Category: International

  • Italian general strike: a dramatic turn in the world situation

    Italian general strike: a dramatic turn in the world situation

    What happened in Italy on Friday 3 October has very few precedents. Think about it. A political strike. A political general strike. A political general strike over internationalist solidarity and against imperialism. Millions participated in industrial action, two million participated in mass demonstrations and hundreds of thousands took direct action under the slogan of “let’s…

  • ISRAEL HAS INTERCEPTED THE FLOTILLA: BLOCK EVERYTHING! – FOR A WORKERS’ BOYCOTT AND GENERAL STRIKE!

    ISRAEL HAS INTERCEPTED THE FLOTILLA: BLOCK EVERYTHING! – FOR A WORKERS’ BOYCOTT AND GENERAL STRIKE!

    At around 6pm GMT on 1 October, Israeli armed forces intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla of over 40 vessels which had been travelling towards Gaza to break the naval blockade and deliver humanitarian aid. By this morning, 2 October, the majority of the boats had been seized by Israel and their occupants, hundreds of people,…

  • Trump at the United Nations

    Trump at the United Nations

    “He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.” – Berthold Brecht They sat there in stunned silence, petrified, like a row of stone statues staring at their highly polished footwear. They resembled nothing less than a group of naughty children, suffering the pitiless admonishments of a sadistic headmaster in a draughty school assembly…

  • Charlie Kirk assassination creates a martyr for MAGA

    Charlie Kirk assassination creates a martyr for MAGA

    If it is enough to arm oneself with a pistol in order to achieve one’s goal, why the efforts of the class struggle? If a thimbleful of gunpowder and a little chunk of lead is enough to shoot the enemy through the neck, what need is there for a class organization?

  • Rulers cower as Nepalese masses seek to burn the system down

    Rulers cower as Nepalese masses seek to burn the system down

    Protesters have set fire to the federal parliament, Supreme Court, political party officers and homes of senior politicians. The Prime Minister has resigned, along with a whole host of cabinet ministers. The army is evacuating politicians from their homes. After putting up with years of crushing poverty, the Nepalese youth have had enough. They have…

  • Indonesia: the wheel of revolution has turned

    Indonesia: the wheel of revolution has turned

    Within a week, what began as demonstrations with a semi-insurrectionary character have turned into an open revolutionary uprising which shows no sign of stopping. It is not only tearing down government buildings and police stations, but more importantly, it is shattering the mass stupor that has kept the people in chains. A revolution has begun.

  • ‘Humanitarian city’: Netanyahu’s ‘final solution’ for Gaza

    ‘Humanitarian city’: Netanyahu’s ‘final solution’ for Gaza

    Since breaking the ceasefire in March, Israel has aimed to render Gaza uninhabitable, to drive it towards total collapse, and thereby to prevent anyone from staying or returning.

  • Down with the war on Iran! Down with US imperialism!

    Down with the war on Iran! Down with US imperialism!

    “NOW IS TIME FOR PEACE,” wrote US President Donald Trump on Truth Social on Saturday. On the same day, the US carried out its biggest military attack on Iran in modern history. Trump was backed by European leaders, including his obedient servant in Downing Street, all of whom have been calling on Iran to show…

  • Iran war: “those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad”

    Iran war: “those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad”

    As I write these lines, the attention of the entire world is focused on one man. His every word is studied, dissected and analysed in the most extraordinary detail, in the hope that one might derive some sense as to what it may, or may not, signify. The efforts of the self-styled experts closely resemble…

  • Pakistan: URGENT SOLIDARITY APPEAL – release arrested leaders of the Awaami Action Committee Gilgit Baltistan!

    Pakistan: URGENT SOLIDARITY APPEAL – release arrested leaders of the Awaami Action Committee Gilgit Baltistan!

    The Revolutionary Communist International protests the arrest of the leaders of the Awaami Action Committee Gilgit Baltistan (AAC-GB) and of the Inqalabi Communist Party by police in Pakistan. We send our solidarity to the arrested comrades, who are facing repression for opposing the plunder of the land and resources of the region by the capitalists…