (36.50) Ukraine: enforced peace deal?4 (43.30) Foreign policy unpredictability, but opposition to China the keyCPGB-PCC

1 Trump's election: what to expect2 (30.40) Middle East: great danger3 (35.40) Ukraine: supporting the war in a more aggressive way4 (46.50) 'Drill, baby, drill': speeding up climate change5 (49.40) Era of global instability: where is the left?CPGB-PCC

OCF 27-10-24 by CPGB-PCCCPGB-PCC

1 Ukraine 'victory plan': a Nato war on Russia?2 (21.35) Ukraine and the US presidential elections3 (32.20) Ukraine, US and Europe4 (35.20) Middle East: assassination of Sinwar - a blow against Hamas?5 (47.35) Lammy in China: 'century of humiliation'5 (51.15) SWP: problems with the 'broad front' anti-racism policy…

1 Global warming: nearing the tipping point2 (13.50) Israel and Ukraine: increased danger of nuclear war3 (42.20) USA: democracy endangered not only by Trump4 (48.00) Death of Alex Salmond: separatism and left idiocy5 (57.45) Comrades Tom May and Kevin Bean: sadly missedCPGB-PCC

Moshé Machover: What's really behind the war in the Middle East? by CPGB-PCCCPGB-PCC

1 Rightwing riots and the demonisation of migrants.2 (24:15) Ukraine: Zelensky's gamble on a Trump victory?3 (35.10) Biden and Gaza: symbolic landmark and the polio risk4 (48.00) Free speech clampdown: not just the Tories!CPGB-PCC

1 US presidential elections: don't expect much change if Harris wins2 (19.05) BBC propaganda for Democrats3 (22.50) Trump's likely changes4 (33.20) Ukraine: still dominated by US global aims5 (46.40) Venezuela and RCP fantasy6 (54.55) Police brutality7 (57.00) Fascist demo and left response to immigration8 (60.35) 'Overtourism': sold a dream9 (62.4…

OCF 21-7-24 by CPGB-PCCCPGB-PCC

1 France: original popular front and its government2 (25.15) Reaction to latest popular front3 (39.10) This time around following French election results4 (49.50) USA: Trump assassination attempt; and threat from the stateCPGB-PCC

OCF 7-7-24: The UK General Election 2024 by CPGB-PCCCPGB-PCC

1 Biden/Trump - whatever next?2 (10.00) UK elections: competing anti-migrant reactionaries3 (19.40) Moving right across the board4 (30.20) Polls and the left5 (35.00) France: as in the UK, rightward shift6 (44.50) Netanyahu's top war aim: a Greater Israel7 (56.40) Starvation and genocide8 (59.45) Iran: regime unchallenged…

1 Election campaign: Tory disaster2 (10.30) Farage on Ukraine: media outcry3 (16.45) Lebanon: Israel's second front?4 (18.10) France: bourgeois deal with National Rally?5 (20.35) Workers Party: highly critical supportCPGB-PCC

1 Biden 'plan for Gaza': more concerned about presidential election 2 (16.35) Starmer and Palestine: keeping in line with the US3 (18.45) General election: Labour and the left4 (30.40) Tories and Reform UK: where next?5 (39.20) International move to the right6 (53.55) South Africa: SACP has totally abandoned working class principles6 (57.10) Ukrain…

Sima Asvadi - Thinking through Artificial Intelligence by CPGB-PCCCPGB-PCC

1 General election: Tories' disastrous start2 (13.20) National service: desperate stuff!3 (24.00) Migration and small boats: workers' organisation needed4 (26.40) Other election issues5 (35.05) Vote left if you can; make demands on Labour left candidates6 (50.45) Sparts: 'frustrating'7 (56.05) Gaza: ICC and ICJ reactions8 (57.50) Ukraine: still a p…

1 London demonstration: further clampdown on the cards2 (8.25) Israeli split: permanent occupation of Gaza?3 (20.40) Steve Freeman's delusional 'solution'4 (34.55) Ukraine: military incompetence5 (43.20) Corbyn: where is the anti-Starmer movement?6 (49.30) Starmer: 'ocean apart' from the Tories?7 (52.30) SWP: new internal procedure?…

OCF 12-5-24 by CPGB-PCCCPGB-PCC

General election 2024 and communist perspectives - discussion and debate between the Spartacist League and the CPGBCPGB-PCC

OCF 28-3-24 by CPGB-PCCCPGB-PCC

OCF 14-4-24 by CPGB-PCCCPGB-PCC

1 Gaza: 'sympathy' and hypocrisy2 (19.22) Labour resignations and 'bullying'3 (23.32) Thames Water: wreckage from the failure of privatisation4 (28.47) Global warming: dismal capitalist failure5 (34.22) 'Anti-hate legislation': defend free speech6 (40.07) Anti-Semitism and CPB: joining in pro-Zionist propaganda…

1 US and Israel: Biden under pressure2 (18.20) UK general election and the Tories3 (19.50) Stabbing of Iranian broadcaster - by whom?4 (22.40) Gaza: famine, disease and death5 (26.15) DUP resignation: expect unionist splintering to continue6 (37.10) Ukraine: the wider picture7 (53.45) Reply to Netherlands comrade: programmatic details essential…

OCF 24-3-24 by CPGB-PCCCPGB-PCC

1 Gove and 'extremism': Tories' anti-Muslim agenda revealed.2 (29.06) Hester's attack on Abbott: good or bad for Tories?3 (39.16) McDonnell on Abbott: what about the others?4 (43.46) More Tory trouble.5 (45.41) Middleton nonsense: begin with scepticism.6 (58.36) Gaza: US complicity and duplicity.CPGB-PCC

Celebrating International Women’s Day 2024, Mike Taber and Daria Dyakonova speak about their new book 'The Communist Women’s Movement 1920‑22, Proceedings, Resolutions and Reports'. Introduction by Anne McShaneCPGB-PCC

CU Spring 2024: Yassamine Mather - Iran and its Proxies by CPGB-PCCCPGB-PCC

CU Spring 2024: Marc Mulholland - Revolutionary Defeatism by CPGB-PCCCPGB-PCC

CU Spring 2024: Moshe Machover - Two-State, One-State Delusions by CPGB-PCCCPGB-PCC

CU Spring 2024: Mike Macnair - History of British Imperialism by CPGB-PCCCPGB-PCC

CU Spring 2014: Jack Conrad - Marxism and Just Wars by CPGB-PCCCPGB-PCC

1 Ukraine: World War I plus drones2 (28.41) USA: state action to stop Trump second presidency?3 (33.51) Increased arms spending and social-imperialists4 (41.36) Gaza: Israel plans mass expulsions5 (47.410) 'Islamic threat' and false anti-Semitism claims6 (55.01) Lee Anderson and Reform UK7 (56.56) George Galloway: SWP hypocrisy8 (65.11) Let's debat…

1 Gaza demo in London: nonsense claims2 (7.19) Gaza, Israel and Egypt: sorting through the contradictions3 (13.09) Gaza and UK opinion: massive gulf with political class4 (19.59) Gaza: Scottish Labour resolution - ceasefire now!5 (21.09) Labour witch-hunt continues.6 (24.44) But what about Starmer, the ex-Trotskyist?7 (28.44) Political trends in th…