Saturday 13th September
Assemble 12pm
Russell Square
London
WC1B 5EH

March to Whitehall

Coventry and Warwickshire Communist Party will have a stall on:

Jordan Well,
Coventry

Monday 15th September,
11.15 a.m. until 12.30 p.m.

Students and staff are welcome to come along and meet Party members and receive a Communist Party / Young Communist League 'goody bag'.

Events in Wellesbourne, Warwickshire, in 1872 triggered a huge uprising in rural trade unionism led by Joseph Arch, champion of the rural labourer. His efforts have been recognised many times. Not least when the obelisk in his memory at his grave in Barford was erected in 1922, and again in 1952 where the shelter was erected on the spot where he launched the union of agricultural labourers in 1872 in Wellesbourne.

Wednesday, 24th September, 2025, 7pm

Coventry Friends Meeting House,
Hill Street,
CV1 4AN

Gawain Little, General Secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions, will speak about the huge threats posed by Reform UK.

(all text from leaflet) Between August 2022 and July 2024, GMB Union membership at Amazon's BHX4 Coventry warehouse skyrocketed with 37 days of strike action resulting in a 28.5% pay rise. Yet despite this, the union narrowly lost a ballot that would have {forced Amazon to grant formal recognition. Based on ethnographic research and reflective essays from worker-leaders and organisers, this book offers a rich case study of the factors contributing to the union's successes and setbacks.

Full information on the Strike Map page.

After a successful Megapicket on May 9th, to shut down the Lifford Lane Depot, Trades Unions are organising "Megapicket II" for Friday July 25th.

Megapicket II will be staged across 5 sites on the same day.

It is hoped to mobilise people from Trades Unions, campaign and community groups from around the country - most importantly from the Midlands.

The picket lines will start at 6am at:

• Atlas Depot, B11 2AS
• Lifford Lane Depot, B30 3JJ
• Perry Barr Depot, B42 2TU
• Ryton site (Cov), CV8 3EJ
• Veolia Incinerator, B11 2BA

For the full information, go to the page on the Strike Map website.

Leicester Museum and Art Gallery and Manifesto Press are holding an event to celebrate the launch of Hans Hess - Selected Writings:

Volume one - Art in the 19th Century.
Volume two - Art in the 20th century.

Book launch:
Saturday 28th June 2025, 5pm - 7pm

Hess - a Marxist art historian who helped rescue "degenerate" art from Nazi persecution—played a vital role in shaping Leicester’s world-renowned collection. Books will be available to purchase (paperback/hardback options).

Venue:
Leicester Museum and Art Gallery
53 New Walk,
Leicester
LE1 7EA

Limited number of tickets.
Book a free ticket for the book launch event on the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery website.

As we enter June, the Communist Party sends solidarity to LGBT people everywhere for Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

We salute and remember those, including Communist Party and YCL members, who have played their part in the struggle for LGBT equality and liberation throughout the years.

“Keir Starmer’s government is sacrificing millions of working-class votes for the Labour Party on the altar of big business profits, militarism and war”, Communist Party General Secretary Robert Griffiths told our Party’s Political Committee on Tuesday evening (27 May 2025).

“Scores of billions of pounds extra can be found for more nuclear weapons, to assist Israel’s genocidal destruction of the Palestinian people and to prolong the barbaric war in Ukraine”, he accused, “while Labour uses its 160-plus majority in the House of Commons to deny relative petty cash to pensioners, poor families and people with disabilities”.