Explosive pressures are building across Britain. Tensions over migration are increasing. State repression has failed to quell the Palestine movement. And strike action is on the agenda. At the same time, a growing layer is looking towards communism.
Over the weekend, the leadership of the RCP met to assess Britain’s ongoing political and economic crisis – a crisis fueling youth radicalisation, especially among students. We aim to organise and train these young people into class fighters.
Zack Polanski has just been elected Green Party leader, winning a whopping 85 percent of the vote! He has done so on a programme of taking on the billionaires, redistributing wealth, and calling out the genocide in Gaza. But this “hostile takeover” will face turbulence ahead.
Facing Bayrou’s austerity drive and a looming vote of confidence, France braces for mass action on September 10 — led by unions and La France Insoumise to ‘block everything.’ If it succeeds, the impact will go far beyond Emmanuel Macron’s fate.
Writing from a recent Kneecap/Fontaines D.C. concert in Manchester, a comrade of the RCP details the electric, radical atmosphere, which felt more like a Palestine rally. They even managed to sell several copies of The Communist before Kneecap took to the stage!