The British ruling class is clamping down on free speech and attack our democratic rights. In this episode, RCP Executive Committee member Nelson Wan outlines how communists approach the question of democratic rights, and howe we can fight to defend them on a class basis.

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.

History shows us that the limited rights the working class enjoys today were won through bitter class struggle and revolution. ‘Resistance’, a recent photography exhibition in Edinburgh, aptly showcased this in documenting a century of struggle against the British state.