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{{Short description|Red Fightback is a small communist party in the UK}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2019}}
{{Infobox political party
| abbreviation = RFB
| country = the United Kingdom
| name = Red Fightback
| logo = RFB-logo.png
| foundation = 2018
| ideology = [[Communism]]<br>[[Marxism–Leninism]]<br>[[Anti-Imperialism]]<br>[[Intersectionality]]<br>Anti-Opportunism
| position = [[Far-left politics|Far-left]]
| colours = [[Red]], [[White]]
| website = {{URL|redfightback.org/}}
}}
{{Socialism in the UK}}

== Ideology ==
{{Communist Parties}}

Red Fightback is a [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] [[communist party]] based in [[Great Britain|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.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://redfightback.org/what-we-stand-for/|title=What we stand for|date=8 November 2019|website=Red Fightback}}</ref>
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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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-24 |title=Patriarchal Violence in British 'Marxist' Parties |url=https://redfightback.org/patriarchal-violence-in-british-marxist-parties/ |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=Red Fightback |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-12-30 |title=The Road to Nowhere: A Critique of the Parliamentary Programme of the CPB |url=https://redfightback.org/roadtonowhere/ |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=Red Fightback |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Marxism and Transgender Liberation: Confronting Transphobia in the British Left {{!}} Red Fightback |url=https://redfightback.org/read/transphobia_in_the_left |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=redfightback.org}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2022-01-11 |title=Where Next? Red Fightback in 2022 |url=https://redfightback.org/where-next-red-fightback-in-2022/ |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=Red Fightback |language=en}}</ref>

The party has even written their beliefs on transgender oppression in Britain. <ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1145432445 |title=Marxism and transgender liberation : confronting transphobia in the British left |date=2020 |others=Red Fightback |isbn=978-0-244-86977-9 |location=[Place of publication not identified] |oclc=1145432445}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":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. <ref name=":0" />

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, Liverpool|Prince's Park]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pollitt |first=Luke |date=2021-10-05 |title=Call for accessible public toilets in Liverpool's Princes Park |url=https://merseynewslive.co.uk/2021/10/05/call-for-accessible-public-toilets-in-liverpools-princes-park/ |access-date=2022-12-25 |website=News |language=en-GB}}</ref>

== 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.<ref>{{Citation |title=Socialism DOES Work {{!}} Robert Griffiths {{!}} Oxford Union |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUzJYG50IT8 |language=en |access-date=2022-12-25}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The reactionary nightmare of 'gender fluidity' |url=http://thecommunists.org/2019/03/23/news/the-reactionary-nightmare-of-gender-fluidity/ |access-date=2022-12-25 |website=The Communists |language=en}}</ref>

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."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Red Fightback's Marxism and Transgender Liberation |url=https://www.ebb-magazine.com/reviews/marxism-and-transgender-liberation |access-date=2022-12-25 |website=Ebb |language=en-GB}}</ref>

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