The rise and fall of the Fourth International is one of the most important lessons for communists today. At the World Congress of the Revolutionary Communist International, Rob Sewell explains how the degeneration of the leadership of the Fourth International left the working class without a revolutionary party. Ted Grant’s sharp criticisms of the opportunism and sectarianism of the leadership are more relevant than ever for revolutionaries seeking to rebuild genuine Marxism. By revisiting the s...
Sep 21, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Fiona Lali and Khaled Malachi discuss the deepening crisis in Britain — from the failure of Starmer's government to growing political disillusionment across the country. Why is public trust collapsing? Why does everyone seem to hate Starmer? And what does the future hold as the UK becomes increasingly polarised between left and right?Agree with the ideas in this show? Then join the fight for communism!✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party: https://communist.red/join📰 Subscribe to...
Sep 16, 2025•50 min
THERE WERE TECHNICAL ISSUES WITH THE RECORDING OF THIS PODCAST. WE APOLOGISE FOR THE MISSED CONTENT The Haitian Revolution was the first successful slave revolt in history and remains one of the most inspiring chapters in the struggle against oppression. Speaking at Revolution Festival 2024, Keelan Kellegher explains how enslaved Africans in Haiti, under the leadership of Toussaint Louverture, rose up against French colonialism and struck a blow for freedom that shook the capitalist world. Using...
Sep 15, 2025•40 min
In the 1950s and 60s, while the so-called Marxists couldn't understand the post war boom, Ted Grant used the Marxist method to analyse what was happening. From this, he was able to understand that capitalism had not solved its contradictions but was destined for slump again. At this year's RCP summer camp, Nelson Wan explains Ted Grant's article 'Will there be a slump?' and the method which allowed him to have this foresight. 🔗 Head to our website for more analysis on the topic ✊ Join the Re...
Sep 08, 2025•41 min
Most ‘mainstream’ historians tend to reject the Marxist view that the course of historical development has been fundamentally determined by laws that we can grasp scientifically. Many also reject the idea of progress as a whole as merely a ‘point of view’. To them, history is little more than a series of accidents, or the choices of great individuals. But if this is the case, then why can we recognise so many common processes across human history, in which similar institutions, events, and even ...
Aug 22, 2025•41 min
What is value? This question has perplexed the human mind for more than 2,000 years. The classical bourgeois economists grappled with the question, as did Marx. Joe Russell, Executive Committee member of the RCP, discusses Marx’s completion of the Labour Theory of Value, and provide a defence of his economic ideas against attacks from modern day critics. 🔗 Head to our website for more analysis on the topic ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party 📰 Subscribe to The Communist and the In De...
Aug 15, 2025•45 min
As British capitalism’s first colony, imperialism cut its teeth in Ireland. The domination of Ireland by British capitalists, landlords, and financiers resulted in untold horrors; from the artificial famine of the 1840s and 50s, to the war for national liberation, through to the murder of unarmed civilians on Bloody Sunday. In this session from the Revolution Festival 2024, Shaun Morris, Central Committee member of the RCP, discusses the cruel legacy of British imperialism in Ireland. 🔗 Head to...
Aug 01, 2025•52 min
In this episode of Communist Radio, Ben Gliniecki and Daniel Morley discuss the prospect of a new left party and the role of the communists.
Jul 10, 2025•41 min
In this episode of Communist Radio, Khaled and Fiona discuss where next for the Palestine movement in Britain. After months of action, the words of the British ruling class changed but their actions and their backing of the Israeli war machine did not. Then only to come out in full support of Netanyahu again with the recent escalation in the Middle East with Iran. This has left many thinking "what is the next step?", Khaled and Fiona talk about the need for a class based program that connects th...
Jun 20, 2025•38 min
In this episode, Ben Gliniecki and Lotta Angantyr talk about the recruitment campaign, Revolution Against the Billionaires, and how this is connecting to the mood among young people today. Hearing reports from across the country and getting into what it means to join the RCP 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://comm...
Jun 05, 2025•49 min
The Transitional Programme by Trotsky is a prime example of the method by which Marxists can connect with the struggles of today and raise workers' sights to the ultimate goal of socialist revolution. Rather than incessant abstract calls for a revolution, Fiona, Sean, Harry and Peter discuss how to skilfully connect this task with the demands of the day. This must begin with an objective analysis of reality to set out a correct perspective, from which balanced demands can flow. This podcast seri...
May 28, 2025•58 min
In this episode of Communist Radio, Ben Gliniecki and Khaled Malachi discuss the 'No to Austerity 2.0' national demo that has been called for June 7. They talk about how communists can connect with the mood in society and how to end austerity, we must overthrow capitalism. 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://commun...
May 23, 2025•43 min
Ben, Lotta, Mia, and Peter sit down to discuss Lenin's masterpiece: The State & Revolution . Written just before the events of October 1917, with Lenin having been forced underground, it is the sharpest analysis of the state, and a rebuttal of reformist and anarchist illusions. It answers the state's role and demystifies its purpose in the hands of the ruling class, and lays out a clear alternative: of socialist revolution, the dictatorship of the proletariat, and a future communist society....
May 14, 2025•57 min
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 theory fo...
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 The Communis...
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.red/subsc...
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 💸 Donate to the RC...
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
