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The US-Israeli war on Iran is a turning point, not just in the balance of forces between the powers, but also in the world economy. It is bringing to the fore all the contradictions that have been accumulating over the past period: inflation, debt, and the looming recession.
As workers trim their grocery lists and avoid driving to save money, corporate profits reached almost 16% of GDP—a historic high.
According to the UN’s World Food Programme, “The total number of people around the world facing acute levels of hunger could reach record numbers in 2026 if the escalation in the Middle East continues to destabilize the world’s economy.”
When Al emerged some years ago, commentators said that Al and robots were going to take over the world, that we were all going to be unemployed, and so on. But at the time, this was more conjecture than anything. Without investment, AI as we know it would never have become a reality.
The material conditions of young workers in the US are plummeting, and everyone can see it. Even the most pro-capitalist, right-wing members of the Epstein class are saying it.
The most dramatic result of the US-Israeli war on Iran will be its impact on the world economy. Even if the war were to end tomorrow—which is exceedingly unlikely—the economic fallout will last months, if not years.
BYD’s rise has come as a shock to Western capital. When Elon Musk was asked about competition from BYD in 2011, he laughed. Musk and co. didn’t see it as a serious competitor. He’s not laughing now.
“When you see one cockroach, there are probably more…” So said Jaimie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, after last year’s sudden, multi-billion dollar collapse of Tricolor and First Brands shined a spotlight on the murky world of private credit. Dimon...
Odds are you’ve heard about so-called “prediction markets.” While traditional casinos fleece workers with games of chance, platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi allow users to gamble on anything. Gamblers even wager on war and regime change.
It is entirely possible to achieve Zohran’s program on the billionaire’s dime. But to do so, he needs to step outside the boundaries of bourgeois politics and rely on the power of his working-class base.
As the world’s elite met in the Swiss Alps of Davos for their economic forum charade, the latest Oxfam report on wealth inequality revealed capitalism’s true face.
In the past, patients traveled from underdeveloped countries into the US—but this has turned into its opposite. The key driver for this shift is the exorbitant price of healthcare in the US.
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.