War always accompanies periods of revolutionary turmoil like our own. The coming period will include inter-imperialist wars, national wars, civil wars, and class wars. Communists must be theoretically prepared to make sense of this maelstrom.
AI is acting as a prism through which all the worst parts of capitalism are concentrated. In the world of art, it is revealing a sharp cultural decline, and is intensifying feelings of alienation. But can AI never have a place in the world of art?
Disappointingly, Unison’s recent ballot of 200,000 council and school workers failed to pass the threshold set by the anti-union laws. Elsewhere, the trade union leaders are prevaricating. In issue 54 of The Communist, our readers discuss the way forward.
Having established ourselves as the foremost political organisation among students, organised on some 48 campuses across Britain, the RCP is getting ready to utilise our forces to put communist ideas on the map like never before.
Once again, the crisis of the prison system is back in the headlines, following Burnham’s early prisoner release fiasco. With intense overcrowding, staff morale in crisis, and a probation service at breaking point, this situation is intractable under capitalism.
Andy Burnham’s first foreign visit was to Ukraine, speaking of a “just and lasting peace”. But he wants no such thing. Britain and the European powers are cynically prolonging this bloodshed for their own imperialist interests, using ordinary Ukrainians as cannon fodder.
Since taking over as Andy Burnham’s foreign secretary, Ed Miliband has continued Labour’s cynical ploy to appear somewhat critical of Israel. But we don’t buy it. Elsewhere, Trump’s troops harbour resentment, and world shipping faces headwinds.
With the UK set to record the hottest summer on record and 2027 set to be the hottest year ever recorded, the question must be asked, where is the climate movement? Will it return? And what lessons can we draw from this struggle?
With global turmoil, Farage’s by-election victory slipped under the radar. In truth, neither Reform nor the political establishment came out of the Clacton charade well. But is Farage a spent force? Are we seeing a return of the two-party system?
SNP leader John Swinney has called another ‘anti-far right summit’ in the wake of the racist violence this summer, and the rise of Reform. But this talking shop of class collaboration will solve nothing – we need a revolutionary alternative.
The situation in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is on a knife edge. This mass movement is a continuation of the revolutionary unrest that swept through Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal over the past two years. And it now faces a crossroads: the bloody path of compromise, or onwards down the road to revolution.
The United States Treasury Department announced this week that it will double the buying of its own bonds. But these desperate measures will solve nothing; they will only pave the way for more crisis – and attacks upon the working class.