In this talk from the RCP Summer School, Lubna Badi explores the main forces shaping today’s world: from the relative decline of US hegemony and the fracturing of western alliances, to Europe’s severe industrial downturn and the surge of class anger worldwide.

Corrupt FIFA boss Gianna Infantino has been forced to U-turn on his attempts to further commercialise football, following backlash from continental federations. But their protests ring hollow: at every level, the sport is being carved up for profit, while ordinary fans are squeezed.

Across the Indian subcontinent, workers and youth are entering into struggle, as the latest expression of the ‘Gen Z’ revolutionary wave. The conditions which led to these explosions – corruption, youth unemployment, and misery – exist all across the world, including here in Britain.