Comrades and friends assembled Saturday to listen to Harpal Brar speak on the topic of Imperialism and War at Partick Burgh Halls, Glasgow.
Communists from across Scotland met in Glasgow this Saturday to listen to an excellent presentation from CPGB-ML Chairman Harpal Brar.
Comrade Harpal spoke on the topic of Imperialism and War – particularly important as we reach the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. Despite the ruling classes’ war propaganda and jingoism, it’s vital that workers (and young people) understand that the war was an inter-imperialist struggle to control colonies – at the expenses of millions of workers’ lives from across Europe, Africa and Asia. A short video excerpt of the speech can be seen below. Any group that would like Harpal to speak on this topic is welcome to send a request to our email address.
A lively discussion followed in which comrades agreed on the necessity of building a workers’ movement free from social democracy at home, and reaffirming our support for anti-imperialist forces abroad – particularly the Syrian Armed Forces and Hezbollah, and the anti-fascist resistance in Donetsk, Lugansk and other parts of ‘eastern Ukraine’.
The event was preceded by a meeting of Glasgow CPGB-ML who worked out plans for expanding the branch and our work in the city. If you’d like to get involved and join the struggle – email info@redyouth.org
Comrade Khwezi Kadalie (1953 – 2014) speaking in Birmingham in Feb 2012
It is with great sadness that comrades of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist Leninist) learned of the death of our comrade Khwezi Kadalie, who succumbed after a long, tenacious and dignified struggle with liver cancer.
We mourn his loss deeply, as we mourn the loss of our own family member – for although comrade Khwezi lived and worked in South Africa, he dedicated his life not only to the cause of the liberation of the South-African masses, but to the struggle for the emancipation of workers of all countries.
Death comes to each of us, but Khwezi will live on in the hearts and minds of those of us who knew, loved and respected him; and in the struggle of all who raise their hands and voices to oppose and overthrow the system of exploitation of man by man and nation by nation.
Our party comrades have had long and close ties with Khwezi, who regularly contributed reports and analysis to the anti-imperialist Journal LALKAR, and to our party’s paper Proletarian since our founding congress in 2004.
Khwezi pays a visit to Marx’s Grave at Highgate Cemetrey, in London, Feb 2012
In 2010, Khwezi and Nellie hosted a delegation of Red Youth, who came to attend the 17th world festival of youth and students in Pretoria. During the day we shared experience with progressive youth from across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. In the evenings we shared food and drink and political discussion with our generous hosts, who took us into their family.
We had the opportunity to meet Zimbabwean comrades and hear of their experiences in re-distributing land expropriated by European colonial settlers, returning it to the land hungry masses. Their fiery speeches – and ours – were met with rapturous reception from the young South-African and international delegates.
We travelled with Khwezi, his daughters and comrades of the Marxist Workers School to the East Rand, where we saw that despite the benefits brought by the freedom struggle, there is a struggle still to be waged – here as elsewhere – to return the wealth of your country to the working masses of South Africa, as envisaged by the freedom charter. This was the goal for which Khwezi had dedicated his life – during the armed struggle, and in the 20 years since victory – and for which dream he refused all personal privilege and shunned compromise. Neither threats to his life nor promises of gain induced him to give up this noble cause.
Khwezi came to Europe the following year, visiting his German comrades and then touring Britain, speaking at a series of packed meetings, organised by the party and Red Youth, so that he could share his experience of the liberation struggle with politically conscious British workers.
All who met him and heard him speak were touched by his infectious and optimistic spirit, his fervour and dedication to the cause, tempered and sustained by his rational and scientific socialist understanding.
Khwezi with members from Leeds Red Youth group
In every sense, Khwezi was a tried, tested and honoured member of our revolutionary family and we are grateful at least, for the opportunity to pay tribute to his revolutionary life. It is fitting, and our hearts are gladdened to hear, that he will rest in Heroes’ Acre, along with many of the comrades with whom he waged the armed struggle to free South Africa from the dark days of Apartheid; not far from the final resting place of comrades Joe Slovo, Helen Joseph and Lillian Ngoyi, Walter and Albertina Sisulu.
As a young man, Khwezi demonstrated his opposition to the political oppression of the racist colonial apartheid system, that profited from the cheap labour of black South Africans, labouring in her mines, factories and fields, to produce fabulous profits for the capitalist and imperialist ruling class, while barely affording a living to those black workers, its real producers and rightful owners.
