Europe is convulsed by a wave of youth strikes and uprisings which are spreading. In Britain, since the violent attack on the RCP by the Met Police, we have grown at our fastest ever pace yet. All eyes are now cast towards Revolution Festival – the school of communism.
Here we republish an extract from the new introduction to Peter Fryer’s ‘Hungarian Tragedy’, by General Secretary of the RCP, Ben Gliniecki. This begins our series of articles to commemorate the Hungarian people’s noble and valiant struggle for genuine socialism.
The passing of Mighty Sparrow, an icon of calypso music, left us with a 70-year-long body of work. With his skilled political musicianship, he captured the rise and betrayal of Trinidad’s 1950s nationalist movement in songs such as ‘William the Conqueror’ and ‘Sedition’.
In France, school students are fighting overcrowded classes, not enough teachers, and unfit classrooms. Here, we share two reports from on the ground in British schools, where students and staff face all the same conditions as across the channel.
As Marx and Engels once wrote, “a spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism”. The spectre of revolt is now striking fear into the hearts of Britain’s capitalist establishment, too. Similar events are approaching our shores. We must be ready.
The reactionary gutter press have whipped up a hysterical smear campaign against the Revolutionary Communist Party, accusing our members of vandalising and disrespecting a WW2 memorial. Here, we set the record straight.
‘When the police attacked our bloc at the Palestine demo, my memories of the 2010 student protests came flooding back. We were met with the same police violence and media lies. But this time there was a difference: I had a party to stand side by side with.’
On 11 October – the day after the Met Police locked up 11 communists for supporting Palestine – masked-up ‘Patriot Platform’ thugs were peacefully escorted through a Sheffield suburb. And yet the right wing are the ones that cry about ‘two-tier policing’!
Acclaimed Irish author Sally Rooney has effectively been banned from selling her books in the UK by the British government. Her ‘crime’? Supporting Palestine Action, and standing with Gaza. This once again exposes the farce of ‘free speech’ under capitalism.
Labour’s victory in the Holborn & St Pancras by-election represents a huge blow to the Green Party, and its left-wing leader Zack Polanski. The party now stands at a crossroads, with a right-wing faction openly conspiring to oust Polanski. What comes next?
We hear from three of the eleven Revolutionary Communist Party members who were arrested at last Saturday’s national Palestine demonstration: what they learned about the shambolic state of the police, and how inspired they feel by their comrades’ solidarity.
90 years ago, the workers and youth of Leeds, led by the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), organised a victorious battle against Oswald Mosley’s fascist Blackshirts. Battered, bruised, and humiliated, Mosley’s forces never dared to march in Leeds again.