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It’s impossible to ignore the increase in grocery prices over the last few years. Food costs remain 30–35% higher than they were before the pandemic. Two-thirds of Americans say they find food prices unaffordable. Groceries rank third among products most commonly bought with “buy now, pay later” services.
The US government is having to pay increasing amounts of interest to borrow money. For the first time since 2007, interest on its 10-year debt has reached five percent. The crisis in the bond markets reflects the pressures arising from the Hormuz crisis, protectionism and the chaotic AI buildout.
The Central Committee of the RCA met in New York City last month, with 53 CC members and invited guests. We held discussions on US Perspectives, the Cuban Revolution, the Marxist view on the DSA, and building strongholds of the RCA. Here we summarize some of the main political conclusions from this meeting.
Nine months ago, Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City. He is now a national political figure. Some even described Zohran as a “kingmaker” after a wave of DSA candidates won Democratic primaries with his endorsement this summer. These electoral results would have been unthinkable 15 years ago.
Unable to resupply at bases in the Persian Gulf, conditions aboard ships like the USS Gerald Ford and USS Abraham Lincoln deteriorated during their marathon deployments. Sailors survived on small servings of revolting rations. They took minute-long showers with no soap, brushed their teeth without toothpaste, and went weeks without laundry service.
The rapper Macklemore was booted off a US tour with popstar Ed Sheeran after speaking up for Palestine on stage. Rather than go quietly, he went public about the coordinated campaign behind his cancellation, leading all the other support acts to...
“Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal—the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people,” said Zohran Mamdani in his most watched video statement to date. These words rang true in the ears of millions who oppose Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
On January 10, 2025, before the start of Trump’s second term, we published an article titled “Trump’s Empire of Chaos and the Delusion of ‘Fortress America.’” Given the many unknowns at the time, it holds up quite well overall. However, we made at least one glaring mistake. And that was to try to anticipate Trump’s actions rationally.
Kshama Sawant’s results and the votes for self-proclaimed socialists in Democrat primaries show the enormous potential to build support for revolutionary socialist—i.e., communist—ideas.
American workers are sick of being spied on. From Suffolk, VA to Southern California, AI surveillance cameras are being sawed down, smashed, and snatched off the streets.
A group of workers are stranded on a gantry in the dark. They have a choice: either inhale carbon monoxide from their helmets, or take them off and be exposed to high concentrations of toxic corrosion-inhibiting compounds.
With its ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, the US Supreme Court has dealt yet another blow to voting rights.
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.