Geordie Communists

Comrades marching in the annual May Day celebrations, Newcastle

On May 7 in Newcastle City Council's Heaton ward, vote for the @CPBritain candidate Steve Handford #Handford4Heaton #bbcpoliticsnorth @BBCRichardMoss @HelenRichardson @TomSheldrickITV @danholland @chroniclelive @itvtynetees

The far right and parties like Reform UK offer scapegoats, not solutions. Our problems are caused by a system that tears communities apart, These are our communities. We raise our families here. We work here. We deserve better. Vote #Handford4Heaton for Newcastle city on May 7

Steve Handford, special needs teacher, Army vet, the Communist Party candidate in Newcastle's Heaton ward in the May 7 local elections. Time for a change #Handford4Heaton #bbcpoliticsnorth @BBCRichardMoss @HelenRichardson @TomSheldrickITV @danholland @chroniclelive @itvtynetees

Vote Communist in Heaton, Newcastle, on May 7 Vote Steve Handford Vote #Handford4Heaton Newcastle City Council has cut £400m from services since 2010, but it's time to fight back There is a different way of doing things to serve our community:

Take back control of your community in Heaton, Newcastle, on May 7. Vote #Handford4Heaton

Places for people, not profit Newcastle has high levels of poverty: 38,000 households use foodbanks In 2010 it cost 4x income to buy a home: now it's nearly 8x Buy empty homes to rent at council rates; campaign against homelessness; begin BUILDING homes Vote #Hanford4Heaton May 7

Replace the Council Tax with a fairer funding model based on income, real wealth and land values, ensuring the richest and largest estates finally pay their share. Vote #Handford4Heaton 7 May, Newcastle

End the Great Council Tax Robbery. Hated and unfair, it punishes the poorest - based on your home's value not your ability to pay. A Communist councillor will lead a campaign for abolition of Council Tax and fight for a fairer funding model. Vote #Handford4Heaton Newcastle, May 7

Live in Heaton, Newcastle? Vote Communist! Reject the politics of despair and division. Others offer scapegoats, not solutions. These are our communities. We raise our families here. We work here. We deserve better. Community means sticking together, standing up for ourselves.

Since 2010, Newcastle City Council has cut £400m from public services. Restore services, invest in the future. Vote Communist in Newcastle's Heaton ward on 7 May.

Between 10,000 and 20,000 people. Some celebrating the Punjabi new year. Others protesting the arrest of local leaders under the Rowlatt Act, which lets the British imprison Indians without trial. 5:30 PM. Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer arrives with ninety soldiers. Fifty with rifles. They block the single exit. No warning. No order to disperse. Fire. Ten minutes of continuous shooting. 1,650 rounds. Dyer orders his men to aim where the crowd is thickest. People throw children over walls. Bodies pile against stone. 120 people jump into the well to escape bullets. All drown. Official count: 379 dead. Indian National Congress investigation: closer to 1,000. Over 1,200 wounded. Dyer testifies later: he wanted to create "a moral and widespread effect" across Punjab. He is asked if he would have used machine guns had they fit through the entrance. He says yes. The British remove him from command. No charges. The House of Lords praises him. The Morning Post raises £26,000 for him. Kipling donates. The Officer Corps presents him with a jewelled sword: "Saviour of the Punjab." Dyer chose that garden because walls create kill zones. Enclosure is control. The British Empire was built on enclosure. Of common land. Of continents. Of movement. Jallianwala Bagh was enclosure weaponised. Bhagat Singh was twelve. He visited the garden the next day, collected soil soaked with blood. By 1928, he joined the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association. In 1931, the British hanged him. He was twenty-three. The garden is a memorial now. The walls still have bullet marks. The well remains. Dyer died in England in 1927. Never charged. The bodies stayed in the garden overnight. Curfew meant families could not reach their dying. This is what empire does when its control is challenged. #JallianwalaBagh #Amritsar #BritishEmpire

No big surprise that top-level Chinese engineers and scientists are leaving the US and returning to China. Why wouldn't they?! In the US they face racism and McCarthyite repression. In China they have better facilities, more support for their research, a nicer environment for their families, and they benefit from a planned economy that's investing heavily in future technology and directing this technology towards improving the lives of the people.

“Women are hounded online, hounded in person, they are no-platformed, they are called bigots and fascists, sometimes for as little as believing that sex is still a site of oppression” ~ @LauraPidcock at #MorningStar2026

Trump: “I think that countries like Japan and China have neither the courage nor the will to open the Strait of Hormuz.” ➖️China: “The Strait of Hormuz was already open before the war. You are the ones who created the war out of nothing and closed the strait to the rest of the world.”

If a leader sees himself as God or Jesus, should he still have access to the nuclear codes? This was posted by the 47th POTUS on his Truth Social platform

65 years ago today, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to see the Earth from above It’s easy to forget that Gagarin wasn’t a billionaire or a corporate mascot, he was a carpenter’s son and a committed Communist. His flight on Vostok 1 proved what’s possible when science and resources are used for the common good rather than private profit. He didn’t take that leap for personal glory; he did it for the people. As we look at the stars today, we’re reminded that the greatest achievements in history come from collective effort and a belief in a better, fairer world for everyone. The stars belong to the workers. 🚩 #YuriGagarin #SpaceExploration #WorkingClass

Protesters to gather against Britain’s nuclear expansion at RAF Marham morningstaronline.co.uk/article/protes…

Cuba thwarts terrorist attack in Florida-registered vessel.

POLITICAL COMMITTEE STATEMENT Communist Party condemns imperialist attack on Iran The military attack on Iran initiated by Israel and coordinated by the Trump administration unleashes a new round in the series of ‘forever wars’ inflicted on the Middle East/West Asia region by US imperialism without a single year of respite since the 2001 war on Afghanistan. Trump has proved once again with his latest bellicose statements that he represents the same corporate war interests as his predecessors the Bushes, Obama and Biden. US imperialism and its colonial outpost in Israel is the greatest threat to world peace in the world today. So far, the UK government has not officially taken part in the latest US military adventure. The Communist Party calls for British ministers to make clear that this is a conflict precipitated by Israel and prepared by the Pentagon with no justification in law. The Communist Party demands no UK military support for the US premediated attack on Iran. The UK military base at Akrotiri in Cyprus must not be used to fuel, service, or supply US military aircraft engaged in this illegal act of imperialist aggression. We call on all those who support peace and oppose imperialist war to attend the emergency protest called by the Stop the War on Iran coalition today (Saturday 28 February 2026) from 3pm at Downing Street, London SW1. 28 February 2026 END.