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This week, the warmongers in Starmer’s Westminster cabinet have been hysterically accusing the SNP-led government in Scotland of being a “threat to national security”. But are the SNP’s anti-imperialist credentials really what they are made out to be?
108 years ago today, Lenin and the Bolsheviks achieved the impossible: they led millions of workers and peasants in a successful socialist revolution. But which events, struggles, and ideas led to that victory? How did Lenin become Lenin?
Yesterday, self-described ‘democratic socialist’ Zohran Mamdani sent shockwaves through Wall Street as he won the New York mayoral race in the heart of American capitalism. The main question now is how Mamdani delivers in the fight against the billionaires.
Since the collapse of Corbynism round one, there has been a notable vacuum on the British left. Now, like London buses, two left-wing electoral alternatives have arrived at once. What attitude should revolutionaries have towards this new left revival?
Since August, the United States has ramped up its military presence in the Caribbean with the goal of overthrowing the Venezuelan government. This imperialist bullying must be opposed. Our position is clear: Hands off Venezuela – Hands off Columbia!
Mr. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been stripped of all of his titles and privileges, reminding us that royalty isn’t a divine force bestowed by God; nor does the right to rule run like blue blood through the veins of noble families. If a prince can be deposed, then why not a king?
Independent Candidate – an observational documentary about Fiona Lali’s 2024 general election campaign – is screening this Sunday in London. We sat down with director Teilo Vellacot to discuss the campaign, the filmmaking process, and his work as a whole.
Militancy and international solidarity, as seen across Europe recently, is not alien to the labour movement here in Britain. British workers have taken strike action to halt the imperialists’ war machine before: in the 1920 Jolly George cargo vessel incident.
Left-wing independent Catherine Connolly has been elected President of Ireland with a thumping majority. Alongside mass absenteeism, the election is a disaster for the Irish establishment.
Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl has dragged into the light the crimes of Prince Andrew and the rest of the rotten establishment. Her account illustrates the lengths that the ruling class are willing to go to to defend their crimes.
Last week, the Welsh town of Caerphilly delivered a shock to Starmer’s Labour, with voters unseating the party from one of its former strongholds. As Britain’s political landscape fractures, we can expect many more such earthquakes in the years ahead.
The great Marxist and revolutionary leader Lenin once said: “Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the world.” Following in his footsteps today, the RCP is building up the forces of communism in Britain. But what does this look like?