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style="line-height:1.3em;">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">1978<span class="noprint">; 46 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1978</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Dissolved</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">1997<span class="noprint">; 27 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1997</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Split from</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Group_(UK)" title="Revolutionary Communist Group (UK)">Revolutionary Communist Group</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Newspaper</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><i>The Next Step</i><br /><i><a href="/wiki/Living_Marxism" title="Living Marxism">Living Marxism</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies" title="List of political ideologies">Ideology</a></th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><b>1978–1991</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">Communism</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Trotskyism" title="Trotskyism">Trotskyism</a><br /><b>1991–1997</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism">Libertarianism</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Political_spectrum" title="Political spectrum">Political position</a></th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><b>1978–1991</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Far-left_politics" title="Far-left politics">Far-left</a><br /><b>1991–1997</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Syncretic_politics" title="Syncretic politics">Syncretic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-top:0.3em; border-top:2px solid red;"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Politics of the United Kingdom">Politics of the United Kingdom</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="List of political parties in the United Kingdom">Political parties</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Elections in the United Kingdom">Elections</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Revolutionary Communist Party</b>, known as the <b>Revolutionary Communist Tendency</b> until 1981, claimed to be a <a href="/wiki/Trotskyist" class="mw-redirect" title="Trotskyist">Trotskyist</a> <a href="/wiki/Political_organisation" title="Political organisation">political organisation</a> formed in 1978. From 1988 it published the journal <i><a href="/wiki/Living_Marxism" title="Living Marxism">Living Marxism</a></i>. It started with only a few dozen supporters; its membership peaked at 200 in the mid-1990s.<sup id="cite_ref-Fitzpatrick_2018_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fitzpatrick_2018-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After 1991, the party abandoned Trotskyism and mainstream leftism before publicly taking a <a href="/wiki/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism">libertarian</a> position. It was disbanded in 1997, although a number of former members maintain a loose political network to promote its ideas. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Beginnings">Beginnings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolutionary_Communist_Party_(UK,_1978)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Beginnings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:WorkersMarchIrishFreedom.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/WorkersMarchIrishFreedom.JPG/250px-WorkersMarchIrishFreedom.JPG" decoding="async" width="250" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/WorkersMarchIrishFreedom.JPG/375px-WorkersMarchIrishFreedom.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/WorkersMarchIrishFreedom.JPG/500px-WorkersMarchIrishFreedom.JPG 2x" data-file-width="972" data-file-height="659" /></a><figcaption>The "Workers March for Irish Freedom", taking the cause of Irish hunger strikers to the <a href="/wiki/Trades_Union_Congress" title="Trades Union Congress">Trades Union Congress</a> conference in 1981, was a turning point for the party</figcaption></figure> <p>The party originated as a tendency in the <a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Group_(UK)" title="Revolutionary Communist Group (UK)">Revolutionary Communist Group</a> which had split from the <a href="/wiki/International_Socialists_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="International Socialists (UK)">International Socialists</a> in the 1970s. This group had concluded that there was no living <a href="/wiki/Marxist" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxist">Marxist</a> tradition in the <a href="/wiki/Left-wing_politics" title="Left-wing politics">left</a> and Marxism would have to be re-established.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The RCG saw the <a href="/wiki/British_working_class" class="mw-redirect" title="British working class">British working class</a> and especially the <a href="/wiki/Labour_movement" title="Labour movement">labour movement</a> as dominated by <a href="/wiki/Dominant_ideology" title="Dominant ideology">bourgeois ideology</a> and chauvinist nationalism, and the IS as pandering to its low-level <a href="/wiki/Trade_union" title="Trade union">trade union</a> consciousness and <a href="/wiki/Economism" title="Economism">economism</a>; they asserted that a purer <a href="/wiki/Vanguard_party" class="mw-redirect" title="Vanguard party">vanguard party</a> was needed, focusing on <a href="/wiki/Anti-imperialism" title="Anti-imperialism">anti-imperialism</a> rather than trade unionism.<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_2022_pp._1–39_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith_2022_pp._1–39-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hepworth_2022_pp._591–621_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hepworth_2022_pp._591–621-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Disagreements about the course the Revolutionary Communist Group should take in relation to support for the <a href="/wiki/Anti-Apartheid_Movement" title="Anti-Apartheid Movement">Anti-Apartheid Movement</a> and the <a href="/wiki/African_National_Congress" title="African National Congress">African National Congress</a> led <a href="/wiki/Frank_Furedi" title="Frank Furedi">Frank Furedi</a>, a sociologist at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Kent" title="University of Kent">University of Kent</a> (better known then by his <a href="/wiki/Cadre_(politics)#Revolutionary_socialist_usage" title="Cadre (politics)"> cadre</a> name Frank Richards), to break off and form his own group in 1978. The Revolutionary Communist Tendency (RCT) hoped to draw together those militant working class leaders who were disappointed by the limitations of <a href="/wiki/Reformism" title="Reformism">reformism</a> to help to build a new <a href="/wiki/Working_class" title="Working class">working class</a> leadership and develop an independent working class programme.