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.
An ‘International Conference Against War’ is taking place in London this Saturday, promising to ‘build the movement’ for peace. But this broad alliance of reformist labour leaders and ‘progressives’ won’t provide the revolutionary programme needed to wage war against imperialism.
In this edition of Ask The Communist, leading members of the Revolutionary Communist Party answer your questions: Do communists oppose AI? What would a communist party do with the monarchy? And how do communists approach the trade unions?
To conclude our series on the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, we publish an excerpt from Ben Gliniecki’s book ‘A Communist History of the British General Strike’, which outlines the lessons of this monumental struggle for revolutionaries and class fighters today.
One of the most common questions we are asked is: ‘Why don’t you join the other far-left organisations to make one big revolutionary party? Isn’t it sectarian of you not to do so?’ Here, Daniel Morley explains the real, scientific meaning of ‘sectarianism’.
On 28 March, a coalition of trade unions, campaign groups, and celebrities will rally against racism and the right. The politics of this demo are hollow, however. The RCP is mobilising with a clear message: to fight racism, we must fight capitalism.
Growing support and success for the Greens is leading to greater scrutiny of their proposals. Leader Zack Polanski has suggested that the ideas of Modern Monetary Theory could offer a way forward. But is this reformist approach really a solution?
Left-wing MP Zarah Sultana recently spoke in favour of “nationalising the entire economy”. Unlike the cynical ‘left’ naysayers who pour scorn on the idea, Communists welcome Sultana’s bold calls for nationalisation. But how can we achieve it?
A popular myth is that the British working class is too weak to carry out a revolution. Yet by examining the concrete facts, we find working class Britons are highly proletarianised and have taken the path of struggle many times in the past years. Will Collins examines this question further.
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?
Militancy and international solidarity, as seen across Europe recently, is not alien to the labour movement here in Britain. British workers have taken strike action to halt the imperialists’ war machine before: in the 1920 Jolly George cargo vessel incident.
Leon Trotsky’s Transitional Programme is one of those rare texts, reading as more applicable today than when it was written. Trotsky outlines the method of Marxism in a time of crisis. For a new generation of revolutionaries, the lessons have never been more timely.