The CDU’s Friedrich Merz will be Germany’s next Chancellor. But with geopolitical and economic turmoil ahead, the next government will be even more unstable and discredited than than the last. Polarisation and class struggle are on the order of the day.

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.