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Smith_2022_pp._1–39_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith_2022_pp._1–39-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Furedi_2017_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Furedi_2017-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The RCT renamed itself the Revolutionary Communist Party in 1981.<sup id="cite_ref-Furedi_2017_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Furedi_2017-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Stance">Stance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolutionary_Communist_Party_(UK,_1978)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Stance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Taking a strong line which it considered to be inspired by <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a>'s work on the relationship between <a href="/wiki/Imperialism" title="Imperialism">imperialism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Reformism" title="Reformism">reformism</a>, the party originally held that the "only hope of securing any decent sort of life - or even guaranteeing survival - lies in the working class taking control over society".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It further argued that traditional <a href="/wiki/Stalinism" title="Stalinism">Stalinist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Social_democratic" class="mw-redirect" title="Social democratic">social democratic</a> appeals to the <a href="/wiki/Bourgeois" class="mw-redirect" title="Bourgeois">bourgeois</a> state had undermined working-class independence and that as a result an independent <a href="/wiki/Vanguard_party" class="mw-redirect" title="Vanguard party">vanguard party</a> should be organized to campaign for a distinctly working-class politics. In 1978, for example, when the left was strong within the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a>, the RCP argued that "Labour is the party which attempts to resolve the crisis by integrating militant working class resistance into the <a href="/wiki/Capitalist_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Capitalist system">capitalist system</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This position included a rejection of support for the Labour Party and one that questioned the allegiances of the trade union movement. A consequence of this belief was a growing distrust of traditional <a href="/wiki/Statism" title="Statism">statist</a> left-wing struggles as reformist. According to some, the RCP took a view that reformism consolidated bourgeois ideology in the potential leadership layers of the working class. The RCP took a number of positions coined to distinguish independent working-class politics from statist reformism which included: </p> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Open_border" title="Open border">rejection of all controls on immigration</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Opposition to any <a href="/wiki/Economic_nationalism" title="Economic nationalism">national economic recovery strategies</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Import_controls" class="mw-redirect" title="Import controls">import controls</a>, which aimed to pit British workers against those overseas.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Free abortion and contraception on demand.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Decriminalisation of homosexuality<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and complete equality under the law.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Unconditional support for the struggle against <a href="/wiki/British_imperialism" class="mw-redirect" title="British imperialism">British imperialism</a> in <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a> on the grounds that "British workers cannot ignore the cause of Irish liberation without renouncing their own class interests".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A claim that the police occupied Brixton: "We have to organise on the streets and housing estates to keep the police out".<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Opposition to <a href="/wiki/No_platforming" class="mw-redirect" title="No platforming">no platforming</a> fascists, but, through the campaign Workers Against Racism, aiming to organise physical defence against racist attacks.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-New_Historical_Express_2022_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-New_Historical_Express_2022-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Furedi_2017_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Furedi_2017-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>The party's programme can be traced through the publications "Our Tasks and Methods" (a reprint of the Revolutionary Communist Group's founding document), the 1983 general election manifesto <i>Preparing for Power</i> and the article "The Road to Power" in the theoretical journal <i>Confrontation</i> (1986). </p><p> Historian Evan Smith suggests that there has been a debate about whether the RCP was part of <a href="/wiki/Left-wing_politics" title="Left-wing politics">the left</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_2022_pp._1–39_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith_2022_pp._1–39-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Frank Furedi later described the party's approach: “We tried to transcend the left-right divide. Lots of left-wingers said we were not really left-wing because we did not speak their language. We wanted to have an experimental approach and not repeat the problems of the past.”<sup id="cite_ref-LeBor_2020_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LeBor_2020-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Andy_Beckett" title="Andy Beckett">Andy Beckett</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> wrote: </p><blockquote><p>Despite its name, most of its stances were not communist or revolutionary but contrarian: it supported free speech for racists, and nuclear power; it attacked environmentalism and the NHS. Its most consistent impulse was to invoke an idealised working class, and claim it was actually being harmed by the supposed elites of the liberal left.<sup id="cite_ref-Beckett_2020_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beckett_2020-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Front_groups_and_campaigns">Front groups and campaigns</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolutionary_Communist_Party_(UK,_1978)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Front groups and campaigns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> According to historian Evan Smith,</p><blockquote><p>The RCT/RCP formed several <a href="/wiki/Front_organisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Front organisation">front groups</a> around single issues during the late 1970s and early 1980s, with the most prominent being the <b>Irish Freedom Movement</b> (which had begun as the Smash the Prevention of Terrorism Act Campaign) and <b>Workers Against Racism</b> (originally East London Workers Against Racism). SPTAC and ELWAR were both set up to rival the alleged chauvinism of the British left and larger campaign organisations around the issues of Irish solidarity and anti-racism, such as the <a href="/wiki/Troops_Out_Movement" title="Troops Out Movement">Troops Out Movement</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Anti-Nazi_League" title="Anti-Nazi League">Anti-Nazi League</a>. From the beginning, it seemed that the RCT/RCP was more comfortable directing its own single-issue groups than joining other larger campaign groups.