With one million young people not in employment, education, or training, journalists and bourgeois strategists are raising the alarm about Britain’s “lost generation”. But young people aren’t despondent and apathetic. We know what we need to save our futures: revolution!

Jeffrey Donaldson – until recently the leader of the largest Unionist party in the North of Ireland, a Privy Council member, and a knighted darling of British imperialism – has been found guilty on 18 counts of child sexual abuse. This will deepen the long-term crisis of the Unionist establishment.

A decade ago, UK voters went to the polls for the EU referendum, setting Britain on the road to Brexit, and opening up a new period of instability. How did this turning point come about? And what lessons do these events have for communists today?

Having desperately clung onto power for months, Keir Starmer is finally going. But his likely successor, Andy Burnham, offers no real solutions. Rather than sowing illusions in this careerist, the left should fight for a clear revolutionary alternative.

The 14-point ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ between the USA and Iran represents a humiliation for Trump, a strategic defeat for US imperialism, and a turning point in the world situation. Ben Curry explains the implications of the deal, and the perspectives ahead.

The shock back-to-back resignations of Labour ministers John Healey and Al Carns are another blow to Starmer’s beleaguered, lame-duck government. With a ministerial civil war, a dilapidated military, and no plans to fix things, Starmer has his back against the wall.