In this episode of Communist Radio, Sarah Taylor, campaigns coordinator for the RCP, discusses the student union elections we ran in with our communist candidates, Alice from Cardiff, Adam from Lancaster and Anton from Sheffield. Agree with the ideas in this show? Then join the fight for communism! ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party: https://communist.red/join 📰 Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence Of Marxism: https://communist.red/subscribe 💸 Donate to the RCP...
Apr 14, 2025•56 min
In the second episode of our series on the Classics: Daniel, Nye, Georgina & Peter discuss the ideas of Engels' Socialism: Utopian & Scientific . Covering the historical development of scientific socialism and its precursors, it is however far from a text of mere historical value to us. The method of Marxist analysis applied here by Engels to Marxism itself is one of the fundamental skills every communist must possess. This podcast series is in no way a replacement for studying theor...
Apr 09, 2025•49 min
This week on Communist Radio, Jack and Tom discuss: 🌹 Labour's austerity attacks 👮 State attacks Youth Demand ➡️ The rise of Reform 💰 'Tax the rich' ✊ RCP recruitment drive Agree with the ideas in this show? Then join the fight for communism! ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party: https://communist.red/join 📰 Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence Of Marxism: https://communist.red/subscribe 💸 Donate to the RCP: https://communist.red/donate 🔗 Head to ...
Apr 01, 2025•45 min
Opening our new series on Marxist Classics, aimed to inspire our listeners to tackle these texts for themselves, Daniel, Tom, Lubna & Peter discuss the Communist Manifesto . The founding document of our movement, it is without a slightest doubt a text that changed the world. Despite being published all the way back in 1848, we discuss its remarkable relevance today, and highlight some of its main lessons. This podcast series is in no way a replacement for studying theory for yourself. To hel...
Mar 26, 2025•55 min
Fiona Lali and Adam Booth sit down to discuss the Labour government's militarist tirade, and why their attempts to whip up patriotism are not being bought by the workers and youth, who are sick of the establishment's austerity and warmongering. 🔗 Head to The Communist website for daily news and analysis: https://communist.red ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party: https://communist.red/join 📰 Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence Of Marxism: https://communist.r...
Mar 14, 2025•51 min
The crisis of capitalism has brought serious attacks on the rights of women. Capitalism has failed women through austerity and imperialist warmongering that has seen places like Gaza turned to rubble and working class women in Britain pushed into further financial insecurity. In this episode of Communist Radio, Fiona discusses with Lotta and Lubna about the real heritage of International Working Women's Day and how we can fight for genuine equality between men and women. 🔗 Head to The Com...
Mar 06, 2025•58 min
The February Revolution brought an end to the blood-soaked Tsarist Empire. For the first few months, confusion reigned in Bolshevik party, most of whom failed to understand the limits of the Provisional Government; its interests opposed to the masses that brought it to power. In his April Theses, Lenin was able to theoretically re-arm the Party to connect it to the downtrodden masses, leading them to power in October. In this episode, Olivia Rickson, Central Committee member for the RCP, discuss...
Feb 28, 2025•44 min
Trump's victory has meant the establishment and even some on the left have started to reject 'woke' identity politics. In this episode of Communist Radio, Fiona and Daniel sit down and discuss where identity politics came from and how oppression must be fought with class-based methods. 🔗 Head to The Communist website for daily news and analysis ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party 📰 Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence Of Marxism 💸 Dona...
Feb 28, 2025•47 min
Ideas form the basis of any revolutionary party and an understanding of the processes are key to how we orientate ourselves in the class struggle. In this episode of Communist Radio, Ben and Nelson talk through how the RCP is structured and what are the key questions to be discussed at the RCP Congress in 2025. 🔗 Head to The Communist website for daily news and analysis ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party 📰 Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence Of Marxism 💸 ...
Feb 21, 2025•45 min
War is neither a result of mistake or madness — as the military tactician, Clausewitz, explained it is “the continuation of politics by other means.” Today, war is fundamentally waged by the capitalists to defend their profits, markets, and spheres of influence. As long as capitalism exists, there will be no end to war. In this session, In this episode, Lotta Angantyr, Executive Committee member of the RCP, discusses how to fight imperialism. 🔗 Head to our website for daily news and analysis...
