What Are The Prospects for World Revolution? | RCP Summer Camp 2026

So I would actually like to start off with going back to the classics and what's of course more classic than the communist manifesto. Um I'd like to just quote one quote that like stuck with me and that is you know and I quote him modern bourgeoa society with it relations of production of exchange and of property. A society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the netherworld whom he had called upon his spells. Now, I recently reread this and I am always and you hear this all the time, but you're always just astonished by how true this is today and of course every day cuz our grandparents, you know, when you think about it, they could not imagine the world that we are, you know, living through right now as as kids, right? You know, we made huge advances and it hasn't actually created abundance, right? It has actually created gigantic contradictions. Instead of global cooperation, you know, which these productive forces demand, we have more intense worldwide struggle over regions, over resources and over strategic waterways, right? And it was pointed out already by Marks and Engles that yes, it is like the sorcerers that have lost control over the entire uh world situation. It all got out of their control and it has actually come back to bite them. And fundamentally as explained in the communist manifesto as well, we know that the main fatters uh are private property and the nation state, right? And as long as that exists, whatever the bourgeoa will try and do to climb out of any crisis, all it does is only pave the way further down deeper into an even deeper crisis. And this is where we are now. And this is where we are today. You know, about a month later after the signing of the memorandum of understanding that seemingly ended the war between the US and Iran, the war has actually started once again. The war, you know, ultimately has exposed US imperialism uh in decline. It illustrates this process perfectly. Trump launched this war again believing that this was going to be an easy, you know, quick war and a victory after, you know, their success in, you know, what happened to Venezuela. And all that was necessary was basically just to shock and all to intimidate uh to basically intervene, kill the supreme leader and a new leader would just immediately capitulate. Now this is the psychology of the US ruling class you know accustomed to always get in its way and the whole world situation today can only be understood by how the crisis of of capitalism has exacerbated the accelerating relative decline of US imperialism which has lost its position as the unchallenged world hegamon actually is the contrary right now US imperialism is being challenged challenged right now in multiple parts of the And that is basically leading and by you know different regional powers basically rising now and that's leading to not just a scramble for political control but also the fragmentation of the world market. However, just because this is a fact doesn't mean necessarily that the American ruling class accepts this fact uh or even understands it. they are living completely in the past and the the idea that the US may have to you know uh you know can't just get away anymore with bullying and might have to retreat or uh or even negotiate that doesn't fit in with the worldview that they have uh uh right now and you know that there is no limit basically to US power but they have enormously miscalculated with Iran because what have the Americans and actually Israel who is of of course involved in this actually achieved they have killed Ayatollah and much of the top leadership, but they completely failed to actually bring down the regime. And in fact, Iran has now come out of this even stronger uh than it was before. Meanwhile, the Americans have completely drained their arsenal of weapons. According to the New York Times, they used more than half of their DHA like missiles, stat missiles, and Patriot missiles. And they used 10 times more tomahawks than they buy uh in a year. And interestingly, of course, about the ceasefire agreement was something that wasn't even a question right before the war even started, which is control over the straight of Hormuz. And Iran has full control over this now. And and the Americans can't do anything about it. Literally nothing. And part of the ceasefire agreement was also because the West started to run dangerously low on oil reserves as well. Trump actually himself admitted this in France where he said that they only had about four weeks left of oil reserves and also US vice president uh Gay Fans also confirmed this when speaking to an interviewer where he said and I quote him he said I think what the president wants to do is to use thisou to sort of refill the world's oil economy refill some stocks and then see where they end up and then he added saying well the US can now at least bank our wins and then said well to do things on on top of that if the president feels like we have to do that. So [clears throat] now the war has of course restarted again and this will be catastrophic for the west. The FT actually also commented saying how uh when the war initially started with Iran, at least they had stockpiles, right, that helped to afford a wider um economic crisis. And I quote where they said during the 4 month closure before last month's US Iran agreement to reopen the strait. Governments in the Western Asia pulled almost every level available to them to ensure that the supply crunch did not undermine the world's economy. But now a trader has said, "But we've burned through all of the buffers we had. Everything. All of it is now gone." An FD added saying, "Well, oil prices fell sharply after the ceasefire was first announced, dropping from about $100 a barrel to just over 70. But in a sign of traders renewed anxiety, prices surged above $87 like last week at the highest level in more than a month. But this has actually