The Palestine solidarity encampments were sparked off in the United States. But by now, the movement down south has mostly died out. Here, we republish a report on the lessons of the movement by our sister party the Revolutionary Communists of America. RCA comrades took an active part in the movement from the beginning. Their experience provides indispensable insight for everyone fighting for a free Palestine here at home. 

In Canada, the encampment movement has not seen nearly as big of a decline. However, momentum is beginning to slow down. The biggest encampments are decreasing in size, and the violent state repression at the University of Alberta and University of Calgary is a grim warning for other campuses. If the encampments are to succeed, they must work to spread the movement to the rest of the working class. Only in that way can we launch the Canadian Intifada.

For the first time since the Great Depression, labour productivity is falling in Canada. The Bank of Canada has called this “an emergency” and various bourgeois commentators are scrambling for an explanation. However, all of these analysts blame secondary factors and miss the elephant in the room: the system itself. 

There’s a fifth column within the Indigenous movement. A layer of capitalist natives in alliance with the state are co-opting the struggle to divert it along a harmless path. 

It is clear that marches, petitions, and letter writing campaigns are not enough. The state has not listened to moral appeals. It needs to be confronted in the language of force.

No aspect of daily life is out of bounds for communists, including art and culture. But we don’t approach art as bourgeois critics do. Nor as Marxist school teachers, grading works of art according to how well they expound a revolutionary line. What’s really politically interesting about art is that successful works reflect something about the society they were created in. After all, to gain popularity art has to speak to the masses. 

In recent weeks, we have spoken to and received write-ins from thousands of workers and youth who urgently want to build the revolutionary party. There are no illusions among this layer that capitalism can be reformed into a functioning, just system. They are crystal clear on the need to overthrow capitalism with revolution, and they are burning with desire to act toward this goal. Time and time again, we hear the same sentiment: “I want to do something.” 

The season finale of Spectre of Communism podcast welcomes Fred Weston, a leading comrade of the International Marxist Tendency, to explain the historic revolutionary importance of the Communist International. In doing so, Fred demonstrates the palpable need for a similar organisation in the world today. 

In June, the International Marxist Tendency will be launching a new Revolutionary Communist International, to boldly bear the clean banner of communism on every continent. In this article, Alan Woods explains the historic importance of this step, tracing the rise and fall of previous Internationals and showing the importance of the RCI in the struggle for communism today.

Crocodiles produce tears, but they serve to keep the eyes clean and lubricated and are in no way connected to emotions. Today, we have many crocodiles in human form – they are called Presidents, Prime Ministers, Foreign Secretaries, newspaper editors, and so on. But Biden stands out clearly as the Chief Crocodile.

But the greatest advances for women’s liberation have not come through independent enlightenment or individual struggles against a systemic evil. They have come through collective, revolutionary struggle to fundamentally change society.