Harpal Brar, Chairman of the CPGB-ML speaks on the significance of the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Victory over Fascism. Much is written and spoken about WW1 and WW2 - yet it is truly staggering how few people, an particularly how few British Workers, really understand the causes and significance of this struggle, in which 60 million workers gave their lives. The imperialists (Britain, France, USA, Germany, Japan...) fought, and many millions died to preserve and enforce the wage and colonial slavery of the capitalist class. They fought for slaves and booty and nothing more. And yet by their masterful leadership, bold strategy and heroic courage and self-sacrifice, the Soviet Union and international communist movement, won world-historic victories which not only preserved their hard won socialist nation, but brought into being a swath of socialist democracies across Europe and Asia, invigorated the anti-colonial struggle, and decisively shifted the balance of power in favour of working people on a global scale. The victories won by the Soviet Union changed and shaped our world, and all workers should not only know these episode in our history, but we should be truly proud of these earth shattering achievements made by our class, which herald the bright new world we are capable of bringing into being. This presentation should be compulsory viewing for every British Citizen, and every worker world-wide: help spread the word! ” The bourgeoisie turns everything into a commodity, hence also the writing of history. It is a part of its being, of its condition for existence, to falsify all goods; it falsified the writing of history. And the best-paid historiography is that which is falsified for the purposes of the bourgeoisie.” (Engels, ‘Material for the History of Ireland’, 1870). This shrewd observation of Engels should be kept in mind when judging: (i) the causes of the Second World War (ii) the events leading up to it (iii) the role in it of the Soviet Union, on the one hand, and the imperialist camp, on the other hand, and (iv) the results of the war. The Second, as indeed the First, World War is inseparable from imperialism, whose product it was. Tens of millions of people were slaughtered to decide which set of bandits – the Anglo-American-French or the German-Italian-Japanese – was to get what share of the loot. The only way out of the morass of imperialist wars is socialism; therefore the struggle against war must be inseparably connected with the struggle for the overthrow of imperialism and the establishment of socialism. The ruling classes of the ‘democratic’ imperialist countries were complicit in the rise and strengthening of fascism. It was the crowning achievement of the Soviet people to have defeated Nazism ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s-jy4kgyPA

Grenfell Tower, June 2017 - A poem by Ben Okri It was like a burnt matchbox in the sky. It was black and long and burnt in the sky. You saw it through the flowering stump of trees. You saw it beyond the ochre spire of the church. You saw it in the tears of those who survived. You saw it through the rage of those who survived. You saw it past the posters of those who had burnt to ashes. You saw it past the posters of those who jumped to their deaths. You saw it through the TV images of flames through windows Running up the aluminium cladding You saw it in print images of flames bursting out from the roof. You heard it in the voices loud in the streets. You heard it in the cries in the air howling for justice. You heard it in the pubs the streets the basements the digs. You heard it in the wailing of women and the silent scream Of orphans wandering the streets Those who were living now are dead Those who were breathing are from the living earth fled. If you want to see how the poor die, come see Grenfell Tower. See the tower, and let a world-changing dream flower. Residents of the area call it the crematorium. It has revealed the undercurrents of our age. The poor who thought voting for the rich would save them. The poor who believed all that the papers said. The poor who listened with their fears. The poor who live in their rooms and dream for their kids. The poor are you and I, you in your garden of flowers, In your house of books, who gaze from afar At a destiny that draws near with another name. Sometimes it takes an image to wake up a nation From its secret shame. And here it is every name Of someone burnt to death, on the stairs or in their room, Who had no idea what they died for, or how they were betrayed. They did not die when they died; their deaths happened long Before. It happened in the minds of people who never saw Them. It happened in the profit margins. It happened In the laws. They died because money could be saved and made. They called the tower ugly; they named it an eyesore. All around the beautiful people in their beautiful houses Didn’t want the ugly tower to ruin their house prices. Ten million was spent to encase the tower in cladding. Had it ever been tested before except on this eyesore, Had it ever been tested for fire, been tried in a blaze? But it made the tower look pretty, yes it made the tower look pretty. But in twenty four storeys, not a single sprinkler. In twenty four storeys not a single alarm that worked. In twenty four storeys not a single fire escape, Only a single stairwell designed in hell, waiting For an inferno. That’s the story of our times. Make it pretty on the outside, but a death trap On the inside. Make the hollow sound nice, make The empty look nice. That’s all they will see, How it looks, ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkbUvH7JJ84

60th Anniversary of the PRC Hands off China campaign celebrate China's 60th Birthday! Keith Bennett, central committee member of the CPGB-ML, speaks at the Hands off China Campaign's meeting to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese revolution and the founding of the PRC. The Chinese are a risen people! During that 60 years, the average rate of economic growth has been over 8 per cent, and more than 400 million people have been lifted out of poverty. The Chinese people, having been set on the road to liberation by Mao and the Communist Party of China, continue to go from strength to strength, and all progressive humanity wish our Chinese comrades well! Long live Socialist China, and the leadership of the Communist Party of China! All Videos: Harpal Brar Introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulFX8qZhdG8 George Galloway 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuWNlFkrihQ George Galloway 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcLzvV08ohY George Galloway 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEgkdD97HbE Keith Bennett 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvScTAPef9k Keith Bennett 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAGWZ_rBDmA ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvScTAPef9k

Comrade Harpal's recent interview with Caleb Maupin discussing his life as a revolutionary, market reforms in China and the real function of the Labour Party as a means to hinder the growth of a genuine working class movement. ______________________________________________ Subscribe! Donate! Join us in building a bright future for humanity! http://www.thecommunists.org http://www.lalkar.org http://www.redyouth.org Online Shop: https://shop.thecommunists.org/ Education Program: Each one teach one! http://www.londonworker.org/education-programme/ Join the struggle! https://www.thecommunists.org/join/ Donate: https://www.thecommunists.org/donate/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc4k_wntMYQ