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Published by Robert Griffiths COMMUNIST PARTY Workers of all lands, unite! on behalf of the Communist Party 23 Coombe Road, CR0 1BD CPBRITAIN CPBRITAIN CPBRITAIN Printed by the Peoples www.communistparty.org.uk Press Printing Society May Day 2021 2 Democracy under attack 2 CPB fights election ban 3 Election Special 6 Against anti-semitism https://tinyurl.comMayDayLaunchRALLY TODAY Unity! Sack Boris Johnson Take to the streets UNEMPLOYMENT unemployment has risen, as has the of GP practices by US insurance giant threat of precarious work and Centene are underway and there will be ANDY BAIN underemployment, and the employers’ many others. power to ‘employ’ on their terms has Everyone should turn out for the 26 Crisis: make Scientific reason ACK THE prime minister and the rest increased. When furlough ends June national demonstration organised of the corrupt politicians is the call unemployment will escalate, unless we by the Peoples Assembly Against the rich pay! in revolt Sfrom a rising coalition of resistance fight back. Austerity and the unions. This will be a PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY SCIENCE against the government. The Communist Party has been huge, socially distanced event uniting The People’s Assembly Against working with others to build this campaigners on many causes against the ANY THOUSANDS of TRIBUTE TO British scientist Austerity and a host of working class Unemployment Fightback since Tory Government. Opposing people are expected to Ann McLaren (above) was organisations have backed the call for a mid-2020. There are now several unemployment, and investing in jobs and Mjoin the first major Aviewed by millions, Monday last, demonstration on Saturday 26 June campaigns and many trade unions homes for all is a central demand. national demonstration since the 26 April, when the 94th anniversary of As workers face the biggest increase in making demands, including for a green The victory of football fans against a pandemic began. The People’s her birth was featured on the Google unemployment since trade unions began new deal, to build back better, for a new group of greedy billionaires is an Assembly against Austerity has browser. the call for mass action and for bold and normal and no turning back. inspiration and we must widen our called a mass rally and march to Anne McLaren is renowned as one imaginative tactics is gaining ground. Some trade unionists are exploring the movement to embrace them and all parliament for Saturday 26 June. of the most important reproductive Solidarity action between trade need for a new type of Unemployed others in conflict with the rich. The Communist Party was biologists of the 20th century. Her unionists and community campaigners is Workers Centre, and it is a striking This government and its corrupt among the first organisations to fundamental research on embryology the need. Imagine striking workers being observation on capitalism’s lack of leadership is on the ropes. back the protest. helped countless people realise their protected from eviction by tenants’ progress, that the centenary of the Now is the time for mass action of all Sean Cannon, who convenes dreams of parenthood. unions, or trade unions funding a centre National Unemployed Workers’ kinds to end this corrupt government. the party’s Anti-Austerity A lifelong communist she studied for unemployed workers to organise Movement has just been celebrated. Commission said: ‘The slogans zoology at Oxford University and campaigning for jobs, or trades councils The Communist Party’s ground Andy BaIN IS THE COMMUNIST PARTY adopted for the demonstration: embarked on a pioneering research organising pickets to support precarious breaking conference on the Future of INDUSTRIAL ORGANISER “Make the rich pay for the programme. Her landmark findings, workers in dispute. Work in December 2020 started a coronavirus crisis – not the published in 1958 opened the way to Imagine football fans demanding serious discussion on planning to use workers” puts the blame in vitro fertilisation. She served on the workers in their club get decent wages, new technologies for the benefit of the squarely on our venal capitalist Warnock Commission that led to the or small businesses being drawn into worker and combat the employers’ drive class for the catastrophic way 1990 Human Fertilisation and support for workers facing fire and to increase the reserve army of labour, the Covid-19 pandemic has been Embryology Act. rehire, or unions working together on and so keep wages down. handled. And in counterpoint to the tribute, recruitment initiatives. The possibilities Communists are working hard to unite ‘It is payback time for the last week scientists rallied in defence are endless and we need a flexible the anti-austerity movement and the those who have plundered the of Ann McLaren’s daughter, Professor approach to the difficult battles ahead if trade unions and raise class public purse and those in Susan Michie, following a poisonous the working class is to win out. consciousness. It is not enough just to government who enabled this anticommunist attack on her in the From the start of the pandemic the defend our jobs and resist cuts. robbery.’ Daily Mail. Tories – the party of the ruling class – This needs a militant and flexible The rising tide of anger at the Professor Michie is a leading have shifted the balance of power even approach especially in the non-traditional government’s handling of the behavioural scientist and a member of more in its favour. trade union environment without long crisis has been given extra heft the government’s SAGE committee Shortages of PPE and medical supplies, term jobs and high union density. But we by the chance to show public and has appeared on television forcing people to work when ill or have to do more. In engaging in the anger about the Tory throughout the Covid-19 pandemic as infected, the failure to pay sick pay, and struggle we have to inspire and make s This new pamphlet Unemployment management of the crisis and to a voice of reason and science. the laissez faire approach to employers demands for a better future. Fightback analyses the uses that stand up for the right to protest She also sits on the independent making workplaces safe, all moved Mayday – International Workers Day capitalism makes of unemployment, then and to oppose the government’s SAGE committee and came under power further to employers. – is a time for the workers’ movement to considers the class struggle during the Police, Crime, Sentencing and attack for her party membership and The union fight back won a furlough find new energy. Now we can move pandemic and looks ahead at the building Courts Bill. politics and for her advocacy of Zero scheme which has saved millions from from small scale protests to big rallies. of a movement to change the balance of Covid measures which have so poverty. Throughout the crisis Already protests against the take over power. www.communistparty.org.uk H thepeoplesassembly.org.uk offended the right wing rag. 2 | May Day 2021 Unity! POLITICS&NEWS ‘Parliamentarianism has become “historically obsolete”. That is true in the propaganda sense. ‘owever, everybody knows that this is still a far cry from overcoming it in practice.’ VI Lenin ‘Left wing Communism’ an infantile disorder Some major publications are available Explaining in Welsh with the Communist Party campaign in Wales including three radio socialism and TV broadcasts, delivered bi-lingually. In one of the biggest campaigns to explain the meaning of socialism in recent years, the Communist Party has produced a series of 25 posters, also as social media artwork. Entitled What socialism really means, the series has proven to be so popular, it is going to be renewed after the 6 May. The party also produced an Introduction to Marxism and What we stand for in digital and printed form. Our rights are Elect a red! For the first time activists have been under attack able to contact the party and be directed automatically to the nearest branch and campaign, to get involved. FREEDOMS companies to the criminalisation of Those going to tinyurl.com/ElectARed squatting and the atrocious 'Windrush' are able to download free campaign ALEX GORDON deportations of British citizens. documents including An introduction to The Tier 4 lockdown had abolished Marxism, What we stand for and, our Manifestos E FACE A growing threat to even the limited right to protest allowed programme Britain’s Road to Socialism. During this election, the Communist our freedoms. Despite his by the lower tiers and so clearly before the eruption of violence played There they can order campaign leaflets Party produced four manifestos and Wreputation as a 'Tory contravenes the European Convention into the hands of Tory and other to use at workplaces or in the two short popular versions. First to be libertarian', Boris Johnson's government on Human Rights. supporters of repressive ruling-class community, apply to join or ask to ‘get published was Our future is socialism in is now attacking democratic freedoms The danger now is that some of the legislation. involved’. Over one hundred have taken Scotland – where each candidate also on a scale that cannot be justified by the drastic but temporary Covid restrictions Communists urge people to make the up the offer. had their own election brochure with Covid emergency. of our hard-won civil liberties might be maximum use of their surviving a total distribution of 175,000. The Police and Crime and 'Skycops' made permanent – if we don’t resist. freedoms to fight against injustice. In Wales/Cymru the party Bills presently kicked into touch by the The ‘over the top’ police action The Communist Party supports the Social media produced Real Power for the people of government is an example of the against women peacefully protesting on struggle to defend the right to protest Covid conditions, at the start of the Wales/ Grym Go Iawn I Werin Cymru, growing centralisation and Clapham Common against male and communists young and old are election, brought CP social media which went to 200,000 homes.