The Egyptian security forces have bloodily crushed and dismantled the protest camps of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) supporters, set up in Cairo as focal points to regroup and mobilise their forces after the overthrow of Morsi. This marks yet another dramatic change in the situation facing the Egyptian revolution. Marxists can support neither the army generals nor the MB in this struggle, but only the revolutionary masses.

News of further Labour Party and Socialist Party resignations in Ireland has emerged over the last few days. These resignations reflect a dissatisfaction with the existing parties in the face of the social, economic and political crisis within the state. The task of Marxists is to win the working class to a revolutionary programme. There are no short cuts to this.

The dramatic events in Turkey, Brazil and Egypt are a graphic indication that we have now entered an entirely new situation on a world scale. We publish here a recent statement by the International Marxist Tendency on the process of world revolution that is rapidly unfolding before our eyes as the masses enter the scene of history globally.