In his masterpiece ‘Imperialism’, Lenin explained how the monopolies and banks rule over us, engendering conflict, chaos, and crisis. Today’s tumultuous situation is proof of this analysis. We need a revolution to expropriate the billionaires.

Announced yesterday, mainstream media have been going gaga for new pope Leo XIV. Yet the Church remains full of scandals, crises, and is riven with factionalism. A changing of the guard at the top offers no solutions, as the reign of Pope Francis illustrates.

Yesterday, the Indian Air Force carried out military attacks in Pakistan. The two countries are once again at war, using the question of Kashmir to cut across their own internal class divisions. We say: Only class war can end all wars!

This VE Day, we publish the editorial by Alan Woods from the latest issue of the Revolutionary Communist International’s quarterly theoretical journal, In Defence of Marxism, which cuts through the bourgeois propaganda surrounding WW2.

The second congress of the RCP was an electric event, like none other – rich in political understanding, revolutionary enthusiasm, and infectious confidence. There has never been a better time to get organised and join the communists!

Electoral success for Nigel Farage’s Reform in yesterday’s local and regional contests has provoked panic in Labour and Tory HQs alike. Britain’s political landscape is fracturing, as the centre ground collapses. Revolutionary upheavals impend.