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When the Flamingo Revolution began five months ago, the Albanian masses set out with a clear intention—to keep the protests peaceful. But five months on, very little had been achieved. As the movement began to ebb, Prime Minister Edi Rama continued to smear demonstrators as “foreign agents” in an effort to discredit and demoralize them.
Two years after trouncing Kamala Harris, Donald Trump has himself been dealt a crushing electoral blow. The forecasted “blue wave” turned out to be a “blue tsunami.” Tens of millions voted against Trump and for the only other apparent option—the Democratic Party.
On the 120th anniversary of The Jungle’s publication as a novel, The Communist revisits Upton Sinclair’s exposure of the rotten Beef Trust in South Side Chicago. Today, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is remembered for its stomach-churning descriptions...
The largest street protests in Brazil’s history, lasting three weeks, resulted in an unprecedented electoral turnaround that had been deemed almost impossible by virtually all analysts.
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament.” A majority of Americans would agree with this description by Lenin of so-called “democracy” under capitalism.
In early October, five thousand school students across Austria went on strike against the government’s recent racist hijab ban in schools, for girls under 14. As part of the strike, demonstrations took place in Vienna, Innsbruck, Graz, Linz and Bregenz. There were also rallies in Salzburg and Klagenfurt.
At its height, the movement this weekend saw the French masses fight the police to within 300 meters of the steps of the Elysée Palace. We can only imagine the tension in the president’s office. Across the country a million, perhaps two million people were mobilized. The ruling class has been shaken to its core.
Last week we saw the youth movement that is sweeping Europe arrive in Italy. On Friday, October 16, there were student marches across the country, from the major cities—where squares were filled with several thousand young people—to smaller towns.
The massive wave of protests in France on Saturday was a militant escalation of a movement that has swept the country and is striking fear in the heart of the Macron government. Despite brutal repression, workers and youth have continued to mobilize in increasing numbers. With a bold, revolutionary program, these protests have the potential to bring down not only the hated government, but the entire rotten system.
Throughout childhood, we were told a college education is the path to financial success. Forget about the exorbitant price tag, they said. A degree will open up lucrative opportunities, which are well worth the debt you’ll accrue. But in today’s job market, graduates are having doors slammed in their faces. All they’re left with is crippling student debt.
On Saturday, October 10, tens of thousands took to the streets of central London once again—in solidarity with Palestine, and to protest against three years of Israel’s genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza, which has seen over 100,000 Palestinians killed, and millions displaced.
“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” The public resignation letter of 27-year-old Jacob Coxon, a former AI researcher at Anthropic, quickly racked up over 170 million views on X. “No other human activity poses this level of danger.”
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.