Today the world is on the threshold of momentous events. The crisis of the imperialist system is rapidly bringing about the danger of the outbreak of a new, third, world war as well as the real perspective for revolution in countries throughout the world.” The scientific accuracy of these words from the Joint Communique of…

The mood in Cuba today is somber. The problem is more than just hard times, although times are hard in Cuba. There is also the question of where the country is going. A decade of “rationalisation” that resulted in a tangle of three million work norms (more than the total number of workers) and piece rates and…

This heading deliberately recalls the title of the book I wrote on the question of democracy – its social and class content, its historical role and relation to the proletarian revolution and the goal of communism. The momentous events in the world in the few short years since that book was written – in particular…

In April 1975, two weeks before the fall of Saigon in Vietnam, an army of ragged, thin and very young peasant men and women defeated the US-backed government in neighbouring Cambodia. In January 1979, some 44 months later, this new regime was swept from power and scattered by invading Vietnamese soldiers.

AWTW: How does the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) see the current world situation? CoRIM: We believe that the international situation is generally favourable for the advance of the revolutionary struggle. While we are not yet experiencing the same kind of high tide of revolutionary struggle on a world scale that we have witnessed in the past…

The following article was commissioned by A World To Win to examine the role of Islam as a political force in the world today. Dealing with Islam is only part of the task of revolutionaries confronting the recent rise of religion, which is undergoing a revival that would have seemed unthinkable only a few decades ago. Religion…

Throughout the history of the international communist movement the question of unity has been of paramount importance. Against powerful, well-organised enemies at both national and international level, the need for the unity of the working class and the oppressed masses under the leadership of a single vanguard constantly reasserts itself. The masses want the revolutionaries…

Q. When the Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan, the ruling parties calling themselves “communist” imposed a reactionary oppressive rule on the people. What challenges does this pose to genuine communists?  A. Their pseudo-communist claims have created incorrect perceptions about communism among the vast majority of the people. Right from the beginning of the uprising against the…