interestingly put also the big oil companies on a collision course with Trump because the companies right now are making record profits. The world's top 100 oil and gas companies were banking more than $30 million every single hour during the first month of the Iran war. Of course, Trump, who feels the political heat at home, said um he said basically, well, he has instructed the Department of Justice to investigate the oil firms who he accuses of price gouching, which is obviously not going to do much. The FD itself also said, well, at the end of the day, if he really wants to make America more affordable, what the best thing he can do is to stop the conflict. However, it's very hard, you know, to also speak about this ongoing wars. Of course, with recent updates is that the Hitittes have now also uh shot down uh the the B alandad strait which is basically to shut down another route, the Red Sea route. And this is going to only further the crisis even more in Southeast Asia and Europe and could send oil prices even more skyrocketing than the figures I've already mentioned. And so, the Trump administration will be enormously desperate. uh they will either the options are really either to surrender or maybe even something more desperate which is a land invasion right however the problem that America finds itself in is not like it can't admit defeat something this this is something that Trump simply cannot afford the ceasefire agreement it doesn't even matter whether it's now broken or or not or whether you know whatever way Trump wants to sort of like package this up it has a profound consequence globally US imperialism has been exposed on a on a global scale and alongside being humiliated the Americans could actually lose many of their allies in that region as well. Instead of being able to shield the allies in the Gulf countries the presence of American bases have also draw in Iranian retaliation against the Gulf states like UAE, Saudi Arabia, uh Bahrain and Qatar. But the economic model of those countries are safe havens for investments, for tourism, for travel. Uh and that has been completely trashed. In fact, Chinese and Russian uh um the Chinese and Russians are basically already trying to approach those countries and are basically offering a new security architecture where they are saying we'll come to an agreement with Iran under the protection of China uh and Russia in which the United States is excluded. And that means basically closing off US bases uh in in the region. But more than that, US imperialism is continuing to bully and to intimidate especially in the western hemisphere. And previously masses may have of course accepted this you know fatalistically who can possibly defeat you know the the concentrated might of US imperialism. Well now it has actually been done. And so in the grand scheme of things, this defeat will be seen as a key turning point in the decline of US imperialism. But let's not forget something else. Sorry, I need to speak up. But let's not forget something else. Since this war began, uh the Americans have been enraged by their what they perceived as well as a as a lack of European support, right, in in this uh in this war. and they have actually downgraded their military um presence on the continent and that has been again another nail in the coffin for this idea of a collective west. Right. So I've got some figures from the FT article on how much yeah Trump wants to cut down. It's it's quite a lot. So he wants to cut down one of the two US aircraft carriers uh strike groups at present basically assigned to NATO all submarines capable of launching cruise missiles such as tomahawks. He wants to reduce the submarine tracking aircrafts. He wants to cut the uh aerial refueling aircrafts from 79 to 63 and also reduce the number of F-16s and F-15s uh fighter jets from 153 to 99. And this is on top of already taking out 8,000 German troops uh or troops from German bases. But this relationship between the US and Europe started to break down already since you know Trump's first year of his presidency when he made the EU as well pay for the Ukraine war. Now look at how the United States is treating Europe, right? It isn't treating European countries as genuine allies anymore, but neither is it really treating them as outright enemies. It's treating them like vessels, almost almost like slaves. Like there there's a funny comment as well by a Belgian PM who said something like, "Well, it's better to be a happy vessel than a miserable slave." [laughter] And the the message is basically by by Trump is well, if we need military support, you come and you help us. you buy our weapons and our gas. If not, we're going to withdraw our protection and we won't provide weapons anymore for Ukraine. Um, basically, if you want to buy weapons, then you pay for them uh yourself. So, America isn't completely abandoning Europe, but it's more like squeezing it. It's squeezing it very tight. And that reflects you know a broader shift. You know after the second world war Europe was actually rebuilt right under American leadership as the capitalist front line against the Soviet Union. And in the past US military uh support allowed the Europeans basically to save on military spending to actually reinvest and to become more competitive basically on a world scale. But now 90% of the costs for the Ukraine war are being paid for by the EU. and the UK Ukraine war again it was the west it was the Americans and Europe thinking that this would be an amazing chance to just go in get putting out you know win this war against Russia however Russia survived and in fact it it has become again also stronger of the back of this which I will come on to later but Russia has won the war and no matter what you know whatever way they want to try and tell us in the media that is uh that is not true but significantly as well what has this war actually revealed right it has exposed the weakness of not just the US but particularly