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A trial against two British citizens accused of spying for China recently collapsed, following a change in the government’s policy towards Beijing. Starmer will tolerate Chinese spying in return for trade and investment – yet another reminder of Britain’s drastic decline.
The real content of Trotskyism does not lie in opposing Stalinism, but in what it positively puts forward. Any consideration of Trotskyism must therefore proceed from the essential principles that defined Trotsky’s life as a revolutionary.
Capitalism is built upon free speech, open debate, and the ‘marketplace of ideas’; communists, meanwhile, want to take away this cherished democratic right. Everyone has heard capitalism’s defenders repeat this myth. So what’s the communist response?
Fuelled by bold politics and anti-establishment audacity, Zack Polanski’s Green Party is surging ahead, with membership breaking 100,000 and double digits in the polls. The Greens are now a force to be reckoned with. What does this mean for British politics?
Half a million – including a 400-strong Communist bloc – took to the streets for Palestine on Saturday, showing the lack of trust in Trump’s imperialist ‘peace’. But the movement’s leaders lack answers. We must draw the lessons of the explosive European movement.
From 14-16 November, 1,000 communists will gather in London for this year’s Revolution Festival, the school of communism. For communists and class-fighters in Britain, serious about building for revolution, there is no other event like it. Get your ticket today!
As Western imperialism celebrates another imperialist peace, we are further away from Palestinian statehood than ever before. The so-called ‘two-state solution’ lies buried beneath Gaza’s rubble, as the settlements spread across the West Bank.
“The bourgeois like to think that they alone are born with the right to dominate culture. But every human being has the potential to appreciate the arts, and to excel in all of them. This artistic potential of the masses will be unleashed when they move to change society.”
Today marks two years of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza. In this time, millions have taken to the streets of Britain to protest for Palestine. The movement is now at a crossroads. To advance, organised workers need to enter the scene en masse.
The British establishment has leapt at the opportunity to exploit last week’s synagogue attack to further their own interests, and demonise the Palestine movement. Their hypocrisy and cynicism knows no bounds. Now is not the time to back down, but to fight back.
Last Friday was incredible. A political general strike against the genocide in Gaza shut down Italy. It is an enormous source of inspiration and possibility, with the conditions which arose to such a strike not being unique to Italy. We must draw the necessary lessons.
Leon Trotsky’s Transitional Programme is one of those rare texts, reading as more applicable today than when it was written. Trotsky outlines the method of Marxism in a time of crisis. For a new generation of revolutionaries, the lessons have never been more timely.