On 26 March, the Estonian parliament – the Riigikogu – voted through a new addition to the constitution. The amendment revokes the right to vote in local elections for non-EU citizens, as well as stateless people residing in Estonia from the next election. This means the loss of voting rights for over 15 percent of the population!

On Wednesday 14 May, the Colombian Senate rejected a proposal for a referendum to vote on key aspects of the labour reform proposed by the Pacto Histórico, the ruling coalition composed of left-wing parties.

The Red Line demonstration in The Hague on 18 May attracted more than 100,000 participants and was the largest demonstration in the Netherlands since the trade union demonstration on Museumplein in October 2004, more than 20 years ago. It is clear that the mood in the Netherlands is shifting.

Elias Rodriguez has been charged with murdering two low-level Israeli embassy staffers in an apparent act of protest in solidarity with Palestine. Already, the imperialists and their media have cynically used this to justify their support for the ongoing genocide in Gaza and their anti-democratic attacks on the pro-Palestine movement.

The British establishment have ramped up their witch hunt against Kneecap. Band member Mo Chara was charged with a terror offence for arousing “reasonable suspicion that he is a supporter of a proscribed organisation, namely Hezbollah.”

Lenin always maintained that the ultimate victory of the Russian Revolution was linked to that of the world revolution. His internationalism was a direct continuation of that of Marx and Engels. But in 1924, Stalin broke with this tradition by presenting his reactionary theory of ‘socialism in one country’. In this article, Niklas Albin Svensson explains why genuine Marxists are internationalists, why Stalin came to revise Marxism, and how this would have disastrous consequences for decades to come.

While the rest of the left is losing its head and moping about the dramatic events provoked by the crisis of capitalism, we communists are moving forward resolutely. We are preparing, methodically but with a sense of urgency, for the inevitable revolutionary events to come.

The Finnish organisation of the Revolutionary Communist International (RCI) held its first conference amidst an enthusiastic, militant atmosphere on the weekend of 17-18 May. Around 30 comrades gathered in Helsinki from all corners of the country to discuss the explosive world situation and the perspectives for the future Finnish revolution.

The students leading the ongoing protests across Serbia recently announced that they are demanding early parliamentary elections, in which the students will propose their own list of candidates. All opposition media outlets loudly reported this statement, and the masses expressed their support out of trust in the students. Some activists have gone as far as to say that anyone who is in favour of bringing down the regime of Aleksandar Vučić will support this demand.

Chega was the big winner on election night in Portugal. Although the results are inconclusive and there is no prospect of a stable government, some conclusions can already be drawn.

For a year and a half, the western imperialists have not only been defending Israel's right to massacre, starve and ethnically cleanse the population of Gaza – they have been selling them the weapons to do it. Now, all of a sudden, they’re criticising the “intolerable” suffering that Israel is causing. Does this mean that the imperialists have gained a conscience?

What word connects one of Lenin’s most famous theoretical works; supermarket cereals and silicon microchips; and a popular household boardgame, developed in the early 20th-century? The clue is in the title: monopoly.

On 1-2 May, Red Front – the Polish section of the Revolutionary Communist International – held its annual May School. This year, it was named the ‘Anti-Imperialist School’ as all of its talks were devoted to the struggle against imperialism and militarism. This school was a response to the accelerating decay of the world capitalist system, which only brings us more conflicts, crises and wars.

Over the last ten years in France, repression against young people and workers has continued to intensify: police violence, ‘preventive’ arrests of activists, the criminalisation of trade union activity, bans on demonstrations, gatherings and meetings, etc. The repression of the Yellow Vests and the solidarity movement with Palestine are two glaring examples, but this is a serious and ongoing trend.

In an article published on 2 March, Révolution Permanente announced the launch of a campaign entitled: ‘Against Macron and the Fifth Republic, we need a radical democratic response from below’.

Despite state repression, protests have been held all over Gilgit Baltistan and in many cities in Pakistan for the release of the leaders of the Awami Action Committee Gilgit Baltistan, some of whom are members of the Inqalabi Communist Party (RCP).

On Saturday, 26 April, it was announced that the International Monetary Fund had decided to put ‘under review’ the continuation of the line of credit it maintains with the Colombian government. This decision is a response to the economic instability looming in the country, which is nothing more than the national expression of the increasingly turbulent international crisis.

Two months after Benjamin Netanyahu broke the short-lived ceasefire, the situation in Gaza has reached catastrophic levels. Aid, medicine, and essentials have dried up thanks to Israel’s complete blockade, and the IDF’s relentless bombing has resumed. Countless humanitarian organisations have warned that the blockade is on the precipice of killing tens of thousands of people in a widespread famine.

The Revolutionary Communist International protests the arrest of the leaders of the Awaami Action Committee Gilgit Baltistan (AAC-GB) and of the Inqalabi Communist Party by police in Pakistan. We send our solidarity to the arrested comrades, who are facing repression for opposing the plunder of the land and resources of the region by the capitalists and imperialists. We call upon the labour movement internationally and all of our readers to protest this blatant act of repression.

From 28 March to 2 April, thousands of Chinese workers struck at two electronics factories owned by BYD, a behemoth on the Fortune Global 500 and the world’s largest EV maker.