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| What is the Labour Theory of Value? | 15 Aug 2025 | 00:45:16 | |
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 Defence of Marxism magazine | |||
| The legacy of British imperialism in Ireland | 01 Aug 2025 | 00:51:49 | |
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 our website for more analysis on the topic ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party 📰 Subscribe to The Communist and the In Defence of Marxism magazine | |||
| Communists react to Corbyn and Sultana's new party | Communist Radio #21 | 10 Jul 2025 | 00:40:35 | |
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. | |||
| Where next for the Palestine movement? | Communist Radio #20 | 20 Jun 2025 | 00:37:58 | |
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 the question of Palestine to the need to overthrow the capitalist system that breeds war and austerity. 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 Communist website for daily news and analysis: https://communist.red 🌍 Read the latest international news and analysis from the RCI: https://marxist.com | |||
| Joining the RCP | Communist Radio #19 | 05 Jun 2025 | 00:48:49 | |
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://communist.red/subscribe 💸 Donate to the RCP: https://communist.red/donate 🔗 Head to The Communist website for daily news and analysis: https://communist.red 🌍 Read the latest international news and analysis from the RCI: https://marxist.com | |||
| The Transitional Programme | Classics of Marxism #4 | 28 May 2025 | 00:57:49 | |
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 series is in no way a replacement for studying theory for yourself. To help you start your own reading group we link here RCP's reading guide on the text: https://communist.red/the-transitional-programme-a-reading-guide/ Head to Wellred Books Britain to get your copy of Classics of Marxism: https://wellredbooks.co.uk/product/the-classics-of-marxism-volume-one/ | |||
| June 7: Make the billionaires pay for the crisis | Communist Radio #18 | 23 May 2025 | 00:43:09 | |
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://communist.red/subscribe 💸 Donate to the RCP: https://communist.red/donate 🔗 Head to The Communist website for daily news and analysis: https://communist.red 🌍 Read the latest international news and analysis from the RCI: https://marxist.com | |||
| The State and Revolution | Classics of Marxism #3 | 14 May 2025 | 00:57:26 | |
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. This podcast series is in no way a replacement for studying theory for yourself. To help you start your own reading group we link here RCP's reading guide on the text: https://communist.red/the-state-and-revolution-a-reading-guide/ Head to Wellred Books Britain to get your copy of Classics of Marxism: https://wellredbooks.co.uk/product/the-classics-of-marxism-volume-one/ | |||
| Communist candidates discuss student elections | Communist Radio #17 | 14 Apr 2025 | 00:55:35 | |
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: https://communist.red/donate 🔗 Head to The Communist website for daily news and analysis: https://communist.red 🌍 Read the latest international news and analysis from the RCI: https://marxist.com | |||
| Socialism: Utopian & Scientific | Classics of Marxism #2 | 09 Apr 2025 | 00:49:14 | |
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 for yourself. To help you start your own reading group we link here RCP's reading guide on the text: https://communist.red/socialism-utopian-and-scientific-a-reading-guide/ Head to Wellred Books Britain to get your copy of Classics of Marxism: https://wellredbooks.co.uk/product/the-classics-of-marxism-volume-one/ | |||
| Labour's war on the poor | Communist Radio #16 | 01 Apr 2025 | 00:44:55 | |
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 Communist website for daily news and analysis: https://communist.red 🌍 Read the latest international news and analysis from the RCI: https://marxist.com | |||
| Communist Manifesto | Classics of Marxism #1 | 26 Mar 2025 | 00:54:36 | |
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 help you start your own reading group we link here RCP's reading guide on the text: https://communist.red/the-communist-manifesto-reading-guide/ Head to Wellred Books Britain to get your copy of Classics of Marxism: https://wellredbooks.co.uk/product/the-classics-of-marxism-volume-one/ 🔗 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/subscribe 💸 Donate to the RCP: https://communist.red/donate 🌐 Read the latest international news and analysis from the RCI: https://marxist.com | |||
| No to Starmer's militarism! | Communist Radio #15 | 14 Mar 2025 | 00:51:04 | |
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/subscribe 💸 Donate to the RCP: https://communist.red/donate 🌐 Read the latest international news and analysis from the RCI: https://marxist.com | |||
| Communism vs feminism: How to fight women's oppression | Communist Radio #14 | 06 Mar 2025 | 00:58:20 | |
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 Communist website for daily news and analysis ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party 📰Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence Of Marxism | |||
| Lenin and the Russian Revolution of 1917 | 28 Feb 2025 | 00:43:35 | |
