As US and Israeli bombs rain over Iran, backed by Starmer, we are told that regime change – via imperialist intervention – is progressive because it will help liberate Iranian women.
The same people telling us this, meanwhile, are desperately trying to disentangle themselves from capitalism’s biggest ever scandal: the Epstein files.
Capitalist grooming gang
The facade that the capitalist establishment cares about the safety of women has been shattered through the Epstein scandal, in the most dramatic way possible. The idea that the ruling class defends women is a sick joke.
A prince, a diplomat, and a politician walk into a party. It sounds like the setup for a punchline. But this was the social circle that inhabited Epstein’s island, where disgusting abuse of children and women acted as the side dish to the elites’ main meal of financial machinations and dodgy dealings.
It is estimated that Epstein victimised over one thousand women. This was not a casual operation. It required a coordinated network.
Epstein and his handlers had a conscious strategy of targeting poor, vulnerable girls, who would be offered money in exchange for ‘massages’. These services quickly escalated into perverted cycles of sexual abuse, however.
It was not just poor women, though they were easier to groom. It is reported that Ghislaine Maxwell – Epstein’s life partner and co-conspirator in his sex trafficking business – would literally stop the car at the sight of pretty girls, before helping to reel them into his sordid web.
Older women were sent to Epstein’s friends. The youngest – minors – were kept for the monstrous financier himself.
This was nothing short of a billionaire grooming gang. And it should be named as such.
Exploitation and oppression
The mainstream media has attempted to individualise Epstein as an evil lone wolf. But he was no such thing. He was at the centre of the most powerful grooming gang in the world: the capitalist class.
It is the ruling class, including both super-rich men and women, that designates women as sexual objects and commodifies our bodies – the younger, the better.
The capitalists do this through their media, their institutions, and their culture. Their vile sexism and misogyny is laced into almost all the bourgeois media we consume: spewed out on the pages of their reactionary rags; in Hollywood movies; and by Big-Tech-owned social media platforms.
But this ideology has existed long before capitalism. It goes back to the dawn of class society itself.
In fact, the ruling class has always abused women (and children). The oppression of women may be the oldest oppression that exists. For millennia, women have been trapped in the home providing domestic labour; forced into prostitution, either on the streets or in the form of marriage, due to financial dependency.
The social role that women are expected to play is deeply embedded within capitalism and class society. And it is constantly reinforced by those at the top, because it is profitable.
It is profitable for the capitalists to place the burden of household tasks and childcare onto the shoulders of atomised women, rather than provide these as social services. And it is profitable to keep men and women divided apart as well, rather than united as workers against the bosses.
Divisive demagogy
The supposedly respectable ladies and gentlemen at the top of society knew what was happening in regards to Epstein’s systemic abuse. In many cases, they participated directly; in others, they turned a blind eye, closing ranks to protect their own.
Scandalously, these same degenerates now claim that they will bring freedom to the women of Iran, through their bombs and missiles. It is repulsive.
But with every one of their hypocritical lies, they are inadvertently forging a new generation of radicalised women and men, at home and abroad; a force that will fight for real liberation, through revolutionary class struggle.
We are approaching International Working Women’s Day.
A day started by COMMUNISTS, who fought for the liberation of women!
Today, the liberals lace their imperialism in the language of human rights and defending women. They are the enemies of our cause!
— Fiona Lali (@fiona_lali) March 3, 2026
The ideological weapons of the ruling class are becoming weaker every day.
In recent years, for example, right-wing parties and conservative culture-war promoters have relentlessly pushed the idea that ‘Muslim grooming gangs’ and asylum-seekers are the biggest danger to women and children in Britain.
Nigel Farage has been particularly vocal on this question: demagogically weaponising any cases of abuse involving Muslims, migrants, or minorities in order to suit his narrow interests and reactionary agenda: to divide the working class, and distract from the class questions in society.
Given that he is so concerned about the victims of sexual abuse, one would expect Farage to have loudly condemned ‘Prince’ Andrew and Donald Trump, with their links to Epsetin and his parties.
Or maybe he would denounce the police – an institution that is riddled with sexism and abuse?
This month marks five years since the death of Sarah Everard at the hands of police officer Wayne Couzens, for example. Everard’s rape and murder, only possible because Couzens utilised his police powers, became a lightning rod for anger at violence against women.
Of course, Farage and his chums haven’t said a thing about any of this – because these opportunists do not genuinely care about the abuse that women face. They and all their friends in finance are embroiled in this depravity.
