Revolutionary Communist Party

28/08/2026

Andy Burnham’s first foreign visit was to Ukraine, speaking of a “just and lasting peace”. But he wants no such thing. Britain and the European powers are cynically prolonging this bloodshed for their own imperialist interests, using ordinary Ukrainians as cannon fodder.

27/08/2026

Look, we can post on social media too 🤪

More seriously, while Labour has experienced a “Burnham bounce” and is leading the polls for the first time in over a year, the political instability ahead means the only place Burnham is bouncing to long-term is into an abyss.
Work placements for young people just mean slave labour for bosses, paired with the usual story: more money for war and defense, and cuts to everything else.

27/08/2026

Look, we can post on social media too 🤪

More seriously, while Labour has experienced a “Burnham bounce” and is leading the polls for the first time in over a year, the political instability ahead means the only place Burnham is bouncing to long-term is into an abyss.

Work placements for young people just mean slave labour for bosses, paired with the usual story: more money for war and defense, and cuts to everything else.

27/08/2026

With the UK set to record the hottest summer on record and 2027 set to be the hottest year ever recorded, the question must be asked, where is the climate movement? Will it return? And what lessons can we draw from this struggle?

26/08/2026

With global turmoil, Farage’s by-election victory slipped under the radar. In truth, neither Reform nor the political establishment came out of the Clacton charade well. But is Farage a spent force? Are we seeing a return of the two-party system?

26/08/2026

Country music icon Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. Across a decades-spanning career, she wrote over 3,000 songs, each carrying her unmistakable signature: a plainness that was never simple; a sweetness that never tipped into saccharine sentimentality.

25/08/2026

The situation in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is on a knife edge. This mass movement is continuation of the revolutionary unrest that swept through Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal over the past two years. And it now faces a crossroads: the bloody path of compromise, or onwards down the road to revolution.

The situation in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is on a knife edge. This mass movement is continuation of the revolutionary unrest that swept through Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal over the past two years. And it now faces a crossroads: the bloody path of compromise, or onwards down the road to revolut...

24/08/2026

Revolution Festival: The school of communism is back! With 22 discussions on Marxist theory, current political events and culture, this is a weekend that can’t be missed for all communists across Britain.

Some key talks include: The Origins of Racism, AI: Liberation or Alienation, Britain: From Empire to Ruin, William Shakespeare: A Revolution in Literature and The Hungarian Tragedy of 1956.

This weekend will also help communists gain an understanding of how to put the ideas of Marxism into practise by having the chance to speak with active communists across the country, and even visitors from other countries.

Get your tickets.

20/08/2026

At this time 70 years ago, the Mau Mau uprising ensued. To suppress this movement and hold back the tide of Kenyan independence, the British imperialists committed unimaginable atrocities. These crimes were hidden for decades and, to this day, the struggle against imperialism in Kenya continues.

At this time 70 years ago, the Mau Mau uprising was under way. To suppress this movement and hold back the tide of Kenyan independence, the British imperialists committed unimaginable atrocities. These crimes were hidden for decades and, to this day, the struggle against imperialism in Kenya continu...

20/08/2026

Today marks the anniversary of the day a Stalinist assassin struck down Leon Trotsky in his study in Coyoacán, Mexico. He died from his wounds the next day. We remember him not as a martyr, but as one of the two greatest Marxists of the 20th century, alongside Lenin.

From his youth writing illegal strike leaflets that earned him Siberian exile, to chairing the Petersburg Soviet in 1905, to organizing the October insurrection in 1917 — Trotsky’s life was one of total dedication to the working class.

As the first Commissar for Foreign Affairs, he negotiated Brest-Litovsk. As founder of the Red Army, he built a fighting force from nothing amid invasion by 21 foreign armies, traveling the front lines in his armored train. He helped build the Communist International and wrote prolifically on politics, art, literature, and daily life.

But it was his final decade that may be his greatest legacy. After Lenin’s death, as bureaucratic degeneration took hold under Stalin, Trotsky alone fought to preserve the democratic, internationalist traditions of October. Exiled, slandered, and hunted, he documented the betrayal of the revolution in works like “The Revolution Betrayed” and “In Defence of Marxism.” He warned, accurately,that unless the bureaucracy was overthrown by the working class, it would eventually restore capitalism.

Stalin could imprison and murder his followers, stage show trials, erase his name from the history books but he could not silence him until an ice axe found him in exile.

Trotsky gave his life defending the idea that socialism means genuine workers’ democracy, not bureaucratic dictatorship. That fight didn’t end with him.

In his memory — and in memory of everyone who died defending the authentic traditions of Bolshevism, we will continue to build a Marxist and revolutionary organisation. ✊✊✊