In this latest installment in our revolutionary press series we turn to examine the American Revolution. Known as a revolution of ideas, it saw the press transformed into an essential weapon of popular anger – and a disseminator of revolutionary ideas.
Adrian Tchaikovsky’s recent novel ‘Alien Clay’ is an excellent read. Set in a dystopian future where all knowledge and scientific progress is stifled by an authoritarian regime, the story deftly explores the relationship between science, society, and revolution.
For decades, antibiotics have been irresponsibly overused in healthcare and agriculture, leading to the rise of unstoppable infections. Meanwhile, capitalism and the pharmaceutical giants are holding back the deployment of a viable alternative.
Today, all eyes are on the USA – the ‘belly of the beast’ of world capitalism – as millions of voters head to the polls. Neither Trump’s reactionary ‘populism’ nor Harris’ so-called ‘lesser-evil’ establishment politics offers any solution. America needs a revolution!
Security guards from the Natural History Museum have been on strike for a real living wage, and demand to be brought in house. Our correspondent from inside the museum reports on the strike, and the impact it is having on wider layers of workers.
One of the outstanding achievements of the Soviet planned economy was its space programme, which took man (and dog) to space for the first time. Only socialism can wrest space travel from the billionaires, and take humanity to the stars.
In the run-up to Revolution Festival, RCP branches are hard at work raising funds for the party, so we can successfully wage a struggle against imperialism. We appeal to all revolutionary workers and young people: help finance the class war!
As Halloween approaches, a spectre is haunting Westminster – the spectre of economic instability, political chaos, and class struggle. But all of these horrors are hammering consciousness into shape: capitalism is producing its own gravediggers.
With Labour’s health secretary proposing weight loss injections for the unemployed, and DWP coaches stalking mental health wards to get people back to work, there’s no need for scary movies this Halloween. As Lenin remarked, capitalism is horror without end.
100 years ago, British intelligence, the Tory Party, and the bosses’ press colluded to bring down the first Labour government. The ‘Zinoviev letter’ affair reveals the murky machinations of the capitalist state, which will go to any length to defend its interests.
With both candidates neck-and-neck in the run-up to election day, you can sense the anxiety of the ruling class, who mostly oppose the maverick Trump. But why has his anti-establishment message struck a chord with a section of American society?
From landlords shutting down community cultural hubs, to public health scientists being ‘rewarded’ with gift vouchers for their work during the pandemic, readers of The Communist share their stories of the class divide under capitalism.