In an electric atmosphere, nearly 400 communists gathered in Montreal from across Canada and Québec and officially founded the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP)!
  • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]
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    6 months ago

    I can't tell if these people are actually a decent party or not. Are they affiliated with Trotskyist organisations? Is that even a bad thing?

    • Yllych [any]
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      6 months ago

      They are pretty good where I live supporting the Palestine protests and worker marches, not a member but they seem to be growing decently. Don't agree with all their rhetoric but at the end of the day I would rather have them growing as an alternative to the NDP

      • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]
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        6 months ago

        Yeah it seems like supporting Palestine is a good test for real leftists, I'm glad for that at least.

    • ComradeRat [he/him, they/them]
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      6 months ago

      I've heard mixed things. Where I live, they have a bad reputation, but I have friends online who are in the party in other cities who say it's alright. Probably varies by specific party club to some extent.

  • drinkinglakewater [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    Am I reading correctly that their membership is around 800 or is that just referring to attendees?

    • trot [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      Yes, but this is just the Canadian section.

      • drinkinglakewater [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        Kinda surprising, I figured they'd be a little bigger given how visible they seem to be in Canada, but I guess that's just good marketing on their part

  • grandepequeno [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    These IMT guys are pretty annoying and mostly useless where I live (Portugal) but hopefully they're better elsewhere. The idea of trots in every country having 1 party to pool around instead of several isn't terrible if they try not to, in practice, carry water for imperialism

    "The RCP is not a national organization. We are first and foremost members of the Revolutionary Communist International (RCI)—of which we are merely the Canadian section."

    This kind of semantics is pretty cringe though, you're a national canadian political party, you're just a part of an international alliance, just say it

  • Edamamebean [she/her]
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    6 months ago

    "The communists have arrived" the communist party of canada has existed for more than 100 years but okay. This is the kind of obnoxious stuff that makes people hate trots, showing up out of nowhere, pushing to the front of marches/protests and acting like you're the vanguard simply for existing.