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What Epstein’s 2008 Arrest Says About Capitalist “Justice”
Palm Beach, Florida is one of the wealthiest zip codes in the country. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound is on one end, and less than two miles up the beach, in a private cul-de-sac, sits the mansion that Epstein purchased in 1990. There, he developed a system of recruiting and grooming vulnerable underage girls from nearby working-class neighborhoods to be sexually exploited.
Britain: May Elections 2026—A Funeral for the Two-Party System
Nationalists. Populists. Insurgents. Independents. None of the above. These were the assorted winners of Britain’s May elections.
Book Preview: Revolution and Counterrevolution in America
Coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the RCA is publishing John Peterson’s Revolution and Counterrevolution in America. Here we publish the introduction to the book.
Art, Alienation, and Revolution
In day-to-day life under capitalism and class society, the vast majority of people feel alienated from society, including from its greatest art and culture.
Prices Are Up … But the Real Inflation Crisis Hasn’t Even Begun
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.
Trump’s $1.5 Trillion Military Budget: Warfare, not Healthcare!
To pay for more wars, Trump wants to slash domestic programs by 10%, or $73 billion. His proposed cuts include $5 billion from various healthcare programs, $8.5 billion from public schools, and $5 billion from medical research, among other things.
Iran War Sparks Strike Wave in India
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has provoked an energy crisis in India. This sudden, huge increase in the cost of living has sparked a wave of strikes across the National Capital Region encompassing nearly a hundred thousand workers.
Trump and the Decay of US Bureaucracy
The character of the capitalist state’s administrators may seem to depend on the peculiarities of individual personalities. But beneath the surface, larger historical forces are at work.
Ireland: Fuel Protests Show the Way
Dublin city center was at a standstill for almost a week as farmers and haulers who had been stretched beyond breaking point blocked the streets with their heavy vehicles. Farmers joked that they had done their friends in the Green Party a favor, having at last pedestrianized Dublin City center.
May Day 2026: Communists out in Record Numbers!
In the wake of Trump 2.0, the Iran war, and the Minneapolis General Strike, the RCA anticipated that this would be the biggest May Day in the US in living memory.
“A Lot of People Feel Betrayed”: Iran War Drives Millions out of the MAGA Camp
Bold predictions were put forward in the aftermath of Trump’s 2024 electoral victory. Trump’s re-election signified, according to many, a fundamental cultural shift in America.
As the US Loses in Iran, China Is Coming out on Top
For nearly two decades, American presidents spoke of the need to “pivot to Asia” and confront their main rival—China. None, least of all Trump, figured it’d be the rest of the world that pivots to China … and away from the US.
The Communist: The Voice of America’s Communist Generation
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.