<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_2022_pp._1–39_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith_2022_pp._1–39-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Workers_Against_Racism">Workers Against Racism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolutionary_Communist_Party_(UK,_1978)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Workers Against Racism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> Beginning as East London Workers Against Racism (ELWAR) before it was launched as a national campaign, Workers Against Racism campaigned against state racism. Protests were organised against deportations and passport checks at hospitals and unemployment benefit offices. ELWAR also organised patrols and vigils to defend immigrants against racist attacks.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Parliament, Conservative MP <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Winterton" title="Nicholas Winterton">Nicholas Winterton</a> demanded of the Home Secretary "if he will seek to proscribe the East London Workers against Racism vigilante group".<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Workers Against Racism was criticised in the press for its activities during the <a href="/wiki/1981_Brixton_riot" title="1981 Brixton riot">1981 Brixton riots</a>. An internal <a href="/wiki/Home_Office" title="Home Office">Home Office</a> report to then Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> claimed: </p><blockquote><p>[T]he Revolutionary Communist Party set up a Lambeth Unemployed Workers' Group shortly before the Riots, and has since formed a South London Workers Against Racism group, similar to the East London Workers Against Racism which attracted some notoriety for organising vigilante patrols.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anti-deportation_campaigns">Anti-deportation campaigns</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolutionary_Communist_Party_(UK,_1978)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Anti-deportation campaigns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:GeorgeRoucou.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/GeorgeRoucou.JPG/300px-GeorgeRoucou.JPG" decoding="async" width="300" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/GeorgeRoucou.JPG/450px-GeorgeRoucou.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/GeorgeRoucou.JPG/600px-GeorgeRoucou.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2244" data-file-height="1723" /></a><figcaption>George Roucou, marching to freedom, with his wife Kay and Workers Against Racism organiser Charles Longford</figcaption></figure> <p>The party's Workers Against Racism campaign fought many deportation threats, like George Roucou's, on the grounds that British immigration law was racist. Roucou was a shop steward in the building workers' union <a href="/wiki/UCATT" class="mw-redirect" title="UCATT">UCATT</a> in Manchester. Workers Against Racism helped to organise a campaign culminating in a one-day strike and demonstration by his fellow council workers on 6 February 1987. On 13 March 1987, with 500 protesting outside, the Home Office appeal panel reversed Roucou's deportation order.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 11 June 1985, Metso Moncrieffe was arrested and held by police pending a deportation order. Workers Against Racism campaigners raised the case, disrupting a test match at the Edgbaston cricket ground in July 1985 with a Metso Must Stay banner and helping to build a 1,000-strong march for him in December 1986. In September 1987, Moncrieffe's deportation order was overturned.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Supporting_Irish_republicanism">Supporting Irish republicanism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolutionary_Communist_Party_(UK,_1978)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Supporting Irish republicanism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Supporting <a href="/wiki/Irish_republicanism" title="Irish republicanism">Irish republicanism</a> was central to the work of the party. According to historian Jack Hepworth, "Advocating ‘unconditional support’ [for the <a href="/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army" title="Provisional Irish Republican Army">IRA</a>] enabled the RCP to challenge reformism on the British left and nationalism in the labour movement."<sup id="cite_ref-Hepworth_2022_pp._591–621_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hepworth_2022_pp._591–621-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> In 1978, the RCP organised the Smash the <a href="/wiki/Prevention_of_Terrorism_Acts" title="Prevention of Terrorism Acts">Prevention of Terrorism Act</a> Campaign and held protests outside police stations where suspects were held. The party organised a conference of trade unionists opposed to <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a> being part of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> in Coventry in 1981 and later that year held a march to the TUC conference, the Workers March for Irish Freedom. On Saturday 6 February 1982, the Irish Freedom Movement (IFM) was founded at a meeting in Caxton House, Archway and TUC general secretary <a href="/wiki/Len_Murray" title="Len Murray">Len Murray</a> wrote to the thirteen trades councils that sponsored the conference threatening them with disaffiliation if they attended.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> RCP Political Committee member <a href="/wiki/Mick_Hume" title="Mick Hume">Mick Hume</a>, who edited <i>The Next Step</i>, recalls that the IFM were accused of complicity in the <a href="/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing" title="Brighton hotel bombing">1984 bombing of the Conservative Party conference</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The IFM published a quarterly bulletin <i>Irish Freedom</i> and organised an annual march on the anniversary of internment. When the voices of <a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a> supporters were <a href="/wiki/BBC_controversies#1988–1994:_Sinn_Féin_broadcast_ban" title="BBC controversies">banned</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/MOS:BROKENSECTIONLINKS" class="mw-redirect" title="MOS:BROKENSECTIONLINKS"><span title="The anchor (1988–1994: Sinn Féin broadcast ban) has been deleted. (2024-07-29)">broken anchor</span></a></i>]</sup> from the British broadcast media, <i><a href="/wiki/Living_Marxism" title="Living Marxism">Living Marxism</a></i> carried a front page interview with its leader <a href="/wiki/Gerry_Adams" title="Gerry Adams">Gerry Adams</a> and the IFM picketed <a href="/wiki/Broadcasting_House" title="Broadcasting House">Broadcasting House</a>. After the Brighton bombing, an RCP editorial in <i>the next step</i> said:</p><blockquote><p>We support unconditionally the right of the Irish people to carry out their struggle for national liberation in whatever way they choose. We neither support nor condemn any particular tactic the republican movement pursues, whether it is an electoral campaign or a bombing campaign.