In response to the coup in Peru against President Castillo, and the heavy repression of the mass movement by the Boluarte regime, the Marxist Student Federation held a joint meeting to discuss these turbulent events, and explain why only a revolutionary struggle against capitalism can secure the interests of the Peruvian workers and peasants.
Emergency protests were organised in Britain following Donald Trump’s invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro. Our correspondents across the country share reports from the ground.
Every day the news in the Western world is full of stories about migration. Major political parties are forming their messaging around anti-migrant rhetoric. At the same time, the left is organising protests and holding signs which say ‘refugees are welcome here’. But migration didn’t come out nowhere, it is a product of capitalisms need for cheap labour and foreign wars. So what is the communist position on this question? At Revolution Festival last year, Fiona Lali from the RCP Executive Committee talked on this topic.
Merry Christmas! But what is Christmas? What is Christianity, and where did it come from? From a small, radical sect, to the world’s most popular religion, spanning from West to East. Here, we republish a talk from 2 years ago given by Alan Woods, theoretical leader of the RCI, on the origins of Christianity. Here, he tracks from the early and radical start of Christianity, through to the bureaucratisation of Christianity and its use to colonise the world.