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Manchester Communists at this year's International Workers Day march. 100 years after the General Strike our fight continues✊️

Today's @M_Star_Online front page: Unity is our strength – Nationwide rallies mark 100 years since the 1926 General Strike Subscribe to the Morning Star newspaper: morningstaronline.co.uk/subscribe

100 years ago today, 1.7 million British workers walked out. Not for themselves. In solidarity with miners facing wage cuts and longer hours. For nine days, Britain stopped. No trains ran. No newspapers printed except the workers' own bulletins. The docks fell silent. The government deployed troops and middle-class strikebreakers, but they couldn't keep the system running. Because the system runs on working-class labour, and for nine days, that labour said no. The TUC capitulated on day nine. Called it off without winning a single demand, abandoned the miners to seven more months of starvation before defeat. That betrayal cost us decades. But those nine days proved something the ruling class has never forgotten: when we organise collectively, we can shut down the entire capitalist economy. They criminalised solidarity strikes after 1926. Made it illegal to do what had just shown our power so clearly. That tells you who was actually threatened. A century on, we face the same fight. Employers are using inflation as cover for real wage cuts. Attacking unions. Demanding we accept austerity as inevitable. And the same question: do we fight collectively or get picked off one sector at a time? The 1926 strike failed because its leadership feared working-class power more than they wanted victory. But the rank and file built strike committees, organised distribution, kept communities fed, and ran their own media. They showed what we're capable of when we refuse capital's logic. #GeneralStrike #LabourHistory #WorkingClass #TradeUnions #Solidarity #ClassStruggle

Manchester Communists at this year's International Workers Day march. 100 years after the General Strike our fight continues✊️

Berlin falls. The workers' state crushes the fascist beast. Twenty-seven million Soviet dead: workers, peasants, partisans – paid the price for this victory. The liberal myth says we all beat Hitler together. That is whitewashing. While Britain and America delayed the second front and let the Soviets bleed, while Churchill plotted Operation Unthinkable to rearm the Wehrmacht against our liberators, it was the Red Army – organised, armed workers – who smashed fascism into the dirt. They want you to forget. They want you grateful to the same ruling class that funded Hitler, that let Spain burn, that built an empire on fascism's blueprint. They want you to think capitalism saved you. It didn't. Communists did. 81 years on, NATO encircles. Fascism crawls back across Europe, funded by the same capitalist forces it always served. They're coming for migrants, for Roma, for Muslims, for anyone who doesn't fit their pure, profitable order. We beat them before. We'll beat them again. But only if we organise. Join the Communist Party. Because liberals will always make peace with fascists. We won't.

Hear about anti-fascist movements & key events through the 1920s, ‘30s & ‘40s & issues today. Italy. China. Spain. USSR & family memories of Leningrad’s siege. Britain & the Arctic convoys. Patriots & Partisans, Manchester Saturday May 9. Book your free place on Eventbrite.

Greetings & solidarity on International Workers Day! The goal of our movement is the task that history has laid before us: winning and building a new future for humanity - free from war, poverty and exploitation. #internationalworkersday

