2026 has started with an almighty imperialist bang. Given the current actions of US imperialism, kidnapping the president of Venezuela and threatening the rest of Latin America and Greenland, it is clear that imperialism is something communists must understand.

A popular myth is that the British working class is too weak to carry out a revolution. Yet by examining the concrete facts, we find working class Britons are highly proletarianised and have taken the path of struggle many times in the past years. Will Collins examines this question further.

Recently, reformists like Zack Polanski and Jeremy Corbyn have been putting forward the idea of a wealth tax. They claim this could easily raise billions in tax revenue. While their proposals are certainly popular, do they truly offer a way forward?