The cities of La Paz and El Alto have for weeks been inundated with marches, pitched battles with police, strikes, and blockades, sparked by the fight against counterreforms and inflation. Now, the struggle has gone beyond these demands, and is calling for the right-wing government to fall. How did we get here, and where is the movement going?

In the elections of 2022, Lula received the votes of 60.3 million Brazilians (38.6 percent of the electorate). How many of these actually supported the political agenda of the coalition led by Lula cannot be known. What is certain is that more than 60 million Brazilians did not want Bolsonaro to remain in office as President of the Republic and went to the polls with the common goal of removing him.

In Toronto during the long weekend of May 16–18, the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) held its third annual congress. Taking place at a time of immense turmoil, the 437 participants discussed the depth of the capitalist crisis and the necessity of building a party up to the task posed by history.

A Florida federal prosecutor has indicted the Cuban Revolution leader Raúl Castro with charges of conspiracy to kill US citizens and murder. This is a very dangerous escalation of the Trump-Rubio campaign to smash the Cuban Revolution and must be strongly repudiated by the working-class movement internationally. The Revolutionary Communist International rejects this stepping up of US aggression against Cuba. We stand unconditionally for the defence of the Cuban Revolution. 

“The unipolar hegemony of a major power is becoming increasingly unsustainable. At home, its democracy is mutating, its economy decaying, and its society fracturing at an accelerated pace; abroad, its credibility is rapidly going bankrupt, its hegemony is crumbling, and its myth is collapsing.” – Chen Yixin, China’s Minister of State Security

Late on 16 May, a brief statement from SAIME in Venezuela (the Administrative Service for Identification, Migration and Foreigners) announced the handover of Alex Saab – who until January had been a minister in the Venezuelan government – to agents of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

On 17 May, the US media outlet Axios published an article with the headline ‘Exclusive: U.S. eyes attack-drone threat from Cuba’. This scandalous piece of disinformation would be laughable if it weren't so dangerous. What we have here is not journalism, but a news website being used to fabricate a pretext for US imperialist aggression.

If anyone thought that US imperialism’s embarrassment in Iran would deter it from its escalating campaign of aggression against the Cuban Revolution, they were very mistaken. On several occasions, President Trump has indicated that he would “deal” with Cuba after he was finished with Iran. Since the 29 January executive order imposing an oil blockade on the island, Washington has continued to increase the pressure.

Two weeks ago, TV channel Canal Red released audio recordings of conversations between Honduran government officials. These recordings reveal a network of corruption and coercion involving Trump, Javier Milei, and even Benjamin Netanyahu. Together, they aim to establish a stronghold for US imperialism in Honduras and create a network to pressure left-wing governments in the region, such as those in Mexico and Colombia.

When Donald Trump returned to the Presidency of the United States back in January 2025, Europe’s right-populist leaders and politicians were jubilant.

Bold predictions were put forward in the aftermath of Trump’s 2024 electoral victory. Trump’s re-election signified, according to many, a fundamental cultural shift in America. Young people were ditching liberalism and “wokeness,” conservative values were becoming mainstream, and Trump was really going to make America great again.

Colombia is a country of contradictions. It has some of the world’s greatest biodiversity, abundant mineral wealth, and a vibrant people. Yet it suffers from imperialist domination, internal civil war, crime, and poverty. It is within this tumult that the Revolutionary Communists of Colombia (CRC) have been born. 

“A lot of people are going to understand,” Chamel Abdulkarim reportedly told his girlfriend over the phone just moments after burning down the 1.2 million square foot Kimberly Clark distribution center where he worked.

Odds are you’ve heard about so-called “prediction markets.” While traditional casinos fleece workers with games of chance, platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi allow users to gamble on anything. Users can bet not only on sports, but also who will show up to the Oscars, which words Trump will use in a speech, or whether this month will be the hottest April on record.

The war in Iran, which started as a reckless gamble on the part of Trump, is developing into a significant strategic defeat for US imperialism, which can have important consequences for the world economy, the position of America as a world power, and world relations in general.