Feb 14, 2025•49 min
A storm is gathering on UK campuses, with cuts, course closures and redundancies set to be carried out at dozens of universities. In this episode of Communist Radio, Ben Gliniecki and Lubna Badi discuss why marketisation led to this crisis, and how students and workers can prepare for battle. 🔗 Head to The Communist website for daily news and analysis ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party 📰 Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence Of Marxism 💸 Donate to the RCP 🌐...
Feb 14, 2025•48 min
The Labour Party was one of the first mass parties of the trade unions and working class, formed in the heated struggles at the turn of the 20th Century. Enshrined in its early aims was the fight for common ownership of the means of production — the fight for socialism. With over a century since its first government, questions must be asked: Why has the Labour Party failed to achieve this goal? Did the its leadership ever really represent the interests of the working class? With the return of a ...
Feb 07, 2025•41 min
Establishment politicians from all of the main parties have been whipping up a culture war over the question of immigration, in order to divide and distract the working class. In this episode of Communist Radio, Ben and Khaled sit down to outline how Marxists approach to the question of immigration from an internationalist class perspective. 🔗 Head to The Communist website for daily news and analysis ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party 📰 Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence...
Feb 07, 2025•54 min
The Bolshevik party was the only party in history which was able to lead the working class in a successful socialist revolution. In this episode, leading RCP member Rob Sewell explains how Lenin built this force, and the lessons to guide us in the struggle for revolution today. 🔗 Head to our website for daily news and analysis ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party 📰 Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence Of Marxism 💸 Donate to the RCP 🌐 Read the latest international new...
Jan 30, 2025•31 min
The genocide against the Palestinian people shows the real, brutal face of imperialism. While the maniacal Netanyahu regime has signed a ceasefire deal in Gaza, it continues its onslaught against the Palestinian people in the West Bank, with the backing of US and British imperialism. Why has this genocide taken place? And how can the Palestinians, alongside the oppressed masses of the region, achieve liberation? In this session from Revolution Festival 2024, Khaled Malachi, Central Committee mem...
Jan 22, 2025•46 min
Throughout history, mankind’s ability to develop knowledge and advance our understanding of nature has been shaped by material conditions and social forces. It is not simply individual geniuses that have helped science to take leaps forward, but revolutionary changes within society. Today, far from fuelling scientific progress, the profit motive and capitalist competition have become an enormous barrier to human knowledge. Only socialist planning can free science from these chains. In this episo...
Jan 15, 2025•48 min
Capitalism is in a global economic crisis. The working class everywhere are experiencing falling living standards, and have been for at least a decade. This inevitably has huge political and social effects. There is a bitter anger brewing deep in society, and these are exploding to the surface in many ways, including in the far-right riots across Britain, and the rise of far-right parties across Europe. The political polarization is reminiscent of the interwar period of the 1920s and 1930s, wher...
Jan 08, 2025•43 min
Today, Bangladesh is glowing with the white heat of revolution. The masses have once more entered the arena of struggle. They are rediscovering a rich revolutionary tradition that goes back decades. In reality, the tasks of this revolution are the unfinished tasks of an unfinished revolution, which began more than fifty years ago and culminated in the 1971 War of Independence against the domination of Pakistan. Learning the lessons of that period is vital to not only understanding the present, b...
Jan 01, 2025•51 min
Schools are collapsing, universities are going bankrupt, and millions of students and children are living in poverty. All the while, our politicians fork out billions on bombs, and university bosses rake in a fortune through their ties to the Israeli war machine. We are living in an epoch of rising imperialist war, and we are expected to pay the price. In this episode, Fiona Lali, leading RCP member, and Antonio Balmer, leading member of the Revolutionary Communists of America, discuss the strug...
Dec 26, 2024•47 min
13 years ago, without any organisation, programme, plan or preparation, the Arab masses, in the words of Marx, ‘stormed heaven’. In a matter of weeks they brought down regimes that decades of petitioning by NGO’s and academic do-gooders could not budge an inch. The colossal state-apparatus, employing hundreds of thousands of spies, police officers, and army personnel, could only watch as the masses took over the streets. In the context of rising tensions across the Arab world, Lubna Badi, leadin...
Dec 18, 2024•43 min
The Syrian regime has collapsed. The resulting power vacuum is being filled by local militias and warlords, backed by various imperialist powers seeking to redivide the country and the region. The Syrian masses can only rely on their own strength. In this episode, Hamid Alizadeh, member of the International Secretariat of the RCI, explores the reasons for the rapid collapse of the Assad regime, and what this means for the region. 🔗 Read more on the topic here: https://communist.red/assad-falls-...
