This year’s Tory party conference left many asking “what’s the point?” The lacklustre affair was plagued by empty seats, misspelt novelty chocolate bars, and a stream of Tory MPs defecting to Farage’s Reform like rats from a sinking ship.
“The bourgeois like to think that they alone are born with the right to dominate culture. But every human being has the potential to appreciate the arts, and to excel in all of them. This artistic potential of the masses will be unleashed when they move to change society.”
From France to Italy, we’ve seen huge general strikes erupt against austerity and the continued warmongering of the European ruling classes. How can we build for such a strike here in Britain?
In her latest column for The Communist, Fiona Lali discusses her ‘Why you should be a Communist’ university tour, the ‘Gen Z revolutions’ sweeping the world, and the need for revolutionary leadership in the wake of the renewed upsurge in the Palestine movement.
Hundreds of new recruits have joined the RCP in the past few months, taking the first steps on their journey towards mastering Marxism. Here, the RCP education team provides a brief guide for where to get started with your communist studies.
The European mass movement must act as a wake-up call for the British trade union leaders, who have so far been passive. We invite our members and supporters to pass this motion at all levels of the labour movement.
Across Europe, millions have taken to the streets to protest the genocide in Gaza, alongside Israel’s assault on the flotilla last week. The RCP enthusiastically participated in protests in London, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Cardiff, Leeds and Sheffield. Block everything for Palestine!
Today marks two years of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza. In this time, millions have taken to the streets of Britain to protest for Palestine. The movement is now at a crossroads. To advance, organised workers need to enter the scene en masse.
Former prime minister Tony Blair has risen from the dead to potentially oversee Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace” in Gaza. The fact that this war criminal has anything to do with a so-called ‘peace’ plan exposes the cynical nature of the entire project.
The British establishment has leapt at the opportunity to exploit last week’s synagogue attack to further their own interests, and demonise the Palestine movement. Their hypocrisy and cynicism knows no bounds. Now is not the time to back down, but to fight back.
Last Friday was incredible. A political general strike against the genocide in Gaza shut down Italy. It is an enormous source of inspiration and possibility, with the conditions which arose to such a strike not being unique to Italy. We must draw the necessary lessons.
Is artificial intelligence truly conscious or is it just hype? At Revolution Festival 2024, Daniel Morley applied the Marxist method to cut through the illusions surrounding AI.