In this talk from Revolution Festival 2019, Ben Gliniecki - writer for Socialist Appeal - discusses the beginnings of the Communist Party of Great Britain, which was founded 100 years ago on 31 July 1920.
The founding of the British Communist Party in 1920 took place during a period of heightened class struggle, marking an important milestone in the develop ... Show More
Aug 15
What is the Labour Theory of Value?
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 prov ... Show More
45m 16s
Aug 1
The legacy of British imperialism in Ireland
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 ... Show More
51m 49s
Feb 2022
Joseph Stalin | Intellectual and Killer
The great revolutionary's body lay in a red coffin as it wound its way through the streets of Moscow toward the House of Trade Unions. Six men carried it, surrounded by a phalanx of guards, through the gathered throng of mourners—some genuine, others paid. Each hoped to succeed V ... Show More
22m 18s
Oct 2021
Terence Renaud, "New Lefts: The Making of a Radical Tradition" (Princeton UP, 2021)
In the 1960s, the radical youth of Western Europe’s New Left rebelled against the democratic welfare state and their parents’ antiquated politics of reform. It was not the first time an upstart leftist movement was built on the ruins of the old. New Lefts: The Making of a Radical ... Show More
1h 15m