Capitalism’s global crisis is escalating as the world faces waves of chaos. The US ruling class and their Australian junior partners are starting to lose their grip on the minds of ordinary people. The billionaires cannot solve the urgent social and environmental problems they have created – but so far no left-wing alternatives have captured public imagination. Revolutionaries need to more effectively fight the “battle of ideas” as Fidel Castro has called it. Ultimately working people and their allies must build their own power.