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As Donald Trump visits Scotland, dogged by questions about the Epstein files, cracks are beginning to surface in his cross-class coalition. A reckoning amongst Trump voters lies in wait as they realise he is as much a part of the establishment as everyone else they despise.
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s announcement of a new party has been met with a strong wave of support and enthusiasm. In this article, Alan Woods analyses these events, and what attitude communists should take towards it.
Almost one year after last summer’s far-right riots, protestors have targeted hotels housing asylum seekers, egged on by Reform. With anger and polarisation set to increase, the left needs a clear socialist answer to Farage, and a physical answer to far-right violence.
Today, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana announced the launch of a new left party, aimed at taking on the “corporations and billionaires” and their “rigged system”. The RCP is getting on board. Fight for real change! Fight for revolution!
Over 200 communists gathered in the Peak District for the best RCP Summer Camp yet. Themed around the life and ideas of Ted Grant, this school of Marxism provided vital training for comrades both new and old, and prepared the Party for the big events coming.
After WWII, the Soviet bureaucracy abolished capitalism and set up Stalinist regimes across Eastern Europe. In Yugoslavia, Tito broke from Moscow while maintaining a planned economy. During intense debates within the Fourth International, Ted Grant masterfully analysed these processes.
This weekend, RCP members will gather for our annual summer camp, where we will focus on the immense theoretical contributions made by Ted Grant, who kept the flame of genuine Marxism burning through to the 21st century, laying the foundations for our International.
After suspending Angela Rayner with huge support from the rank-and-file, Unite is moving further onto the war footing against Starmer’s Labour. To complete the break, Unite must ramp up the fightback: join up the struggles against austerity, and fight for a socialist programme!
British weather is known to be volatile, and the political climate is beginning to match this. With financial worries, imperialist tensions, and political instability to contend with, Starmer is feeling the heat. The communists, meanwhile, are making hay while the sun shines!
Recently, figures such as Zohran Mamdani to a new left party in Britain have garnered widespread support. So it is timely that the In Defence of Marxism magazine, with articles themed around reformism and revolution, has launched today! We reproduce the editorial here.
As Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza escalates, the British establishment is clamping down ever-harder on Palestine activists. The labour movement must mobilise against imperialism and repression, and organise to overthrow the war criminals.
Across the Empire, British imperialism enacted and perfected the policy of ‘divide and conquer’ – whipping up ethnic and religious sectarianism to hold back mass struggles. In this article, Sarah Vedrovitch presents the examples of India, Ireland, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka.