Down with the war on Iran! Down with US imperialism! “NOW IS TIME FOR PEACE,” wrote US President Donald Trump on Truth Social on Saturday. On the same day, the US carried out its biggest military attack on Iran in modern history. Trump was backed by European leaders, including his obedient servant in Downing Street, all of whom have been calling on Iran to show “restraint”, to “de-escalate” and to return to the negotiating table.
Britain: RCP statement – hands off Palestine Action! The establishment are the real terrorists! The British government intends to pass legislation proscribing Palestine Action, effectively branding it a terrorist organisation, equivalent to al-Qaeda and Islamic State, with all the consequences that carries.
Iran war: “those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad” As I write these lines, the attention of the entire world is focused on one man. His every word is studied, dissected and analysed in the most extraordinary detail, in the hope that one might derive some sense as to what it may, or may not, signify.
The essence of revolutionary communism: new introduction to the 'Classics of Marxism' Wellred Books’ bestselling title The Classics of Marxism: Volume One is available in a brand new edition. Here we publish the introduction by Fred Weston – leading member of the Revolutionary Communist International. Fred highlights how, far from being relics of the past, the writings inside by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky are the most modern texts you can come across if you want to understand the nature of the capitalist system and how it can be overthrown.
‘Fortress Finland’ and the treachery of the Social Democrats Since December 2023, the right-wing Orpo-Purra coalition government of Finland has imposed a blanket ban on migration across its eastern border under the pretence of resisting Russian ‘hybrid warfare’. It maintains this brutal immigration policy with the collusion of the so-called Social Democratic Party (SDP), which has continued to expose its bankruptcy after it was booted from government in 2023 due to scandals and its implementation of austerity.
Canada: why would Alberta separate? For many outside Alberta (and Saskatchewan), the prospect of a referendum on Alberta’s separation from Canada is perhaps perplexing. But such a referendum in Alberta, which is likely to be held, is the logical conclusion of a long historical process that stretches all the way back to Confederation and how the Prairie provinces joined the Canadian federation.
Will the US go to war? / Trumpism unravelling This week, the turmoil in the Middle East reached new heights as Israel launched a series of attacks on Iran, targeting its military leadership and striking several of its nuclear facilities. This has since escalated dramatically with further attacks on Iran and Iranian retaliations against Israel.
USA: digging an ever deeper hole – ‘big beautiful bill’ prepares crisis of government finance The past few weeks have brought the US government deficit into sharp focus. After decades of large budget deficits, the banks and insurance companies are starting to worry that even the US government is no longer a reliable borrower.
International solidarity campaign for political prisoners in Gilgit-Baltistan: HOW YOU CAN HELP! Leading members of the Aawami Action Committee in the Pakistan-administered region of Gilgit Baltistan have been arrested. They are being held in appalling conditions, on trumped-up charges. Their crime? Standing up for working people and resisting the plunder of their lands! The Revolutionary Communist International is running a global campaign to secure the comrades’ release – and we need your help!
USA: anti-ICE protests spread nationwide as Trump sends in Marines A week has passed since Trump ramped up his reign of terror against immigrant workers and their families. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids on workplaces, schools, and hospitals have intensified, with the White House tripling ICE’s daily quota for arrests from 1,000 to 3,000.
Netanyahu's bid for all-out war in the Middle East In the early hours of Friday, 13 June, Israel launched a massive attack on Iran, taking out part of its military leadership and hitting some of its nuclear facilities. A second wave of Israeli strikes is ongoing at time of writing, hitting targets in Tehran, Keraj and Qom, as well as the Natanz Nuclear Enrichment Facility for a second time. This brazen act of aggression threatens to unleash a deadly regional conflagration with far-reaching consequences.
Cuba: student discontent continues over ETECSA's rate hike It has been two weeks since ETECSA, the Cuban telecommunications company, suddenly and unexpectedly introduced price hikes on Friday 31 May. Discontent continues to grow.
Iran: national trucker strike – militant workers and youth call for general strike Since the 1st of Khordad, 1404 (22 May, 2025), Iran has witnessed a significant eruption of class struggle as lorry drivers and truckers launched a nationwide strike. This is a determined protest against intolerable working conditions and a spiralling cost of living crisis, highlighting the ever-deepening crisis of Iranian capitalism.
United States: communist interviewed by WSJ sets the record straight The Wall Street Journalinterviewed comrade Mia Jimenez – a member of the Revolutionary Communists of America in Los Angeles – for a June 11 article titled “A Veteran, a Construction Worker, a Communist: The Many Faces of the L.A. Protests.” Naturally, the Journal’s coverage was shallow and skewed by bourgeois ideology. Comrade Mia gives her side of the story below.
LA riots and the Musk/Trump feud This week, thousands of workers flooded onto the streets of LA in response to ICE agents raiding workplaces and neighbourhoods. Since then, Trump has tried to crush the movement by calling in the Marines and the National Guard. But in so doing, he risks provoking a mass movement similar to Black Lives Matter, which forced him into hiding in the White House bunker five years ago.