<sup id="cite_ref-LeBor_2020_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LeBor_2020-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Similarly, after the <a href="/wiki/Enniskillen_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="Enniskillen bombing">Enniskillen bombing</a> in 1987, Hume reiterated that British radicals’ responses could "not be based on emotional revulsion at particular incidents of violence or terror".<sup id="cite_ref-Hepworth_2022_pp._591–621_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hepworth_2022_pp._591–621-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By the end of the 1980s, according to historian Jack Hepworth, "the IFM was the largest radical solidarity movement in Britain, with an annual August march in London typically attracting an estimated 3,000 demonstrators" and an activist base beyond the party faithful; by 1990 it had twenty branches in the UK.<sup id="cite_ref-Hepworth_2022_pp._591–621_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hepworth_2022_pp._591–621-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Student_politics">Student politics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolutionary_Communist_Party_(UK,_1978)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Student politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The party primarily recruited amongst students. By 1984, it had 45 university and <a href="/wiki/Polytechnic_(United_Kingdom)" title="Polytechnic (United Kingdom)">polytechnic</a> branches.<sup id="cite_ref-Hepworth_2022_pp._591–621_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hepworth_2022_pp._591–621-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Electoral_involvement">Electoral involvement</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolutionary_Communist_Party_(UK,_1978)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Electoral involvement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The RCP stood candidates in the <a href="/wiki/1981_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1981 United Kingdom local elections">May 1981 local elections</a>, under its own name and that of ELWAR. It stood a candidate in the <a href="/wiki/1983_Bermondsey_by-election" title="1983 Bermondsey by-election">1983 Bermondsey by-election</a>, its campaign mainly consisting of heckling Labour candidate <a href="/wiki/Peter_Tatchell" title="Peter Tatchell">Peter Tatchell</a>, who lost the seat to the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal Party</a>; the RCP candidate received 38 votes. It fielded four candidates in the <a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983 United Kingdom general election</a>, who achieved a total vote of nearly 1000. In 1983, the party began its annual "Preparing for Power" public conferences. In 1986, it launched a new theoretical journal, <i>Confrontation</i>. In the <a href="/wiki/1986_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="1986 United Kingdom local elections">1986 United Kingdom local elections</a>, the RCP stood 38 candidates, including <a href="/wiki/Claire_Fox" title="Claire Fox">Claire Fox</a> (under the name Claire Foster), who received a total of just under 2300 votes, with an average of 60 votes each. In the <a href="/wiki/1986_Knowsley_North_by-election" title="1986 Knowsley North by-election">1986 Knowsley North by-election</a>, its candidate was also backed by the <a href="/wiki/Workers_Revolutionary_Party_(UK)" title="Workers Revolutionary Party (UK)">Workers Revolutionary Party</a> and received 664 votes, its highest so far. In the <a href="/wiki/1987_Greenwich_by-election" title="1987 Greenwich by-election">1987 Greenwich by-election</a>, its candidate received 91 votes.<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_2022_pp._1–39_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith_2022_pp._1–39-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1987, it launched the <a href="/wiki/Red_Front_(UK)" title="Red Front (UK)">Red Front</a> electoral coalition, appealing to other anti-Labour groups to join it. its manifesto demanded work or full pay, the defence of trade union rights, equal rights for all, and opposition to war. It had a libertarian flavour and also argued that "The dangers from <a href="/wiki/AIDS" class="mw-redirect" title="AIDS">Aids</a> have in fact been grossly exaggerated. The principal threat to homosexuals in Britain today is not from Aids, but from the safe sex campaign." Two other groups joined the campaign: <a href="/wiki/Red_Action" title="Red Action">Red Action</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Democratic_Group" title="Revolutionary Democratic Group">Revolutionary Democratic Group</a>. The Front stood 14 candidates, including <a href="/wiki/Kenan_Malik" title="Kenan Malik">Kenan Malik</a>. The candidate in <a href="/wiki/Knowsley_North" class="mw-redirect" title="Knowsley North">Knowsley North</a> achieved 538 vote (1.37%); the others between 111 and 300. It stood its own candidates in the <a href="/wiki/1989_Glasgow_Central_by-election" title="1989 Glasgow Central by-election">1989 Glasgow Central by-election</a> and <a href="/wiki/1989_Vauxhall_by-election" title="1989 Vauxhall by-election">1989 Vauxhall by-election</a>, receiving 141 and 171 votes respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_2022_pp._1–39_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith_2022_pp._1–39-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Campaign_Against_Militarism">Campaign Against Militarism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolutionary_Communist_Party_(UK,_1978)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Campaign Against Militarism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CAMprotest.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/CAMprotest.jpg/300px-CAMprotest.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="204" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/CAMprotest.jpg/450px-CAMprotest.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/CAMprotest.jpg/600px-CAMprotest.