Following a week of far-right mobilisations, the left, including the Portsmouth RCP, organised a counter demonstration against this reaction. The past week shows the clear and urgent need for class-based methods to clear this reaction off our streets.
Sarah Vedrovitch examines Federici’s ideas on housework, social reproduction and the origins of capitalism, comparing them with the revolutionary conclusions of Marx and Engels on freeing women. Frederici imagines she is building on Marx and Engels, looking at capitalism through a lens forgotten by orthodox Marxists. But is this actually true?
SNP leader John Swinney has called another ‘anti-far right summit’ in the wake of the racist violence this summer, and the rise of Reform. But this talking shop of class collaboration will solve nothing – we need a revolutionary alternative.
A vicious, racist harassment campaign by the establishment media has led to the tragic death of black Cambridge professor Jason Arday. This fiasco had nothing to do with academic integrity, and everything to do with sowing racist culture-war division.
On 18 July, Britain First led a rally at Norwich City Hall in the name of ‘protecting women and girls’. The mood at the counter-protest that we co-led was militant, and we successfully demoralised their lot. We made it clear that racists weren’t welcome.
The Socialist Workers Party and its fronts have held a monopoly on the anti-racist struggle for decades. Yet they have nothing to show for this. We examine why: because of their theoretical mistakes on racism, fascism, tactics, and the method of Marxism.
Reform recently announced plans for a ‘Women and Motherhood Protection Act’. Besides distracting from sexism accusations against Reform candidates, this ‘pro-mother, pro-family’ proposal would attack women’s equality and rights.
Last weekend, the Yorkshire region of the RCP held a successful anti-fascist day school, to politically prepare themselves to lead the anti-racist movement in the region. Meanwhile, the Scotland RCP held its third Scottish Conference on perspectives and tasks for the coming period.
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!
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.