of Europe. It has completely fractured the west of you know far from actually isolating Russia. It has brought out all of the differences you know on this on this uh on all of these questions between the west and between western countries. And that is also the key factor of the decline of of European capitalism because fundamentally I would say it comes down to two things that reflect uh this crisis basically of of Europe. One is that all this time it was basically masked by cheap Russian gas which now the Ukraine war has basically been pulled that that fuel away but also the US subsidized the defense of Europe's imperialist interest. But now that that has also been pulled away by Trump, what do you have? You have now industries in Europe that are completely done for. The whole continent is completely bankrupt. But the closure of this trade of Hermuse is especially harmful therefore for European uh economies. Europe imports about 90% of gas and oil. And so the increase in oil prices will also feed in directly to the cost of living. Global inflation stands now at 4.7% which is 0.5% higher compared to last year. And so a prolonged disruption of energy markets will only intensify that pressure which is yet another blow to an already very weakened European economy. But again, this also may be a gross underestimation considering the update with the with the Houthi. So it could be even worse at this point. But let's also look at the actual figures of how the Europeans are doing because I looked into the UBS wealth report that was published this year covering the period between 2020 to 2025. So essentially since co and yeah the Ukraine war and so on and they calculated the median wealth per adult which is a much better measure I would say of how ordinary people are doing as of course if you just look at the average whilst the risks are getting richer then obviously the average will go up. So this should give a bit more of an accurate picture and a report actually shows that the Russian medium wealth has increased by 10%. Meanwhile, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Poland, France, Switzerland, Greece, they're all sit between - 10% to minus 20 uh 20%. Germany stands at - 19% and the UK even lower at minus 22%. So of course this isn't entirely surprising knowing with the rise of cost of living and energy cost and so on the Ukraine war but I would say there is something much more deeper going on uh that we can explain. So Europe has ceased to be competitive. Out of the 18 key sectors, apparently the only ones where Europeans remain competitive are aerospace and defense in automoils, in steel, in chemicals, not to mention tech, software, AI. These are all falling behind Chinese and American uh competition. And since 2008, steel production in the EU has fallen by 30%. And since the pandemic, minerals are down 11%, metals 12, chemicals 14, automoils 14, and at the same time, debt is ballooning across the EU. The IMF actually predicts that if nothing were to change, European debt will double over the next 15 years. And even under a program of massive austerity, it would still increase by 50%. So Europe is entering a profound crisis of uh of competitiveness and inevitably the roning class will try to make the working class pay uh for the price of restoring European industry. But the most important country I would say that is sort of important to zoom in on is of course Germany. German capitalism was long the heart of European capitalism and has been in crisis for years now. Since COVID especially, the economy has basically largely been stagnant and there's been a real sense uh of panic spreading basically amongst manufacturer. Layoffs are rolling through towns and villages that have no living memory of industrial decline. And uh the figures are honestly staggering. According to a May report by EY, German industry is losing more than 10,000 jobs every month and industrial output has declined by around 10% between February 2022 and early 2026 with energy intensive sectors falling by more than 15%. And for the first time in decades, Germany now actually imports more advanced capital goods from China than it exports there. And so its trade balance in in capital goods has shifted from a surplus of roughly€700 million euros um to now a deficit of 500 million e between uh mid 2024 to August 2025 and at the same time Chinese goods has you know exports to to Germany has actually risen by 17% and for the whole European continent it has also increased by 16%. Now this is an extraordinary rapid shift I would say um by you know and and it's sort of worth asking why has China been able to overtake uh Germany kind of so quickly and and seemingly so easily. Well, there's one uh case study that I think illustrates this really well. There's an article published by uh by the economist last November that tells the story of Chongshin Island in in China. So this island just 20 years ago it was mostly farmland just fishing villages and so on but today it is home to one of the world's largest chemical plants and has become a crucial part of the global polyester supply chain supplying producing PTA. So the Chinese government actually designated Chongqing as a strategic industrial zone. It has built the entire infrastructure, provided financing incentives, even establishing colleges, carrying out research to make the make it even more efficient. Um, and they built ports and basically put the entire infrastructure in place. After billions in investments, Tangin Island became the world's leaders PTA uh uh producer. So, China moved from relying on imports to producing about like 60% or more than 60% of the global supply while economies in Europe, in Japan and Canada have basically struggled to compete. Now what makes this story also so interesting is that the Chinese state drawing on the legacy right of the plant economy possesses the capacity to direct capital in in this bonapartis fashion and developed industries according to a certain