While the liberal establishment and right-wing bigots argue over who protects women more, working-class women are more squeezed and vulnerable than ever. Communists have no faith in both sides of the toxic culture war. Only united class struggle can fight sexism!
Trump’s victory has meant the establishment and even some on the left have started to reject ‘woke’ identity politics.
Fiona and Daniel sit down and discuss where identity politics came from and how oppression must be fought with class-based methods.
Establishment politicians have been whipping up a culture war over immigration, in order to divide and distract the working class. In this podcast, Ben and Khaled sit down to outline how Marxists approach to the question of immigration from an internationalist class perspective.
Last weekend, thousands gathered across Britain to express anger at the rise of sexism, fuelled by figures like Andrew Tate and Donald Trump. RCP comrades found an appetite for revolutionary ideas on how to fight women’s oppression.
The Great Miners’ Strike, 40 years ago, saw working-class women fighting alongside striking men. This experience of united struggle began to cut away at sexism, providing a glimpse of how socialism could transform relations between men and women.
In this podcast, we sit down with Fiona Lali to discuss why far-right violence has swept Britain, the response from the labour movement, and the communist perspective on how we can smash the far right using class struggle methods.
The menace of the far right has reared its ugly head in the past week, with more violence on the cards in the coming days. This should be a wake-up call to the ranks of the labour movement. Workers and youth must mobilise to smash the far right.
On 4 May 1978, Bengali textile worker Altab Ali was murdered in a racially-motivated attack. A recent TV series looks at the struggle against racism and the far right in this period, revealing how militant mass action can curb oppression.
Stalwart left-wing MP Diane Abbott has endured a lifetime of racist and sexist abuse. The latest sickening example of this, from a wealthy Conservative donor, has exposed both the hypocrisy of the Tories and the cynicism of Starmer’s Labour.
With capitalism in crisis, and reactionary politicians whipping up a ferocious culture war, the daily oppression that ordinary women face is getting worse and worse. Only united class struggle and the fight for revolution can offer real emancipation.
The Russian Revolution made enormous strides forward for women. Lenin and the Bolsheviks showed the way forward in ending all oppression. It is our task, as communists, to complete the struggle they started: the socialist transformation of society.
A young girl was brutally stabbed to death this week by one of her male peers. The scourge of violence against women is clearly worsening, encouraged by reactionary demagogues like Andrew Tate. Only revolutionary class struggle can end this disease.