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While Labour ramps up austerity, trade union leaders have endorsed the government’s militarism, naively believing that this will create jobs and economic growth for British workers. We say: No trust in Starmer! Fight the bosses and warmongers head on!
With soaring costs, welfare cuts, and people struggling to make ends meet, the cost of living crisis is hitting harder than ever—if it ever truly left. It’s time for workers to take action, fight back, and make the parasites pay.
This May, Marxists from across Britain will convene for the Second Congress of the Revolutionary Communist Party, to discuss the turbulent crisis of British capitalism, and the tasks of class fighters. Here, Adam Booth introduces the ‘British perspectives’ document.
Under the guise of ‘maintaining peace’, imperialist governments are racing to rearm. The jingoistic establishment insists that workers and the poor should shoulder the costs, through savage cuts to social spending. We must fight militarism with socialist revolution!
Starmer and the establishment are on a crusade of flag-waving jingoism: puffing out their chests on the world stage, and using the cover of militarism to prepare for attacks on workers at home. We say: down with these deluded warmongers!
To commemorate International Working Women’s Day the Revolutionary Communist Party has been organising meetings in a number of cities and universities to reclaim the revolutionary communist heritage of this event. The only way we can ensure women’s emancipation is through revolution!
The ‘woke’ brand of identity politics pushed by the liberal establishment for decades is now deeply discredited. Demagogues like Trump, however, offer no alternative. Communists oppose both sides of the culture war divide, putting forward an independent, class programme.
Labour has just announced billions in cuts to benefits, in an effort to drive the sick and ailing back to work, get the economy growing, and redirect money to ‘defence’. But the capitalist class are powerless to tackle Britain’s unemployment dilemma.
While the liberal establishment and right-wing bigots argue over who protects women more, working-class women are more squeezed and vulnerable than ever. Communists have no faith in both sides of the toxic culture war. Only united class struggle can fight sexism!
Starmer’s cuts to foreign aid have caused backlash among his ranks and within the liberal establishment. But both sides of this furore are merely trying to salvage Britain’s declining power. We say: No to militarism! Down with liberal hypocrisy!
Trump’s demagogic rhetoric is disrupting the post-WWII consensus, fueling uncertainty in Europe and the UK’s fragile economy amid rising militarism and social crises. In this context, the RCP leadership convened to strategise on strengthening the Party, promoting The Communist, launching a new recruitment campaign, and preparing for the second RCP Congress.
Western leaders like Macron and Starmer have been blindsided by last week’s Oval Office clash, which came after weeks of slavishly courting Trump’s favour. In this article, Alan Woods analyses the seismic shifts in world relations which led to this event.