This Monday, the IDF seized a sailboat carrying aid to Gaza, and deported those on board including climate activist Greta Thunberg. This latest criminal act has once again exposed the western leaders’ hypocrisy, and has sparked to an outpouring of anger internationally.

Targeted raids by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Los Angeles have sparked an inspiring spontaneous fightback over the weekend. Trump escalated the provocation by sending in the national guard. Workers organisations must mobilise to defend immigrant workers in deeds, not just words.

At last Saturday’s national anti-austerity demonstration, 400 Revolutionary Communist Party activists hit the streets of London in possibly the biggest communist mobilisation in decades. We say: Revolution against the billionaires! Expropriate the rich! Join the Communists!

In preparation for the first congress of the Revolutionary Communist International, this special episode of Against the Stream, the weekly podcast of the RCI, covers the perspectives for the epoch of war, revolution and counter-revolution the world is now entering.

Beneath the surface, anger is rising within the labour movement. From teachers to doctors to bin workers, the industrial struggle will likely sharpen in the coming months. Workers need a political struggle against Starmer and the entire billionaires’ system, writes Ben Gliniecki.

This Saturday, tens of thousands – including hundreds of RCP comrades – will march in London against austerity. Starmer and Reeves are facing growing opposition to their programme of cuts. The communists call for revolution against the billionaires!