plan and this is this is I would say the key fatter that Europe faces which is the fatter of the nation state. There are 27 nations, 27 ruling classes, 27 armies, all competing interest. Developing entirely new industries on a continental scale simply becomes immensely difficult and many major projects have there fulfilled. Something like 10 out of 12 attempts to create an European giga factory. Uh kind of like Thank you. um kind of like uh how do I say like sort of massive battery factories. they have outfield like Northfield and Britfield are sort of examples of this and these are enormous investments right that require the centralization of finance of energy of scientific research of labor uh of transport and in Europe those elements remain fragmented instead of being coordinated right so meanwhile when a manufacturer for example in Eastern Europe or in South America wants to build a new factory today they can increasingly actually buy an entire ecosystem, injection machines, robotic arms, uh dryers, cloud management software directly from a single single integrated Chinese supplier. And so, so there's a quote from the center of European reform, which is a Londonbased uh think tank and they bluntly said in a recent report, China has already eaten much of Germans industry lunch and is now preparing to start on dinner. But I want to explain also another key fundamental point uh about the European crisis with an example of the German car industry. So it is facing the biggest crisis in history. Since 2019 around 125,000 jobs have disappeared but the industry is crucial to Europe. It generates just over 1 trillion uh added lat trillion dollars in added value, roughly 6% of the European economy uh and and employs basically 40 million workers which is also about 6% of the continent's workforce and historically German manufacturers built an enormous competitive advantage around diesel engines and for decades they have made huge profits off the back of this expertise. But dialectically however I would say this is precisely this strength that have left them now fernable when the technological basis for industry also began to change. So while German firms continued refining diesel technology Chinese companies invested heavily in electric vehicles and battery production and um I'd like to compare that actually to evolution. So there is a there is a passage from uh from Gordon Child's uh book man makes himself where he describes how animals when they become basically too specialized is actually not very good once the environment changes. So he writes and I quote him it's a little bit of a long quote but not too not too bad. Um so he says to these conditions to this environment the reptiles were successfully adapted. The same environment lasted for a time so long that estimates in years have no meaning. But eventually the areas underwater became more restricted. The climate grew drier and colder and new genera and species emerged. Comparatively a few a few of the reptiles succeeded in surviving in the new environment. They could not adjust themselves to the changed conditions and perished. And when the old Jurassic environment passed, the very qualities which had assured their success and constituted their fitness proved a handicap. They were too much specialized, too closely adapted for living under one limited set of conditions. And with the passing of those conditions, they succumbed. In the long run too, excessive specialization is biologically disadvantaged. its ultimate its ultimate result is not survival, not increase in numbers but extinction or stagnation. Now that's essentially what I think that Europe is going through. Capital continued to flow into perfecting diesel engines because that was where the profits already existed, right? Rather than using those profits to prepare for the next technological leap, uh manufacturers actually doubled down on on the old one, even promoting diesel engines on some point as a green alternative. And [laughter] if you remember and the same pattern has been seen beyond cars, right? In AI, in chip making, in other like emerging industries, Europe became increasingly specialized in the industries of the previous era instead of adapting to the new uh economic landscape and the EU capitalists themselves, they were ob obviously just after easy big profits, right? And lift of them as parasites. They didn't invest any of this money and now therefore they've become too small small capitalist who stand alone who cannot compete on a world stage and that is like an evolutionary path reaching its limits. The very strength that once made European industry dominant have under changed conditions became their greatest weakness. And this by the way is the whole backdrop under which muds and Germany right now are pushing for conscription. Right? And this is all you know about protecting Eastern Europe for their imperialist gains as it's economically very important for Germany and so on. And they are worried you know that Russia will attempt to displace Germany um and the EU you know as it sort of is their traditional sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and talk about Ukraine and the threat of Russia. However, this is not anywhere near the actual interest of the German working class because what did we see when Ger in Germany when MS announced conscription, right? We saw 50,000 school kids coming out to strike in over 140 German cities on the 5th of March. And their slogan, it was the rich want war and young people want a future. That was the central slogan of of the of the demonstrations. And workers are being told that they of course must accept the cuts. austerity, higher military spending and eventually even conscription, increasing numbers of workers and young people understand instinctively right that this is not their war at all. Nor is it being fought in their interest. But most of the slogans therefore were also directed at that you know against the capitalist class. One