Fela Kuti’s pioneering work introduced a whole new palette of African-inspired rhythms and textures to popular western music. The father of afrobeat voiced the anti-capitalist anger of youth across the African continent, which rages on to this day.
The Revolutionary Communist Party is going from strength to strength in Cardiff. And best of all, this success is being driven by our student members, who led the recruitment drive in the recent freshers period. We spoke with these comrades about their experiences.
We have just breached one of the first, potentially irreversible climate tipping points, threatening catastrophic climate breakdown. Meanwhile, Indigenous climate activists protested the hypocritical, self-serving COP30 climate conference in Brazil.
Anton Chekhov’s influence on modern literature endures to this day. While best known for his dramatic works, Chekhov’s short stories masterfully portray the lives of ordinary people in 19th-century Russia – where seismic social transformations were taking place.
Today, it was announced that unemployment has jumped to five percent, the highest level since the pandemic. This is the result of several converging factors, which the capitalists are powerless to fix. Meanwhile, workers and youth face increased exploitation and burnout.
Standing starkly at odds with the success of the Greens in England and Wales, several Scottish Green Party councillors and MSP candidates recently defected to Your Party – and urged others to follow suit. How do we make sense of this development?
With Chancellor Rachel Reeves sharpening her knives for the coming Autumn Budget, many will be left thinking “what is there left to cut?”. Everywhere you look – from classroom to NHS waiting rooms – Britain being ripped apart by the billionaire class.
At ‘Surviving Spycops’, a recent exhibition organised by women activists who were deceived into long-term relationships by undercover police officers, we caught up with communist artist and RCP activist Nicholas Baldion about his latest piece, ‘Police Spies Ruin Lives’.
Last Saturday’s knife attack has exposed the compounding crises which produce violence and social decay in Britain. The mental health epidemic, cuts to care services, and rail profiteering all make crimes like this inevitable. Capitalism is a danger to public safety.
Management at King’s College London have threatened a pro-Palestine student with deportation. Uni of Leeds management called police to arrest pro-Palestine students last week. This repression must be resisted. An injury to one student is an injury to all!
53 years on from the Bloody Sunday massacre of defenceless marchers in Derry, the British state has shamelessly absolved itself of any guilt for the slaughter. Soldier F – who pulled the trigger against five on Bloody Sunday – has been acquitted.
The Guardian recently published a trivial stink piece, claiming that revolutionary Friedrich Engels made exaggerated claims about the conditions of Manchester workers. Why do these liberal papers feel the need to criticise a theoretician who died over a century ago?