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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.
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.
Palestine Action rose to prominence after activists broke into a military base and spray-painted some jets in protest of Britain’s support for Israel. For this, the group was proscribed by Keir Starmer’s Labour government in 2025.
Two weeks after the political earthquake in Saxony-Anhalt, the state elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania have dealt another blow to the ruling CDU-SPD coalition. Chancellor Friedrich Merz is in a difficult position.
The last ten days have turned Spanish politics upside down. The eviction of 87-year-old private renter, Maricarmen, from her flat in Sainz de Baranda street in Madrid on September 23 set off a chain of events which very few expected, but which nevertheless were implicit in the situation.
October 6—the third act of the school students’ protests that have rocked France since the beginning of the school year—represented yet another escalation of the movement. The demonstrations were huge everywhere.
The Dutch government is trying to impose a budget which cuts billions from the welfare state to spend billions on imperialist rearmament. This week, thousands of workers from across the Netherlands are striking to stop them.
Not that you would have heard about it in the western media, but Ukraine has been rocked by a series of corruption scandals reaching the highest echelons of law enforcement in the last few days.
The election result in the poor, rural East German state of Saxony-Anhalt, home to just 2.1 million residents, has hit the German ruling class like a thunderclap. Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has won nearly 44 percent of the vote, up from just over 20%.
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.