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Labour is under pressure from populists on either side of the Atlantic, with the capricious chaos of Donald Trump and the rising support for Farage’s Reform. We say: No to Starmer’s militarism and austerity! Overthrow this rotten system!
The CDU’s Friedrich Merz will be Germany’s next Chancellor. But with geopolitical and economic turmoil ahead, the next government will be even more unstable and discredited than than the last. Polarisation and class struggle are on the order of the day.
Universities across Britain are facing an onslaught of cuts, course closures, and redundancies. This is a harbinger of what is to come across the whole public sector. RCP members on campus are fighting back. Kick capitalism out of education!
Keir Starmer wants to put thousands of British “boots on the ground” to ‘keep the peace’ in Ukraine, while pledging to spend billions more on ‘defence’. We say: no to Starmer’s militarism and austerity! For healthcare, not warfare! Books not bombs!
Farage’s Reform UK recently overtook Labour and the Tories in the polls. Some on the left claim that Reform’s rising popularity is down to British workers becoming racist and far-right. But what is really behind the rise of right-wing populism?
We publish here the contents of a speech by Jorge Martín to a meeting of the Revolutionary Communist International’s leadership. In it, he covers the seismic shifts taking place in world relations, and the revolutionary pressures building up everywhere.
In a matter of weeks, President Trump has upended the decades-old ‘western alliance’. With US-Russia relations opening up, European powers have been left in the eye of the storm, carrying enormous social and political implications.
Here we publish an excerpt from ‘Colossus: The Rise and Decline of US Imperialism’, a new title by John Peterson, a leading RCI member in the USA. The book covers Lenin’s analysis of imperialist war, plus the rise and relative decline of US imperialism.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s new chainsaw-wielding Department of Government Efficiency has made quick work of slashing state spending. But cuts to USAID, a key part of US imperialism’s ‘soft power’ strategy, have provoked splits within the ruling class.
Back in the 1960s, Harold Wilson’s Labour government supported American imperialism’s bloody invasion of Vietnam. Today, Starmer’s government is even more subservient to Washington. We need a clean break with reformist betrayals!
In recent weeks, several regions of the Revolutionary Communist Party have organised cadre schools, to train leading members in the Marxist method. Raising the political level of the party is the key to connecting with Britain’s revolutionary youth.
The Labour Party was originally formed as a working class party. But since it first came to power over a century ago, its leaders have ruled on behalf of the capitalists. In this article, James Kilby explains how this happened, and the lessons for today.