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Against the Stream
In Against the Stream, our weekly current affairs podcast, members of the International Secretariat of the Revolutionary Communist International sit down to discuss the main events shaping global affairs. In an increasingly turbulent world situation, these discussions look behind the headlines of the mainstream press and the statements of politicians, to bring out the real processes and interests at play.
Episodes
Against the StreamBrazil, Serbia, Israel: Elections in Revolutionary Times
In this episode of Against the Stream, Victor Murray is joined by Ben Curry of the International Secretariat of the Revolutionary Communist International to…
Against the StreamFrance: What's REALLY happening
The times we are living in are anything but ordinary. In the last twelve months alone, more than 57 countries have seen significant anti-government protests…
Against the StreamReports from the front line – Spain, France and Germany
Europe is the weak link of world capitalism. From Madrid to Paris to Berlin, young people and workers are on the move. In this special episode of Against the…
Against the StreamSpain and France: Another May '68?
Occupations; general strikes; riot police tear-gassing school students. The streets of Madrid and Paris have exploded in revolt. Hundreds of thousands of youth…
Against the StreamThe World Economy Faces Perfect Storm
This week the interest rate on 10-year US government bonds hit 5.3 per cent, and borrowing costs in Britain, France, Germany and Japan are at levels not seen…
Against the StreamThe Deepening Crisis of World Capitalism
Against the Stream is back. After a summer break, Victor Murray joins Jorge Martín of the International Secretariat of the Revolutionary Communist…
Against the StreamWill Cuba restore capitalism?
On 18 June, the Cuban National Assembly approved a sweeping package of economic reforms. If implemented, they mean the end of the planned economy and the full…
Against the StreamIran Deal: the Biggest Defeat in US History
World School of Communism 2026: https://schoolofcommunism.com/ - The United States and Iran have signed a deal to end the war. Looking through the fourteen…
Against the StreamCould America go Communist?
Five hundred days of Trump in power. No more forever wars – except there is a war. The biggest paychecks in history – except hundreds of millions of Americans…
Against the StreamThe Ruling Class Has No Answer – Does the Left?
The Iran war has set off a cascade of crises working their way through the world economy. Oil reserves are at a twenty-year low, inflation is rising, bond…
Against the StreamCommunists Answer Your Toughest Questions
What will be the future of Israel and the Gulf countries? What is the possible order of the Middle East and Asia? Those questions are the starting point for…
Against the StreamCapitalism is ungovernable.
Six prime ministers in ten years. Labour just lost fifteen hundred council seats. Has Britain become ungovernable? In this week's Against the Stream, Hamid…
Against the StreamThe meaning of Trump’s trip to China
Trump is in Beijing. He thinks he has gone to negotiate from a position of strength, but in reality, he is negotiating from a position of weakness. That is the…
Against the StreamWhy is Europe falling apart? A Marxist analysis
Europe was the birthplace of capitalism. Now it's in freefall.In this week’s Against the Stream, Hamid Alizadeh and Jorge Martín dive into the deepening crisis…
Against the StreamWill AI destroy capitalism? A Marxist analysis
Is AI a revolutionary leap forward for humanity – or the latest crisis capitalism has engineered for itself? In this episode of Against the Stream, Hamid…
Against the StreamHow to destroy US imperialism | AGAINST THE STREAM
After a four-week break, Against the Stream is back! Since our last episode, the world has been plunged deeper into crisis. With no end in sight for the Iran…
Against the StreamIran War could crash world economy – here's how...
