“Europe is going to pay in a BIG way, as they should, and it will be your win”, NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte boasted to Donald Trump. Indeed, the NATO alliance of western imperialist powers agreed to up their ‘defence’ spending to five percent of GDP over the next decade, at their recent summit in The Hague. The European arms industry bosses were no doubt delighted.

Last Monday, 7 July, an assembly of workers decided to put an end to the indefinite strike that the metalworkers in the province of Cadiz had been holding for a decent collective agreement. We have seen 13 days of strike, mobilisations and police repression, from 23 June to 6 July. What lessons can we learn from this extraordinary struggle?

The First World War brought about the collapse of the Second International at its beginning, and a wave of revolutions towards its end. It was in this context that Lenin successfully built the Third (Communist) International, with powerful sections in many countries, aiming to provide the necessary leadership for the victory of the world revolution.

The forces of Western Canadian communism are on the rise! Over the weekend of June 28 and 29, the Revolutionary Communist Party held the sixth annual Communist Summer School in Edmonton, Alberta. This was a tremendous school and was a fantastic sign for the development of the revolutionary communist forces in the Canadian Prairies!

On June 30, 2025, the US regime of Donald Trump published a presidential memorandum (NSPM-5) which tightens the noose of the economic blockade against the Cuban Revolution. The aim of these measures is clear: to starve the people of Cuba into submission and achieve regime change. This is a naked act of imperialist aggression which the Revolutionary Communist International rejects and calls on the world's labour movement and all consistent democrats to campaign against. 

With a total of almost 260 participants, the Pfingstseminar 2025 was the largest in our history and a great success. It was brimming with the spirit of proletarian internationalism, with guests from Germany, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Yugoslavia, Italy and Great Britain.

The mass movement to bring down Ruto rose up once more on 25 June. Its sequel was planned for 7 July, with another peaceful day of protest under the hashtag #SabaSabaRevolutionDay. But the day didn’t end with a revolutionary victory.

Last month, on 4 June 2025, South Korean voters were summoned to the ballot box in a snap election. With a record-breaking voter turnout of 79.4 percent, this election was hailed as a “judgment day” by the victor, opposition leader Lee Jae‑myung of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), who claimed a narrow yet decisive victory with nearly half of the vote.

On 20 June, an official document was circulated to EU embassies in Brussels. This ‘note on Israel’s compliance with Article Two of the EU-Israel Association Agreement’ is a damning summary of the genocidal war currently being conducted in Gaza. The significance of this document is that it is now the official opinion of the EU’s own legal body that Israel is committing the gravest war crimes. And yet, the EU, in violation of its own legal requirements, continues to back Israel to the hilt.

Since 23 June, thousands of metalworkers in the province of Cádiz, in southern Spain, have been on indefinite strike against their working conditions, in what is already the longest struggle in this industry in the province's history. The previous indefinite strike in November 2021, for wage increases, lasted nine days.

This August, between the second and the seventh, the First Congress of the Revolutionary Communist International (RCI) will be held in Italy. It will bring together hundreds of delegates, representing thousands of communists who will be watching along online on every continent. In times of unprecedented worldwide turbulence, it will be a congress like no other.

Left MP Zarah Sultana has publicly announced her resignation from the Labour Party and called for the formation of a new left party, co-led by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Fiona Lali of the RCP discusses the bold revolutionary programme needed to build a political movement for genuine change.

Today in Gilgit, the Anti-Terrorism Court rejected the bail application of Ehsan Ali and other leaders of the Awami Action Committee.

The following is a reading list dealing with the key political mistakes made by the leadership of the Fourth International following the end of the Second World War and during the post-war period. 

On 25 June, the youth erupted once more onto Kenya’s streets. One year to the day after the struggle to stop Ruto’s Finance Bill 2024 culminated in spectacular scenes of the youth overrunning the parliament building, Gen Z is on the move again. The movement has picked up where it left off. But this time, the mood is darker and angrier.