Revolutionary struggle
The true allies of Iranian women, and of all the oppressed across the world, are their class brothers and sisters.
We say that with no sentimentality, but as a fact of class society. It is capitalism that breeds violence, sexism, and abuse.
It is our task as revolutionary communists to organise and mobilise workers and youth to overthrow this toxic system.
It was communists who began International Working Women’s Day. It was communists who fought to give women real dignity and liberty when the Bolsheviks led the Russian masses to power in 1917. And it will be the communists who complete this revolutionary legacy – the fight for genuine equality on the basis of class unity and socialism.
Trump administration fails to justify Epstein cover-up
The Epstein files have arrived at an unlucky moment for the world’s elites. Discontent is already rising; and then along comes your secret Big Book of Billionaire Sex Traffickers – all of whom have got away with it scot-free!
The ruling class is feeling the heat. Rarely has this been more apparent than with the shambolic performance of Pam Bondi – Trump’s Attorney General – at a judicial hearing last month. Across almost six hours, the US President’s principal legal advisor could not muster a single compelling argument in defence of her administration’s blatant cover-up of the Epstein files.
Instead, she resorted to calling her opponents washed-up anti-semites; lying under oath about Trump’s parties with underage girls; and refusing to apologise to the Epstein survivors sitting right behind her.
By leaning on all kinds of culture war talk in her crazed tirade, Bondi likely hoped she would generate a couple of soundbites to inflame divisions between workers – and distract their attention from the actual criminals she’s defending. But no such luck.
And so when all else failed, she resorted to bragging that the Dow Jones index was above 50,000. These distant stock market figures are surely a comfort to the millions living paycheck to paycheck!
For all their status and wealth, these elites are powerless without the support, or at least acquiescence, of the working class – who are now more burningly aware than ever of the naked corruption and immorality of the rich.
We in the RCI must seize on this anger, and fight to topple this decaying system once and for all!
Willow Fisher, Manchester
Norfolk’s Nazi police officer a “serious concern”
In November 2025 former Norfolk police officer Connor Rowley admitted to sending several thousand messages over WhatsApp including racist, homophobic, and anti-semitic remarks. He also shared videos of animal abuse, rape apologia, and Nazi content.
After wading through these thousands of messages, detectives intelligently established these actions were not a “one off”, and that this behaviour represented a “serious concern”. As a result, Rowley is now barred from the force – though only after he quit, mind you!
Assistant Chief Constable Nick Davison, who chaired the hearing against Rowley, has claimed that his conduct is “totally incompatible with being a police officer”.
But as we have seen time and time again, it is in fact the police force which acts as a breeding ground for such disgusting attitudes – whilst trying to cover up some of the nastiest actions of its members. Just look at Wayne Couzens and David Carrick… or the officers responsible for the death of Chris Kaba and abuse of Child Q… The list goes on.
This armed body of men cannot be reformed and must be swept away with the rest of the system. Only a proletarian-led organisation can guarantee the safety of all people and successfully root out the kind of individual who thrives off of bourgeois-sanctioned violence.
Tom Fowles, Norwich
Five years after Sarah Everard’s death, nothing has changed
Today, 3 March, marks the five years since Sarah Everard was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by off-duty Met police officer Wayne Couzens.
Couzens was later found to have had a history of sexual offences which had not been caught in the vetting process.
This was no one-off error. Already riddled with racists, abusers, and sexual offenders, it was revealed this year that – in order to quickly fill recruitment gaps – the Met police actively lowered its vetting standards between 2013 and 2023.
It’s estimated that 1,200 officers who would have been turned away from the force under previous standards were subsequently employed to “keep people safe”.
The Met has allegedly tightened its vetting standards again, but it’s too little, too late. You’d be hard pressed to find a single woman in Britain who trusts the police today.
And it’s not just a problem of a few real monsters slipping through the cracks.
It’s been three years since the Casey review found the Met to be institutionally racist, misogynistic, and homophobic – yet nothing has really changed. Today, only four percent of police officers who perpetrate violence against women and girls are being dismissed.
It’s no mystery why. After all, this anniversary of Sarah Everard’s murder has been preceded by the Epstein files’ horrifying details of the rape, torture, and abuse of countless girls – crimes all committed by the same ruling class whose system the police protect.
There is no ‘restoring trust’ in the police, or any part of the establishment. Ending violence against women requires ending capitalism.
Mia Foley Doyle, Kensington
