The rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party and Trump’s victory have seen the Revolutionary Communist Party downplay and excuse reactionary ideas in the working class in its 26 February issue of The Communist.

The SWP's idea of building a movement is to limit its demands to what is acceptable to the existing leadership

A review of Ecosocialist Revolution: A Manifesto, Anti*Capitalist Resistance, July 2024.

A review of Adrian Budd's new book on China

Analysis of the political crisis in France and the positions of the French left

A joint statement between the ISL, the ITO and the L5I on regroupment discussions

Opposing the imperialist motives of western support for Ukraine doesn't mean subordinating the right of Ukraine to resist invasion and annexation by Russia

A joint statement by the ISL, the ITO, and the L5I

Stop the War’s perspective on the Ukraine war is a blend of the politics of the two major political tendencies which support it and make up the bulk of its members – Counterfire and the Communist Party of Britain (CPB).

An analysis of the political crisis in Argentina and the strategy of the far left

A critique that locates the strategic impasse of the Palestinian left in its adherence to a Stalinist stages theory and the popular front.

A review of 1984, the Miners and the Strike that could have won by Ian Taylor, Socialist Worker.

Only by gathering the forces of working class opposition to Labour and directing them in a united front against the government can we begin to build a party that can not only resist the coming attacks on our class, but destroy capitalism and the imperialist system that stand behind Starmer and Reeves.

Under pressure from rank and file activity most of the revolutionary socialist groups turned left, workers power argues now is the time to unite all who want to develop a rank and file strategy.

4 July 2023 was the hottest day since records began, since then wildfires and extreme heat has scorched several countries around the world.

Resolution adopted by the XIIth Congress of the League for the Fifth International.

The significance of the soviet form of organisation and what its legacy means for working class militants today.

By Urte March VOTING IS open until 6 July in the Momentum leadership elections, with two slates—Your Momentum and Momentum Organisers—competing in a lifeless re-run of the 2020 contest. Your Momentum is a rebrand of the incumbent Forward Momentum grouping orienting itself towards social movements and community campaigns, while Momentum Organisers emphasises the need to […]

Trotskyism in the 21st century.

Amid growing tensions between the CPB and the YCL, Tim Nailsea explains the nature of Stalinist politics.

Urte March reviews Corbynism: What Went Wrong by Martin Thomas (AWL)

The Revolutionary Communist Current claims it has been expelled from the New Anticapitalist Party in France. What's really going on?

Red Flag's opening statement.

Tim Nailsea reviews the 2020 edition of Britain's Road to Socialism

By Gerald Falke and Dave Stockton The 200th anniversary Friedrich Engels’ birth, gives us an opportunity to look back over his remarkable life and recall the importance of his contribution to what became known as Marxism and to the formation of the political parties of the working class. In many assessments, he appears merely as […]

By Dave Stockton It is 80 years today since Leon Trotsky, aged 60, died at 7.25 pm in a hospital in Mexico City from a wound inflicted the day before by Ramón Mercader, an agent of Joseph Stalin, then the all-powerful dictator of the Soviet Union. Stalin had directly ordered the murder having already murdered […]

A Marxist analysis of the fundamental contradictions between sustainability and the capitalist mode of production.

A programme of action published in the early weeks of the pandemic.

IN THE face of the Tories’ overwhelming parliamentary majority, it is to be hoped that Hegel’s dictum, “victory divides the victors” will quickly be confirmed. At present, however, it is the divisions on the Left that are more obvious. Perhaps in anticipation of this, the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty, AWL, presented a call for “Left […]

Jewish people face casual discrimination on a day-to-day basis within capitalist society. This continues a long-standing historical trend; we were forced to become money-lenders in Europe during the Middle Ages, leading to harmful stereotypes which persist to this day, such as that the Jews are a duplicitous people who are only interested in money and […]