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Jan 22, 2025 | 
communist.red | Olive Ruadh |Hamid Alizadeh
The guns have fallen silent in Gaza, for now. After fifteen months, a ceasefire agreement has brought a pause to the relentless genocidal killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians and the near total destruction of the Palestinian enclave by the state of Israel. The first thing to note is this: the Palestinians did not bow or surrender even as they stood there, practically defenceless, under the ceaseless onslaught of one of the deadliest military machines in the world.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
communist.red | Olive Ruadh
Last weekend, the elected national leadership of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), the central committee, met to discuss the latest political developments internationally, and to draw up a balance sheet of our ‘autumn offensive’ in Britain.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
communist.red | Olive Ruadh |Hamid Alizadeh |Ben Curry
The weeks that follow a presidential election, when the outgoing President occupies himself with putting the finishing touches on his legacy while leaving it to the President-elect to put together the team that will take the reins of power, are usually a fallow period in US politics. Not this time. On the one hand, the outgoing president is engaged in a breathtakingly cynical and reckless game of brinkmanship against Russia.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
communist.red | Olive Ruadh
Following the bizarre Napoleon (2023), British director Ridley Scott has produced a film that is sure to captivate those who spend their time pondering the Roman Empire. At first glance, this may seem like little more than a modern redux of Gladiator; a cynical, calculated attempt to recapture the critical acclaim of his earlier success. After all, Scott’s original foray into the Colosseum earned him five Oscars, including Best Picture.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
communist.red | Olive Ruadh
In a failed bid to clinch, Kamala Harris secured the endorsement of Beyoncé – the self-proclaimed “black Bill Gates in the making” – who joined her on the final campaign stops in her home state of Texas. This follows the Democratic Party’s familiar strategy of ‘winning over’ young women in red states by repeatedly bringing up the abortion debate every election cycle, attempting to resonate – or admonish – by highlighting reproductive rights.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
communist.red | Olive Ruadh
Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is increasing tuition fees for the first time in eight years, to an all-time high of £9,535 per year. Starmer is protecting the rich while he buries students in debt for the rest of their lives. This is yet another broken promise for the Prime Minister, who back in 2020 lied through his teeth when he pledged to abolish tuition fees. Under the Tories, tuition fees have tripled and young people are leaving university with nearly £60,000 worth of debt.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
communist.red | Olive Ruadh
Failing carbon sink takes planet to the brinkKatya Turchin, ReadingAmidst news of hurricanes, flooding, droughts, and wildfires, new research found that in 2023 (the hottest year on record) there was a temporary collapse in Earth’s land carbon sinks. A carbon sink is anything absorbing more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases: forests, fungi in soils, and algae-eating plankton in oceans. They serve as the planet’s climatic moderators, mitigating the effects of CO2 pollution.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
communist.red | Olive Ruadh
Two weeks after being slammed by Hurricane Helene—the strongest storm to make landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region in 150 years—the Southeast is now bracing for a potentially worse “monster storm,” Hurricane Milton. It’s the latest in a series of humanitarian disasters across the region, which have wrought destruction far beyond anything seen in living memory. Hurricane Helene made landfall on September 26. The damage is catastrophic, with cost estimates as high as $47 billion.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
communist.red | Olive Ruadh
A year of genocide. A year of bloodshed and barbarism. And a year of protest against these continuing horrors inflicted upon the Palestinian people. Now Netanyahu is widening his brutal war to Lebanon: bombing Beirut; killing and wounding thousands; and displacing over a million more from their homes. In the face of such chaos and carnage, workers and youth across the world are asking: what can be done to bring an end to this catastrophe, this new ‘nakba’?
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
communist.red | Olive Ruadh
In the past two weeks, the Revolutionary Communist Party’s autumn growth campaign has taken party membership to record highs. A new generation of young people are stepping into the struggle against imperialism. On the back of our mobilisations at universities, colleges, and schools, the RCP’s ranks are swelling with fresh enthusiasm and determination.
