Internationalism No. 77, July 2025 Pages 1 and 2 The Vatican and Atlantic Decline Social change and power relations, class struggle, and the struggle between States driven by uneven economic and political development have been at the heart of every reflection on revolutionary strategy, since its inception in The Communist Manifesto of 1848. This requires knowledge of the ruling class, its political expressions, the bourgeois State and system of States. It should come as no surprise, then, that social dynamics and international politics are also the two main guidelines along which we have attempted to assess the Catholic Church and the Vatican in recent decades. It is the largest organisation of the ruling class, the only one with global roots, and one of the very few – perhaps even the only one – whose conceptions have a long-term view of historical processes. Cardinal Wal...