Category: Revolutionary Communist Party
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New article on RCP and the red front
This is just a quick announcement that my article on the Revolutionary Communist Party’s The Red Front has been published by Contemporary British History journal. I started working on this in 2017 and the final article is over 20,000 words. You can find it here.
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Podcast interview on the RCP/LM/Spiked network
I am happy to announce that I was interviewed by the Politics Theory Other podcast recently about the history of Revolutionary Communist Party, Living Marxism and Spiked. That episode is currently freely available via the PTO Patreon page and should be on other podcast feeds in the near future. I hope you check it out!
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‘Towards 2000’: NUS manifestos of the Revolutionary Communist Party, 1992
This was originally posted on my Patreon here. This is the third instalment in a series of posts on the manifestos of the Revolutionary Communist Students for NUS elections from the early 1990s. The first two are here and here. In 1992, it looks like the RCS put forward to most amount of candidates for…
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Anti-statism and the trajectory from the Revolutionary Communist Party to Spiked
Late last year, I presented a paper at the online Historical Materialism conference on the RCP, Spiked and their shifting concept of the state. I had previously posted the text of my paper on my Patreon, but thought I’d post it here now as interest in the history of the RCP/LM/Spiked network has risen again…
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Talk: Anti-statism, the Revolutionary Communist Party and Spiked
On Saturday, I gave a paper at the Historical Materialism online conference titled ‘Anti-statism and the Trajectory from the Revolutionary Communist Party to Spiked’. It was recorded and is on the Haymarket Books YouTube channel. I have embedded the video above. My paper starts at about the 41 minute mark. I have posted the text…
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The Revolutionary Communist Party and Labour politicking on Merseyside in the 1980s
Last month a story emerged of conflict amongst the Labour Party in Liverpool over the shortlist for the party’s mayoral candidate, with accusations that the Labour Party’s national leadership was interfering in local party selection processes. Since then, another story has emerged of Labour allegedly running a ‘dysfunctional’ council in Liverpool and a proposal by…
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Peace in the Gulf! Western forces out! Revolutionary Communist Students manifestos for 1991
This post originally featured over at my Patreon here and is part of some work in progress stuff for the book project on the history of the Revolutionary Communist Party. Following on from my previous post on the Revolutionary Communist Students’ election manifestos for the NUS conference in April 1990, I am writing about the…
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“On the Offensive for a Fighting Union”: Revolutionary Communist Students’ manifestos for 1990 NUS conference
This piece was originally posted over at Patreon. As part of my research into the history of ‘no platform’ at British universities, I came across copies of the manifestos for the Revolutionary Communist Students’ candidates at the NUS conference in April 1990 (alongside some for subsequent years). The RCS was a lively part of the…
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New piece on history of RCP/Spiked in The Guardian
This is just a quick post to let you all know that The Guardian published a piece by myself on the history of the Revolutionary Communist Party and Spiked, via the journal Living Marxism. You can read the piece here. I am going to commence a larger project on the history of the Revolutionary Communist Party,…
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The Revolutionary Communist Party, Living Marxism and the road to free speech absolutism
Some of the most infamous free speech warriors today are those associated with Spiked Online and its predecessors, the Living Marxism network and the Revolutionary Communist Party. The RCP and the Living Marxism network are currently in the news because a number of those involved with them are now involved in the Brexit Party. As Spiked…
New Historical Express 