He took an active role in the student movement and found himself arrested during the Soweto uprising of June 1976, subsequently being detained and tortured for several months. He was inspired by the Black consciousness movement, and was due to meet with Stephen Biko, but events conspired against them and shortly after his release Stephen was captured and murdered by the Apartheid reactionaries.
Far from being cowed by his experience, soon after his release Khwezi sought voluntary exile in order to join MK (Umkhonto we Sizwe), and gain military training in the front-line states, understanding that force was the only logic that could make its mark on these arrogant and ignorant oppressors, infected as they were by their supremacist ideology.
In the course of his training he was seconded to the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, then in exile in Lebanon, forging enduring ties and deep respect for the cause of the Palestinian people in their struggle against the racist and supremacist Zionist state of Israel – which he understood to be another Apartheid regime, in the heart of the oil-rich Middle East, and another front line of the global battle against the rapacious and blood-thirsty rule of monopoly capitalist imperialism. In the 1980s he was attached to the ANC office in London, before returning to South Africa after the unbanning of the ANC to help secure its electoral victory in 1994, that marked the final victory over apartheid.
A noble son of the Russian revolution, Nikolai Ostrovsky, who gave his life to fight the reactionaries and build a bright socialist future penned the following brief but beautiful lines, which are a fitting tribute to the life of our comrade, Khwezi Kadalie, one of the finest sons of South Africa, and the international proletariat that it has been our honour and privilege to know:
“Man’s dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world──the fight for the Liberation of Mankind”
Khwezi’s passing fills us, his family, comrades and loved ones, with sorrow, but we can rejoice in knowing that he lived a meaningful life, true to this sacred pledge – and we renew our vow to follow the same example.
We send him our final Red Salute! Power to the people! Amandla!
Saturday 31 May 1.45pm – 4.00 pm
Patrick Burgh Hall, 9 Burgh Hall St, Glasgow, G11 5LW [2 minutes walk from Patrick station]
Come and join the discussion following comrade Harpal’s
presentation looking at the reasons for war, the class contradictions
which give rise to war, the different types of war and the attitude of
communists towards war. The meeting will also examine the role
of opportunism and social chauvinism in the anti-war movement
in Britain, and the need for anti-imperialist solidarity.
All welcome
The Stalin Society, BM Box 2521 London WC1N 3XX www.stalinsociety.org.uk info@stalinsociety.org.uk
On 5 May 2014, Members of Red Youth and the Communist Party of Great Britain – Marxist-Leninist assembled in Bexley Square, Salford for Manchester May Day.
Despite a relatively low turnout of around 200 people – and the same tired speeches from ‘trade union officials’ instructing workers to vote Labour – we were able to make our message clear: “Labour, Tory – same old story. Fight all capitalist cuts!”
As in London, communists marched through the streets with party flags and a banner of Comrade Stalin. This generated a mixed reaction from social-democrats and others, but clear interest from the workers. We discussed how the Soviet Union’s achievements were remarkable; the defeat of the Nazis at the hand of the mighty Red Army was one of many.
May Day is our day – the day in which the proletarian of the world should organise under the banner of Marxism-Leninism.
A meeting organised by the Communist Party in Birmingham, West Midlands was addressed by Harpal Brar this Sunday. The meeting was held in the party building near the city centre and began with two short film showings demonstrating the brutality of the Kiev fascists who have murdered innocent people in Odessa, Slavyansk, Mariupol and various other towns these last few weeks and the disgusting assertion by one pro-Kiev coup government Mayor that Hitler was a liberator from Stalin and the USSR.
The meeting is one of a series of meetings which in general are addressing the theme imperialism and war and it follows on from similar successful events in Liverpool and London. Other regions are preparing to host Harpal and other members of the central committee of the CPGB-ML and the next will be held in Glasgow on Saturday May 31 – further details to be announced. If you would like to have the talk in your own town, get in touch via info@redyouth.org.
The Birmingham meeting was well attended by local party comrades and friends and heard an expert summary of the Marxist teachings on imperialism and war. Comrade Harpal spoke about the reasons for war, the class contradictions which give rise to war, the different types of war and the attitude of communists towards war. He talked about the role of opportunism and social chauvinism in the anti-war movement, and importantly the meeting went on to address questions of vital significance for us here in Britain today. The comrades assembled in Birmingham expressed their opinion that in the event of US or British imperialist aggression against Russia or China, the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist – Leninist) would work for the defeat of our own government and support the defense of Russia and socialist China. It was the view of the majority that war against Russia or China would be reactionary, would strengthen the forces of imperialism and would therefore need to be opposed by revolutionaries. Comrades rejected the notion peddled in some quarters that because Russia is not a socialist country we would adopt a “plague on both your houses” attitude, and that rather than take such a backward step we should declare ourselves firmly on the side of the victim of imperialist aggression.