On International Workers’ Day, the Communist Party calls on the labour and trade union movement to build massive and sustained mobilisations for peace and socialism. May Day is celebrated by workers across the world from Cuba to New Caledonia. This year millions will march in support of Cuba’s socialist revolution amidst the crisis created by the illegal US blockade and Trump’s executive order to strangle energy supplies to the socialist island that has already suffered sixty years of economic, commercial, and financial siege warfare. Undaunted by US imperialism’s threats, the Workers’ Central Union of Cuba (CTC) and its national unions are calling May Day celebrations across the island under the slogan: "The homeland must be defended" (‘La Patria se defiende’) . Since International Workers' Day was first celebrated on 1 May 1890, socialists have always linked demands of the workers’ movement for shorter working hours, better rights and social justice with calls for peace and against militarism and war. In 1913, Polish revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg wrote, “The brilliant basic idea of May Day is the autonomous, immediate stepping forward of the proletarian masses, [in] a direct, international mass manifestation: the strike as a demonstration and means of struggle for the eight-hour day, world peace, and socialism.” 4 May 2026 also marks the centenary of the British general strike, which began at one minute past midnight on Tuesday 4 May 1926 and ended in betrayal and despair with the TUC’s ignominious surrender nine days later. The betrayal of the British general strike on 13 May 1926 after nine days of exemplary militancy and class solidarity, saw organised labour falter and fall back in disarray from which it did not recover for almost half a century. 1926 was also an inflection point in the drive to militarism and war. Today, workers face many parallels. Just as in the 1920s, bosses demanded pay cuts, so in 2026, politicians, arms dealers and military top brass demand cuts to public spending to fund military expenditure. For trade unionists, the warning could not be clearer. The demand for ever-increasing proportions of GDP to be spent on military spending is a direct and deliberate attack on the living standards of workers and their families. The new Cold War warriors in Britain, France and Germany, following the example of Donald Trump in the US see the new arms race as an opportunity to achieve the swingeing cuts in the welfare state that they have dreamed of for so long. The Communist Party calls on trade unionists to support the International Meeting Against War at Westminster Central Hall on Saturday, 20 June 2026. The Communist Party calls on workers on May Day to march for peace and socialism. Long live May Day! Build the United Front against imperialism and war! Communist Party of Britain 1 May 2026

30 April 1945, Soviet soldiers hoisted the banner of Victory over the Reichstag, and Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a cold bunker in Berlin.

Today we extend our congratulations and solidarity to the People of Vietnam on the anniversary celebration of their self-liberation! #OTD 1975, Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), was liberated, bringing 3 decades of continuous war to an end.

This Sunday!🚩

For 50 years, an unbroken chain of neoliberal policies, from Thatcherism to Blairism, has marginalised & destroyed our communities. We say - no more. Our communities deserve better. Our towns deserve better. And together, we are the force that will build a future for all.

I'm proud to be one of the 1,800+ candidates who has made @PSCUpdates’ Pledge for Palestine ahead of the local elections! I've committed to advocate for Palestine & combat my council's complicity in Israel’s genocide & apartheid. See the full list here: palestinecampaign.org/candidate-pled…

#OTD, 28 April 1945, Benito Mussolini was captured and executed by Italian partisans while attempting to flee from justice.

VOTE COMMUNIST ON 7 MAY!🗳 We deserve better than the merry-go-round politics of careerist politicians and the privateers neglecting our community. Demand real, meaningful change: find your voice and elect a Communist on your council✊️ #VoteCommunist

🚩INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY🚩 Manchester May Day march and festival Please come along and show your solidarity and support! From 11am on Sunday 3rd May 2025

🚩Patriots & Partisans🚩 Talks on anti-fascist movements and forces in Italy, Spain, China, Britain, USSR and Germany, as well as current issues. Speakers and Q&A discussion. Saturday May 9, 6.30pm. Manchester Irish World Heritage Centre, Queens Road, Cheetham Hill.

Patriots & Partisans, Manchester, Saturday, May 9. Learn about anti-fascist resistance in the 1920s-40s & discuss issues today. Book your free place and see more details on Eventbrite. Adverts in Morning Star newspaper. @M_Star_Online @IBMT_SCW @Anpinazionale @MorningStarManc

🇵🇹Strength &solidarity to the people of Portugal on the 52nd anniversary of the courageous Carnation Revolution! The Armed Forces Movement, including anti-imperialists &communists, launched the coup that overthrew the dictatorship of Estado Novo, on this day 1974✊️ #25deAbril

Commemorating the beginning of the Easter Rising #OTD 1916. The Irish revolution remains incomplete, but the words of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic endure. Our solidary & support to our Irish comrades in their ongoing struggle for full national self-determination!