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TODAY the Communist Party of Britain holds an aggregate for members who are trade union activists, against a background of escalation of the class struggle.
The party is growing and will use this gathering of longer-term and new members to educate, agitate and organise.
We meet in unprecedented times and all the sessions will begin from where we are now to build the struggle ahead.
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