Red Youth is sad to have to inform our comrades, readers, supporters and friends of the death of our very dear comrade George Bennett. Our comrades are welcome to pay their respects this 14 May at 4pm – 14, Morris Street, Whitechapel, London E1 2NP.
George Bennett – member of CPGB-ML and Stalin Society
George was born on 8 September 1923 and came to Britain from Kingston, Jamaica as a young man. He was no ‘pushover’ for anyone and always supported his trade union and fellow workers within his workplace (mostly the Post Office). Equally he would stand up to racism or any form of bullying no matter where it came from or the odds against him. From early on he sought answers to the questions of the day and found them in Marxism-Leninism. In 1991, when the Stalin Society was formed in Britain, George was there supporting from the start. In later life George found himself in the CPB but was not happy with the line taken by the leaders of that party on support for the Labour Party, the belittling of the Soviet Union and the role of comrade JV Stalin within it. A good friend introduced him to the CPGB-ML and George joined after a short period of studying the party. George described the feeling he had when joining as being “like coming home!” George the optimist stood firm whatever the difficulties and never wavered for a second in his political beliefs or his commitment to the CPGB-ML. His last years saw a lot of illness (mainly respiratory) but George remained his cheerful self and would always do whatever he could for the Party and the Stalin Society illness permitting. It was a pleasure to know comrade George and we are richer for the experience. George was a man who really disliked any ‘fuss’ regarding himself or the work that he had done for the cause, a truly modest man who just got on with things. George passed from this life on 26 April following a stroke. We pay him the highest accolade we can think of, he was a communist and we were proud to call him comrade.
Our party had a proud contingent on this year’s Mayday Rally in London – and will have another tomorrow in Manchester, for anyone who wishes to join us. The Spectator (a mainstream conservative mouthpiece of British imperialism) have kindly reproduced a beautiful picture of our banner (above) along with the confused headline “I’ve just seen Nazi banners in Trafalgar Square. Well, almost“, followed by a hackneyed, wholly irrelevant, and breathtakingly ignorant rant conflating socialism/communism and fascism. It is a series of arguments that hold little water, and increasingly seen by British workers for the blatant lies they are. Moreover, we have answered these lies time and again – but are not afforded the air-time in this ‘democratic’ society to reach a mass audience.
Stalin remains a figure of controversy in this country – it must be acknowledged. But then so does history in general. For the record of the October Revolution, the Soviet Union, and their profound impact upon the modern world, is a class question – one that threatens the misanthropic interests of our ruling class as no other. And like all class questions, there is no single “national interest”, but the conflicting interests of the great mass of workers on the one hand [and overwhelmingly, the British population remain workers, although they are encouraged to think of themselves as little capitalists], and the currently dominant interests of a tiny handful of city financiers and great industrialists, who control the great mass of British Capital, on the other.
There are some feint-hearts, even among ‘socialist and communist’ groups, who think it ‘tactically unwise’ to openly carry such ‘provocative’ banners on the streets of London. But they miss the point. To advocate socialism, is to ask that power be transferred from the hands of the capitalists to the hands of the workers.
To even hint at such a policy will bring charges of ‘stalinism‘ from the bourgeois class, and their ideological agents in the working class movement. And quite right. Stalin, after all, was a serf who participated in the October Revolution that overturned a feudal and religious empire. He went on to lead the construction of a worker’s state, which liberated 1/6 of the world’s surface from exploitation of man by man, and nation by nation. The Soviet Union and the Red Army went on to defeat the mightiest (Fascist) warmongering armies of capitalist imperialism ever assembled on the face of this earth, ushering in a period of peace and prosperity for a third of humanity, who built a socialist economic system. To give up the example of the Soviet Union from the outset is to give up on socialism altogether.
Whose interests did Stalin serve? That is the question. The answer is ours. British workers, as much as Soviet workers. [Consider, for example, the real reasons behind the provision of the NHS after Soviet Victory in WW2, and its increasing privatisation now the Soviet Union is no more] That is why he remains a colossus, that cannot be removed from the pages of history and the consciousness of the workers, despite all the malign lies, and gnawing criticism of the intellectual and political servants of the imperialist monopoly-capitalist class.
