#revolutionary communist party

[hermetichermethermes]

Revolutionary Communist Party

So I recently saw a newspaper stand in a town near me, they were there on a recruitment drive too. So I figured fuck it, and joined up. Yesterday I went to their weekly meeting.

Leftist organising is rare around here and at the very least I need a foot in the door.

This Trotskyist party splintered off from the Labour party after Kier Starmer ousted Jeremy Corbyn and started cracking down on the leftist side of the party. So they've branched out on their own and are currently recruiting like crazy. I'm swept up in this now.

They have an event in November called the Revolutionary Festival that is hosting 3 days of multiple overlapping talks ranging from US imperialism, Dialectical Materialism, Fascism and how to fight it, Bangladesh revolution and the Arab spring histories, World War 1 and it's radicalising effect on soldiers, History of the Labour party, Art and revolution, Ai and Consciousness and a bunch of others.

I'm going to go to it for at least one of the days I think, mostly for networking and learning more about them.

On Reddit they seem to be very divisive among leftist circles for being empirically anti Stalin and for seeming to be well funded. I know now that they reject donors and fund themselves from members and after going to and sitting in on a local branch meeting yesterday I have a better idea of who these guys are and what they're about.

Mostly consisting of University students and student union members but not entirely; the group focuses on theory and education above most else. Importantly they seem to understand that Post Revolution and Societal Building is as important as the vague concept of Revolution itself. A breathe of fresh air from the typical leftist group. ("Uh so now what" mentality when the revolution is successful).

I'll come back to this post soon, after the November "festival" and see if there's anything to add or change.

But so far I'm not seeing many red flags and am quite glad to see a well organised Communist group.

[sotoncommunists]

What is the appropriate response to Chinese monopolies?

Temu has become the most downloaded app on iPhones in 2024. The e-commerce platform only launched around the end of 2022. Temu now is available in 86 countries. Compare this to Amazon, which has been around for almost 30 years, which operates in 22 countries.

At the same time, there is also talk of banning TikTok in the USA. Both TikTok and Temu belong to Chinese-based companies.

TikTok has generated about $16.1 billion of revenue in 2023. Temu is projected to earn more than $50 billion in sales this year. These are very new platforms, compared to their competition and yet they have developed rapidly. The world market is saturated because of overproduction and this has led to economic friction between the USA and China. These figures are just one more indicator of that.

As with Amazon and Facebook, Temu and TikTok display the tendency towards planning and monopolisation under capitalism. However, the development of the means of production have again run into the barriers of the nation state and the private ownership of the means of production. The liberals say we should break-up these monopolies with “anti-trust” acts and whatnot. As Lenin stated in his book on imperialism, this would be reactionary, as it takes the development of the means of production and distribution backwards. What is necessary is the seizure of these means of production by the working class (without compensation) and a planned system of production under workers’ control. Socialism is the only way forward.

This short article was written by Gavin Ribeiro for the Southampton Branch of the RCP, British Section of the RCI.

[eggcolomba]

COMMUNIST VS CONSERVATIVE. Ben (National Secretary of the Revolutionary Communist Party) explains in a live debate with a Tory MP on gbnews why he's more concerned with MPs' support for genocide than their hurt feelings.

[strannik-fev]

Amber Alert: Russia is Kidnapping Ukrainian Children rally - 02.04.2023 by Strannik45 Via Flickr: More photos here 

The rally was organized by Chicago's Ukrainian community to bring attention to the issue that earned Russian President Vladimir Putin an arrest warrant - what Russia has been doing in Ukrainian kids in the occupied territories. 

As with many things happening in the Ukrainian War, there are several things going on. First, Russian forces have been taking kids that were orphaned (or whose next of kin couldn't be found right away, or whose next of kin aren't in the occupied territories) and sending them to Russia to be adopted. And, if there is any question about the ultimate goal of this, Russian government recently gave grants to "help children embrace to their new homeland." 

There is also the part where several kids in occupied areas (mostly Kherson Oblast) who were taken to summer camps in Russia, and when the territories were liberated, Russians weren't exactly willing to give those kids back. And families have no way of getting in touch with them. And if that sounds like a nightmare - congratulations, you have a conscience. 

 The rally was scheduled to kick off at the Old Water Tower, then proceed down Michigan Avenue toward Millennium Park, culminating at the Cloud Gate/the Bean. Now, what I don't think the organizers realized was that the Revolutionary Communist Party was going to have a rally at the northwest corner of the Millennium Park, also at 2:00 PM. It was on my radar, but I wasn't sure, given the timing, if the twain shall meet. 

 Well, RevComm noticed them as they were arriving, and decided to preach their mission of how everyone should stop the "US/NATO Proxy War." I'm not entirely sure if they got to other parts of their spiel, like that Maidan protests were a NATO scheme, that NATO expansion provoked Putin and, oh, that Russia hasn't been Communist since 1950s and that Stalin was a communist "who made a lot of mistakes." But, suffice to say, the Ukrainians were not amused. Chants of "Commies Go Home" got thrown around. 

Still, given the vast disparity in numbers, the communists did ultimately leave, and the rally was finished as planned.

[s1telian]

Eu realmente não gosto de Trotsky, mas nunca vi ninguém fazer uma edit legal para ele, então decidi fazer, aqui está.

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[chaddavisphotography]

A t-shirt in the grass at the 2024 Republican National Convention. It reads No Genocide Joe No Fascist Trump. The whole damn system's got to go! Shirt from The Revolutionary Communist Party.

[whatisonthemoon]

Cults of our Hegemony:An Inventory of Left-Wing Cultsby Gus Breslauer(This article was originally published on the Cosmonaut.blog on November 18, 2020. Gus Breslauer is a gay space communist from Houston, Texas who writes about shame, gay politics, HIV/AIDS, and capitalism.)

[all-things-are-nothing-to-me]

Fuck the DNC, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, the PSL, RCA, FRSO and all cops!

[tilbageidanmark]

Lenin's last photograph.

[workersolidarity]

As things become more tense between the US, Europe and NATO, and Russia and China, it is inescapable the modern United States is a Fascist Kleptocracy using Managed Democracy to create an illusion of legitimacy.

Though we may not have much strength now, Communist groups should plan for the possibility of War. And within that context, consider how we could step up to provide support for dissenting communities who don't wish to be drafted to their deaths.

By involving ourselves and earning our communities' trust through various underground programs, in such a time of crisis, we could rapidly grow our numbers and educate workers to Imperialist and Marxist theory.

From there we could organize Patriotic Resistance Groups to sabotage the Fascist war machine from within and weaken the state through demoralization.

The conditions for change are nowhere near ready for Socialism anywhere in the West. But if we are prepared to take action before a major crisis hits, we stand a chance of creating those conditions ourselves.

[wojakgallery]

Title/Name: Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, popularly known as 'Joseph Stalin' or simply 'Stalin', (?–1953). Bio: Soviet revolutionary and politician who was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union. Country: Georgia Wojak Series: Feels Guy (Variant) Image by: Unknown Main Tag: Stalin Wojak

[sendmyresignation]

finally reading dance of days (thank you ohiolink and oberlin college <3) but my most consistent takeaway thus far. is oh my god. people who think punk is primarily ideological and not subcultural/musical. are so out of touch.

[connorthemaoist]

[redsolon]

It's through intelligence work that the party becomes capable of leadership. What good are we to anyone if we know nothing and have no plans?

[banjo-butch]

okay i'll take this deal but only if you stop using "revolutionary party" to describe a more materially effectual organization than a book club with membership dues