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For some time now a lot of comrades have written to ask us what we think of Lotta Comunista, what are our criticisms of it or why is it that we consider it to be a counter-revolutionary group given that it "claims to be part of the Communist Left", "defends the positions of Lenin" and "is very rigorous politically".
The text we are publishing below was sent to us by a comrade who has commented on our web site under the handle "Internationalist". We think it is valuable in unmasking the reality of the reformist and democratic mystification represented by Mosavi's "Green movement" opposition, and as such we hope that it will engender more discussion.

This article examines how Darwin's theory of evolution has been falsified by bourgeois ideologues in their attempts to apply it to the development of human societies. 

Despite endless chatter about the ‘end of the recession', all the indications are that the present global system - capitalism - is in its deepest ever crisis and that there are no ‘green shoots' in sight. One thing is certain however: faced with declining profits and savage competition over markets, the ruling class has one answer: make the exploited, the real ‘wealth creators', pay through job-cuts, wage freezes, ‘modernising' working conditions and massive reductions of the social wage through cuts in the public services.
Twenty-three suicides (plus 13 attempted) in eighteen months at France Telecom! Here's a new, tragic testimony to the fact that proletarians are more and more confronted by a climate of terror and unbearable pressures at work.
We are publishing below an article on the Kurdish situation by the ICC's section in Turkey - this article describes the manoeuvres of the governing AKP to position Turkey on the movong imperialist chessboard in the Middle East.
At the 12th September rally in support of the striking Tower Hamlets College teachers leaflets were distributed by the recently formed London Education Workers Group.
We are publishing Dave Douglass' response, alongside our reply, to the article '25 Years since the Miners' strike (posted online 9 July 2009). We welcome comments on all our articles in order to develop the discussion between revolutionaries and will answer all serious correspondence.
On 23 September, in Calais, a whole phalanx of journalists and cameramen took part in a major media carnival organised by the French government: the evacuation of the ‘Jungle' a refuge for thousands of migrants living in abject misery in tents or under trees, barely surviving thanks to a few benevolent souls.
As thousands of troops goose-stepped through Tiananmen Square, part of the celebration of 60 years of the People's Republic of China on 1 October, the media in other countries were not slow to point out all the evidence of continuing totalitarianism.

ICC Online

Articles published online only
The conception of the party held by Cervetto and Lotta Comunista (part one)
Iran - Class struggle is the only alternative for working class
Social Darwinism: a reactionary ideology of capitalism
Post, public sector, transport: Spring the trap of isolation!
The inhuman expression of capitalist exploitation
Turkey: Debates on the Kurdish Reform in the Wolf’s Lair
London Education Workers' Group: we can challenge union divisions
Correspondence on the 1984-5 miners' strike
Eviction of refugees in Calais: the Jungle is capitalism
China: 60 years of Stalinist capitalism
This article is available on ICConline here

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 unleashed a huge campaign about the collapse of communism and the triumph of capitalism. The real development of the world situation, above all the present economic crisis,  is showing that what happened in 1989 was actually a moment in the collapse of the world capitalist system.  

Because of the depth of capitalism's economic crisis the attacks on working class living and working standards have been increasingly serious. There are increasing signs that workers have been responding to the deterioration of their material situation, a fact that has been noticed by various political tendencies. We look at some of these responses.

Between 1647 and 1649 the deepening class consciousness of the exploited masses in England was transformed into a revolutionary movement that for a time challenged the very foundations of the state the rising bourgeoisie was trying to consolidate.

The much-criticised appearance of Nick Griffin on BBC Question Time demonstrated that, far from being outside the political mainstream, the BNP actually serves to strengthen the bourgeoisie's democratic ideology

This book, based on original research in newly available Russian archives, is a serious re-appraisal of the processes that led to the degeneration of the Russian revolution, and includes fascinating information on the opposition to this degeneration by Russian workers and communists in the early 1920s. 
As the UN-run trial of ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic began in The Hague it was clear that there were many others who could also be put in the dock on charges of genocide. This bloodthirsty killer and rabid nationalist was only a pawn in a much wider game going on in the Balkans in the early 1990s.

"We are caught between the government and the Taliban..." The situation for the population in Pakistan was put very clearly by a South Waziristan resident fleeing to Dera Ismail Khan.

