A recent article published by the UN accidentally reveals the exploitation and wage-slavery upon which the capitalist system is based. To end poverty and hunger, we need to plan the economy along socialist lines – we need a revolution.

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.