Communist Party Greater Manchester
@CpbManc
Greater Manchester branch of the Communist Party of Britain. For Socialism, Peace, & Democracy
The European annihilation of between 50-70 million indigenous Americans was so profoundly vast that it changed the temperature of the planet, is as wild a fact as you're likely to encounter all week. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
UNITED AGAINST THE FASCISTS 📢 On Saturday 2nd August, the far-right party "Britain First" will be coming to Manchester to march for what they call "remigration". The far-right are not welcome on our streets, we have no tolerance for racism or division JOIN US, FIGHT BACK!
Today, 11.30am, we remember Salford born Tommy Moore, an International Brigade volunteer who lost his life in the Spanish Civil War. Venue: Moston Cemetery, Manchester, enter from Lightbowne Road entrance. Later refreshments at Fairway Inn. @IBMT_SCW
On the 26th July 1953, a small band of Cuban Revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro attempted a failed assault on Moncada Barracks, in Santiago. 61 rebels were killed, and the rest imprisoned & tortured #LaHistoriaPorAsalto #UnblockCuba However, it would spark the flames for the…
On this day, 26 July 1950, one of the most notorious chapters of the Korean War - the No Gun Ri Massacre - began. For three days US soldiers butchered 400 Korean refugees hiding in a tunnel. Both the US and South Korea denied the atrocity before finally admitting it 1999.
Solidarity to Unite @unitetheunion bin workers at Birmingham Council in their ongoing strike action against cuts to their pay & jobs - and to today's Megapicket! The Labour Council & Starmer’s Government can end the dispute today if they want. Keep fighting! Unity is strength!
Solidarity to Resident Doctors @BMAResidents striking this week in defence of pay, conditions & our NHS! #PayRestoration They’re not just facing down Starmer, Streeting & the Labour Government - but also the media determined to demonise workers exercising their right to strike.
... the grotesque spectacle of a Labour council – a Labour council - scuttling to the High Court so that it can hand out redundancy notices to its own workers. Victory to #BrumBinStrikers Birmingham bin strikes lorry blocking sends council back to court share.google/fyYl842sXKzgJn…
Not content with robbing customers blind to line shareholder pockets, @edfenergy has 💰 to spare to pay private debt collectors - at the drop of a hat - to chase a *£56 balance* for the single month before we even moved in. These gangster extortionists need putting away. [1/2]
End all support of the British State for the genocide and Israel. Achieve boycott, divestment, sanctions and isolation of apartheid Israel. Force British recognition of the sovereign Palestinian state.
It’s crocodile tears and too little too late from David Lammy, Starmer and the Labour Party over Gaza #GazaStarving They have shamelessly defended Israel’s genocide both in opposition and in government. Under their leadership Britain has continued to be complicit in every…
Editorial: ‘Appalled’ and ‘sickened?’ David Lammy’s hand-wringing on Gaza fools no-one morningstaronline.co.uk/article/appall…
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆? This is what we stand for. Join today and play your part. 🔗 communistparty.org.uk/what-we-stand-…
"London ‘super sewer’ boss awarded £600,000 pay rise despite £100m cost overrun." You'd never guess that Thames Water's customers now have a £25 surcharge on the water bills, for the next 20 years, to pay for this nonsense. theguardian.com/business/2025/…
"After three decades of privatisation, there is no evidence it can work" Overhaul fails to end privatisation of troubled water sector.
Tomorrow's front page: BUISNESS AS USUAL (...if you're a water fat cat) Subscribe to the Morning Star: morningstaronline.co.uk/subscribe
Emancipation Day Online Public Meeting - 1 August 2025 The Party's Anti-Racism Anti-Fascism Commission is hosting an online public meeting to mark Emancipation Day on the 1st of August at 7pm. Emancipation Day refers to the day slavery was abolished in Britain through the…
Members of Greater Manchester CPB are today joining communists from across the nation at the YCL's annual Harry Pollitt School. Harry was born in what is now Greater Manchester, & our branch is proud that this school represents the legacy of that great working class fighter 🚩
Solidarity to everyone attending the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival @TolpuddleFest this weekend in Dorset! The example of the Martyrs lives on in our trade union movement and the struggle for peace, democracy and socialism in our lifetime. The past we inherit- the future we build!
"0ver a number of years the water companies have been taking money out of the water system & channelling it away to their investors, making their debts higher. Customers are having a huge cost of that interest" --Head of the Public Accounts Committee bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…