On the role of Britain’s imperialist ruling class supporting fascism, there is no shortage of material, whether we turn to the recent example of the Ukraine, or the older examples from the run up to world war 2, and the Spanish Civil War.
On the legendary role of the Soviet Union in combating fascism, and the part played personally by Stalin in this battle, there is also no shortage of material. Indeed, without understanding the military, economic and political events that lead to the defeat of the German 6th Army, that flower of the NAZI war machine, by the Soviet Red Army at Stalingrad, modern history is simply incomprehensible.
Henry Metelmann’s personal account of the battle of Stalingrad – and his experiences of German fascism before, and his reflections on WW2 and the intervening period since, are revelatory.
We would particularly ask our readers – friends and critics – to familiarise themselves with this material in order to negotiate the blathering of such confusionists as the Spectator’s Mr Bloodworth, or the Telegraph’s Mr Walters, and all the other heirs of the Hearst Press, stretching back to Gobbles himself, of whom this unfortunate pair are but minor examples.
Millions Killed by Communism?
The origins of the fantastic figures for “alleged deaths attributable” to Stalin and Mao, are shrouded in obscurity, for the methods used to conjure them up are so unscientific as to be laughable, were they not propagated on an industrial scale by the press of the capitalist gangs that seek to continue their domination, without subjecting their assertions to the slightest level of scientific rigour, scrutiny, peer-review, or basic journalistic standards. The wilder the accusation, the more gleefully they are propagated.
Mario Sousa’s excellent pamphlet, Lies concerning the History of the Soviet Union, has been translated into English by Ella Rule, our vice president and international secretary, and should be compulsory reading for anyone who wishes to understand the Soviet Union, the working class movement, socialism, or modern history.
As to the Spectator’s scurrilous assertions regarding China, and Mao’s alleged death toll during the Great leap forward, we would also ask all interested in the truth to read this article reproduced in Lalakar, and simply note the massive increase in life-expectancy (from 35 to 69), health and population in China during the time of Chairman Mao’s leadership of New China when the Chinese people can truly be said, to have stood up!
Given that the Soviet Union is no more, and the UK state spends much of its time justifying its armed incursions abroad, and at home, on the basis of fighting the bogeymen of “islamist extremism” and “religious fundamentalism”, one might ask why we are subjected to this constant stream of invective against the great communist leaders at all – since they have already been dismissed as a historical irrelevance time and again.
We should note in passing the breath-taking hypocrisy of our British imperial masters, who claim to be motivated by deep concern for ‘democratic and peaceful’ aims, but feel ‘morally obliged’ to promote their humanitarian sentiments by funding such agents as the medieval Al-Qaeda nutters in Syria (who, fresh from lynching black Africans in Libya, lop off heads and devour human livers, in order to overturn a secular, progressive, democratically elected and socialist leaning anti-imperialist government – who incidentally won’t allow the US any military bases on their soil, but are one of the chief supporters of all popular democratic forces across the Middle East), and openly fascist pro Nazi Racists in the Ukraine.
British workers must learn to hold our heads up high, reclaim our history and challenge the lies that aim to keep us on our knees!
Long live Mayday! Long Live the glorious memory and example of the USSR! Slava Stalin!
Members of red youth and the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) took part in this years May Day march and rally from Clerkenwell, London.
Carrying party banners and flags our comrades were pleased to celebrate International Workers Day with comrades from around the world who are domiciled in Britain.
Ranjeet Brar, central committee member of the party gave the following interview to Russia Today:
The working class does not march in protest on May Day, but to declare our power to organise ourselves behind our own class ideology – scientific socialism.
We are not ‘speaking truth to power’ but asserting that we already have the power to overturn the tyranny of capital over labour. All that is lacking is the organisation needed to use it.
It is, of course, vital to oppose the destruction of the welfare state, the closure of factories, the slashing of benefits, the massacre of jobs, the freezing of wages, the undermining of pensions, the imposition of zero-hours contracts, the instigation of new wars and all the ‘austerity’ measures driven by the capitalist crisis.
Taking part in such struggles will help us to develop the organisational and political skills we need to secure victory in the bigger battle that lies ahead – the struggle to free ourselves from the capitalist system altogether.