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3462" data-file-height="2359" /></a><figcaption>Campaign Against Militarism protest in 1994</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1993, the party helped launch the Campaign Against Militarism (CAM) to fight against western military intervention. CAM organised protests against the military interventions in <a href="/wiki/Operation_Gothic_Serpent" title="Operation Gothic Serpent">Somalia</a>, <a href="/wiki/NATO_intervention_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="NATO intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq</a>. On 10 September 1993, seventy Somalis and CAM supporters occupied the United States embassy after an alleged massacre of civilians in Mogadishu,<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the only time it has happened. After they were evicted by armed marines, eleven were convicted under the as yet untested criminal trespass laws, but charges were dropped after lawyer Mike Fisher sought to have the case tried in the United States, arguing that the offence, if any, was committed on American soil. CAM was the only left-wing group that joined <a href="/wiki/Serbs_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Serbs in the United Kingdom">British Serbs</a> in their demonstrations over the military strikes on Yugoslavia in 1994.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In <i>The Empire Strikes Back,</i> Mike Freeman identified "the metamorphosis of what had long regarded itself as a peace movement into a war movement" after Labour rallied to support the <a href="/wiki/First_Iraq_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First Iraq War">First Iraq War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, this trend was called "humanitarian imperialism" in <i>Living Marxism.</i> The party opposed Western military intervention in Bosnia, Somalia, <a href="/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia" title="NATO bombing of Yugoslavia">Kosovo</a>, Iraq and <a href="/wiki/International_Force_East_Timor" title="International Force East Timor">East Timor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversial_positions">Controversial positions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolutionary_Communist_Party_(UK,_1978)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Controversial positions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The party took a number of positions that were strongly criticised by others on the left: </p> <ul><li>In <i>The Truth About the AIDS Panic,</i> Michael Fitzpatrick and Don Milligan wrote that there is "no good evidence that Aids is likely to spread rapidly among heterosexuals in the West".<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The pamphlet argued that the government campaign warning of a heterosexual aids epidemic was a <a href="/wiki/Moral_panic" title="Moral panic">moral panic</a> that would worsen prejudice against gay people.</li> <li>When <a href="/wiki/UK_miners%27_strike_(1984%E2%80%9385)" class="mw-redirect" title="UK miners' strike (1984–85)">British miners struck against redundancies</a> in 1984, the party argued that the union's refusal to hold a national ballot was a major problem: "The only way to win the passive majority for the strike was to launch an aggressive campaign around a national ballot".<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In the struggle against <a href="/wiki/Apartheid" title="Apartheid">Apartheid</a> in South Africa, the party argued that "sanctions don't make sense" because it was wrong to call on the governments that had supported Apartheid to overthrow it. Rather, workers ought to "take direct action", like blocking South African imports at docks.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>When the organisation re-thought its outlook in 1991, it adopted a number of positions that put it at odds with the <a href="/wiki/New_Labour" title="New Labour">New Labour</a> milieu: </p> <ul><li><i>Living Marxism</i> argued against what it called the "new authoritarianism", the greater official interference and surveillance of ordinary people by the state. The growth in "at-risk" registers and CCTV were examples.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The party opposed the increase in judicial<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and other kinds of non-majoritarian overriding of parliament as well as the subordination of parliament to the <a href="/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_Rights" title="European Convention on Human Rights">European Convention on Human Rights</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism">Criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolutionary_Communist_Party_(UK,_1978)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1981, <a href="/wiki/Alex_Callinicos" title="Alex Callinicos">Alex Callinicos</a> of the British <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Workers_Party_(UK)" title="Socialist Workers Party (UK)">Socialist Workers Party</a> (SWP) took issue with the party's argument that "such issues as racism and Ireland form [...] a vital component of revolutionary propaganda". Callinicos claimed instead that "if most of the workers involved have reactionary views on questions such as race, the position of women, and so on", then that was less important than that they were fighting over pay and conditions. Callinicos also called into question the party's stress on "the connection between reformism and nationalism", saying they were "paleo-marxists".<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1984, the SWP and other left parties denounced the RCP for calling for a national ballot in the <a href="/wiki/UK_miners%27_strike_(1984%E2%80%9385)" class="mw-redirect" title="UK miners' strike (1984–85)">miners' strike</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_2022_pp._1–39_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith_2022_pp._1–39-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The party's stance on AIDS was widely criticised by the gay rights movement.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 30 June 1990, <a href="/wiki/Simon_Watney" title="Simon Watney">Simon Watney</a> and Edward King of the group <a href="/wiki/OutRage!" title="OutRage!">OutRage!</a> kicked over the party's stall at the <a href="/wiki/Gay_Pride" class="mw-redirect" title="Gay Pride">Gay Pride</a> march.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Watney criticised Michael Fitzpatrick and Don Milligan for giving credence to the idea that AIDS was a "gay plague" by their insistence that there would be no epidemic amongst heterosexuals in the west. However, OutRage! was divided over the attack.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Nick_Cohen" title="Nick Cohen">Nick Cohen</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Marko_Attila_Hoare" title="Marko Attila Hoare">Marko Attila Hoare</a><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Kamm" title="Oliver Kamm">Oliver Kamm</a><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> strongly criticised the party and its former members after the dissolution for opposing the military interventions in Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq. Hoare, Cohen and Kamm also rejected <a href="/wiki/Noam_Chomsky" title="Noam Chomsky">Noam Chomsky</a>'s defence of <i>Living Marxism</i> and its coverage of the Bosnian war.