2026 began with a bang. More precisely, it began with bombs exploding in Caracas and the kidnapping of Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro. In case you weren’t aware, that’s not supposed to happen in the “rules based international order.” 

Donald Trump has bulldozed his way into 2026. Now, he has put the acquisition of Greenland at the top of his new year’s wishlist, sending the Europeans into panic and jeopardising trans-Atlantic relations even further.

Two weeks since ICE agents in Minneapolis murdered protester Renee Good, the movement that erupted in response to her killing continues to gain momentum. In the epicenter of 2020’s George Floyd uprising, protesters have clashed with police and ICE thugs. Ordinary workers are organizing and strategizing to safeguard their neighbors and coworkers, and the idea of a citywide general strike has seized the imagination of a growing layer of the population. This speaks volumes about the mood of class rage permeating US society as the “war on terror” is turned directly

In an extraordinary escalation of the repression against the international Palestine movement, journalist and founder of red. media Hüseyin Doğru has been made a non-person by the European Commission. The nature of the sanction levelled against Doğru really is extraordinary. In effect, with this action the European Commission has given itself the right to completely negate any individual’s democratic and human rights.

Donald Trump’s desire to seize control of Greenland and its resources has brought US imperialism into conflict with Europe. This puts Starmer in a quandary, as he and the British establishment attempt a delicate, unsustainable balancing act.

As of November 2025, the Modi-led BJP government has started to bring its new Labour Codes into effect. These laws represent nothing short of a wholesale decimation of workers’ rights and conditions, aimed at turning us into nothing but raw material for exploitation. The Revolutionary Communists of India – RCI(I) support the central trade unions’ call for an all-India general strike on 12 February to repel Modi’s latest attack!

Every day that passes since the imperialist aggression of 3 January, and the kidnapping of the Venezuelan president and his wife, brings new information that clarifies the picture and needs to be analysed.

The bar fire in Crans-Montana is one of the greatest disasters in Swiss history. The entire political establishment is trying to portray the 40 deaths and 116 injuries as the result of a fateful coincidence. But the truth is that this disaster was entirely man-made. The cause lies in the short-sighted, reckless pursuit of profit that drives capitalism.

We publish here Rob Sewell’s introduction to the brand new, third volume of the Collected Writings of Ted Grant. Rob explains Ted Grant’s unwavering struggle in defence of the genuine method of Marxism in the aftermath of the Second World War, despite the immense confusion of the other leaders of the Trotskyist movement internationally, after Trotsky’s death.

US President Donald Trump wants to take over Greenland. He argues that he will bring peace and give independence to the Greenlanders, but that is obviously a lie.

A hundred years ago, in the midst of the First World War, an anonymous pamphlet under the pen-name ‘Junius’ appeared in Zurich and rapidly began to circulate throughout the international workers’ movement. This pamphlet had in fact been written from inside a German prison cell by Rosa Luxemburg.

Press reports on January 14 revealed that the United States is already proceeding with the sale of Venezuelan oil and will control the money raised. This is an outrageous semi-colonial arrangement which gives Trump control over the resources of a formally sovereign country. What is the Venezuelan government’s response to this blackmail?

2026 is only a few weeks old, yet world events are already unfolding at breakneck speed. From Donald Trump’s kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, to the killing of Renee Good and the protests against ICE in Minneapolis, and now the growing mass movement and the prospect of US intervention in Iran, huge events are shaking up the world situation.

In the pantheon of great Russian writers, Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) stands out as a master of his craft, whose influence on modern literature endures to this day.

The Paris Commune of 1871 was the first workers’ state in history. For roughly six weeks, from 18 March to 28 May, the workers of Paris ran the city democratically, whilst heroically resisting the onslaught of the old order, based at Versailles.