Figaro and the French Revolution

In the 2025 Romanian elections, the establishment, backed by the EU politicians and intelligence services, pulled out all the stops to prevent the insurgent anti-EU populist Călin Georgescu from getting in. The first election was overturned, and Georgescu, the winner, was arrested and banned from running again on the pretext of alleged ‘Russian interference’.

Six prime ministers in ten years. Labour just lost fifteen hundred council seats. Has Britain become ungovernable?

A Florida federal prosecutor has indicted the Cuban Revolution leader Raúl Castro with charges of conspiracy to kill US citizens and murder. This is a very dangerous escalation of the Trump-Rubio campaign to smash the Cuban Revolution and must be strongly repudiated by the working class movement internationally. The Revolutionary Communist International rejects this stepping up of US aggression against Cuba. We stand unconditionally for the defence of the Cuban Revolution. 

From 15 to 17 May, the Second Congress of the Partito Comunista Rivoluzionario (PCR) was held in Cervia, attended by 229 communist activists from across Italy. The congress was a resounding success and provided a vivid illustration of the extraordinary progress the party has made over the past year. But, even more important, these three days of debate offered an inspiring perspective on the tumultuous events our organisation has passed through in recent months, and the tasks that lie ahead.

15 May marked 78 years since the Nakba, the brutal terror campaign waged by Zionist forces against Palestinians to found the state of Israel. British imperialism – having subjected the region to decades of domination, plunder, and division – was central to this catastrophe.

Mozart’s opera ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ caused a storm when it was first performed in 1786. In this article, Alan Woods explains the subversive nature of the opera, and how it revolutionised the art form. Importantly, he shows how it gave expression to the growing ferment in society, which culminated in the French Revolution only a few years later.