Broadening the battle lines: The pensions struggle - a fight for trade union organisation and public services by Communist Party chair and former NUT president Bill Greenshields addresses the immediate challenges and issues faced by the trade union movement in the battle against the ConDem governments assault on public sector pension provisions. It argues that this present attack is one aspect of a much broader assault by the ruling class and outlines steps for the labour movement to go beyond limited industrial action and presents a strategy for developing and strengthening unity across the working class.   Order this item...

The new edition of Britain’s Road to Socialism, the Communist Party’s programme, adopted in July 2011; presents and analysis of capitalism and imperialism in its current form; answers the questions of how a revolutionary transformation might be bought about in 21st Century Britain; and what a socialist and communist society in Britain might look like.

The BRS was first published in 1951 after nearly six years of discussion and debate across the CP, labour movement and working class. Over its 8 editions it has sold more than a million copies in Britain and helped to shape and develop the struggle of the working class for more than half a century. Other previous editions of the BRS have been published in 1952, 1958, 1968, 1977, 1989 and 2000 as well as multiple substantially revised versions.

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