The US invasion of Venezuela at the beginning of this year is an event of historic significance. With the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife under a hail of bullets and bombs, the Trump administration announced the definitive end of the ‘rules-based’ world order.

In 2022, Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party was re-elected for the fourth time in a row, with the highest vote share won by any Hungarian party since 1989. At the time, Orbán remarked that “we won a victory so big that you can see it from the moon, and you can certainly see it from Brussels”. Four years later, and after 16 years in government, Fidesz has been ousted from power, shedding 80 seats since the previous election.

On 10-12 April, 150 communists gathered in Stockholm for the congress of the Revolutionary Communist Party.

On 10 April, Easter Saturday, 1993, South African Communist Party (SACP) leader and chief of staff of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the African National Congress’s (ANC) armed wing, Chris Hani, was assassinated. Hani was one of the most popular mass leaders of the revolutionary anti-apartheid movement, second only to Nelson Mandela. He was seen by many – especially amongst the black youth – as a radical counterweight to the moderate ANC leaders negotiating with the apartheid regime.

2025 marked the 500th anniversary of the peak of the German Peasants' War of 1524-26. In the course of the war, the oppressed masses in both the towns and the countryside rose up against the decaying feudal order. The defeat of the rebels in May-June 1525 would leave an indelible mark on the history of Germany, and of Europe as a whole.

On 7 March, 12 of the most reactionary Latin American leaders gathered at Trump’s golf course in Doral, Florida, to inaugurate the ‘Shield of the Americas’ (SOTA) strategic partnership. It marks a new chapter of national subservience and imperialist domination on the continent.

“Total and complete victory. 100 percent. No question about it.” With these words, Donald Trump described the two-week ceasefire with Iran announced last night.

4-5 April marked the first Congress of the Inqalabi Communist Party, the Pakistani section of the Revolutionary Communist International. The Congress met under intense objective difficulties: inflation and skyrocketing fuel prices are shaking the country, and organising a central event of this size is therefore incredibly difficult. On top of this, police repression has sharply increased against the masses who are suffering under these conditions.

The US-Israeli war on Iran and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz have created a crisis in the world economy and further exposed the fault lines between US imperialism and its Russian and Chinese competitors.

As chaos and catastrophe engulfs the Middle East, and in turn the global economy, it can seem like the whole world has gone mad.

Throughout history, human societies have established moral codes to live by, which have also provided a powerful ideological force for the maintenance of the existing order. Today, the hypocrisy of the capitalist moral order is being increasingly exposed and challenged by the masses. In this article, Hélène Bissonnette explains how morality develops, its hypocritical nature under class society, and the crisis of bourgeois morality today.

Yesterday, on 2 April, hundreds of revolutionary communists assembled outside Pakistan’s diplomatic missions all over the world to demand the immediate release of Ehsan Ali and all other arrested members of the Awami Action Committee in Gilgit-Baltistan. We will not rest until we have justice! 

Economically devastating and politically destabilising, Trump’s war against Iran has catastrophic implications for Europe. It is a disaster that the declining and deindustrialising powers of the continent absolutely cannot afford.

Approximately 60 percent of Americans have opposed the war in Iran from its very outset. Compare that to the 90 percent of Americans who supported the war in Afghanistan when it commenced in 2001, and we can see at a glance what an enormous sea change has occurred in the US in the past two decades.

Spectre of Communism – the theoretical podcast of the RCI – kicks off a new season by exploring one of the most fundamental and important topics of today: imperialism.