But we will not acquire those essential skills if we cling to the illusion that protesting alone will ‘make a difference’. No amount of ‘pressure’ on MPs to sign Early Day Motions, signatures on e-petitions, or polite marches will ever persuade the capitalist class to ‘see reason’ and change its ways.
The crisis of capitalism is so deep that no capitalist government, Labour included, can do other than drive workers into poverty at home and wars abroad. To end the crisis, we must end capitalism.
When false friends of the working class on the ‘left’ insist that the crisis is not really so bad as it is painted – that it is being ‘talked up by the Tories’, and that a bit of financial regulation and government spending could set the capitalist economy back on an even keel – they are misleading workers about the real scope and severity of the crisis and hiding the scale of its consequences.
When the ‘People’s Assembly’ (PA) leadership took the opportunity of Budget Day to rustle up a fantasy-football wish-list of what they would like to see in a ‘People’s Budget’ (“living wage, green-energy jobs, public ownership, robin-hood tax, empty-property tax, bankers-bonus tax, scrap trident, affordable housing, rent controls, stop tax avoidance, renewable energy, bank regulation”), they crammed everything into their “giant red briefcase” except one vital ingredient: any whisper of the fact that capitalism cannot be regulated out of its inherent contradictions, but must be overthrown and replaced with socialism.
And yet without that basic understanding, all that workers are being offered by these great ‘leaders’ is more of the same pointless protest-politics. Instead of helping us to get onto our feet and get organised to take on our class enemies, they have invited us to sit in the ditch and dream.
They might just as well have posted a letter to Father Christmas at the North Pole for all the results their efforts will bring to the working class. No wonder that those workers who are really suffering at the cutting edge of today’s cuts are nowhere to be seen at the PA’s liberal do-gooder gatherings.
Social democrats – Labour and all those who ask us to put our faith in it – are passionately attached to the idea that monopoly capital can somehow be ‘fixed’. All the groups popping up to declare themselves as ‘people’s assemblies’ pledged to ‘unite the resistance’ in an ‘anti-cuts alliance’ behind a ‘network of shop stewards’ have one common trait: they are all desperate to persuade workers that capitalism can be reformed by mass protest; desperate to stop us from learning Marxist science, taking a revolutionary path and abolishing the system that is at the root of all our problems.
Workers don’t need capitalists
Here’s the truth these illusion-mongers avoid like the plague: workers can do without capitalists but capitalists cannot do without workers.
Without our work, every wheel of capitalist production would come to a halt, leaving the capitalists as kings of a vast and useless realm of means of production.
Workers, on the other hand, are quite capable of using those productive forces for ourselves. Without the capitalists’ need to make profits, the problems and crises of the capitalist system will simply melt away, to be replaced by the simple requirements of planning to meet the needs of the people.
Likewise, workers can do without the warmongers, but the warmongers cannot do without workers.
We have it in our power to withdraw cooperation from the barbaric wars of national oppression being waged by imperialism. Collectively, we can refuse to fight; refuse to assist the war effort by making or moving armaments and materiel; refuse to help broadcast or print the propaganda that hides the truth about British imperialism’s vast and terrible war crimes.
It is social democrats – bought-off ‘leaders’ who talk ‘socialist’ but ultimately serve the interests of capital – who stop workers from exercising our huge collective power, continually promoting the fraud of British ‘parliamentary democracy’ instead of giving workers a scientific lead in the class struggle.
In this way they help the capitalists to impose a permanent, unelected rule of the moneybags behind the scenes – at the expense of the divided and confused working masses.
And it is left to the communists to point out the truth that those who claim to ‘represent the electorate’ in Westminster only really represent our enemies.
“Marx grasped this essence of capitalist democracy splendidly when … he said that the oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!” (Lenin)
In order for the working class – the overwhelming majority of Britain’s population – to unite and go onto the offensive against capitalist exploitation and war, we must first rid ourselves of the paralysing influence of Labour – and all those who are in any way involved with promoting or prettifying it.
As the crisis deepens, the message that communists bring to workers is simple:
– We are in the throes of an overproduction crisis far greater even than those which drove the world into slump, wars and revolution twice in the last century.
– The only ‘solution’ on offer from any capitalist party is to drive workers into deeper poverty, escalating racism and endless war.
– The socialist solution to the crisis needs workers to take the lead in transferring the means of production from private to public hands, thereby ending the contradictions that lead to crisis and war.
