Last Saturday was the 140th annual Durham Miners gala. This year was marked by a visible lack of political direction or ideas. Nevertheless, union members have been taking individual initiatives and the RCP in the North-East had our largest ever fringe meeting.
Tomorrow is the Durham Miners’ Gala, the largest trade union event in Europe. The annual gala however has become a talking shop for leaders of the left and trade unions. What we really need is not just talk, but real action!
The main slogan of the ‘leaders’ of Britain’s anti-racist movement is “refugees are welcome here”. But this impotent, liberal slogan is devoid of class content – it actively demobilises the anti-racist movement. We must fight the right with class war!
With only a 36-minute runtime, this speculative 1943 production gives a powerful glimpse into what a fascist Wales would look like. Filled with working class spirit, this film stands in stark contrast to superficial portrayals of fascism today.
Elem Klimov’s 1985 Soviet-epic ‘Come and See’ remains one of the greatest war films of all time. Despite censorship and unease from party bureaucrats, Kilmov faithfully depicts the horrors of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in its true context.
In the 19th Century, British imperialists waged the Opium Wars and forcibly dragged the Chinese state into the world market. This began what is known in China as its ‘century of humiliation’, with British capitalism stoking the world’s first opiate epidemic to bleed the country dry.
In an act of political theatre, Nigel Farage has resigned as an MP, only to stand again in an attempt to distract from the financial ‘gifts’ he has been receiving. This desperate measure is a gamble to restore Reform’s tarnished anti-establishment veneer.
With the far right rampaging on British streets three summers in a row, a reader from Preston asks, “What role can we expect the trade unions to play in the struggle against the far right, given the conservatism of their leaders?”
The relative decline of US imperialism is a process having enormous effects on every corner of the globe and every capitalist market. The US is struggling through its death agony which is resulting in a deeply unpredictable world. From wars to trade wars, to foreign policy on truth social, anger is building towards the US government rapidly. This exists in countries imperially dominated by the US, but has now spread to the US and its allies. Huge social explosions have begun, and the RCI is trying to take this process to its logic conclusion: revolution. In this talk, given at […]
The menace of far-right violence has become an all-too-frequent scourge in Britain. But nobody on the left is providing clear answers for how to fight this menace. We must urgently build the revolutionary leadership that the anti-racist movement needs.
Communists in Cardiff saw off a targeted attack by a neo-Nazi group at our ‘How to fight the far right’ school. We showed our methods in practice – outnumbered and out-organised, they ran away. This is how we did it.
For the final part of our series tracing Britain’s anti-racist struggle in the post-WW2 era we remember the inspiring Bradford 12, who physically organised to defend themselves and their communities against the far right, and won a landmark ruling which stands today.