
Last week, US President Donald Trump arrived at the UN for what was meant to be a 15-minute speech. Instead, he delivered a fiery hour-long rant, not against Russia or China, but Europe, harshly criticising America’s allies with unrelenting anger.

This Monday, a general strike against the genocide in Gaza shook Italy. In France, more than a million demonstrated last week. In Nepal, the government was overthrown. The masses arose in Indonesia. It is September 2025 and we are witnessing a revolutionary wave!

From Nepal, Sri Lanka, Kenya to Bangladesh, a revolutionary wave has blown across countries dominated by imperialism. Ben Curry analyses the meaning of this wave and the generalised lessons to be taken by revolutionaries.