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A recent poll found 80 percent of British adults feel the UK is divided. Two thirds blame ‘culture wars’ for this division – and point the finger at the media and the politicians for their part in exaggerating, or outright inventing, them!
2025 has been quite the year for the Revolutionary Communist Party. From holding the largest communist blocs and communist school in Britain for decades, to raising the most ever in finances and our highest ever paper circulation. Here is your RCP 2025 wrapped!
Eight political prisoners locked up for the ‘crime’ of fighting the genocide in Gaza have been starved and left to languish by the British state. If they die, the blame will lie with Starmer’s government and the system it upholds. Free the Filton 24! Lock up the real terrorists!
We continue our series on anti-racist struggles with an article from the late Steve Jones. In the 1970s, an unimposing Gujarati woman, Jayaben Desai, led one of the longest and most violent strikes in the post-war period, transforming the British labour movement.
With the prospect of a Reform victory looming, the ruling class will undoubtedly be mulling over the question: can we trust Reform? Farage, meanwhile, is making overtures towards the establishment, hoping to present himself as a ‘safe pair of hands’ for British capitalism.
Stravinsky captured the spirit of the modernist movement. The Rite of Spring ballet, published in 1913, was decried as ‘childish barbarity’ by its bourgeois critics at the time. In reality, it only refracted the horrors that would unfold in the next four years of world war.
Recently, reformists like Zack Polanski and Jeremy Corbyn have been putting forward the idea of a wealth tax. They claim this could easily raise billions in tax revenue. While their proposals are certainly popular, do they truly offer a way forward?
Tesla shareholders agreed to a trillion dollar pay package for CEO Elon Musk if the company’s market value reaches $8.4 trillion. This is exactly what Karl Marx predicted, extreme wealth at one end and extreme poverty and misery at the other. Musk is a parasite! Seize their wealth!
Labour’s plan to scrap juries in criminal court cases has been scaled back amidst widespread backlash. But the state remains an apparatus made by the ruling class, for the ruling class. We can only defend our democratic rights through struggle.
The SNP government is proposing to issue its own debt bonds in the near future, in the hope of funding public spending through extra borrowing. Far from providing sovereignty and independence, this will put Scotland more at the mercy of the markets.
Last weekend, the Revolutionary Communist Party’s leadership met in London to discuss the developing political situation, and the tasks that flow from it. National organiser Lotta Angantyr shares her five takeaways from the Central Committee meeting.
Labour hail Andy Burnham’s Bee Network as a “bus revolution” – but workers see otherwise. TfGM tram and bus workers have gone on strike and will be taking further action later in December. Manchester RCP members report from on the ground.