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, discusses Lenin and the Russian Revolution of 1917. 🔗Head to our website for daily news and analysis ✊Join the Revolutionary Communist Party 📰Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence Of Marxism 🌐 Read the latest international news and analysis from the RCI | |||
| The death of 'woke' | Communist Radio #13 | 28 Feb 2025 | 00:47:02 | |
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 | |||
| Preparing for RCP Congress 2025 | Communist Radio #12 | 21 Feb 2025 | 00:44:42 | |
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 | |||
| How to fight imperialism: Pacifism, direct action, and revolutionary tactics | 14 Feb 2025 | 00:48:55 | |
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 ✊Join the Revolutionary Communist Party 📰Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence Of Marxism 🌐 Read the latest international news an analysis from the RCI | |||
| University cuts: Prepare for battle! | Communist Radio #11 | 14 Feb 2025 | 00:47:55 | |
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 🌐 Read the latest international news and analysis from the RCI | |||
| Labour in power: From 1924 to today | 07 Feb 2025 | 00:41:06 | |
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 right-wing Labour government last year, James Kilby, Central Committee member of the RCP, discusses the history of Labour in power. 🔗Head to our website for daily news and analysis ✊Join the Revolutionary Communist Party 📰Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence Of Marxism 🌐Read the latest international news and analysis from the RCI | |||
| Immigration: the communist position | Communist Radio #10 | 07 Feb 2025 | 00:53:57 | |
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 Of Marxism 🌐 Read the latest international news and analysis from the RCI | |||
| How Lenin built the Bolshevik Party | 30 Jan 2025 | 00:31:00 | |
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 🌐 Read the latest international news and analysis from the RCI | |||
| Why is there a genocide in Gaza? | 22 Jan 2025 | 00:46:06 | |
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 member of the RCP and regular writer on the Middle East, will put forward a revolutionary way forward for the workers and youth in the region. 🔗 Read the latest analysis on Gaza from the RCI ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party 📰 Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence Of Marxism 🌐 Read the latest international news and analysis from the RCI | |||
| Science, society, and revolution | 15 Jan 2025 | 00:48:26 | |
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 episode, Ben Curry, editorial board member of marxist.com, will discuss the crisis in modern science, and why socialist revolution is needed in order that a new epoch of scientific revolution can flourish. ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party. 📰 Order issue 48 of the In Defence of Marxism magazine, or subscribe to the magazine here. 🌐 Read the latest international news and analysis from the RCI. | |||
| Fascism: What it is and how to fight it | 08 Jan 2025 | 00:42:51 | |
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, where fascism came into existence and even came to power in several instances. In this episode, Joe Russell, leading member of the RCP, discusses what we can learn from history, and how we can fight fascism today. 🔗 Read more on the topic here. ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party. 📰 Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence of Marxism. 💸 Donate to the RCP 🌐 Read the latest international news and analysis from the RCI | |||
| Bangladesh's unfinished revolution: The 1971 War of Liberation | 01 Jan 2025 | 00:50:32 | |
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, but to ensuring that the revolutionary struggle today is carried forward to victory. Will Collins, Central Committee member of the RCP, spoke on this topic at Revolution Festival 2024. 🔗 Read more on the topic here. ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party. 📰 Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence of Marxism. 💸 Donate to the RCP 🌐 Read the latest international news and analysis from the RCI | |||
| Books Not Bombs! (Revolution Festival 2024 rally) | 26 Dec 2024 | 00:46:49 | |
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 struggle to end imperialism. 🔗 Read more on the topic here. ✊ Join the Revolutionary Communist Party. 📰 Subscribe to The Communist and In Defence of Marxism. 💸 Donate to the RCP 🌐 Read the latest international news and analysis from the RCI | |||
| Lessons from the 2011 Arab Revolutions | 18 Dec 2024 | 00:42:35 | |
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, leading comrade of the Revolutionary Communist Party, discusses the lessons from this exciting period of class struggle. 🔗 Read more on the topic here: https://marxist.com/theory-arab-revolution.htm ✊ 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 RCI: https://marxist.com/ | |||
| Why did the Assad regime fall? | 13 Dec 2024 | 00:33:40 | |
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-islamists-take-over-syria/
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| Horror without end: Imperialism and world relations | 11 Dec 2024 | 01:09:46 | |
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, acclaimed Marxist author and member of the International Secretariat of the Revolutionary Communist International, discusses the perspectives for the period we are entering — one of not only war, but revolution.
