#FreeTalha – urgent solidarity action with Bangladeshi students

We demand the unconditional release of Talha Mahmud Chowdhury, along with all other students who are being detained by Sheikh Hasina’s regime.

Talha’s next hearing is on 7 August. In the run up to this date, we call on all our comrades, readers and supporters to contact their Bangladesh embassies, high commissions and diplomatic missions to demand Talha’s immediate release, along with all other student detainees.

Urgent note on Venezuela: How did we reach this dead end?

The situation in Venezuela is developing very quickly after Sunday’s election.

Fight imperialism and war! Workers of the world unite! – RCI statement

The time is ripe for a broad-based, international campaign around a clear programme to fight militarism and imperialism. Towards this end, the Revolutionary Communist International proposes the following programme as the starting point for such a campaign, and we call upon every individual or organisation seriously opposed to imperialist war to contact us, to put their name to the same campaign, and to join us in this task.

Biden abandons the race: Can switching horses midstream stop Trump?

In yet another dramatic twist in the tragicomic soap opera of American politics, Joe Biden has ended his reelection campaign.

‘An inch from civil war’: A near miss for US capitalism

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump has accelerated the polarisation of American society, as the Republican presidential candidate dodged death by the narrowest of margins. But it wasn’t just Trump who dodged a bullet. The entire country went right up to the edge of a precipice, before taking half a step back. As the title […]

French elections: No deals with the right! All out to apply and deepen the NFP programme!

The results of the second round of the French legislative elections brought joy and, above all, relief to millions of voters who feared a victory for the far-right National Rally (RN) bloc.

Biden and Trump debate: Zombie vs. gangster

Following the first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, one question is on the minds of millions of ordinary Americans and the US ruling class: “How the hell are these our only options?”

Kenya: ‘Welcome to the Gen Z revolution!’

Big events are rocking Kenya. The government of William Ruto – faithful servant of Washington, the IMF and the World Bank – is attempting to shove punitive taxes down the throats of the masses. And his government has reaped an explosion of the youth, which has spontaneously flooded the streets of every major town and city. There are revolutionary elements in the situation, and many are talking of Sri Lanka coming to Kenya.

Communists say: capitalism is incompatible with free speech!

Communists are the only ones mounting a consistent defence of free speech—from our own class perspective.

The founding conference of the Revolutionary Communist International begins!

Today, over 500 communists from every corner of the globe gathered for the first day of the founding conference of the Revolutionary Communist International (RCI), with 7,160 more having signed up to watch online so far. The atmosphere was electric as comrades discussed the class struggle on every continent, with a focus on the central task of the RCI in its founding week: recruiting and training communists for the coming revolution.