Every revolutionary organisation says it wants to win the working class. So why do so many end up talking only to themselves?

Joe Russell explains what Marxists mean by sectarianism, where it comes from, and how communists can patiently build support among workers without abandoning revolutionary politics. Drawing on the lessons of Lenin and Trotsky, this episode looks at how a genuine communist party is built.

Britain was once the workshop of the world. Today, British capitalism is struggling with stagnant growth, declining productivity, collapsing public services and a deepening economic crisis.

In this discussion, Adam Booth examines the decline of British capitalism and the historical roots of Britain’s economic problems. Why has British industry gone into decline? Why is productivity so low? What lies behind Britain’s weak economic growth, rising inequality and crisis-ridden politics? And can British capitalism overcome the contradictions that have brought it to this point?

From the decline of the British Empire and the loss of industrial supremacy to the privatisation of the economy, this episode looks at British capitalism, imperialism, class struggle and the crisis of the British ruling class from a Marxist perspective.

In this episode of Marxist Voice, Ben Gliniecki, General Secretary of the RCP, outlines the Marxist theory of the state, explains why the Epstein revelations have exposed the true nature of liberal democracy, and discusses how a working-class alternative to bourgeois rule can emerge through dual power.

Drawing on Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky, Ben explains how the capitalist state was born to defend minority class rule, and why it has always relied on a "veil" of ideology and reform to disguise that fact. He looks at how decades of economic crisis have stripped that veil away, and how the Epstein scandal, implicating politicians, diplomats, and academics across the political spectrum, is a symptom of that collapse, not an isolated case of corruption.

Ben also examines the theory and history of dual power, from the Councils of Action in the 1926 General Strike to the Russian Revolution, and explains why the reformist leadership of the labour movement remains the central obstacle to revolutionary change today.