Stalin’s bureaucracy waged a campaign of hate against artists who defied their narrow doctrine of ‘Socialist Realism’. Dmitri Shostakovich’s ‘Anti-formalist Rayok’ lambasts these cultural crimes, and defends the spirit of cultural freedom unleashed by the October Revolution.
The Revolutionary Communist Party is taking campuses by storm! Over 70 new recruits have joined since September, most of which are young students angry at the capitalist world on fire. If you’re starting university and want to get organised, join your party today!
The first question on the mind of people radicalised by capitalism is: “what can I do?” A Bolshevik worker tells us her experience: using ideas, patient explanation and organisation to turn her union branch from passivity to militancy.
Anti-racist protestors massively outnumbered the far right in Newcastle over the weekend. But this victory came in spite of the political and tactical mistakes of the movement’s liberal leaders. The RCP had great success putting forward a communist alternative.
Universities are back for a new academic year, and so returns to the fore the crisis facing higher education. Across the country, students and workers are threatened with cuts, cuts, and more cuts. We need to kick capitalism off campus!
Over the past year, Bristol RCP has transformed into four branches, and are now targeting themselves to recruit 20 students and become the biggest political force on campus!
Since ‘working-class warrior’ Angela Rayner was ditched from Starmer’s cabinet, the union leaders have been inconsolable. Their ‘woman on the inside’ is gone, their Employment Rights Bill is being butchered, and their strategy of cosying up to Labour is bankrupt.
Next month, ballots open for the general secretary election in Unison, Britain’s largest trade union. Scandalously, the so-called ‘Communist’ Party of Britain is supporting right-wing incumbent and arch-bureaucrat Christina McAnea against left candidate Andrea Egan.
The youth in revolt is the theme unfolding across the world – and it is why the RCP has been preparing to take campuses by storm. We share here reports from this work in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Sheffield, Norwich, and Cambridge.
In the return of her regular fortnightly column, RCP campaigns coordinator Fiona Lali discusses the turbulent events taking place globally, the protests she and our comrades have joined recently, and her upcoming tour of UK campuses.
Miles Todd was one of ‘the 250’ – the stalwarts of our organisation, who swam against the stream for thirty years. Miles spoke daily about the Party, particularly the International, and paid his last dues from hospital, surrounded by his favourite Marxist texts. Rest in peace, comrade.
Britain is broken! In this issue of The Communist, our readers expose how the insatiable greed of the capitalists means that we are left to deal with toxic waste fires, council housing death traps, and soaring poverty.