Europe is convulsed by a wave of youth strikes and uprisings which are spreading. In Britain, since the violent attack on the RCP by the Met Police, we have grown at our fastest ever pace yet. All eyes are now cast towards Revolution Festival – the school of communism.

Here we republish an extract from the new introduction to Peter Fryer’s ‘Hungarian Tragedy’, by General Secretary of the RCP, Ben Gliniecki. This begins our series of articles to commemorate the Hungarian people’s noble and valiant struggle for genuine socialism.

As Marx and Engels once wrote, “a spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism”. The spectre of revolt is now striking fear into the hearts of Britain’s capitalist establishment, too. Similar events are approaching our shores. We must be ready.

Labour’s victory in the Holborn & St Pancras by-election represents a huge blow to the Green Party, and its left-wing leader Zack Polanski. The party now stands at a crossroads, with a right-wing faction openly conspiring to oust Polanski. What comes next?

90 years ago, the workers and youth of Leeds, led by the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), organised a victorious battle against Oswald Mosley’s fascist Blackshirts. Battered, bruised, and humiliated, Mosley’s forces never dared to march in Leeds again.

Last month, the nationalist first ministers of Scotland, Wales, and the North of Ireland held what has been dubbed the ‘Celtic summit’ in Cardiff. What does this new alliance mean for nationalist movements – and politics more broadly – across Britain and Ireland?