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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 lat...
Sep 17, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Aug 22, 2024•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 communist...
Aug 15, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast ⚠ 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Tha...
Jul 02, 2024•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 “permacrisi...
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