Over the past weeks, the most horrific images have come out of Gaza, showing men, women and children reduced to skin and bones. Having backed Israel fully in its genocide, politicians in the West are now scrambling to mask their own roles with token gestures.

The recent meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska has been met with a chorus of condemnation by the leaders of Europe. In this article, Alan Woods cuts through the propaganda in the media, and gives a Marxist analysis of the events in Ukraine.

Amid global crisis, rising inequality, and war, 350 communists met in Italy for the First Congress of the Revolutionary Communist International.