Austerity has shaped the lives of young people in Britain today. This generation has grown up surrounded by war, the pandemic and the cost of living crisis – in this episode, we discuss how British capitalism is making the youth revolutionary.
In her latest column for The Communist, Fiona Lali reflects upon the enormous Palestine demonstration, the far right attempting to march through East London this weekend, and Your Party. But all illustrate the need for revolutionary ideas.
This Saturday, the far-right political organisation UKIP had intended to march on Whitechapel. The police have just announced a Public Order Act banning the assembly in Tower Hamlets, but they remain a threat. The working class can only rely on its own strength!
While Britain’s children go hungry, and pensioners fear freezing to death, Starmer’s Labour decided to set aside time in parliament to overturn a ban on violent Zionist hooligans from attending a football game in Birmingham. What a sick joke!
A trial against two British citizens accused of spying for China recently collapsed, following a change in the government’s policy towards Beijing. Starmer will tolerate Chinese spying in return for trade and investment – yet another reminder of Britain’s drastic decline.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film is an action thriller set against a backdrop of revolutionary struggle. Depicting individual terror, brutal repression of immigrants and the left, and racist elites pulling the strings, this cinematic masterpiece captures the zeitgeist of Trump-era America.
A revolutionary wave sweeping has been sweeping the world, from Indonesia, Nepal and Madagascar. The wave has even spread to the continent in Italy and France. Capitalism is being put on trial. But we need a sword to land the final blow!
The real content of Trotskyism does not lie in opposing Stalinism, but in what it positively puts forward. Any consideration of Trotskyism must therefore proceed from the essential principles that defined Trotsky’s life as a revolutionary.
The latest discoveries from the Mars rover are our most promising signs of extraterrestrial life. But with funding for space agencies slashed, it’s unlikely we’ll retrieve these samples for decades. Other letters include: Sadiq Khan’s hypocrisy, and graduate visa trouble.
Capitalism is built upon free speech, open debate, and the ‘marketplace of ideas’; communists, meanwhile, want to take away this cherished democratic right. Everyone has heard capitalism’s defenders repeat this myth. So what’s the communist response?
Fuelled by bold politics and anti-establishment audacity, Zack Polanski’s Green Party is surging ahead, with membership breaking 100,000 and double digits in the polls. The Greens are now a force to be reckoned with. What does this mean for British politics?
Not content with supporting arch-bureaucrat Christina McAnea in Unison’s elections, the misnamed ‘Communist Party’ of Britain have backed Starmer’s favourite Bridget Phillipson in Labour’s deputy leader challenge.