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, accl...
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
In episode two of Communist Radio, Ben Gliniecki and Fiona Lali sit down to discuss Israel’s terrorist attack on Lebanon, why polls reveal an increase in support for communism, as well as answering some common myths about Marxism. ✊ 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 latest international news and analysis from the ...
Sep 20, 2024•31 min
In this latest episode of Marxist Voice, Ben Gliniecki outlines the role of British imperialism today, and how communists can fight to overthrow it.📚 Get your hands on Marxist classics like Lenin's 'Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism': https://wellredbooks.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 latest i...
Sep 17, 2024•48 min
Welcome to Communist Radio, the brand new podcast series by the Revolutionary Communist Party. Each episode, we will dissect the key political events of the week from a Marxist perspective, as well as how our Party is responding to them, by building a revolutionary alternative. This week, Ben Gliniecki and Fiona Lali sit down to discuss the crisis in the Middle East, Starmer's anti-worker policies, the upcoming university freshers period, and the RCP's autumn growth campaign. ✊ Join the Revoluti...
Sep 12, 2024•23 min
The national question is one of the most complex questions that Marxists must be able to answer, and has a renewed importance today, as the crisis of capitalism inflames national questions that were once considered fully resolved.In this talk, Jack Tye Wilson outlines Lenin and the Bolsheviks' approach and how it developed, the colonial revolutions, and the national question today.✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party: https://communist.red/join📰 Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence of ...
Aug 22, 2024•39 min
Little over a month after Starmer's landslide election victory, Britain has been thrown into turmoil, with far-right riots and attacks, as well as impressive counter mobilisations.These events are a foretaste of the instability in store, as British capitalism sinks deeper into crisis.In this episode, taken from the opening talk of the recent RCP summer camp, Adam Booth explains these events within the context of the global crisis of capitalism, and outlines the tasks of revolutionary communists ...
Aug 15, 2024•48 min
⚠ Apologies for the poor audio quality. A piece of equipment malfunctioned. But since the analysis is so important we uploaded this anyway. Rest assured that we will have this fixed for the next episode. In the past week, Britain has been shaken by a wave of far-right violence, with migrants, asylum-seekers and Muslim communities facing intimidation and violent attacks. These shocking events should be a wake-up call for the labour movement. In this episode of Marxist Voice, we sit down with Fion...
Aug 05, 2024•29 min
Fiona Lali's election campaign shows that revolutionary ideas can connect with wide layers of people. In this episode, we sit down with Daniel Morley to discuss elections, parliaments, and broader questions around communist methods and tactics. 🔗 Read Daniel's article here: https://communist.red/communists-and-elections-parliament-positions-and-the-party/ ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party! https://communist.red/join 💸 Support the RCP by donating to our fighting fund: https://communist.r...
Jul 10, 2024•59 min
We’re told we live in a democracy, but whether we vote for Starmer or Sunak, we’re going to get pretty much the same thing. What’s democratic about that?We’re told we have rights like freedom of speech and a free press, but the government is banning protests and the newspapers are all owned by billionaires. What’s the point of these “rights” if they don’t actually mean anything?The fact is that the world is run by and for the rich. They decide everything and the rest of us don’t get a say. That ...
Jul 02, 2024•43 min
15 years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the economy is once again taking a turn for the worse. The past decade and a half has seen capitalism go from disaster to disaster. Instability and chaos are the new normal.Whether it’s environmental crises, economic crises or political crisis, the world has lurched from one extraordinary event to another. But every measure the bourgeois take to solve one crisis only creates another.The bourgeois economists have started calling this a “permacrisis”...
Jun 21, 2024•38 min
The events of the German revolution are some of the most tragic in the history of the world workers movement. One year after the Russian revolution, the German workers rose up, overthrew the Kaiser, and set up Soviets all over the country.But unlike the Russian revolution, where the Bolshevik party had been founded 14 years in advance, the revolutionary party in Germany, the Spartacus league, was founded one month after the revolution began. As a result, they were caught unprepared, and the revo...
Jun 07, 2024•50 min
The events of the Russian revolution were the greatest in all human history. For the first time, the exploited masses fought back and won. The revolution birthed the most progressive state the world had ever seen, with the Communist International — led by Lenin and Trotsky — becoming a beacon of internationalism, inspiring workers and poor everywhere.And yet, within 10 years, the Soviet Union had degenerated into a bureaucratic and totalitarian regime. The Communist International went from a har...
May 31, 2024•43 min
Following her takedown of Suella Braverman, and with a surge of grassroots support, Fiona Lali is standing as a revolutionary communist candidate for Stratford and Bow in the upcoming general election. Vote for Fiona! Bring down the warmongers! 🔗 Support Fiona's campaign! Volunteer and donate: https://fionalalircp.com ✊ Help us overthrow the warmongers in Westminster! Join the Revolutionary Communist Party! 💸 Support the RCP by donating to our fighting fund: https://communist.red/join 🗞️ Help...
May 30, 2024•17 min
Student encampments in support of Palestine have rapidly spread to universities across Britain. This talk is from a meeting organised by the Revolutionary Communist Party which discussed how we aim to broaden, link together, and escalate this struggle. ✊ Help us overthrow these hypocritical warmongers in Westminster! Join the Revolutionary Communist Party! - communist.red/join 🗞️ Help us build a voice for the working class by subscribing to our newspaper, The Communist: communist.red/subscribe ...
May 24, 2024•22 min
Communists are often accused of being bloodthirsty and violent provocateurs, who would stop at nothing to achieve their malevolent aims. But our accusers are the same people responsible for the slaughters in Gaza, Sudan, the Congo and countless others. In this episode of Marxist Voice, Ellen Morton will explain the difference between their morals, the morals of the bloody and barbarian capitalist system, and ours, the morals of the slaves in struggle to end slavery.📚 Get your copy of Lenin's se...
May 24, 2024•26 min
The RCP has been accused of antisemitism by Michael Gove in an attempt to cover up the crimes of British imperialism and its support of Israel’s genocide. We sit down with Fiona Lali to discuss Gove's outrageous smear, the ICC request for an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, and what lies ahead for the Palestine encampments. ✊ Help us overthrow these hypocritical warmongers in Westminster! Join the Revolutionary Communist Party! 💸 Support the RCP by donating to our fighting fund: https://communist....
May 22, 2024•17 min
‘Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition’, by Cedric Robinson, has featured in countless anti-racist reading lists across schools and universities. The title suggests it will be a synthesis of Marxism and the Black struggle. In reality, it is an attempt to divide the two entirely.What is the ‘Black Radical Tradition’, and how does the Marxist method apply to it? In this session, Fiona Lali will explore whether historical materialism can explain the development of racism, if the ...
May 17, 2024•49 min
Fanon has been used by academics as a basis for a whole series of confused and reactionary ideas about “de-colonisation of the mind”. However, “Wretched of the Earth” is a book about revolutionary struggle against colonialism, arms in hand.In the book, Fanon issues very sharp and prescient warnings about the treacherous role of the bourgeoisie after independence, but at the same time he argues that the only revolutionary classes in colonial countries are the peasantry and the lumpen-proletariat,...
May 10, 2024•54 min
