We have now entered month five of an unprecedented US military build up in the Caribbean aimed at bullying Venezuela, and also Colombia. Over 80 people have already been killed in criminal attacks against speedboats, which Washington claims are narcotraffickers. But so far, Trump’s aim – regime change in Venezuela – has not been achieved. What follows?

The results of the legislative elections on Sunday, 26 October show how far Argentinian capitalism is from resolving its deep social, economic, and political crisis, which drags down the lives of millions of workers. Far from signifying a recovery of the regime, the victory of President Milei’s party, La Libertad Avanza (LLA), is a mere mirage.

On 27 November, President Pedro Castillo was sentenced to 11 years, 5 months, and 15 days in prison for the crime of conspiracy to rebel, following his announcement (on 7 December 2022) to dissolve parliament, reorganise the justice system, and convene a Constituent Assembly.

Just over one year after winning the 2024 election, Donald Trump’s presidency is under severe pressure. The sordid scandal surrounding Jeffrey Epstein is a totemic symbol of this. This one horrifying story has come to be associated with both the hopes and the mounting disappointment in Donald Trump.

In a surprising defeat, the Ecuadorian people have overwhelmingly rejected the constitutional referendum proposed by right-wing President Daniel Noboa.

Comrades of the Revolutionary Communist International (RCI) from various states of Brazil gathered in São Paulo for an emergency congress. Its purpose was to found a new Brazilian section of the International and to hold a cadre school. Dozens of delegates, who had been previously elected in regional plenary sessions, took part in the proceedings from 20 to 23 November, beginning a new phase in the history of the RCI in Brazil.

When Donald Trump became the 47th President of the United States, he wasn’t taking the reins of a country on the up, but one that had entered into a period of relative decline. His slogan of ‘America First’ and promise to end ‘forever wars’ was a deeply popular message, but also an acknowledgement that the US cannot dominate the world in the way it once did.

A familiar sight awaited you if you were around the Zocalo of the National Palace of Mexico City on 15 November: One Piece flags, anti-government slogans, and clashes with the police. Has the revolution come? Is Mexico going through a similar uprising to Nepal or Madagascar?

Jeffrey Epstein may be dead, but he continues to haunt Donald Trump, threatening to tear MAGA—and possibly the entire ruling class—apart.

2025 marks 126 years since what is known as the Philippine-American War. But to characterise it as a war is deeply misleading, as it suggests a conflict between two roughly equal forces. In reality, it was a massacre of genocidal proportions conducted by US imperialism against the Filipino masses.

Days after a self-described democratic socialist won the New York mayoral election, over 300 communists sang a rousing rendition of “The Internationale” to conclude the third and final installment of the RCA’s 2025 Marxist School series.

Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York City is one of the highest-profile victories for a socialist candidate in American history. In the “capital of capitalism”—the largest city in the most powerful imperialist country on earth—over one million people voted for a self-described democratic socialist, in what The New York Timescorrectly described as a “surge of anti-establishment discontent.”

Dick Cheney is dead. The world’s workers and oppressed should mourn, not for Dick Cheney’s passing, but for the fact that yet another imperialist war criminal has passed away without ever facing justice for his crimes.

The escalation of US imperialist bullying against Venezuela, which started in August, has reached fever pitch and now involves the bullying of Colombia as well. As well as a military build-up in the Caribbean, the blowing up of speedboats, provocative bomber plane flights off the coast of Venezuela, we now see the deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the Caribbean.

Before you can change the world, you have to understand it.

That’s why, in October, dozens of communists gathered in Halifax, Quebec City, and Vancouver for a weekend of presentations and discussion aimed at deepening their understanding of Marxist theory.