The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor is seeking an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu and his minister of defense Yoav Gallant for war crimes. This only confirms what everyone has known for a long time. But they represent only the tip of the iceberg of an entirely criminal system.

Today, over 500 communists from every corner of the globe gathered for the first day of the founding conference of the Revolutionary Communist International (RCI), with 7,160 more having signed up to watch online so far. The atmosphere was electric as comrades discussed the class struggle on every continent, with a focus on the central task of the RCI in its founding week: recruiting and training communists for the coming revolution.

There are hundreds of thousands of communists in Canada and Québec. Like the person reading this, they are boiling with rage at the injustices and decadence of capitalism. We should all be filled with a sense of urgency; we must find these people, and organize them into a force capable of overthrowing this rotten system.

Driven by the same sense of urgency, we founded the RCP because this work cannot wait. Every day, the crisis of capitalism brings more and more people to the realization that the system must be overthrown. There is a ferment in the consciousness of millions, as the impasse of capitalism becomes ever more keenly felt.

On Thursday, May 30, Donald Trump was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records to influence the 2016 election.

After years of cuts and attacks, Toronto Transit workers in Amalgamated Transit Union local 113 have overwhelmingly voted to strike. With a turnout of over 75 per cent, 98 per cent voted in favour of strike action!

On Saturday May 25, U of T president Meric Gertler delivered an ultimatum to the pro-Palestine encampment on university grounds: clear out or you will be violently removed by Monday morning. In response, the Ontario Federation of Labour responded, stating “If you decide to move against the students, you’ll have to go through the workers first.” 

Millions of people around the globe collectively reeled in horror on Sunday after an IDF airstrike laid waste to a tent camp for displaced civilians in Rafah, killing at least 45 people.

On 10 June, hundreds of communists will gather in Italy, joined by thousands participating online, to found a new Revolutionary Communist International, to fight for socialist revolution across the globe. Register now, and join us!

We are the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), the section of the Revolutionary Communist International in Canada. Our demands are modest: the complete overthrow of capitalism—the construction of a society free of exploitation and oppression.