student uh told German news channel saying well we sit in broken schools with too few teachers while billions flow to round metal and co which is a German uh arms manufacturer. And another student also said, well, for the price of one tank, you could pay over 100 teachers a year. That is real, you know, class expression and class anger. And across Europe, class anger is unfolding on like all sorts of, you know, problems are raised. Austerity, corruption, wages and and so on, you know, from Albania to to Belgium to Greece, France, Spain, everywhere we saw mass movements breaking out in this year alone. and the uprising of the students also in Serbia for example with the the block everything movement was also uh enormously significant right it's the it's the strong anti-establishment tone that these demonstrations take that is very telling and it is very interesting to see again how once again and always the youth and the students are basically at the forefront of these things as as we've also of course seen now today in in in India and so on but of course everywhere as well and we shouldn't forget that we saw mass has massive demonstrations for Palestine uh and for the Palestine uh cause, right? Denouncing their own presidents and prime ministers as war criminals, you know, resenting the fact that their money is being spent on genocide rather than uh education or healthcare. And the most unprecedented event in Europe will have to be the two general strikes in Italy for Palestine. Right? two general strikes over a political question in which the workers shut down society with virtually no leadership from their unions. That is insane. That is remarkable. And what did people also this is this is the important point, right? What did people say after the election of Maloney? They said that there's been a massive shift to the right in society uh in Italian society. But people of course they voted for the far right because all the other parties left and right and center had discredited themselves in that government where they carried out vicious austerity on on the working class. And you can say the same thing about the US right about Trump. Many on the left presented Trump's election as evidence of a decisive shift to the right among the work American work uh working class. But we explained as well from the beginning that there was a healthy class instinct um basically yeah within uh within American society and of course like it was it was disorted distorted expression of class an anger and that's certainly the case but without any general working-class alternative where was the anger supposed to go how was it supposed to be expressed we also said that the very contradictions in which you know which carry Trump to power would eventually also produce its opposite. You know, the disappointment would not just end in pacivity. Um, and actually it would prepare for an explosive movement to to the left. And that's basically what what we're already seeing and that's sort of underway. And actually, you could also see it with ex extraordinary public reaction to the killing of the United Health Care CEO. Right across the political spectrum, millions expressed sympathy for the attacker Luigi Manion, you know, allegedly. But Republican voters themselves were posting online, this isn't about the left versus right, it's about those at the top against the rest of us. And that's an astonishing shift, right? The the the language of class buried for decades, by the way, in American politics is beginning to reemerge in in in a sponta, you know, basically spontaneously from below. And since then, I'd say the mood has only more and more intensified. And there is a feeling that American society is basically sitting on a volcano. And you saw that as well with the explosion of rage, you know, like the like the worker, right, who who burned down the Kimberly Clark warehouse, leaving behind the words, "You only had to pay us enough to [ __ ] live." And mind you as well, and this is important, this is also what they will say and are saying about Farage and reform uh about Britain and British society, right? But we understand that there's so much more happening and it's so much more a deeper process. You see the growing bitterness about the cost of living. You know, new international uh polling across the major capitalist economies also found overwhelmingly how majorities are saying that the living standards have deteriorated. In the United States, 65% say that the cost of living has become worse over the last year. In Britain, the figure is 77%. in Germany 78 in France 82 in Canada 80 across all of these countries there's a persu persuasive feeling that the economy is moving backwards not forwards and at the same time scandals like the abstin files have only deepened this belief there is one law for ordinary people and one law for the rich and and powerful and polling actually also found which is quite interesting that 51% of the Americans believe that the conflict with Iran was launched at least part to distract from the Epstein files. Now whether that is correct is is besides the point. But what it matters is what is this like this is such an extraordinary level of distrust that it reveals. Millions increasingly see corruption and and coverups and privilege not as an isolated incident but as a normal functioning of the circ system. And this is precisely the question that has ignited right revolutionary movement that we've seen all across the world in Sri Lanka in Bangladesh in Kenya in Nepal in Indonesia and look what's happening right now right in in Kashmir and in India corruption becomes the spark our task our our task is of course to explain that corruption is not simply a crime of a few bad individuals it is an organic product of capitalism itself now these same pressures as well are tearing apart part Trump's own coalition, right? There's a crack within MAGA along these class lines. Even at the top, it is breaking apart. I just want to I