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| Crisis in the USA: The next chapter | 06 Dec 2024 | 00:50:58 | |
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 situation.
Antonio Balmer, leading member of the Revolutionary Communists of America and editor of The Communist (USA), introduced a discussion on the next chapter of the crisis of US capitalism at this year's Revolution Festival.
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| Communist Radio #9: What does Trump mean for Britain? | 07 Nov 2024 | 00:29:28 | |
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.
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| Communist Radio #8: Labour's budget won't solve the crisis | 04 Nov 2024 | 00:22:45 | |
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.
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| Communist Radio #7: Kick imperialism off campus! | 26 Oct 2024 | 00:33:12 | |
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.
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| Communist Radio #6: Why we need revolutionary theory | 17 Oct 2024 | 00:27:16 | |
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.
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| Communist Radio #5: Climate and class struggle: The storm has just begun | 10 Oct 2024 | 00:30:35 | |
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.
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| Communist Radio #4: Down with the warmongers! | 03 Oct 2024 | 00:43:59 | |
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.
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| Communist Radio #3: Labour, Lebanon, and Lenin | 26 Sep 2024 | 00:32:07 | |
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.
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| Communist Radio #2: Books Not Bombs! | 20 Sep 2024 | 00:31:23 | |
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.
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| The role of British imperialism today | 17 Sep 2024 | 00:48:06 | |
In this latest episode of Marxist Voice, Ben Gliniecki outlines the role of British imperialism today, and how communists can fight to overthrow it.
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| Communist Radio #1: The Communists are coming! | 12 Sep 2024 | 00:23:15 | |
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.
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| How can communists fight for oppressed nations? | 22 Aug 2024 | 00:39:21 | |
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.
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| Where is Britain going? | 15 Aug 2024 | 00:48:05 | |
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 in the class struggle today.
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| How to smash the far right – a communist perspective | 05 Aug 2024 | 00:28:38 | |
⚠ 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 Fiona Lali to discuss why this unrest is taking place, the responses from the left and the labour movement, and the communist perspective on how we can smash the far-right using class struggle methods,
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| How can communists use elections? | 10 Jul 2024 | 00:58:36 | |
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.
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| Why bourgeois democracy is a dictatorship of the rich | 02 Jul 2024 | 00:42:54 | |
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 isn’t democracy, that’s a dictatorship.
In this episode of Marxist Voice, Ben Gliniecki proves that what we live in today isn’t a real democracy. Instead, he will give a vision of what a real, socialist, democracy would look like, along with how communists can best fight for it.
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| Why Capitalism can't escape the crisis | 21 Jun 2024 | 00:38:21 | |
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” or “polycrisis”. But this is nothing more than a description of the symptoms. It tells us nothing about the cause.
In this episode of Marxist Voice, Niklas Albin Svensson will explain why the capitalist system has found itself in a dead end and why there is no way out without a communist revolution.
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| The German Revolution Of 1918 | 07 Jun 2024 | 00:49:51 | |
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 revolution was beheaded.
In this episode of Marxist Voice, Andy Southwark will explain the events of the German revolution to draw out the need for us to build a tempered revolutionary leadership, ready for the class struggles ahead.
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| What Is Stalinism? | 31 May 2024 | 00:42:36 | |
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 harbinger of world revolution to a tool for the narrow, national interests of the Soviet bureaucracy, with Stalin at its head.
In this session, Rob Sewell will discuss the main processes that led to the degeneration of the Russian revolution, answering the question: What is Stalinism?
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| Why revolutionary communist Fiona Lali is standing for election | 30 May 2024 | 00:16:40 | |
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!
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