We publish here the contents of a speech by Jorge Martín to a meeting of the Revolutionary Communist International’s leadership. In it, he covers the seismic shifts taking place in world relations, and the revolutionary pressures building up everywhere.

In a matter of weeks, President Trump has upended the decades-old ‘western alliance’. With US-Russia relations opening up, European powers have been left in the eye of the storm, carrying enormous social and political implications.

Here we publish an excerpt from ‘Colossus: The Rise and Decline of US Imperialism’, a new title by John Peterson, a leading RCI member in the USA. The book covers Lenin’s analysis of imperialist war, plus the rise and relative decline of US imperialism.