In order to accomplish this task on behalf of society as a whole, the proletariat needs to build a strong organisation; one that has the strength in both numbers and understanding to lead workers in overthrowing the dictatorship of the billionaires.
In its place, a state of the working class will be tasked with building a planned socialist economy, organised to meet the needs of the many rather than to make profits for a handful of parasites.
What’s going on in the Ukraine? Who are the good guys and who the bad? Who are the revolutionaries, and who the reactionaries and oppressors? What do the Ukrainian people want? What should the British Worker’s attitude to all this turmoil be?
Harpal Brar, Chairman of the CPGB-ML lays it down in this great video: “Ukraine – Oppose the Fascist Coup”. This speech was given at a CPGB-ML meeting, attended by the Russian Embassy, in Sakltvala Hall, Southall, on 12 April 2014. Annotations help to illustrate his narrative.
He outlines how the current crisis is due to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of capitalism, the attempts of the US/EU/NATO to stifle Russia and ensnare the 48 million workers of industrialised and developed Ukraine into their empire.
The people of Ukraine are resisting the Imperialists, and exposing the Fascist leadership of the so-called “orange revolution” 2004 – 2014. British workers must champion the right of the Ukrainian people to determine their own destiny, without US/EU imperialist interference.
We must not fall for the trotskyist line that “The Russians are imperialists, and as bad or worse than the US – so do nothing, or [worse] support the imperialist backed fascist forces”
It seemed, in November 2013, that the elected Kiev government under President Yanukovych could be cajoled and bullied into signing a trade deal with the EU that would tie the country to imperialist interests at the expense of simultaneously lowering the living standards of its own people and exposing its Russian neighbour to the dumping of cheap exports.
Yet when the moment came to sign off the deal, the government abruptly recoiled from the prospect of trying to sell the accompanying IMF restructuring plans to the general population.
So, with ‘fair’ means failing, it was time to turn to ‘foul’ ones. If the elected government failed to dance dutifully enough to the West’s tune, then (in the name of democracy, of course) it had to be replaced by one that would be more biddable.
Over three months, the protesters, led by an assortment of rival parties which had all been beaten hollow at the last election in 2012 and increasingly geed up by an even less representative ragbag of jew-baiters, pogromists and all-round fascists, graduated from placard-waving to violent provocations, seizures of administrative centres and intimidation against the MPs of the elected Party of the Regions, as well as from the Communist Party with which it was allied.
Meanwhile, the western media glorified the protests as supposedly being the latest expression of ‘democratic’ ‘people power’ against ‘tyranny’, demonised the elected government, and sabotaged all efforts to resolve the crisis through negotiation.
Resistance grows
What the West did not reckon on was the scale of the resistance that its meddling would provoke. In major cities throughout the industrialised east of the country (where the Russian-speaking proletariat is strongly represented), thousands have come onto the streets to denounce the coup and beg the Russian Federation to protect them from the hostile actions of the illegal regime now wielding power in the west of the country.
In Kharkov, Lugansk, Donetsk and other key industrial towns throughout eastern Ukraine, determined mass resistance to the fascist coup has been gathering unstoppable momentum.
Crimea
Naturally, the most serious resistance to date has been that in the Crimea, which has now by an overwhelming majority of 96.77 percent voted to join the Russian Federation.
Moreover, the number of Soviet flags, hammers and sickles, and portraits of JV Stalin that are evident in nearly every demonstration, along with the central place assumed by the defence of Lenin monuments, shows that strong sentiment exists among the masses not only for reunification with Russia, but also for the reconstitution of the USSR as a fraternal socialist union of working people of all nationalities.
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Comrades and friends joined family at Mortlake Crematorium to say a last goodbye to Iris Cremer, founder member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist Leninist) yesterday.
Iris and Godfrey’s deep love for humanity, their profound Marxist understanding, and their determination to use all their many talents to serve the working class by building a truly revolutionary movement dedicated to our emancipation from wage slavery, and a communist party capable of directing that struggle, were their consistent motivating forces, and remain their enduring legacy.
It was this higher cause and meaning that enabled them to harness their creative powers and live truly outstanding and exemplary lives; lives full of passion and joy, free of black despair and wasted, petty or meaningless years.
Iris, like Godfrey, faced her final moments with the same optimism and fortitude that characterized the life they spent together. Their abiding certainty is that their lives’ work was a great gift to humanity – and we salute them for it.
