The crimes of French imperialism in Cameroon The struggle waged by the people of Cameroon against imperialist oppression contains many lessons for revolutionaries throughout Africa and the world. And today, the legacy of the dirty war waged by French imperialism to crush that struggle can still be felt. In this article, Jules Legendre explains how France came to rule Cameroon, and the methods it used to maintain its domination, even after the country’s formal independence in 1960.
Trump takes on the liberal world order Trump has been in power for just over two weeks and already he has started to upend the liberal world order. With tariffs, deportations, the halting of all foreign aid, and his plan to turn Gaza into a “Rivera of the Middle East”, ‘allies’ and rivals alike have been thrown into panic.
Solidarity with Ukrainian anti-war activists detained by the state On 28 January, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained five Ukrainian anti-war activists, accusing them of involvement with the Workers’ Front of Ukraine (RFU). The RCI declares its solidarity with those facing repression from the Ukrainian state.
Trump: US to ‘take over’ Gaza, expel 2 million and create ‘Riviera of the Middle East’ – real estate tycoon proposes a new Nakba Late on 4 February, in a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump proposed that the US should take over Gaza and force the whole of its population (2 million Palestinians) to relocate to other “plots of land” (in Jordan and Egypt) so that the area could be rebuilt as an international enclave, which he described would be “like the Riviera of the Middle East”.
Germany: CDU leader Merz reaches out to AfD – fight the bosses’ attacks on migrants! Last Wednesday, the right-wing CDU led by Friedrich Merz tore down the symbolic ‘firewall’ that was supposed to prevent establishment parties in Germany from cooperating with the reactionary Alternative for Germany (AfD). The CDU proposed a racist asylum bill in the Bundestag, fully aware that it would receive a majority if the AfD voted in favour. This was the first time that the AfD has been able to influence a significant political decision in the parliament. Together with the votes of the liberal FDP, the bill was passed.
Saudi Arabia: 20,000 killed in vanity construction project Recent reports into NEOM – an impossibly ambitious series of megaprojects being constructed by the Saudi Arabian monarchy in the desert – have revealed the slave-like conditions of the workers, which have already led to 20,000 deaths.
United States: a broken worldview – Identity Politics at a dead end In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, the bourgeois press has been engaged in sobering introspection about the decline of identity politics.
The Malayan “Emergency” While the collapse of the British Empire is often portrayed as the result of benevolence, this could not be further from the truth. This article, from a new booklet published by the Revolutionary Communist Party – the British section of the Revolutionary Communist International – examines the real role of British imperialism during the 1948-60 Malayan “Emergency”.
Trotsky's 'Permanent Revolution' published in Urdu for the first time We are very proud to announce the publication of the first ever Urdu translations of Leon Trotsky’s The Permanent Revolutionand Results and Prospects! These invaluable texts for revolutionaries everywhere have been painstakingly translated by the comrades of the Inqalabi Communist Party – the Pakistani section of the Revolutionary Communist International – for publication as a single book.
India: Samsung workers win union recognition – now the real fight must begin! Nearly 1,500 workers at Samsung’s massive plant in Chennai have battled the courts and the corrupt state government, both of which lined up behind their predatory multinational employer, to win recognition of their union. In addition to a 212-day legal fight, they launched a strike last September, which lasted 38 days. Overcoming vicious repression, hundreds of arrests, and all manner of underhanded manoeuvres from the bosses, they finally forced the Tamil Nadu Labour Department to register the Samsung India Workers‘ Union (SIWU) on 27 January.
Goma falls: impending catastrophe in the Congo Goma, the largest city in eastern Congo, has fallen to the ‘M23’ rebel group. At the time of writing it is unclear exactly how much of the city is under rebel control, but the sound of gunfire that had filled the city has reportedly died down.
Storms gathering: a Marxist analysis of the world economy Storm clouds are gathering over the world economy. Already, it is faced with slowing growth, rising interest and inflation rates, and astronomical debts. Now Trump’s ‘America First’ policy and his promise of tariffs threaten to make all of that worse.
Europe without America: a dark road ahead Before Trump had even been confirmed as the 47th President of the United States of America, one European think tank had declared that “the biggest crisis in transatlantic relations since Suez” is in progress. An EU bureaucrat echoed the same sentiment: “Are there any EU-US relations left?” Panic is ripping through the halls of power in Europe.
“ChatGPT just lost its job to AI” Just a week ago Donald Trump gathered some of his young new tech friends to announce the hubristically named Stargate: a colossal government-backed plan to spend $500 billion on AI and associated infrastructure. This, Trump confidently announced, was “the largest AI infrastructure project by far in history”, the purpose of which was to keep ”the future of technology” in the US.
Imperialist hypocrisy on full display at Auschwitz memorial ceremony 27th January marks the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Red Army's liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, where over a million Jews, Poles, Roma and communists were murdered by the Nazis. But the commemoration was tarnished by the hypocrisy of western imperialism.