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In January 1979, the Iranian masses brought down Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, America’s favorite Middle Eastern dictator. The movement of the Iranian people astonished the world and shook the foundations of American imperialism in the region. Though it ended in counterrevolution, the early phases of the Iranian Revolution are an inspiring example of the power of the working class.
The MAGA coalition is fracturing under the impact of Trump’s betrayals. As “right populism” goes into crisis, its mirror opposite is rearing its head.
The American ruling class would like nothing more than for workers to think that revolution is alien to the US. But Ken Burns’ new docuseries, The American Revolution, is a powerful refutation of this prejudice.
2025 marks 126 years since what is known as the Philippine-American War. But to characterize it as a war is deeply misleading, as it suggests a conflict between two roughly equal forces.
Following the victory of the Bolsheviks in October 1917, the imperialists of the world did their utmost to strangle the new workers’ state. John Peterson uncovers the little-known history of US imperialism’s involvement.
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution was a watershed moment in the history of the class struggle. Long before the 2008 crisis, BLM, or the rise of Sanders or Mamdani, it gave credibility to anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism, and socialism.
The theory of permanent revolution stands alongside Lenin’s theory of imperialism as one of the most important contributions to Marxism since the deaths of Marx and Engels.
Despite the historic task that faced the Fourth International, after Trotsky’s assassination, many of its “leaders” played a lamentable role. Amidst a sea of confusion, Ted Grant—founder of the organization that is now the Revolutionary Communist International (RCI)—stands out as the only consistent defender of the genuine, revolutionary method of Marxism.
Only the ideas of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky, which were rescued by Ted Grant from the degeneration of the Fourth International in the postwar period, can offer a scientific method of analysis and a way out of the crisis of capitalism.
World War I brought about the collapse of the Second International at its beginning, and a wave of revolutions towards its end. It was in this context that Lenin successfully built the Third (Communist) International.
To defuse threats to their newfound command over America’s wealth, the capitalists were compelled to grant a series of concessions, guaranteeing democratic rights that had been won in hard-fought struggle.
You’ll never hear a genuine Marxist talk about “democracy” in the abstract. We stand for the right of workers to speak and assemble as a means to an end in the struggle against the capitalists.
The Communist is the official newspaper of the party of the Revolutionary Communists of America. It is different from any other publication you’ll find in the US today. Behind this newspaper, there’s a vast network of communist activity from coast to coast. It is a tool for organizing in the streets, at protests and strikes, for building communist cells in our neighborhoods, workplaces, and campuses.
The RCA is on a mission to carry Bolshevism into the political arena of a country that’s ripe for it. Yes, we’re Bolsheviks living in the digital age, and we also use social media and our podcast to spread the communist program. But we’re not the kind of internet leftists who stay inside and “do politics” online. That’s why we need something we can carry with us into the streets and put into people’s hands. The physical paper is an instrument for building a real-life organization—a genuine Communist Party of fighters.