Ehsan Ali and other leading members of the Awami Action Committee in the Pakistan-administered region of Gilgit Baltistan have been arrested once again. The Revolutionary Communist International is running a solidarity campaign to secure the comrades’ release. Free Ehsan Ali! Hands off the AAC!

Giorgia Meloni, the prime minister of Italy, suffered a humiliating defeat in the referendum she had promoted on a constitutional reform held on 22-23 March. The referendum turned into a vote of no confidence in her government, with around 54 percent voting ‘No’ and 46 percent voting ‘Yes’. This has enormously weakened her standing in Italian politics.

On the weekend of 13-15 March the Organización Comunista Revolucionaria (OCR), the Spanish section of the Revolutionary Communist International, held its second national congress in Madrid. With 100 comrades and visitors in attendance, it was a truly inspiring event that many commented marked a personal turning point in their political development.

The oil blockade decreed by Trump on 29 January is slowly but surely asphyxiating Cuba, which relies on oil imports for 60 percent of its energy production. The Cuban government has admitted talks are taking place with the United States, but these take place in conditions of extreme imperialist blackmail. How can the Cuban Revolution be defended?

Spectre of Communism, the RCI’s history and theory show, returns next Tuesday (31 March)! We’re kicking off with a deep dive into Lenin’s Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, appropriately at a time when US imperialism has plunged the Middle East into a disastrous new conflict.

The Italian neorealist film movement emerged suddenly with the initial fall of Mussolini in Italy in 1943. In every way this movement expressed the profound break with the past and the revolutionary potential of the period – not only in the style and subject matter of its films, but also in the conditions for its emergence as a movement. 

Wellred Books is excited to announce the publication of a new and improved edition of Alan Woods’ The Venezuelan Revolution: A Marxist Perspective. Why should you read this book? Important though they are, this book is about more than the events in Venezuela in the early 2000s. Rather, it is an exemplar of how to apply the Marxist method to new phenomena, phenomena that defy simple categorisation. Reading this book is an education in itself in the Marxist method.

In 2015, the politics of reformism were put to the test in Greece in a dramatic showdown with the institutions of European finance capital. In this article, Arturo Rodriguez looks back at this period to explain the causes of the crisis, how the masses mobilised to defeat the austerity packages imposed on the country, and how this inspiring movement was betrayed by the Syriza leadership.

Cuba is currently on the brink of a humanitarian crisis as a result of the oil embargo imposed by the United States and its imperialist campaign of threats and attacks against Latin America. The US is aiming to regain its dominance over the region and oust its economic and political rivals: Russia and China.

"Head-spinning betrayal." These are the words of dissident Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene – and they are undoubtedly echoed by millions of Trump voters across America, who have watched their 'peace president' turn warmonger while they foot the bill at the gas pump and the grocery store.

The war in the Middle East, ignited by the US and Israel’s full-scale attack on Iran, has dealt a hammer blow to the world economy. Asia, though bearing no responsibility for Trump and Netanyahu’s reckless adventure, is among the heaviest casualties of the economic fallout. As the war rages with no end in sight, Asian workers must be ready to resist any attempt by the ruling class to make them foot the bill.

Seeing an opportunity, on 22 September 1980 Saddam Hussein invaded Iran. The Iranian military had largely dissolved following the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Islamic Republic, less than a year old, was far from having consolidated its power. The Islamists faced the grueling task of rebuilding the Iranian bourgeois state, as power remained effectively in the streets.

The most significant fact of the first round of the local elections in France was the very high level of abstention (42.4 percent). The politicians who congratulate themselves on an ‘increase in turnout’ compared to the March 2020 election ‘forget’ to mention that the latter was held in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In reality, for several decades we have been witnessing a systematic rise in abstention rates: 21.6 percent in 1983, 30.6 percent in 1995, 36.4 percent in 2014 and 42.4 percent this time around.

The imperialist aggression against Iran and Lebanon is provoking outrage among large sections of the youth and the working class worldwide.