just want to mention some quotes from Tucker Carlson. Um cuz I I feel like they're actually really good where he says, "What I mean is the current system I'm often told is free market capitalism. Any economic system in which the overwhelming majority of the rewards go to an ever shrinking number of people or proportion of people is a doomed system because it makes people revolutionary. And then he says, you know, people have to own things. They have to be fested in a country in order to dradicalize them. But when people own nothing, they've got nothing to lose. I mean, these are very obvious observations. [laughter] Now this is not a man that wants a revolution. Uh the Iran war, the Abstein scandal, the cost of living, these are events that completely are transforming consciousness and they are tearing MAGA apart. Even Trump's flagship immigration policy has actually begun, you know, to produce the opposite of what was intended. workers who were expecting, you know, deportation of gangsters and, I don't know, traffickers instead watch nurses being dragged out of hospitals, baristas being dragged out of cafes, parents seized in front of their children and and of course neighborhoods occupied by heavily armed federal agents. The response there in Minneapolis, of course, was remarkable. single groups that like appeared overnight, whole communities organizing petrols, parents volunteering, you know, to take children of immigrants, families to schools, mass meetings were called. This is actually the real face of the American working class and the ruling class can feel the ground shifting beneath his feet and they know they are sitting on a volcano and that is also why Trump is suddenly intensifying his attacks on communism. You know, in just a few weeks, he in he invoked the word more than 80 times, calling communism the greatest threat that America has ever faced, greater even than world wars, he said. and his his campaign has deliberately trying to revive basically the language of the cold war where it offers to change offered um oh my god offers a way to change basically the subject from inflation from falling living standards uh and and of course growing inequality. But the problem for the ruling class is that this weapon no longer cuts as sharply as it once did. Young people have grown up right through financial crashes, endless wars, impossible housing cost, staggering inequality. They are the least hostile generation actually towards socialism in modern American history and the most hostile towards billionaires. And for millions, the question is no longer whether capitalism is failing, but it is what should replace it. And this is the significance of the present moment. Consciousness is not changing just gradually, I would say, anymore. is changing at remarkable speed. And it's and the increasingly hysterical anti-communism of the ruling class in itself is actually proof because they know this. They know what they're faced with. Can you therefore see how criminal it is, how far the left is lagging uh behind. This is a colossal vacuum on the left and all we have are chronically weak leaders. And this is an enormous contradiction, but until it's filled, things can drag on basically for some time. However, the moment there is something to fill it, things can go very far and very quickly, especially given how deep European and American crisis is. And yes, I know I mentioned, you know, quite a few statistics and figures uh and so on in, you know, irration to make this point. However, sometimes I think it's also important like you know we don't want to lose sight and and just see numbers. We aren't just talking about statistics and numbers. The figures matter because they also reveal the historical period that we're living through, the gravity of the situation, the gravity of the crisis that we're going through. But we shouldn't lose sight of what those numbers actually present. They are presenting real people. These are living forces. People who are angry, you know, people are disgusted. people who are treated like cockroaches as we've heard. How do we think people will who are treated like that will respond? Right? It brings to mind like so many revolutions of the past as well. You know, often think as well about the Arab Spring where one of the most powerful demands was not just simply for bread, but it was about dignity. Dignity was a key question of that revolution. Think about like a young doctor or nurse who finishes a grueling hours and hours shift and then has to queue for a food bank because their wages can no longer cover you know their essentials. You don't actually have to imagine this like this is literally happening right now in one of the richest countries in on on earth. Or take also the example um don't know if anyone read Ben Curry's article about Epstein Fury where he said how in the United States people have been driven to sell their own blood their own blood in order to afford groceries imagine that level of degration that level of desperation that it represents it is infuriating is it is obscene and it's millions of people are drawing therefore the same conclusion this is why revolution is never just about economics It's about something far deeper. There's a there comes a point when people refuse, you know, to just sit on their knees. When they discover their collective strength and when the demand is no longer simply about wages, but to be treated as equals, to be treated as human beings worthy of dignity or freedom and a full life. We must never lose sight of that whenever we speak to people about what it is that we are about and who it is that we are. And we aren't simply arguing therefore with people about different statistics and and explaining crisis. We are giving voice to the anger, the hopes and the aspirations of a class that's had enough. That is what fuels us. That is what should keep your fire always burning. And that's why we fight for a revolutionary transformation of the entire