Dec 13, 2024•34 min
The crisis of capitalism is resulting in is renewed tensions between the imperialist powers. They are sharpening their knives to defend the profits, markets, and spheres of influence of their multinational corporations. Defence spending is on the rise all over the world, while the masses everywhere suffer attacks on living standards to foot the war bill. This is provoking social unrest and upheaval in one country after another. In this opening session from Revolution Festival 2024, Alan Woods, a...
Dec 11, 2024•1 hr 10 min
This year’s US election was one of the most turbulent in history. It came amidst rising class contradictions and great instability on the world stage. Never before has American bourgeois democracy been so discredited, and never has it been confronted with so many challenges to its position as the world imperialist power. While neither candidate could solve the fundamental issues of the capitalist system, the victory of Donald Trump is already adding further instability to the US and world situat...
Dec 06, 2024•51 min
This week on Communist Radio, Fiona Lali and Ben Gliniecki discuss the victory of Donald Trump in the US elections, and the deep ramifications a Trump presidency will have for Starmer's government and British capitalism as a whole. 🚩 Sign up for Revolution Festival 2024: https://revolutionfestival.co.uk ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party: https://communist.red/join 📰Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence of Marxism: https://communist.red/subscribe 💸 Donate to the RCP: https://communi...
Nov 07, 2024•29 min
This week on Communist Radio, Fiona Lali and Nelson Wan discuss why Labour's recent budget won't be able to paper over the cracks, and why capitalism has been in crisis ever since the 2008 financial crash. 🚩 Sign up for Revolution Festival 2024: https://revolutionfestival.co.uk ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party: https://communist.red/join 📰Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence of Marxism: https://communist.red/subscribe 💸 Donate to the RCP: https://communist.red/donate 🌐Read the l...
Nov 04, 2024•23 min
This week on Communist Radio, Fiona and Khaled discuss Fiona's 'Books Not Bombs' tour, the militarisation of universities in the UK, and some common questions that communists get asked about revolution and fighting imperialism. 🚩 Sign up for Revolution Festival 2024: https://revolutionfestival.co.uk ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party: https://communist.red/join 📰Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence of Marxism: https://communist.red/subscribe 💸 Donate to the RCP: https://communist.r...
Oct 26, 2024•33 min
This week on Communist Radio, Khaled Malachi and Georgina Ryan discuss the chaos of world capitalism, the US elections, the revolutionary movements that have taken place in recent months, and why we need Marxist ideas to guide the struggle for communism. 🚩 Sign up for Revolution Festival 2024: https://revolutionfestival.co.uk ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party: https://communist.red/join 📰Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence of Marxism: https://communist.red/subscribe 💸 Donate to t...
Oct 17, 2024•27 min
With Hurricane Milton battering the United States, bringing carnage and suffering in its wake, the apocalyptic threat of climate catastrophe is at the forefront of people's minds. In this week's episode, Ben Gliniecki and Tom Crozier discuss why capitalism is to blame, the impact the climate crisis will have on consciousness, and why only communism can save the planet. 🚩 Sign up for Revolution Festival 2024: https://revolutionfestival.co.uk ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party: https://comm...
Oct 10, 2024•31 min
In this week's episode of Communist Radio, Ben Gliniecki and Khaled Malachi sit down to discuss Israel's deadly attacks on Lebanon, Iran's retaliation, and the rank hypocrisy of western leaders like Keir Starmer. As Ben and Khaled explain, revolutionary communists side fully with the oppressed against the oppressor. In order to put an end to Israel's slaughter, workers and youth must fight the enemy at home – British imperialism and its lackeys in Westminster – with mass, revolutionary action. �...
Oct 03, 2024•44 min
In episode three of Communist Radio, Fiona Lali and Ben Gliniecki discuss Israel's killing of hundreds in Lebanon; the first one hundred days of Starmer's anti-worker, imperialist Labour government; and how we can build a revolutionary party like Lenin and the Bolsheviks. ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party: communist.red/join 📰Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence of Marxism: communist.red/subscribe 💸 Donate to the RCP: communist.red/donate 🌐Read the latest international news and an...
Sep 26, 2024•32 min