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1997, environmental journalist <a href="/wiki/George_Monbiot" title="George Monbiot">George Monbiot</a> argued that the party had undue influence at <a href="/wiki/Channel_4" title="Channel 4">Channel 4</a> in an article titled "Marxists found alive in C4" after two of its members contributed to the <i>Against Nature</i> television programme, whose director <a href="/wiki/Martin_Durkin_(television_director)" class="mw-redirect" title="Martin Durkin (television director)">Martin Durkin</a> is also connected to the group.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Elsewhere, Monbiot took issue with <i>Living Marxism</i> for putting too much stress on freedom as if "there should be no limits to human action, least of all those imposed by 'official and semi-official agencies [...] from the police and the courts to social services, counsellors and censors'".<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Andy Rowell and Jonathan Matthews of the Norfolk Genetic Information Network criticised the party for championing <a href="/wiki/Genetic_engineering" title="Genetic engineering">genetic engineering</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Andy Rowell and Bob Burton<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> along with Jonathan Matthews of the Norfolk Genetic Information Network charged <i>Living Marxism</i> with a history of attacking the <a href="/wiki/Environmental_movement" title="Environmental movement">environmental movement</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Re-orientation_and_disbandment">Re-orientation and disbandment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolutionary_Communist_Party_(UK,_1978)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Re-orientation and disbandment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the end of the 1980s, the party had moved away from its roots as a <a href="/wiki/List_of_Trotskyist_organizations_by_country" title="List of Trotskyist organizations by country">Trotskyist organisation</a>, leading some critics to argue that they had abandoned the notion of the <a href="/wiki/Class_struggle" class="mw-redirect" title="Class struggle">class struggle</a>. In 1988, its weekly tabloid newspaper <i>The Next Step</i> carried an article arguing that "the disintegration of the official labour movement, and the apparent lack of a left-wing alternative, has consolidated an overwhelmingly defensive mood in the working class".<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1987 United Kingdom general election">1987 general election</a>, party members stood as part of the <a href="/wiki/Red_Front_(UK)" title="Red Front (UK)">Red Front</a>, arguing that working people needed to break with the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a>, but no Red Front candidate retained their election deposit. </p><p>In 1988, the party made <i>The Next Step</i> into a bulletin for its supporters. Later that year, a monthly magazine called <i><a href="/wiki/Living_Marxism" title="Living Marxism">Living Marxism</a></i> was set up for a wider readership. Despite its beginnings as a far-left outlet, the politics espoused by the magazine developed a pronounced <a href="/wiki/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism">libertarianism</a>. In December 1990, <i>Living Marxism</i> ran an article by Furedi, "Midnight in the Century", which argued that the corrosive effect of the collapse of both Stalinism and reformism on the working class meant that "for the time being at least, the working class has no political existence".<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> In 1997, the point was put more forcefully: </p><blockquote><p>In today's circumstances class politics cannot be reinvented, rebuilt, reinvigorated or rescued. Why? Because any dynamic political outlook needs to exist in an interaction with existing individual consciousness. And contemporary forms of consciousness in our atomised societies cannot be used as the foundation for a more developed politics of solidarity.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p> Between 1990 and 1997, the party developed the view that more than capitalism itself the danger facing humanity was the absence of a force for social change (in philosophical language, a "subject" of history) and the culture of low expectations that suppressed it.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prefacing a 1996 <i>Living Marxism</i> manifesto, <a href="/wiki/Mick_Hume" title="Mick Hume">Mick Hume</a> argued:</p><blockquote><p>Of course [...] we could have produced a familiar list of left-wing slogans complaining about problems like unemployment, exploitation and poverty which continue to scar our society. But that would be to ignore the transformation which has taken place in the political climate [...]. At different times, different issues matter most. Each era has thrown up its own great questions which define which side you are on [...]. [A]t <i>Living Marxism</i>, we see our job today as doing much more than criticising capitalism. That is the easy bit. There is a more pressing need to criticise the fatalistic critics, to counter the doom-mongers and put a positive case for human action in pursuit of social liberation. [...] [D]ealing with [...] unconventional questions, and puncturing the anti-human prejudices which surround them, is the precondition for making political action possible in our time.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In 1994, the Irish Freedom Movement was dissolved. As the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_peace_process" title="Northern Ireland peace process">Northern Ireland peace process</a> unfolded, the RCP increasingly turned from unconditional support for the IRA towards scorn at its gradualism and reformism.<sup id="cite_ref-Hepworth_2022_pp._591–621_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hepworth_2022_pp._591–621-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 1997, shortly after the party disbanded, <i>Living Marxism</i> re-branded as <i>LM</i>, possibly to further distance itself from its leftist origins. Articles in <i>LM</i> argued: </p> <ul><li>Against support for Tony Blair's New Labour project in 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Against "humanitarian interventions" in the Balkans, East Timor and Iraq.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>For freedom of speech and the "right to be offensive".<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Against the "new authoritarianism" of <a href="/wiki/CCTV_cameras" class="mw-redirect" title="CCTV cameras">CCTV cameras</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anti-social_behaviour_order" title="Anti-social behaviour order">anti-social behaviour orders</a> and anti-harassment laws.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Against the demonisation of the white working class.