During the English Civil War, radical groups emerged not only to overthrow King Charles I but, in Christopher Hill’s phrase, to “turn the world upside down.” One such radical group was the True Levellers (a.k.a. the Diggers), whose most famous leader was Gerrard Winstanley.

Winstanley argued that Reason (God) had given the Earth to humanity in common, but that tyrants had historically expropriated the land for their own benefit, reducing the masses to tenants, servants, slaves, and wage workers forced to labour for a pittance. He maintained that the Earth should once again be held in common and used biblical allegory to spread this message.

Winstanley put his ideas into practice by leading an occupation of St George’s Hill in Surrey, where his followers cultivated the land and cut wood illegally. The action inspired similar colonies across England. Although the True Levellers’ occupations were eventually dispersed, their revolutionary message still resonates. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🚩

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During the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt, around 140,000 peasants marched on London under the leadership of Wat Tyler, camping at Blackheath in the south and Barnet in the north. Their aim was to force charters from Richard II abolishing serfdom and other oppressive laws. 👊💥

The uprising involved long-term organisation by radical itinerant preachers excommunicated by the Church. The most famous of these was John Ball, who used biblical teaching to attack both the corrupt Church hierarchy and the oppressive class system.

His best-known saying captures the spirit of the revolt: “When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?” Chroniclers also report that he advocated common ownership of land.

The Peasants’ Revolt was ultimately crushed, and its leaders, including John Ball, were executed. Nevertheless, their uprising can be seen as contributing significantly to a centuries-long communist struggle that continues to this day. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🚩

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Know Your Enemy Part IV: Ayn Rand 🌐

In this article, David Jarrett looks at Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged, and argues that despite being a classic work of free-market propaganda, it is so contradictory it could even be considered pro-communist.

https://forcecyclone.substack.com/p/know-your-enemy-part-iv-ayn-rand

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Trotsky joined the Bolsheviks late and would act as a spoiler. He held to dogmatic Marxism instead of Leninism, believing that peasants were backwards and not fit for revolution, and that for communist revolution to be successful it had to be worldwide and led by the proletariat in the advanced industrial nations.

This dogmatism gave him a defeatist outlook towards both the Russian and Chinese revolutions, and even led him to disrupt peace negotiations with Germany after WWI, calling for a "pan-European" revolution which would not emerge.

Trotsky formed factions within both the RSDLP and the Bolsheviks against Lenin and Stalin's leadership and wrote history books that made Lenin sound like a Blanquist. After being expelled from the country, he even called for a second revolution in Russia to overthrow Stalin, who he claimed was no different to a fascist.

For all their socialist rhetoric, we must make no mistake of the role of Trotskyists and their parties, and the failed legacy which they represent.

THE SHADOW OF TROTSKYISM PART 1: HIS LIFE 🥸

In the first of three videos, we look at the life and ideas of Leon Trotsky, listing ten aspects of his beliefs and arguing that his was mainly a life of failed theories and anti-communist activity, a legacy which all Trotskyist groups today continue to uphold.

WATCH NOW: https://youtu.be/5x7IzZeCTgs?si=JyNVUFuBTXPbG1NN

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Marx understood class war as a life-or-death struggle between oppressor and oppressed, and had no naive beliefs in the compassion, fairness, or mercy of the ruling class.

However democratic they pretend to be, he understood that they would resort to any legal or illegal, violent or authoritarian means to crush a revolution and prevent the peaceful transition to socialism.

While firmly rejecting mindless terrorism, the working class must keep this in mind as it fights for its freedom.

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Was Hitler a TROT? 💀

According to his biographer, Konrad Heiden, Hitler once surprised a circle of his friends by bursting into "rapturous praise" of Trotsky's autobiography, an anti-communist text which could only serve the fascist threat.

FULL VIDEO HERE: https://youtu.be/5x7IzZeCTgs?si=NZ39chYn-Wxk1B3l

Ignore all the attacks from Banderites and the fascist-aligned mainstream media.

History will remember Aiden Minnis as a patriot and a HERO, English born with Irish blood, presumed to have given his life in the fight against fascism and NATO imperialism in Europe.

We salute his sacrifice ✊️🇷🇺

In 1946, Ho Chi Minh told French negotiator Jean Sainteny that the Vietnamese communists would eventually lead a war of liberation against the French colonists.

