Alan Woods analyses the result of three recent elections, all of which bear witness to highly significant processes that are now moving with great speed. These processes are not confined to one or two countries, but are manifestations of the same global phenomenon of increasing economic, political and social instability.

America is going through the biggest political upset in living memory, perhaps longer. Never has the American Establishment, having lost control over the situation, been in such a state of confusion. Rob Sewell, editor of Socialist Appeal, looks across the pond to the radical mood that is developing around Bernie Sanders.

The latest in a series of annual reports from Oxfam, detailing the level of economic inequality in our world, is a striking example of Marx’s prediction that capitalism concentrates wealth in fewer and fewer hands. Oxfam’s statistics demonstrate that the capitalist system is not sustainable.