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This afternoon, the government confirmed its intention to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group. This is nothing short of an attempt to criminalise the Palestine movement. In response, we joined an emergency protest at Trafalgar Square to say: Hands off Palestine Action!
As of today, the RCP has recruited over 100 new communists to its ranks in the seven weeks since our Congress. This is halfway to our recruitment campaign target, and one of the fastest periods of growth the Party has ever had, writes RCP general secretary Ben Gliniecki.
Israel’s war on Iran marks a global turning point. Trump is being pulled in many directions, with Republican warhawks pushing for US intervention and regime change, while others call for the US president to deliver on his promise of peace. In this article, Alan Woods analyses these seismic events.
In the run-up to next week’s NATO summit, Starmer’s Labour has announced more new plans to ramp up military spending, using the threat of a ‘Russian invasion’ to carry out attacks on workers at home. Down with militarism! For welfare, not warfare!
Israel’s latest act of aggression against Iran has once again stirred the hypocritical chorus of warmongers in Westminster. The task of Communists is to expose the crimes of Netanyahu, Starmer, and British imperialism; and to fight for international socialism, starting at home.
In its first year of power, Starmer’s ‘electoral fortress’ has suffered the same sorry fate as the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic. With stormier waters ahead, Reeves’ Spending Review is merely rearranging the deckchairs on a sinking ship. Time to throw these capitalist shills overboard!
Netanyahu is betting his political future on a regional conflagration — escalating the Gaza genocide into an all‑out war with Iran, dragging US imperialism along to save his skin. The Israeli PM now masks his genocidal ambitions behind ‘defence’ rhetoric and global powers have followed in tow. The working class must resist being dragged into capitalist bloodletting.
Global debt has tripled since 2007 and has been a lifeline for the tottering capitalist system. Now as debts mature amidst tariffs, inflation, high interest rates and stagnant economic growth this could spell disaster for the capitalists as they seek to pass on the burden of their crisis ridden system to the working class.
This Monday, the IDF seized a sailboat carrying aid to Gaza, and deported those on board including climate activist Greta Thunberg. This latest criminal act has once again exposed the western leaders’ hypocrisy, and has sparked to an outpouring of anger internationally.
Targeted raids by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Los Angeles have sparked an inspiring spontaneous fightback over the weekend. Trump escalated the provocation by sending in the national guard. Workers organisations must mobilise to defend immigrant workers in deeds, not just words.
At last Saturday’s national anti-austerity demonstration, 400 Revolutionary Communist Party activists hit the streets of London in possibly the biggest communist mobilisation in decades. We say: Revolution against the billionaires! Expropriate the rich! Join the Communists!
In preparation for the first congress of the Revolutionary Communist International, this special episode of Against the Stream, the weekly podcast of the RCI, covers the perspectives for the epoch of war, revolution and counter-revolution the world is now entering.