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Today is GCSE results day, with hundreds of thousands of school students set to head to college or sixth form in the coming month. Here, Communist school students in Cambridge report on how they’re organising the next generation of young revolutionaries.
Over the past weeks, the most horrific images have come out of Gaza, showing men, women and children reduced to skin and bones. Having backed Israel fully in its genocide, politicians in the West are now scrambling to mask their own roles with token gestures.
Today, Liam Óg’s trial hearing for trumped-up terrorism charges turned into a thousands-strong protest against the British government’s rank hypocrisy. If Starmer thought he could get an easy win, he was wrong. Hands off Kneecap! Lock up the real terrorists!
This month, the British establishment has ramped up its hysterical baiting of the pro-Palestine movement. From mass arrests on Parliament Square to odious media hypocrisy – the cynicism is off the scale. We say: hands off the Palestine movement!
Writing from a recent Kneecap/Fontaines D.C. concert in Manchester, a comrade of the RCP details the electric, radical atmosphere, which felt more like a Palestine rally. They even managed to sell several copies of The Communist before Kneecap took to the stage!
While claiming to be a party for workers, Starmer’s Labour has become a home for profiteers and parasites. While former homelessness minister (!) Rushanara Ali turfed out her tenants, Tulip Siddiq denies profiting from her auntie’s corrupt, murderous regime in Bangladesh.
After almost three months of protest across dozens of countries, all political prisoners from the Awami Action Committee Gilgit-Baltistan (AAC-GB) have been released on bail! Our victory shows the immense power of international solidarity.
The recent meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska has been met with a chorus of condemnation by the leaders of Europe. In this article, Alan Woods cuts through the propaganda in the media, and gives a Marxist analysis of the events in Ukraine.
Several unions representing NHS workers have come out emphatically against Labour’s poor pay offer. The next step is to unite strike action across the unions, with a mass campaign against austerity and privatisation, and for bold socialist policies.
Right-wing SNP Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes has announced she will stand down in next year’s Holyrood election. Meanwhile, left-wing former MP Mhairi Black has left the party altogether. This paints a picture of a crisis-ridden party, stumbling into a blind alley.
Plans for a new left-wing party by Corbyn and Sultana have drawn enthusiasm and curiosity amongst young people – many of whom will now be able to vote in the next election. But will the ‘kinder, gentler politics’ of reformism cut it for ‘Generation Revolution’?
This results day, hundreds of thousands of 18-year-olds step into an uncertain future – because capitalism offers none. The media sounds alarm over youth ‘turning to communism’ – we welcome it, and call on young people to get organised with us in the weeks and months ahead.