After months of protest, the Sri Lankan masses have stormed the grounds of the president and the prime minister, forcing leader Gota Rajapaksa to flee the country. These explosive events are a harbinger of revolutionary developments worldwide.

Every year on 12 July, Ulster loyalists in the North of Ireland celebrate William of Orange’s victory at the Battle of the Boyne. In this article from 1913, Irish Marxist James Connolly explains the real meaning of these sectarian traditions.

The recent NATO Summit in Madrid was hailed as a victory for the powers of Western imperialism, keen to show off their ‘unity’. But beneath the surface they are far from united, as their diverging interests over Ukraine and China reveal.