The Great French Revolution was one of the greatest events in human history, in which the masses swept away a regime that had stood for centuries. In this episode, Keelan Kellegher explains the lessons it contains for revolutionaries today.
The people of Gaza are already facing a deadly nightmare. Spurred on by his own narrow political interests, however, Netanyahu is set to escalate the slaughter even further by invading the city of Rafah. The whole region is ready to explode.
Thousands of jobs are on the line at the Tata steelworks in Port Talbot. Comrades across South Wales are mobilising and organising to fight this jobs massacre. We say: Strike and occupy! Nationalise the industry! Put the workers in control!
Malnutrition haunts humanity. There is hunger amidst plenty. An obesity epidemic weighs down on the working class. Meanwhile, the food monopolies are making fat profits. Capitalism is killing us. To protect our health, we need planning, not profit.
The massive strike wave of 2022-23 may have ebbed. But industrial battles are still raging across Britain. In these reports from the latest issue of The Communist, out this week, comrades highlight the militant mood on the picket lines.
With a general election approaching this year, the Labour leaders are jettisoning any spending pledges, in an effort to reassure the ruling class. A Starmer government will be one of deep crisis. Workers must trust only in their own strength.
The elected leadership of the IMT met recently to discuss the tumultuous situation for capitalism globally, and the tasks of the communists in the period ahead. Most importantly, comrades resolved to launch the Revolutionary Communist International.
We are proud to commemorate the centenary of Lenin’s death by publishing a book defending his life and ideas, and by launching The Communist and the RCP. The ‘Communist’ Party of Britain, by contrast, is promoting articles on Lenin that only mislead and sow confusion.
This May, we are launching the Revolutionary Communist Party. To prepare for this, we are looking back on the history of our organisation – beginning with the firm position taken by the Trotskyists in the ‘40s against the partition of Palestine.
February 1972 saw the beginning of a powerful miners’ strike, opening up a wave of industrial battles. These culminated in the miners’ strike of ‘74, which ultimately brought down the Tories. This period gives a glimpse of the struggles lying ahead.
Councils are facing a wave of bankruptcies, which will devastate already threadbare services. Instead of Labour’s ‘dented shield’, we need a fighting approach to make the bosses pay for this crisis. It’s better to break the law than the poor!
Fast-food delivery riders are taking wildcat strike action across Britain in a struggle for better pay and conditions. Communists joined a picket line in London to show solidarity, and discuss the next steps. Victory to the riders!