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul><p> This magazine ran at least two articles in which the authors argued that the <a href="/wiki/Rwandan_genocide" title="Rwandan genocide">mass murder</a> carried out in <a href="/wiki/Rwanda" title="Rwanda">Rwanda</a> in 1994 should not be described as <a href="/wiki/Genocide" title="Genocide">genocide</a>. In December 1995, <i>LM</i> carried a report by <a href="/wiki/Fiona_Fox" title="Fiona Fox">Fiona Fox</a> from Rwanda which argued: </p><blockquote><p>The lesson I would draw from my visit is that we must reject the term 'genocide' in Rwanda. It has been used inside and outside Rwanda to criminalise the majority of ordinary Rwandan people, to justify outside interference in the country's affairs, and to lend legitimacy to a minority military government imposed on Rwanda by Western powers.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LeBor_2020_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LeBor_2020-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p><i>LM</i> continued to create controversy on a variety of issues, most notably on the British <a href="/wiki/Independent_Television_News" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Television News">Independent Television News</a> (ITN) coverage of the <a href="/wiki/Bosnian_War" title="Bosnian War">Balkan conflict in the 1990s</a>. The controversy centred on <i>LM</i> featuring an article by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Deichmann" title="Thomas Deichmann">Thomas Deichmann</a> in which he alleged that the ITN coverage of a refugee detention centre in <a href="/wiki/Trnopolje_camp" title="Trnopolje camp">Trnopolje</a> during the conflict gave the false impression that the <a href="/wiki/Bosnian_Muslims" class="mw-redirect" title="Bosnian Muslims">Bosnian Muslims</a> were being held against their will in Serbian concentration camps. The ensuing libel award and costs arising from legal action by the ITN against <i>LM</i> were estimated to total around £1 million. The action bankrupted the magazine and its publishers.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_organisations">Later organisations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolutionary_Communist_Party_(UK,_1978)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Later organisations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many former members of the party and some of the people who contributed to <i>LM</i> magazine continue to be politically active, most notably in the Academy of Ideas (formerly the <a href="/wiki/Institute_of_Ideas" class="mw-redirect" title="Institute of Ideas">Institute of Ideas</a>), a <a href="/wiki/Think_tank" title="Think tank">think tank</a> led by <a href="/wiki/Claire_Fox" title="Claire Fox">Claire Fox</a>; the online magazine <i><a href="/wiki/Spiked_(magazine)" title="Spiked (magazine)">Spiked</a></i>, initially edited by <a href="/wiki/Mick_Hume" title="Mick Hume">Mick Hume</a> and later by <a href="/wiki/Brendan_O%27Neill_(journalist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Brendan O'Neill (journalist)">Brendan O'Neill</a>; and the Manifesto Club in which a leading figure is <a href="/wiki/Munira_Mirza" title="Munira Mirza">Munira Mirza</a>, appointed by <a href="/wiki/Boris_Johnson" title="Boris Johnson">Boris Johnson</a> as London's Director of Policy for culture, the arts and creative industries, and subsequently as his head of <a href="/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street">Number 10</a> policy unit.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Beckett_2020_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beckett_2020-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hepworth_2022_Spiked_pp._591–621_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hepworth_2022_Spiked_pp._591–621-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other groups produced by former members include Debating Matters, the Young Journalists' Academy, WorldWrite, Audacity.org, the Modern Movement, and Parents with Attitude. The Battle of Ideas has also been held annually since 2005 by the Academy of Ideas, which has been described as a "refuge" for former RCP members.<sup id="cite_ref-Turner_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Turner-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some commentators, such as <a href="/wiki/George_Monbiot" title="George Monbiot">George Monbiot</a>, have pointed to apparent <a href="/wiki/Entryist" class="mw-redirect" title="Entryist">entryist</a> tactics of having jobs and lives used by former RCP members designed to influence mainstream public opinion.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> One party member from the 1990s explained in an article in <i>Spiked</i>:</p><blockquote><p>I never left the RCP: the organisation folded in the mid-Nineties, but few of us actually 'recanted' our ideas. Instead we resolved to support one another more informally as we pursued our political tradition as individuals, or launched new projects with more general aims that have also engaged people from different traditions, or none. These include <i>Spiked</i> and the Institute of Ideas, where I now work. It must be said that this development annoyed our political opponents immensely, and a cursory Google search (try 'LM network' if you have time to kill) will return a plethora of exposés purporting to show that former members of the RCP are involved in various sinister conspiracies. [...] [T]he impossibility of simply doing away with a school of thought that is no longer attached to an organisation is perhaps what annoys our opponents most of all.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In April 2019, three former members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, <a href="/wiki/Claire_Fox" title="Claire Fox">Claire Fox</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Heartfield" title="James Heartfield">James Heartfield</a> and Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, were selected as candidates for <a href="/wiki/Nigel_Farage" title="Nigel Farage">Nigel Farage</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Brexit_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Brexit Party">Brexit Party</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2019_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Waiton" title="Stuart Waiton">Stuart Waiton</a> stood in <a href="/wiki/Dundee_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dundee West (UK Parliament constituency)">Dundee West</a> at the <a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2019 United Kingdom general election">2019 general election</a>, also for the <a href="/wiki/Brexit_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Brexit Party">Brexit Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolutionary_Communist_Party_(UK,_1978)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFFitzpatrick2018" class="citation book cs1">Fitzpatrick, Michael (28 February 2018). "The point is to change it". <i>Waiting for the Revolution</i>. Manchester University Press. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.7228%2Fmanchester%2F9781526113658.003.0013">10.7228/manchester/9781526113658.003.0013</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781526113658" title="Special:BookSources/9781526113658"><bdi>9781526113658</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+point+is+to+change+it&rft.btitle=Waiting+for+the+Revolution&rft.pub=Manchester+University+Press&rft.date=2018-02-28&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.7228%2Fmanchester%2F9781526113658.003.0013&rft.isbn=9781526113658&rft.aulast=Fitzpatrick&rft.aufirst=Michael&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARevolutionary+Communist+Party+%28UK%2C+1978%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-auto-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-auto_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-auto_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">'Our Tasks and Methods,' <i>Revolutionary Communist</i>, no 1</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Smith_2022_pp._1–39-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Smith_2022_pp._1–39_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Smith_2022_pp._1–39_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Smith_2022_pp._1–39_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Smith_2022_pp._1–39_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Smith_2022_pp._1–39_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Smith_2022_pp._1–39_3-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Smith_2022_pp._1–39_3-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmith2022" class="citation journal cs1">Smith, Evan (21 November 2022). "A Platform for Working Class Unity? The Revolutionary Communist Party's The Red Front and the pre-history of Living Marxism/Spiked Online in the 1980s". <i>Contemporary British History</i>. <b>37</b>. Informa UK Limited: 89–127. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F13619462.2022.2142780">10.1080/13619462.2022.2142780</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1361-9462">1361-9462</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:253791729">253791729</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Contemporary+British+History&rft.atitle=A+Platform+for+Working+Class+Unity%3F+The+Revolutionary+Communist+Party%27s+The+Red+Front+and+the+pre-history+of+Living+Marxism%2FSpiked+Online+in+the+1980s&rft.volume=37&rft.pages=89-127&rft.date=2022-11-21&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A253791729%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.issn=1361-9462&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1080%2F13619462.2022.2142780&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=Evan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARevolutionary+Communist+Party+%28UK%2C+1978%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Hepworth_2022_pp._591–621-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Hepworth_2022_pp._591–621_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hepworth_2022_pp._591–621_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hepworth_2022_pp._591–621_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hepworth_2022_pp._591–621_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hepworth_2022_pp._591–621_4-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hepworth_2022_pp._591–621_4-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHepworth2022" class="citation journal cs1">Hepworth, Jack (28 April 2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F13619462.2022.2070479">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'The moral rearmament of imperialism': the Revolutionary Communist Party, the Northern Ireland conflict, and the new world order, 1981-1994"</a>. <i>Contemporary British History</i>. <b>36</b> (4). 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"The point is to change it". <i>Waiting for the Revolution</i>. 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style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Marxist–Leninist</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Britain" title="Communist Party of Britain">Communist Party of Britain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Britain_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)" title="Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)">Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)" title="Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist)">Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ireland" title="Communist Party of Ireland">Communist Party of Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economic_and_Philosophic_Science_Review" title="Economic and Philosophic Science Review">EPSR Supporters</a></li> <li><a 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to Rebuild the Fourth International">WIRFI Supporters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Workers_Revolutionary_Party_(UK)" title="Workers Revolutionary Party (UK)">Workers Revolutionary Party</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Anarchist</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anarchist_Federation_(Britain)" title="Anarchist Federation (Britain)">Anarchist Federation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Class_War" title="Class War">Class War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freedom_Press" title="Freedom Press">Freedom Press</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solidarity_Federation" title="Solidarity Federation">Solidarity Federation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haringey_Solidarity_Group" title="Haringey Solidarity Group">Haringey Solidarity Group</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Left Communist</th><td 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Britain</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Electoral alliances</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Trade_Unionist_and_Socialist_Coalition" title="Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition">Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Marxist–Leninist</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Association_of_Communist_Workers" title="Association of 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href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist_League" title="Revolutionary Marxist–Leninist League">Revolutionary Marxist–Leninist League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Policy_Committee" title="Revolutionary Policy Committee">Revolutionary Policy Committee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Wales_Socialist_Society" title="South Wales Socialist Society">South Wales Socialist Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Straight_Left" title="Straight Left">Straight Left</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Workers%27_Institute_of_Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism%E2%80%93Mao_Zedong_Thought" title="Workers' Institute of Marxism–Leninism–Mao Zedong Thought">Workers' Institute of Marxism–Leninism–Mao Zedong Thought</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Workers_Party_of_Scotland" title="Workers Party of Scotland">Workers Party of Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Working_People%27s_Party_of_England" title="Working People's Party of England">Working People's Party of England</a></li></ul> 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