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Ridley Scott’s sequel to his previous sword-and-sandal epic offers more of the same: Colosseum battles, degenerate emperors, and a portrayal of imperial decline. Olive Ruadh compares the film’s fictionalised story to Rome’s historical reality.
Britain’s farmers are taking to the streets in protest against the government’s proposed tax changes, which threaten to be the final straw for squeezed rural communities. We say: make the billionaires and bankers pay for capitalism’s crisis!
Alan Woods explains why, in the dying days of Biden’s presidency, ‘Genocide Joe’ has decided to arm Volodymyr Zelensky with long range ballistic missiles, and what this means for the war.
This year’s Revolution Festival – a school of communism organised by the RCP – saw 1,000 communists gather for a weekend of anti-imperialist and Marxist discussion. This landmark event is a launchpad for building the forces of communism in Britain.
The head of the Church of England has resigned after a report implicated him in a sexual abuse cover-up. From the monarchy to the police, every pillar of the British establishment is crumbling to pieces. The system is rotten to the core.
Britain faces an impending water crisis. Decades of privatisation have saddled water companies with debt, and have left infrastructure crumbling into disrepair. We say: expropriate the parasitic owners! Take the water industry back under public ownership!
With imperialist tensions on the rise, Armando Iannnuci’s new stage adaptation of Kubrick’s Cold War comedy ‘Dr Strangelove’ couldn’t come at a better time. Steve Coogan’s performance accentuates the biting political commentary.
For decades, antibiotics have been irresponsibly overused in healthcare and agriculture, leading to the rise of unstoppable infections. Meanwhile, capitalism and the pharmaceutical giants are holding back the deployment of a viable alternative.
This year’s COP summit is off to a farcical start, with the head of the conference caught brokering lucrative fossil fuel deals, and many world leaders not even bothering to show up at all! The capitalists are incapable of solving the climate crisis.
Starmer’s Labour have promised to tackle Britain’s housing crisis by delivering 1.5 million homes in five years. But relying on the crisis-ridden private construction sector offers no way forward. We need a socialist housing programme!
Sean Baker’s latest film – out in cinemas now – is a tragic drama for modern times; a portrayal of the inevitable despair and destruction that the rich and powerful leave in their wake, with the exploited and oppressed always left paying the price.
This Remembrance Day, the communists will honour those whose lives have been scandalously sacrificed in the interests of imperialism, by redoubling our efforts to end this capitalist nightmare once and for all. Workers of the world, unite!