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1 week ago | 
marxist.com | Nick Oung |Mia Foley Doyle
The second congress of the RCP was an electric event, like none other – rich in political understanding, revolutionary enthusiasm, and infectious confidence. There has never been a better time to get organised and join the communists![Originally published at communist.red]This May Day weekend, from 2-5 May, 550 communists met in London for the second congress of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP).
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1 month ago | 
communist.red | Nick Oung |Jorge Martín
It is just six weeks since US Vice President JD Vance spoke at the Munich Security Conference in February and told Europe that the decades-old relationship the US had with the old continent was over. Ever since, the European leaders have been frantically running around from one summit to another – from a virtual meeting to a gathering of the ‘coalition of the willing’ – looking in all directions and none at the same time to try and deal with this major shift in world relations.
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1 month ago | 
communist.red | Nick Oung |Mia Foley Doyle
Last month, Starmer’s Labour announced the biggest cuts to disability benefits in a generation: nearly £5bn by 2030. A coalition of 100 charities has declared these cuts “immoral and devastating”. Claimants of PIP (personal independence payments) are still set to lose up to £10,000 a year. And from 2026, new claimants of the health element of Universal Credit will be put on a halved rate, receiving £2,800 less per year.
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2 months ago | 
communist.red | Nick Oung |Daniel Morley
Donald Trump’s electoral victory has acted like a lightning flash, illuminating the new situation that has, in truth, been the reality for some time. That is to say, Trump’s return to the White House confirms undeniably that so-called ‘wokery’ is despised by the majority of people, has been rejected, and has little power. ‘Woke’ is not a precise, scientific term.
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2 months ago | 
communist.red | Nick Oung |Alan Woods
The Chinese have an old saying: the greatest misfortune that can befall a man is to live in interesting times. The truth of that ancient wisdom has now suddenly dawned on the rulers of the western world. The public row between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump and Vice-President JD Vance hit the world with the force of a violent tsunami.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
communist.red | Nick Oung |Orla Thomas
This winter, the streets of Scotland’s capital were witness to pitched battles between local youths and an army of Police officers. Exchanging barrages of fireworks, bricks, and bottles, the contending forces excitedly chased each other around poor neighbourhoods of Glasgow like Niddrie and Sighthill throughout the holiday season.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
communist.red | Nick Oung |Niklas Svensson
The European economy is facing its biggest crisis in a decade. Over the past few months, announcements of layoffs in France and Germany have come thick and fast. Hundreds of thousands of jobs are at risk as companies attempt to cut costs. At the same time, the European Central Bank (ECB) is cutting interest rates and its growth forecast. This reflects the historic crisis of European capitalism, which offers nothing but a future of austerity and misery.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
communist.red | Nick Oung |Jorge Martín
The whole world situation is dominated by enormous instability in international relations. This is the result of the struggle for hegemony between the US, the world’s most powerful imperialist nation, which is in relative decline, and other weaker but nonetheless rising powers, above all the younger and more dynamic China. The relative decline of US imperialism and the rise of China in particular have created a situation in which other countries can balance one against the other.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
communist.red | Nick Oung
After four years in the post, Mick Lynch has announced his retirement as general secretary of the RMT. Lynch gained a quasi-superstar status among workers in 2022. He stirred up the strike wave of that year – the largest in three decades – through his calls for coordinated action against Tory attacks. He inspired hundreds of thousands with his trenchant sense of humour against aggressive hacks. “The super rich are getting richer and richer. Workers are getting poorer and poorer.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
communist.red | Nick Oung
The American Revolution is known as a revolution of ideas. Intellectual figures like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin are remembered for their systematic theories about government and its relationship to the people – upholding liberty against tyrannical authority. But the founding fathers of the United States did not invent these concepts, nor were they really the ones who made the revolution.
