Can AI have consciousness?
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.
BLOCK EVERYTHING for Palestine! | A World on Fire #2
In this episode, we cover the Gen Z revolution from Madagascar to Morocco, student & worker mobilizations across Europe, the intensifying West Bank occupation, and how unions in Britain can help strengthen the movement to halt genocide.
The Transitional Programme: The method of Marxism in a time of crisis
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.
Israel has intercepted the flotilla: Block everything! – For a workers’ boycott and general strike!
At 6PM last night, Israel intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla. Spontaneous protests erupted across Italy with a general strike planned tomorrow. A national student strike has been called in Spain today. We say block everything! Shut it down for Palestine!
Shostakovich’s ‘Anti-formalist Rayok’: A scathing satire of Stalin’s cultural crimes
Stalin’s bureaucracy waged a campaign of hate against artists who defied their narrow doctrine of ‘Socialist Realism’. Dmitri Shostakovich’s ‘Anti-formalist Rayok’ lambasts these cultural crimes, and defends the spirit of cultural freedom unleashed by the October Revolution.
Labour’s crisis conference: The beginning of the end for Starmer
The latest Labour conference, taking place in Liverpool this week, marked another milestone in the terminal crisis facing Starmer and his government. These cretins have nothing to offer workers and youth. It’s time to get organised as communists.
Hundreds of radical students attend ‘Why you should be a communist’ meetings
The Revolutionary Communist Party is taking campuses by storm! Over 70 new recruits have joined since September, most of which are young students angry at the capitalist world on fire. If you’re starting university and want to get organised, join your party today!
How a handful of communists radicalised a trade union branch
The first question on the mind of people radicalised by capitalism is: “what can I do?” A Bolshevik worker tells us her experience: using ideas, patient explanation and organisation to turn her union branch from passivity to militancy.
Trump at the United Nations
Last week, US President Donald Trump arrived at the UN for what was meant to be a 15-minute speech. Instead, he delivered a fiery hour-long rant, not against Russia or China, but Europe, harshly criticising America’s allies with unrelenting anger.
Newcastle faces down the far right – despite mistakes of left leaders
Anti-racist protestors massively outnumbered the far right in Newcastle over the weekend. But this victory came in spite of the political and tactical mistakes of the movement’s liberal leaders. The RCP had great success putting forward a communist alternative.
Here to fight, here to stay: Imperial Typewriters strike
We continue our series ‘Here to fight, here to stay’ illustrating how black and Asian workers and youth fought racism and the far-right. In 1974, a titanic showdown between an American multinational corporation and Asian workers shook the city of Leicester to its core!
Communism takes Britain’s campuses by storm
The RCP’s freshers mobilisation is off to a flying start, with dozens of recruits, hundreds of sign-ups to our student societies, and 1,000+ copies of The Communist sold. Everywhere, we are finding an electric mood, and an appetite for Marxist theory.