
USAID: imperialist Trojan Horse goes in the woodchipper
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- Written by: Joe Attard
Elon Musk’s Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has fed the US Agency for International Development (USAID) – the federal body responsible for foreign aid provision – through a woodchipper. The Democrats and the liberal establishment are up in arms. But while we communists recognise Donald Trump’s cynical motives for dismantling USAID, what his funding freeze has exposed is the real nature of this ‘humanitarian’ CIA front for pushing US imperialism’s ‘soft power’.
LIVE book launch: Lenin on Imperialist War with Jorge Martín
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- Written by: In Defence of Marxism
At 23:30 GMT (18:30 EST), the Revolutionary Communist Party – the Canadian section of the Revolutionary Communist International – will host a public book launch for two recent Wellred publications: Lenin's Selected Writings: On Imperialist War and Colossus: The Rise and Decline of US Imperialism. The event will be streamed live on YouTube and will feature a presentation by Jorge Martín, member of the International Secretariat of the RCI and author of the introduction to Lenin's Selected Writings: On Imperialist War.

Serbia: Prime Minister has resigned, the President should be next!
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- Written by: Zvonko Dan
Since our previous article, events in Serbia have accelerated rapidly. The government hoped that the holidays and extended school winter break would lead to fatigue in the movement, but the students, who are occupying their universities, did not allow the movement to dissipate. A large protest was held in front of the offices of the Serbian secret services on 11 January as a response to threats. They continued their strategy of 15 minute road blockades demanding justice for the 15 people murdered by the fall of the concrete canopy of the reconstructed railway station in Novi Sad.

France: in the name of political ‘stability’
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- Written by: Révolution
Thanks to the support of the Socialist Party (PS) and the National Rally (RN), François Bayrou – leader of the liberal Democratic Movement – has succeeded where previous Prime Minister Michel Barnier's government failed: they have approved a budget.

From Middle East to Ukraine: US imperialism in the Trump era
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- Written by: Jorge Martín
The following is the second of a three-part serialisation of a speech on world perspectives, given on Tuesday 28 January at a meeting of the International Executive Committee of the Revolutionary Communist International. The first part, which can be read here, looks at the upheaval in world relations, which has been caused by Trump’s presidency.