He was confident that the liberation war would be so popular among the Vietnamese people, that even if the French killed ten times as many as the liberation forces did, the French would still lose. Ho Chi Minh was proven correct, with the Vietnamese defeating the French and later the United States.

Their struggle acts as an inspiration to oppressed populations that they can eventually win against practically any outside force that is thrown at them. 👊🇻🇳

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How did the horrors committed by the Epstein class continue for decades while all our media and state institutions looked away?

Why the uproar about "human rights violations" by Russia and Iran, but not Israel?

Marx had the answer: base and superstructure 📖

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TUNE IN to the new CYCLONE podcast/streams each week for news, interviews, and Marxist-Leninist politics from Britain.

Coming up:
💥 Why should communists join the Workers Party?
💥 Is Your Party over?
💥 What's next for Cuba and Iran?

Catch the first episode on X/YouTube/Spotify tomorrow at 6pm (UTC+0).

NATO, the USSR, and the Logic of Capitalist Encirclement 🌐

Stephen Nuttall looks at the foundation of NATO, pointing out that liberal arguments about the defensive rationale of this military alliance fall away with just a cursory look at its history.

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CYCLONE LIVESTREAM Ep. 1: Communism and the Workers Party and Cuba in Crisis ⚙️🇨🇺

In the first episode of the CYCLONE stream/podcast, Jesse and the team discuss the space for communists in the Workers Party and the disappointing track record of other parties in Britain, as well as the scale of the crisis in Cuba and the future of the revolution.

Ft. Jesse Winney, Sami Hadid, and Eben Williams

WATCH NOW: https://youtu.be/kbsjRPFPjAA?si=_J563nxZXvyHvOUB

Thomas Spence, or “Glorious old Tom Spence,” as Friedrich Engels called him, brought the native English brand of Christian communist theory espoused by the likes of Gerrard Winstanley during the English Civil War into the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
He met the people where they were at with his style of communist preaching, appealing to natural rights and biblical teachings.

He was viciously oppressed by the authorities, who imprisoned him for half of his adult life and banned the Spencian societies that grew under his influence. Yet his ideas could not be fully suppressed, as rebel Caribbean slaves and the radical wing of the Chartists were influenced by him.

There has been a resurgence of interest in his ideas in recent years, and this can only be a good thing for communism in Britain.

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Comrade Booker Ngesa Omole of the Communist Party Marxist - Kenya has been kidnapped and tortured by parasitic comprador elites.

We send our solidarity to Booker and the CPM-K and urge everyone with a platform to call for his immediate release. 🇰🇪

Thomas Hodgskin was considered the most dangerous man in the country by British capitalists in the early 1830s after the release of his 1829 pamphlet Labour Defended Against the Claims of Capital.

Building on Adam Smith’s labour theory of value, he held that capitalist profits were an unjust extraction from labour.

Writing at a time when worker organising was illegal, he argued that this was unjust. He responded to the claim that strikes would lead to capital flight by saying that this would be good for the working class. The capitalists could take their money overseas but not their machinery or the workers’ skills. With the capitalists gone, organised workers could take over industries. This would be an improvement because workers would no longer have capitalists taking the fruits of their labour.

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After the Zionist–American Attack on Iran: What Comes Next? 🇮🇷

In the wake of the US assassination of Ali Khamenei, leader of the Iranian Revolution, and other leaders, Fouad Baker from the International Department of the DFLP gives an analysis of the events leading up to the attack and his predictions for what comes next.

READ HERE: https://forcecyclone.substack.com/p/zionist-american-attack-on-iran

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CYCLONE LIVESTREAM Ep. 2: Greenery in Gorton and Iran Strikes Back 🇮🇷🚀

JOIN THE DEBATE! Tomorrow at 7 we'll be going LIVE to discuss the Green win in the Gorton and Denton by-election and the Zionist-American attack on Iran.

Ft. Special guest: Paul Cockshott

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The capitalist West is in a phase of terminal decline, so how do we change course?

China gives us the answer: Marxism and socialism. 🇨🇳

In the German Ideology, Marx and Engels identified a persistent friction between the ideologists of the ruling class and the propertied sections of the bourgeoisie.

They argued that while these two factions might show "hostility" towards each during times of peace, their internal beef is purely luxury. The moment the working class poses an actual threat to the system as a whole, these internal divisions stop existing.

When the class interest is endangered, the ruling factions stop fighting each other and present a united front to protect the status quo.

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