In this episode of Marxist Voice, Ben Gliniecki answers the vital question of how we can build revolutionary leadership today, drawing from many examples of previous attempts to do so, most notably the example of the Bolshevik party – the only party to ever lead the working class to power.
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’.
There is no doubt that the Chinese revolution, led by Mao, is one of the greatest events in human history. It freed China from the shackles of imperialism after a heroic, decades-long struggle. In this talk, Daniel Morley from the RCP Executive Committee discusses Mao’s life, legacy and limits. This revolution was the fruit of the tremendous determination and spirit of sacrifice of the Chinese masses. And at the head of this movement was Mao Zedong. Since Mao’s death, capitalism in China has been gradually restored by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) bureaucracy. Mao is seen to have led a […]