Lately, the relationships between Trump and his European acolytes have turned sour. It turns out that it is rather difficult to build a ‘nationalist international’ – not least when the world is being riven apart by imperialist contradictions and national antagonisms.

Over the past year, Nigel Farage has changed his tune massively. From touting policies like re-nationalisation, he is now talking about “waging war” on “benefits culture”, even if it leads to riots. This is an open declaration of class war.

Last Saturday, the Nakba 78 march dwarfed the size of Tommy Robinson’s ‘Unite The Kingdom’ rally. The enormous reserves of support for Palestine, combined with a desire to fight racism and the right, have shown a glimpse of the real balance of forces.

To conclude our series on the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, we publish an excerpt from Ben Gliniecki’s book ‘A Communist History of the British General Strike’, which outlines the lessons of this monumental struggle for revolutionaries and class fighters today.

The Revolutionary Communist Party has launched a summer recruitment campaign under the slogan ‘Wipe out the Epstein class!’. Here, we explain the profound impact this scandal is having upon consciousness, the meaning of the ‘Epstein class’, and why only communists can give real content to this slogan.

Today marks 78 years since the Nakba, the brutal terror campaign waged by Zionist forces against Palestinians to found the state of Israel. British imperialism – having subjected the region to decades of domination, plunder, and division – was central to this catastrophe.