Red Fightback
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| Founded | 2018 |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism Anti-Imperialism Intersectionality Anti-Opportunism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| Colours | Red, White |
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Red Fightback is a Marxist-Leninist communist party based in Britain. It is an Anti-Opportunist party, refusing to participate in what it deems 'bourgeois politics'. It takes an intersectional political position, taking a firm stance against oppressive structures that it argues emerge from class, such as white supremacy, racism, patriarchy, the gender binary, LGBT+ oppression and ableism.[1]
Red Fightback criticizes other communist parties such as the Socialist Workers Party (UK), Communist Party of Britain, Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist) and other parties in the UK as being opportunist, reformist, transphobic, class reductionist and male chauvinist.[2][3][4] They see themselves as the only revolutionary organisation in Britain, while other so-called "communist parties" have all deviated from the Marxist-Leninist principles and fallen into some form of opportunism.[5]
The party has even written their beliefs on transgender oppression in Britain. [6] This shows that this party takes a different stance on the LGBT movement, while most parties don't talk about it or even oppose it, Red Fightback actively says that the LGBT movement is part of the class struggle.[1]
Strategy
Despite being quite a small party and not many people knowing who they are due to being so new, they have quite a few different strategies they use to promote themselves. Their strategy changes depending on the area, but there are a few different strategies they use.
An example of the sort of activities they do is street stalls. Red Fightback sets up street stalls to talk to working class people and discuss their ideas with people, as well as giving out hot drinks and food. [5]
A more specific example is in Liverpool where Red Fightback is running stalls every Saturday and has been calling for accessible public toilets in Liverpool’s Prince's Park[7]
Public opinions on Red fightback
Not many people really know who Red Fightback is. Just like most communist parties, it has a very small following, and even for a communist party, it has almost no attention and nobody really knows much about them. This can be seen by the fact that nobody really talks about them, as compared to the Communist Party of Britain, for example, who has had their general secretary given speeches at places such as the Oxford Union.[8]
Most people who do know about the party are communists themselves. Other parties that Red Fightback has accused of being opportunistic also share negative views on them. For example, the CPGB-ML, who has an article criticizing Red Fightback's stances on gender politics.[9]
However, despite this, many communists say positive things about the party, seeing it as the only anti-opportunist party in Britain. For example, taking a statement by Lewis Hodder, who has said "Recognizing LGBT struggles is incredibly simple. It doesn’t require conceding ground to anyone – to the middle class, to reactionary politics, to postmodernism – but recognizing them instead welcomes people who’ve already been radicalized through the contradictions inherent in capitalism."[10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "What we stand for". Red Fightback. 8 November 2019.
- ↑ "Patriarchal Violence in British 'Marxist' Parties". Red Fightback. 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2022-12-24.
- ↑ "The Road to Nowhere: A Critique of the Parliamentary Programme of the CPB". Red Fightback. 2020-12-30. Retrieved 2022-12-24.
- ↑ "Marxism and Transgender Liberation: Confronting Transphobia in the British Left | Red Fightback". redfightback.org. Retrieved 2022-12-24.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Where Next? Red Fightback in 2022". Red Fightback. 2022-01-11. Retrieved 2022-12-24.
- ↑ Marxism and transgender liberation : confronting transphobia in the British left. Red Fightback. [Place of publication not identified]. 2020. ISBN 978-0-244-86977-9. OCLC 1145432445. Search this book on
- ↑ Pollitt, Luke (2021-10-05). "Call for accessible public toilets in Liverpool's Princes Park". News. Retrieved 2022-12-25.
- ↑ Socialism DOES Work | Robert Griffiths | Oxford Union, retrieved 2022-12-25
- ↑ "The reactionary nightmare of 'gender fluidity'". The Communists. Retrieved 2022-12-25.
- ↑ "Red Fightback's Marxism and Transgender Liberation". Ebb. Retrieved 2022-12-25.
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