All the warning lights are flashing. With the US and Israel relentlessly bombing Iran for nearly a month and the Strait of Hormuz remaining closed, the…
Against the StreamIran opens civil war in Trump camp + Cuba crisis
"Head-spinning betrayal." These are the words of dissident Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene – and they are undoubtedly echoed by millions of Trump voters…
Against the StreamIran war: How communists fight imperialism
As the war on Iran enters its third week, US imperialism finds itself mired in a deepening crisis. What Trump envisioned as a swift decapitation strike is…
Against the StreamIran War: A Marxist Analysis
The United States and Israel have launched a war on Iran. Missiles and bombs are falling across Tehran and beyond, with strikes hitting schools, military…
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Iran CATASTROPHE + Epstein scandal out of control | AGAINST THE STREAM
Donald Trump is once again banging the war drums, threatening military action against Iran. He has now assembled the largest US naval build-up in the region…
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Cuba under siege – how to defend the revolution
The Cuban revolution is in grave danger! Trump's oil blockade has cut off the island's fuel supplies, plunging the country into prolonged blackouts, halting…
Against the StreamThe rise and fall of the Kurdish liberation movement + Epstein files
Over the last month, we have seen shocking images come out of Syria. ISIS flags waving over Raqqa. Jihadist militants knocking over the gravestones of Kurdish…
Against the StreamThe story of Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This video was pre-recorded a week in advance. We will return to normal programming on Thursday 12th February. A lot is said about Hugo…
Against the StreamMinneapolis and the coming American revolution
The movement against ICE in Minneapolis is not just any ordinary protest – it is a microcosm of the revolutionary events that will shake the United States in…
Against the StreamTrump’s war against Europe + Minneapolis rising
Donald Trump has bulldozed his way into 2026. Now, he has put the acquisition of Greenland at the top of his new year’s wishlist, sending the Europeans into…
Against the StreamWhere is Iran going? + Maduro kidnapping + ICE protests
2026 is only a few weeks old, yet world events are already unfolding at breakneck speed. From Donald Trump’s kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, to the…
Against the Stream2025: A year of capitalist chaos
As 2025 draws to a close, workers and young people around the world will look back on a year that has starkly exposed the blind alley of world capitalism…
Against the StreamZarah Sultana calls to nationalise economy + Trump plots coup in Venezuela
This week, in Britain, Your Party – led by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana – held its inaugural conference. Zarah Sultana spoke there about not only taxing the…
Against the StreamTrump’s peace deal prepares Europe’s downfall
With Trump’s proposed peace plan in Ukraine, Europe is once again finding itself sidelined by its former ally and benefactor, the United States. Having staked…
Against the StreamThe 'Epstein class' and the crisis of Trumpism
The biggest crisis of Trump’s second term is unfolding over the Epstein files. Having initially promised to release the trove of documents detailing Epstein’s…
Against the StreamKnives out for Zelensky and the collapse of the British establishment
A major corruption scandal is rocking Ukraine. Cabinet ministers and one of Volodymyr Zelensky’s own business partners are implicated in a war profiteering…
Against the StreamMamdani’s election win and the Sudanese civil war
Zohran Mamdani is the new Mayor of New York City. By running a campaign that promised to take on the billionaires and better the lives of working class New…
Against the StreamUS imperialism and Latin America: Trump threatens war on Venezuela
Over the last few weeks, Trump has been brazenly ratcheting up tensions with Venezuela. Having declared its president, Maduro, the leader of a drug cartel, he…
Against the StreamCRISIS WITHOUT CURE: A Marxist analysis of the impending stock market crash
This week, the collapse of Tricolour and First Brand sent a ripple of fear through the capitals of the world. From giddy boasts that the ‘bull’ market would…
Against the StreamChina faces down Trump, Ukraine quagmire, Gaza ‘peace deal’
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Against the StreamTrump declares peace in Gaza, general strike in Italy, French government collapses
This week, after two years of the genocide in Gaza, Trump struck a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. But who benefits? And will it last? Meanwhile, the…
Against the StreamFlotilla triggers mass protests, Trump's peace plan, Gen Z revolutions continue
Yesterday, Israel once again attacked a peaceful flotilla travelling towards Gaza to break the naval blockade and deliver humanitarian aid. In the following…
Against the StreamTrump's UN speech + Italy rises for Palestine
With his speech at the United Nations General Assembly, Trump has once again caused shock and awe around the world. But what does his apparent change of heart…
Against the StreamBritain facing its deepest crisis ever + Corbyn/Sultana clash
Last week saw hundreds of thousands attend the biggest right wing demonstration in decades. Meanwhile, Keir Starmer’s Labour-government is facing a meltdown…
Against the StreamCharlie Kirk, French revolt, Nepal revolution
Lenin once said that there are weeks where decades happen. This is one of those weeks. The French government collapsed. Revolutions broke out in Indonesia and…
Against the StreamChina humiliates the West, revolution in Indonesia, French regime in crisis
Against the Stream is back for another season of weekly Marxist analysis! This week, Hamid Alizadeh and Jorge Martín catch up on all the convulsive…
Against the StreamTrump & Netanyahu's 12-day war on Iran: who won?
