As the capitalist system decays, the ruling class in country after country is now forced to abandon even the pretense of a climate policy.

Militarism and wars, growing social inequalities, a political system dominated by billionaires, racism and sexism that show no signs of improving, global warming that is making life increasingly intolerable: the future facing young people is truly dystopian

War is spreading like a plague across the globe. From the brutal war in Ukraine to the genocide in Gaza, from the often overlooked conflicts in Sudan and the Congo to the rising tensions in the South China Sea, the world seems to be barreling towards violence and destruction. Meanwhile, arms manufacturers laugh all the […]

In Canada, inequality has reached a historic high. The richest 20 per cent now own 64.7 per cent of all the wealth, while the bottom 40 per cent own only 3.3 per cent. 

The “democracy” we live in is nothing but a dictatorship of billionaires.

No aspect of daily life is out of bounds for communists, including art and culture. But we don’t approach art as bourgeois critics do. Nor as Marxist school teachers, grading works of art according to how well they expound a revolutionary line. What’s really politically interesting about art is that successful works reflect something about the society they were created in. After all, to gain popularity art has to speak to the masses. 

The season finale of Spectre of Communism podcast welcomes Fred Weston, a leading comrade of the International Marxist Tendency, to explain the historic revolutionary importance of the Communist International. In doing so, Fred demonstrates the palpable need for a similar organisation in the world today. 

What is the role of China today? While some on the left have celebrated China’s ambitions as a counterweight to the United States, Jorge Martín explains that capitalism has long been restored in China, and today it has all the features of a rising imperialist power. “Multipolarity” will not benefit the workers of the world, who must trust solely in their own strength to throw off the chains of imperialism and capitalism internationally.

Written in 1916, in the middle of the First World War, Lenin’s Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism is an essential work for understanding the phenomena of war and imperialism today.

“The world political situation as a whole is chiefly characterized by a historical crisis of the leadership of the proletariat.” These lines, which date back to 1938 with Trotsky’s Transitional Program, could have been written yesterday. The present epoch is marked by a glaring contradiction: the immense revolutionary energy, yet the total absence of a political leadership capable or even willing to channel it into the struggle against the capitalists and their bankrupt system.