Giles Shorter
Giles Shorter was a founder member and current Central Committee member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist).
CC member
Llanelli commemoration
In 2017 South Wales and South West Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) comrades attended the 1911 Railway Strike and Uprising Commemoration in Llanelli.
We have had representatives from the CPGB-ML there since the centenary event in 2011. Comrade Giles Shorter, one of our South West and Central Committee members spoke at the rally where he talked of how exchanging one bourgeois party for another through our parliamentary system is not enough and will never offer a solution. There were a number of other speakers representing different organisations and groups, including Head of the PCS Mark Serwotka.
There is video footage of the event by the Llanelli Herald which shows our contingent and our flags, and also a number of photographs of the event. It was good to see one of the event organisers Tim Evans on facebook say “I’d also like to pay tribute to the late John Willock, Secretary of Llanelli Trades Council, who for many years helped us keep things running.” John was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) who sadly passed away last year after a lengthy period of illness and is much missed by the South Wales branch. Tim added “I would also like to thank your organisation for its support over the years”.[1]
"Victory to the Donbass Peoples"
October 18 2015.
Giles Shorter and Krīstafor Mcgrane, of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) speak from Trafalgar Square, London, after the Mayday demonstration to mark international workers day.
SARU
Anti-fascists in London discussed the role of the western media in reporting the turmoil in Ukraine over the past two years at a meeting organised by Solidarity with the Antifascist Resistance in Ukraine (SARU) at the Marx Memorial Library in central London on Wednesday 15th October 2015 .
Andriy Bondarenko, a journalist for Dnipropetrovsk Pravda, and member of the Dnepropetrovsk regional assembly for the Communist Party of Ukraine, and Roger Annis, chief editor of the website New Cold War: Ukraine and Beyond, based in Canada, were interviewed via Skype at the meeting.
The meeting also heard from Giles Shorter of Bristol Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity (BUAFS), which has held a weekly picket of the BBC in Bristol for over a year. Giles said this was “to draw attention to the lies they tell about the conflict in the Ukraine and Donbas, and to point out how this conflicts with the vaunted status of the BBC as a paragon of objective and balanced journalism”.
The interviews were followed by a lively discussion on campaign priorities led by Alex Gordon, chair of SARU. These included protests outside the BBC and the Ukrainian Embassy, developing work with the Stop the War Campaign on the issue of British troops deployed in Ukraine to train Kiev regime troops, working with anti-fascist organisations in Britain, and the production of a dossier on the far right in Ukraine for circulation within the labour movement.[2]
Southall celebrates October Revolution
November 21, 2006:
A HIGHLY successful October Revolution celebration was organised by the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) last Sunday in Southall, West London, with speakers from the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist), the New Communist Party of Britain and CPGB-ML was attended by around 50 people.
Michael Chant, on behalf of the RCPB-ML, said that the Great October Socialist Revolution had “opened up a path for progressive humanity and made possible the progressive gains of the 20th century. In recent years that path has been blocked, beginning with the death of Stalin and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Giles Shorter of the CPGB-ML said the consequences of the Bolshevik victory would “continue to unfold long after the treacherous liquidation of socialism in the Land of the Soviets itself has been reversed.”
Theo Russell thanked the CPGB-ML on behalf of the New Communist Party of Britain and for organising the event. He said: “The October Revolution showed for the first time that the workers and peasants are able to take state power and keep it. The success of the Soviet state proved that socialism could exist in one state, refuting Trotsky’s theory on world revolution.”[3]