The recent Unison NEC elections saw the left-wing ‘Time for Real Change’ lose seven seats, with the right wing gaining ground. In order to galvanise rank-and-file members, the left must campaign widely for a fighting programme against austerity and attacks.
Legendary musician Brian Wilson has passed away at the age of 82. He leaves behind a legacy of revolutionising his craft, proving through his songwriting and production that pop music can be an art form in its own right.
Far from being a ‘decentralised’ alternative to money, the cryptocurrency industry has been embraced and centralised by the bankers and capitalists as yet another means of speculation. The entire system must be overthrown if we’re going to ever see an end to this insanity.
Last month, US President Donald Trump announced tariffs on films “produced in foreign lands” coming into the USA . Although unclear what this will amount to, it only looks set to create more uncertainty and pain for the 195,000 film workers in the UK.
Written under Napoleon’s dictatorship, Gounod’s 1859 operatic version of ‘Faust’ contains none of the literary and philosophical soul of Goethe’s 1808 masterpiece. What is left is little more than a reactionary celebration of Catholicism and the French state.
Capitalism is destroying the beauty of the Scottish Highlands, where residents live in poverty amongst an obscene amount of wealth. In recent years, there have been strikes and even land seizures which show the way forward.
The billionaire media and right-wing politicians would have us believe that the poorest in society are lazy freeloaders. But with unpaid wages at Sheffield Wednesday and in the food industry, readers of The Communist expose the real scroungers: the capitalists!
Since the Second Congress of the RCP, comrades, supporters, and sympathisers of the Party have given generously to our fighting fund. We need all the support we can find. Make a donation today to the best cause worth fighting for – the liberation of mankind from the billionaire class!
From rail to healthcare, vital services are being suffocated by the parasitic ruling class. Starmer’s Labour offer no solutions. To overturn decades of capitalist decline, we say: expropriate the billionaires!
Claude McKay, an immigrant from Jamaica, was a poet of the 1920s and 30s Harlem Renaissance in the US. Through his poetry he stood as a steadfast advocate for the American working class, confident in its capacity for change.
Last month, the Pakistani state arrested leading members of the Awaami Action Committee – including RCI comrades – for mobilising against the ruling class’s robbery of the people. We call on our readers to support the solidarity campaign to free our comrades!
This week marks the anniversary of the crushing defeat of the 1871 Paris Commune, where the working class briefly seized power for the first time in history. Continuing our series on the revolutionary press, Joe Russell outlines how the written word was the lifeblood of the Communards’ struggle.