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Despite being ruled by a so-called ‘Communist’ Party, modern China is one of the world’s foremost capitalist powers. In this episode, Tom Crozier explains how this process unfolded, from the 1949 Chinese Revolution to today.
The main slogan of the ‘leaders’ of Britain’s anti-racist movement is “refugees are welcome here”. But this impotent, liberal slogan is devoid of class content – it actively demobilises the anti-racist movement. We must fight the right with class war!
In the 19th Century, British imperialists waged the Opium Wars and forcibly dragged the Chinese state into the world market. This began what is known in China as its ‘century of humiliation’, with British capitalism stoking the world’s first opiate epidemic to bleed the country dry.
For the final part of our series tracing Britain’s anti-racist struggle in the post-WW2 era we remember the inspiring Bradford 12, who physically organised to defend themselves and their communities against the far right, and won a landmark ruling which stands today.
Tomorrow marks the 250th anniversary of America’s independence from Britain. The writings of English revolutionary democrat Thomas Paine were instrumental in this revolutionary struggle. His radical ideas form part of our communist heritage, writes Rob Sewell.
Palantir – the infamous US tech company specialising in state surveillance, AI-powered warfare, and predictive policing – is infiltrating the British state and collecting data on the UK population. How did this happen, and how can we smash Palantir?
Alex Gordon, general secretary of the Stalinist ‘Communist’ Party of Britain (CPB), recently wrote a commemorative piece for the tenth anniversary of the Brexit vote – in which he argues that Brexit was a “revolutionary act”. Leading RCI member Jorge Martín responds.
Figures on the left are increasingly pushing the idea that we must support, vote for, and publicly defend the ‘lesser evil’ in politics to stop Reform and the right. In this podcast, Rob Sewell outlines the history of popular frontism, which is littered with mistakes, failures, and betrayals.
In this episode, leading member of the RCI James Kilby, explains the revolutionary process that developed towards the Second World War, and how the reformists and Stalinists in one betrayed these incredible movements, thus setting back the world revolution by decades.
Most people today are well aware of what they are against, poverty, austerity, racism, imperialism and much more. However, very few people have an idea of what they are fighting for. In this talk, Sarah Vedrovitch explains the world which communists are fighting for and how to get to it from what exists today.
Khaled Malachi examines the limits of English empiricism, explaining the triumph of Marx and Engels in using dialectics to elevate materialism onto a higher plane. In doing so, they uncovered the laws of historical development and the contradictions of capitalism itself.
Dialectical materialism, the philosophy of Marxism, did not fall from the sky. Nor was it just a ‘good idea’ that Marx came up with one afternoon. In this talk, Nye Shaw explains the philosophers who laid the basis for Marx and Engels.