Writing for the first issue of The Communist, readers highlight some of the most egregious examples of the global elites’ debauchery and depravity: from eye-watering inequality, to sordid scandals, to hypocritical hedonism. Overthrow their system!

The Tories are using public sector workers in the North of Ireland as pawns in their efforts to end the political paralysis at Stormont. But workers across the sectarian divide are refusing to be passive observers, and are moving into action.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is drawing out the war on Gaza in an effort to save his own political skin. But in doing so, he is heightening all the tensions inside Israel, across the region, and in turn for world capitalism.