After decades of proudly poclaiming the era of globalisation, today we see trade wars instead of free trade, and misery instead of prosperity. In this talk, Niklas Albin Svensson discusses the reasons behind the collapse of free trade, what it would mean for the world economy and what attitude we should take towards it.
In 1979, the Iranian masses erupted into struggle, sweeping away the hated regime of the Shah, and wielding power through popular councils. In this podcast, Hamid Alizadeh explains why this powerful revolution failed, and the lessons for today.
Across Britain, industry is going to the wall. Steelworkers in Port Talbot are being thrown on the scrapheap. Automation threatens to destroy swathes of jobs. To protect our lives and livelihoods, we need socialist planning and workers’ control.
With students and young people burning with anger at the crisis-ridden capitalist system, we discuss how the Revolutionary Communist Party can recruit and organise on university campuses, and how to link this work to the wider class struggle.