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From Tata and McDonalds to academies: our readers expose the abuse, victimisation, and scolding that goes on in the UK’s workplaces. British capitalism is rotten to the core. The labour movement needs fighting leadership!
One week after Trump announced a colossal government-backed AI investment plan, an obscure Chinese startup has lobbed a grenade into the US tech sector. With the stock markets in turmoil, the president’s protectionist plans are off to a rocky start.
This winter has seen the return of pitched battles in the poor neighborhoods of Edinburgh, between working-class kids and the Police. The state and the media offer nothing but demonisation. But the blame lies squarely with austerity and social decline.
While workers struggle to get by, the super-rich are having a field day. From Farage’s lavish £25,000-per-head dinner party, to Starmer handing out peerages to his pals, to corporate tax-dodging, readers of The Communist expose Britain’s class divide.
The European economy is facing its biggest crisis in a decade, with hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs at risk. European capitalism has entered into a steep decline, and will be unable to weather the geopolitical storms that surround it.
This month, TikTok was briefly banned in the US, in a sabre-rattling move against China. But this backfired spectacularly, with millions of American users flooding onto RedNote, where they discussed class issues and communism with Chinese youth.
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where over a million Jews, Poles, Roma and communists were murdered by the Nazis. But today’s commemoration was tarnished by the hypocrisy of western imperialism.
A recent Channel 4 poll has found that nearly half of young people in Britain think that society “must be radically changed through revolution”. While the media outlets scratch their heads, the RCP is setting out to organise ‘Generation Revolution’.
After decades of decline, British capitalism is particularly vulnerable to the instability that Trump and his ‘America First’ programme bring. The new president will inflame the political turmoil, radicalisation, and polarisation taking place in Britain.
The world is on fire. Capitalist chaos impacts all of our day-to-day lives. While students suffer, political life on campus stands at an impasse. The RCP is training young revolutionaries at universities up and down the country. Join our ranks today!
Filmmaker David Lynch, who passed away last week, was a singular artist whose works were surreal and unsettling. Although not a ‘political person’, his films and TV shows explored alienation and the absurdity of everyday life under capitalism.
In this session from Revolution Festival 2024, Khaled Malachi, Central Committee member of the RCP and regular writer on the Middle East, will put forward a revolutionary way forward for the workers and youth in the region.