RCP members across the country are breaking new ground to build our party – taking initiatives from holding weekend schools, to setting up new societies on campuses. Our comrades report from the ground on the growing momentum in their areas.
This week, Fiona calls for communists to leave doom-scrolling behind us. Let’s put down our phones and focus on translating the anger and sadness people feel while scrolling online into ‘touching grass’: building a real-life revolutionary organisation to end capitalism.
Ahead of the May Holyrood elections, the ruling Scottish National Party is trying to make overtures to the Palestine movement. But for all the gestures of solidarity, the SNP will not be taking any action against the war machine or the capitalists complicit in genocide.
In the latest issue of The Communist, readers review Park Chan-Wook’s black-comedy thriller ‘No Other Choice’; Nia DeCosta’s gory yet hopeful ‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’; and Adam Forrest Kay’s examination of stagnating modern science in ‘Escape from Shadow Physics’.
Labour touts the Employment Rights Act as “the biggest upgrade in workers’ rights in a generation”. In reality, the new law is full of holes. Trade unions should seize what advantages it has given them, and go on the offensive against Starmer!
The Communist readers highlight the many sided ways the Epstein class are radicalising individuals and society as a whole.
A question many of us have asked is how Jeffrey Epstein and his associates morally defend their crimes. Daniel Morley explores this question and explains how “morality is nothing more than an expression of the real relations of society”.
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar recently made headlines with his calls for Keir Starmer to step down over the Mandelson affair. But it’s not just the Westminster parties mired in scandal. Both Scottish Labour and the SNP are part of the sleazy establishment.
Starmer’s government has been riddled with crises through February. At this point, you would hope to see Britain’s trade union leaders on the offensive. Alas, blinkered by their reformist approach, their response has been very limited.
The Epstein scandal has set off a stack of dynamite at the heart of British politics, exposing the rot throughout the entire capitalist establishment. Workers and youth must mobilise to kick out Starmer and overthrow the decrepit system he represents.
Reform is raising a hue and cry over their supposed ‘right’ to speak at universities. But if students decide they don’t want pro-austerity, pro-genocide politicians on their campus, they have the right to mobilise in protest. That is the free speech we’re interested in.
In yet another setback for Starmer’s beleaguered government, the High Court has ruled that Labour’s proscription of Palestine Action is “disproportionate” and “unlawful”. This is a victory for the Palestine movement, and exposes the crisis of the ruling regime.
Westminster’s politicians have yet another ‘tough decision’ to make: except this time it’s not about how cruelly to attack the working class, or which minorities to scapegoat, but how to save the crumbling Houses of Parliament. Perhaps Guy Fawkes had a cheap solution.
“I will frame my arrest papers alongside my university degree, as one of my life achievements. No cause could be greater than fighting this corrupt establishment and their system.” Read the latest updates on Jamie’s arrest and the RCP’s response.
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show has dominated the headlines this week, with its defiant celebration of Latin American culture against a backdrop of Trump’s imperialist provocations across the Americas. But not everyone is happy with this subversive musical performance.
Desperate to wrap up the heroic eleven-month bin strikes, believing it will save councillors’ skins at May’s local elections, Birmingham City Council are now going for an injunction against megapickets. Defend the right to protest with militant union action!
The first month of 2026 saw Trump trying to assert his ‘Donroe Doctrine’, blustering his way from Venezuela to Greenland. But the President is rapidly coming up against the limits of US imperialism – realising that redividing the world is not so easy as a game of Risk.