Questions for the RCP

1. Is the situation in Europe revolutionary?

2. What should we do about the increase in state repression?

3. Who said this? “It [the youth] is a barometer of gathering social crisis but unless it gains roots in the trade-union and working-class movement, it is doomed to be sterile and ineffective.”

   1. Trotsky
   2. The Sparts
   3. Ted Grant

4. Is optimism what makes the RCP revolutionary?

5. If China is the 2nd largest imperialist power, why won’t it defend its allies, let alone break up the US world order?

Spart answers

1. No, despite the valiant struggles of the European youth, something we need to bring to Britain, this is not a new May ’68. The anger in the working class, the only social force that can transform society, by and large is still being captured by the growing right.

   Listen here: “France: Strategic questions facing the movement”

2. United-front defence! The RCP should launch a national non-sectarian defence organisation that unites the far left and oppressed around the slogan “An injury to one is an injury to all.”

   Read more: “For united class-struggle defence!”

3. You guessed it! Comrade Ted Grant in The Programme of the International. It must have been before the innovation that you must be 10,000 members before you do work in the proletariat.

   Listen here: “RCI — Ultra-lefts and the trade unions”

4. No, what makes a party revolutionary is how it intervenes in events to fight for a way forward which concretely advances the unity and strength of the working class, from the shop floor to the seizure of power.

   Read more: “What Is Revolutionary Leadership?”

5. Because it isn’t imperialist.

   Read more: “China | 'The Situation (is) should be Excellent'”