The ‘Epstein class’ exposed: how the ruling class rules

The Epstein files give us something unusual. Never before have we had such an insight, albeit partial and uneven, into the inner workings of the capitalist class.

The cities of La Paz and El Alto have for weeks been inundated with marches, pitched battles with police, strikes, and blockades, sparked by the fight against counterforms and inflation. Now, the struggle has gone beyond these demands, and is demanding the right-wing pro-US government fall. How did we get here, and where is the movement going?

What will Israel, the Gulf, the Middle East and Asia look like after the Iran War? This was the starting point for this week’s special Q&A episode of Against the Stream, in which Hamid Alizadeh and Jorge Martín worked through the best and toughest questions from our comment section.

In the elections of 2022, Lula received the votes of 60.3 million Brazilians (38.6 percent of the electorate). How many of these actually supported the political agenda of the coalition led by Lula cannot be known. What is certain is that more than 60 million Brazilians did not want Bolsonaro to remain in office as President of the Republic and went to the polls with the common goal of removing him.

With 350 participants, this year’s Pfingstseminar was by far the biggest ever. And with over 100 comrades from the RKP in Germany in attendance, it was a truly internationalist school. Under the motto “Down with Imperialism!”, the event served as a powerful impetus for building the forces of revolutionary communism in the German speaking world. We also welcomed comrades from Britain, Switzerland, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Hungary.