This week, in a dramatic turn of events, Trump – who campaigned on the promise to end US ‘forever wars’ – decided to get involved in Israel’s war on Iran by…
Against the StreamWill the US go to war? / Trumpism unravelling
[Read Alan Woods' analysis of Israel's attack on Marxist.com] This week, the turmoil in the Middle East reached new heights as Israel launched a series of…
Against the StreamLA riots and the Musk/Trump feud
This week, thousands of workers flooded onto the streets of LA in response to ICE agents raiding workplaces and neighbourhoods. Since then, Trump has tried to…
Against the Stream2025: Where is the world going? – A Marxist analysis
2025 marks a turning point in world history. The tectonic plates of international relations are shifting, the globalised world economy is being torn apart, and…
Against the StreamWho is the obstacle to peace in Ukraine? and Trump's "big beautiful bill"
Against the Stream, weekly current affairs podcast of the Revolutionary Communist International, at 6pm GMT every Thursday to discuss the latest developments…
Against the StreamGaza genocide escalates, Ukraine peace talks, and comrades arrested in Pakistan
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 –…
Against the StreamTrump and Netanyahu clash, India-Pakistan war and revolutionary movement in Serbia
War between India and Pakistan. Revolutionary crisis in Serbia. Escalation of the genocide in Gaza. These are just a few of the mighty events piling up on one…
Against the StreamWhat is behind the rise of Reform UK?
Last week's byelections in the UK were an earthquake in British politics. For the first time since the rise of the Labour Party 100 years ago, the two-party…
Against the StreamThe war in Ukraine: setting the record straight
Since Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine three years ago, a flood of lies has gushed forth from western governments and the billionaire press alike to obscure…
Against the StreamThe rise of China and the end of the American century
For the last century, the USA has been the undisputed master of the capitalist world. Now, all that is changing. Today, America is in decline and facing a new…
Against the StreamCommunists analyse the trade war: "the bosses will force the workers to pay"
Articles mentioned: “I’ve seen many phoney trade wars come and go. This is the real thing”…
Against the StreamTrump's tariff war, France bans Le Pen and the PKK lays down arms
Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff announcements have set the cat amongst the pigeons in the world market. In France, the hypocritical establishment is celebrating…
Against the StreamCapitalism's horrors: reports from Ukraine and slaughter resumes in Gaza
Articles mentioned: https://meduza.io/feature/2025/03/17/otsyuda-vyhod-odin-trista-ili-dvesti…
Against the StreamWhat is Trumpism? – with Alan Woods
Trump’s dramatic return to the White House has thrown the liberals into complete panic and confusion. They have been accusing Trump of being responsible for…
Against the StreamTariffs, free trade or socialism: is there a way out of the crisis?
The world capitalist system is beset on all sides by crisis. Debt is sky-high, economies are stagnating and society is more polarised than ever. To add to this…
Against the StreamTrump humiliates Zelensky, Europe rearms, general strike in Greece
This week's row in the Oval Office between Trump and Zelensky served to dramatically underscore the fact that we are passing a seismic shift in world history…
Against the StreamThe German elections and the European madhouse
This week, after claiming victory in the German election, Friedrich Merz declared that Germany would now stand up to the USA, Russia and China and make the EU…
Against the StreamUS-Russia talks and the fall of Europe
This week, Trump went over the heads of Zelensky and the European leaders to embark on peace talks with Russia. At a stroke, the western order that has…