Revolutionary Communist Party

The Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) was the forerunner of the libertarian LM network. Led by University of Kent sociologist Frank Furedi, it was created in 1978 as a breakaway group from the Revolutionary Communist Group originally called the Revolutionary Communist Tendency. The RCG itself was formed after being expelled from the International Socialists (the forerunner of the Socialist Workers' Party). The RCT was renamed the RCP in 1981 and disbanded in 1996.

Its principal publication was Living Marxism, later LM magazine.

See also: Living Marxism

Resources

• Andy Beckett, 'Licence to rile', The Guardian, 15 May 1999.
• Chris Bunting, 'What's a nice Trot doing in a place like this', Times Higher Education Supplement", 28 January 2005 (log-in required).
• Alex Callinicos, 'Politics or Abstract Propagandism', International Socialism no. 11, 1981, pp. 121-2
• James Heartfield 'Dave Hallsworth' Obituary, Guardian, 20 December 2007
• John McVicar, The Scoop that Folded a Magazine Punch, 29 May 2000.
• Don Milligan, Radical Amnesia and the RCP, Reflections of a Renegade, January 8, 2008.
• George Monbiot, 'Invasion of the Entryists', Guardian (UK), Tuesday December 9, 2003.*David Pallister, John Vidal and Kevin Maguire, 'Life after Living Marxism: Fighting for freedom - to offend, outrage and question everything", Guardian (UK), Saturday July 8, 2000.
• Dave Renton Living Marxism, spiked online and the RCP Temporary Hoarding, 4/8 March 2006.
• Andy Rowell, "LobbyWatch: SMC complaint", April 2007. (This is an edited version of a submission made by Andy Rowell to the board of the Science Media Centre).
• Andy Rowell and Bob Burton, “Rising Rhetoric on Genetically Modified Crops, PR Watch, Volume 10 No 1, First quarter 2003.
• Andy Rowell and Jonathan Matthews, "Strange Bedfellows", The Ecologist, May 2003
• Mike Small, 'The Faction That Fools the World' Variant Issue 24, Winter 2005, version placed in web archive 20 April 2007
• George Monbiot, "Freedom for whom?" Times Higher Education Supplement, 11 February 2005.
• Usenet Discussion of RCP/LM front groups, from usenet, April 1998.
• Dave Walker Libertarian Humanism or Critical Utopianism? The Demise of the Revolutionary Communist Party New Interventions, Vol.8 No.3, 1998
• Martin J Walker, "Brave New World of Zero Risk: Covert Strategy in British Science Policy" (book), Slingshot Publications, 2006.
• David Webb, 'Liberalism - Let's Spike It!", Part 2, Thread started on: Apr 16th, 2005, 4:58pm Originally published in the Salisbury Review Vol 21 No 4, June 2003, pp.25-28.
• David Webb, 'Liberalism - Let's Spike It!", Part 2, Thread started on: Apr 16th, 2005, 4:59pm Originally published in the Salisbury Review Vol 21 No 4, June 2003, pp.25-28.
• David Webb, 'Liberalism - Let's Spike It!", Part 3, Thread started on: Apr 16th, 2005, 5:00pm Originally published in the Salisbury Review Vol 21 No 4, June 2003, pp.25-28.