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As the encampment movement spreads across the country, the police in Oxford arrested a number of activists. This must not be cause for surrender, but a further escalation of the movement.
Tory minister Michael Gove has accused the RCP of antisemitism on national television. Not only is this a blatant smear against the Palestine movement, but it is rank hypocrisy. In reality, it is the Tory Party which has a shocking history of antisemitism.
The western imperialists and their Arab allies have spent months launching airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen, in an effort to protect the profits of the big shipping firms. But this expensive bombing campaign has been an utter failure.
In this week’s issue of The Communist, we have reviews by readers of two powerful cultural works: ‘Mapantsula’, a film showing the oppression in Apartheid-era South Africa; and ‘Prophet Song’, a recent Booker-Prize-winning dystopian novel.
With Sunak and his party on the ropes, the government is manufacturing a distraction by targeting migrants and refugees. But working-class communities are fighting back, uniting and resisting the Tories’ racist policies with solidarity and struggle.
In the new issue of The Communist, our comrades report on the latest developments taking place on the industrial front: from NEC election results in PCS, to union-busting efforts at Amazon, to solidarity between train drivers and student protestors.
Keir Starmer has welcomed Tory headbanger Natalie Elphicke into the Labour Party. P&O bosses are in the spotlight for their modern-day piracy. And social murderer Rishi Sunak is trying to wash the blood off his hands. Throw the lot of them overboard!
Amidst the biggest student protest movement since the Vietnam War, Macklemore’s new song ‘Hind’s Hall’ breaks the music industry’s conspiracy of silence on Palestine, posing the question: “Why is nobody talking about the genocide in Gaza?”
On 4 May 1978, Bengali textile worker Altab Ali was murdered in a racially-motivated attack. A recent TV series looks at the struggle against racism and the far right in this period, revealing how militant mass action can curb oppression.
On 3 May 1968, police brutally attacked student protestors in Paris, setting in motion a revolutionary struggle that could have toppled French capitalism. Given the parallels with the Palestine movement today, we must study the lessons of this rich experience.
This Thursday, voters in the capital will go to the polls for the London mayoral election. But none of the candidates for City Hall have any solutions to the problems facing workers and youth. We must fight to build a revolutionary alternative.