RCP members hit the streets of Manchester last weekend to get a sense of the mood around the Gorton & Denton by-election. It’s clear that ordinary Mancunians are fed up with establishment politics, and despise Starmer’s Labour Party.
The first month of 2026 saw Trump trying to assert his ‘Donroe Doctrine’, blustering his way from Venezuela to Greenland. But the President is rapidly coming up against the limits of US imperialism – realising that redividing the world is not so easy as a game of Risk.
World events are moving at lightning speed; clarity is essential. Last weekend, one hundred leading RCP members assembled with a single task in mind: to prepare the Party theoretically and organisationally for the turbulent year ahead.
Jesse Welles, an American folk singer from Arkansas USA has captured the burning mood brimming within American society. Welles has tapped into an anti-establishment and anti-war feeling which has invoked an emotive response from many.
Home secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced a raft of ‘law-and-order’ reforms to British policing. But beneath the blustering bravado about forces being made ‘match fit’, these measures are pathetically inadequate to solve the establishment’s problems.
A massacre of Rojava and the Kurds is being prepared in Syria. US imperialism once used the Kurdish SDF (Syrian Defence Forces) as a cynical pawn. Now, Donald Trump is abandoning them to their fate. Imperialism and class collaborationism is again proving to be the gravedigger of the Kurdish cause.
Last Friday saw a momentous political general strike in Minnesota against ICE terror. This movement clearly illustrates the colossal power of the American working class and their ability to paralyse the citadel of world imperialism.
Despite leaving tens of thousands without water, South East Water’s boss David Hinton is in line for a £400,000 bonus. We say: privatisation has failed. Expropriate the parasitic water monopolies!
Keir Starmer is looking weak, paranoid, and isolated, after facing off Andy Burnham’s bid to return to Westminster. The Gorton & Denton by-election, meanwhile, is set to be a referendum on Starmer’s government, and could spell the beginning of the end for the Prime Minister.
With an unusually contentious Scottish Parliament election in May, the ruling Scottish National Party has thrown a few crumbs to working people in their latest budget. But these superficial ‘progressive’ measures won’t reverse the SNP’s declining support.
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?
The full weight of ‘Broken Britain’ is bearing down on adult and children social services, leaving them crumbling in the face of rising demand and deep austerity. Saving these services requires thoroughgoing socialist measures, writes one social worker.