With racism rife under capitalism, and following the explosive Black Lives Matter movement, the question of how to fight for black liberation is more pressing than ever. In this talk, Fiona Lali will discuss which is the way forward; Marxism, or black nationalism.
Whilst hundreds of far-right thugs marched through the streets of Manchester last Saturday, the priority of the Greater Manchester Police was to pepper-spray, manhandle, and assault anti-racist youth and workers. Read our on-the-ground report.
Supporters of Raise the Colours – the anti-migrant group behind tying Union Jacks to lampposts – were outnumbered earlier this month in Sheffield. RCP members joined counter-demonstrators looking to go beyond liberal moralism in fighting racism, who instead pointed the blame firmly at the billionaires.
The Easter Rising of 1916 is one of the most inspiring events in Irish revolutionary history. The rising saw Europe’s first Red Army, the Irish Citizen’s Army, fight the forces of British Imperialism on the streets of Dublin and sacrifice their lives for the cause of a free Ireland for the Irish workers and poor. When Lenin got news of the Rising, he criticised those who wrote it off as a ‘putsch’ saying ‘Whoever expects a ‘pure’ social revolution will never live to see it. Such a person pays lip-service to revolution without understanding what revolution is.’ These comments still […]