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Electoral success for Nigel Farage’s Reform in yesterday’s local and regional contests has provoked panic in Labour and Tory HQs alike. Britain’s political landscape is fracturing, as the centre ground collapses. Revolutionary upheavals impend.
Today, the Second Congress of the Revolutionary Communist Party commences. Across the weekend, hundreds of members will sharpen their perspectives, and draw up plans for a summer recruitment drive. For a revolution against the billionaires! Join the RCP!
Irish rap group Kneecap have been victims of a vicious smear campaign for supporting Palestine. This reeks of imperialist hypocrisy. It is the capitalist system and its politicians that have blood on their hands. Kneecap have nothing to apologise for.
Today marks 100 days since Donald Trump became US president for a second time. Here, we publish an extract from a document set to be discussed by the Revolutionary Communists of America, outlining the perspectives for class struggle in the USA.
The emergency takeover to prevent the collapse of British Steel has raised the question of ‘who owns Britain?’. This is also the case in Scotland, whose economy has been carved up by international capital. The SNP leaders’ empty talk about ‘national sovereignty’ is a farce.
Around a third of voters in England will go to the polls this Thursday, in council and mayoral elections that are likely to be a humiliation for both the Labour and the Tories. We say: Kick out all the Westminster warmongers, liars, and racists!
Privatisation in Britain has been a horror show. Corporations have raked in profits and shareholder payouts at the expense of us all. When these industries fail, only the losses are nationalised. Instead, we say: Nationalise the lot! For workers control!
“I recently read the RCP’s article on Just Stop Oil and Youth Demand. It resonated with me as someone who has made the journey from Just Stop Oil and getting arrested for direct action, to revolutionary communism and class struggle.”
The US-China trade war continues with neither Trump nor Xi yet blinking. Daniel Morley explores the ramifications and how fundamentally there will be no true winner, indicating not the madness of Trump, but the capitalist system itself.
Across Europe, governments are hiking up ‘defence’ spending, whilst carrying out cuts and attacks on workers to pay for it. Rob Sewell explains the economics behind this ‘military Keynesianism’, and why it provides no way out for the capitalist system.
The crisis-ridden establishment has cynically leapt on yesterday’s UK Supreme Court ruling regarding the definition of a woman to whip up a divisive culture war. Workers and youth must unite and fight for revolution against the billionaire class.
Just Stop Oil are ditching direct action. Youth Demand are ‘shutting down London’ in protest over Gaza and the climate. The RCP would like to open up a dialogue with activists about the programme, strategies, and tactics needed to overthrow the billionaire’s system.