Resolutions of the 58th Congress of the Communist Party 14-16 November 2025
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General Secretary’s Foreword
As delegates met for the Communist Party of Britain’s 58th Congress in November 2025, world imperialism, the system of US hegemony over our planet and its peoples, exhibited all the signs of profound economic, military and ecological crisis.
This crisis took the immediate form of a breakdown of the rules and institutions of world capitalist trade and investment, constructed by the United States in the interests of US monopoly capitalism over the previous half century. The corollary to the disruption of US-led capitalist globalisation is revanchist US military aggression, either directly through its bombing of Iran and Yemen, or via its state proxies and mercenaries in Ukraine, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and elsewhere.
Britain stands at the apex or this emerging crisis in the capitalist world order. As US imperialism’s most obsequious ally and with a financial sector dominated by US banking and commercial interests, British monopoly capitalism arguably
constitutes the weakest link in the chain of US (and therefore of world) imperialism.
As events of the past decade have shown, Britain’s ruling class cannot rule in the old way. The popular vote to leave the European Union in 2016 presaged a collapse of their political authority with six prime ministers (soon to be seven) in Britain in less than 10 years. By contrast, our trade unions the mass organisations of the working class in Britain are intact and under increasing pressure from workers to resist the Labour government’s cuts to jobs, wages and public services.
In 2022, the Communist Party led the call for a united front of the working class to defeat attacks of employers and the Conservative government in Britain. The class character of the current historical moment is a vindication for Britain’s communists who insisted on class analysis as central to political action.
Today’s Communist Party is a guide and a reference point on the nature of the capitalist system and the necessity for revolutionary change. As Lenin wrote in 1902, “Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement”. The Communist Party applies the lessons of scientific Marxism-Leninism, the highest theory, to the prevailing conditions of our time. Our 58th Congress Resolutions set out how we will build a united front against war and austerity.
Build the Communist Party, the Marxist party of Britain’s labour movement!
Unite the working-class against racism, sexism and imperialism!
For socialist revolution against capitalist barbarism!
Alex Gordon
General Secretary
Communist Party
February 2026