World Revolution

World Revolution is the ICC's monthly publication in Britain
Post, public sector, transport: Spring the trap of isolation!
20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall the bourgeoisie is keeping a low profile
Understanding the current state of the class struggle
Lessons of the English revolution (part 3): The revolutionary movement of the exploited (1647-49)
BNP on Question Time: Fascism and democracy sing from the same hymn sheet
Book review: Simon Pirani, The Russian revolution in retreat, 1920-1924
Trial of Radovan Karadzic: All states are run by war criminals
Pakistan terrorised by Taliban, military and US
Twenty years ago one of the most important events of the second half of the twentieth century occurred: the collapse of the imperialist bloc of the East and of the European Stalinist regimes, including the principal one: the USSR.
In the first part of this series on the question of the environment we looked at the current state of affairs and tried to show the nature of the threat facing the whole of humanity with the development on a planetary scale of phenomena. We continue this series with a second article in which we will try to show that the problems of the environment are not the fault of a few individuals or enterprises which don't respect the law but that it is capitalism, with its logic of maximum profit, which is really responsible.
The decade from 1914 to 1923 was one of the most intense periods in the history of mankind. This short lapse of time saw the terrible slaughter of the First World War, which ended thirty years of prosperity and uninterrupted progress for the capitalist economy and society as a whole...
The revolutionary attempt by the Hungarian proletariat had a strong international motivation. It was the result of two factors: the unbearable situation provoked by war and the example of the revolution of October 1917.
We are publishing two articles from Internationalisme, organ of the Gauche Communiste de France dedicated to the question of Trotskyism and written in 1947. At this time, Trotskyism had already abandoned proletarian internationalism by participating in the Second World War, unlike the groups of the communist left who, in the 1930s, had resisted the gathering wave of opportunism engendered by the defeat of the worldwide revolutionary upsurge of 1917-23...

The Italian left communist Bordiga once described Marx's entire work as "the necrology of capital" - in other words, as a study of the inner contradictions from which bourgeois society could not escape and which would eventually lead to its demise. 

Acknowledging the certainty of death is problematic for the human being in general - alone among the animal species, mankind is burdened with the consciousness of the inevitability of death, and the weight of this burden is demonstrated, among other things, by the ubiquity of mythologies about the afterlife in all epochs of history and in all social formations.

International Review

The International Review is the ICC's theoretical quarterly
20 years after the euphoria, the bourgeoisie adopts a low profile
The world on the eve of an environmental catastrophe: Who is responsible?
1914-23: Ten years that shook the world
The Hungarian Revolution of 1919 (i)
What distinguishes revolutionaries from Trotskyism?
The decadence of capitalism: The mortal contradictions of bourgeois society

On the evening of Sunday, 18th October 2009 workers of RICO Auto, Gurgaon who were on strike since 3rd October 2009, tried to stop strike breakers.The efforts by police and hired thugs to intimidate the workers left one dead and forty injured

The Indian part of the world capitalist economy is growing in a dazzling manner, the world and Indian bourgeoisie and its scholars tell us. There is of course some reality behind this dazzling glow. But what is the Indian economic "miracle" really based on and what does it mean for the working class?

Communist Internationalist

The ICC's press in India
India: Struggle of Auto Workers in Gurgaon
The Indian boom: Illusion and reality
Now, after two years of depressing economic news as the so-called Great Recession  unfolded, a new consensus seems to be forming among politicians and economists around the world that the worst of the economic crisis is over. There is plenty of cold water to throw over this excitement and you don't need to be a Marxist revolutionary to put in doubt the whole fairy tale.
For two days in late September, leaders of the G-20 gathered at their travelling semi-annual summit, this time in Pittsburgh and yet again demonstrators flocked to the scene. Under the circumstances, it seems like an appropriate moment to take a serious, analytical look at the question of "globalization," what it is and what it isn't.
The bourgeoisie has introduced the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).So, what really is the EFCA?  What will it do?  And, most importantly, why is it being enacted by the bourgeoisie now?
The following text was written by a young militant who has been in discussion the ICC for some months now and participated in the Days of Discussion conference last spring. The text describes the author's efforts to grapple with complex issues pertaining to the union question and the intervention of revolutionaries in the struggle.
This article is available here
Michael Moore's new movie, "Capitalism, A Love Story" opened at the end of September, touted as an "anti-capitalist" polemic.
This article is available here

Internationalism

The ICC's press in the United States
The Crisis Is Not Over, Despite Rhetoric of ‘Green Shoots’
The Myth of Globalization
“Employee Free Choice Act”: A Weapon to Derail the Class Struggle
How Should Revolutionaries Intervene in the Class Struggle?
ICC’s 18th Congress: Toward the Regroupment of Internationalist Forces
“Capitalism: A Love Story”-- A Review
US Imperialism Decides How Better to Wage War

Internasyonalismo

Introduction:

Here is a text from one of the searching elements in the Philippines, a young college student.

Internasyonalismo welcomes the leaflet of KASOKU or Youth for Socialism and Communism, a group of students in the Philippines on the issue of charter change.

This group of young people is beginning to search for theoretical clarification under an environment dominated by Leftist ideologies of all varieties. Comrades in the Philippines have some opportunity to discuss with some of its members.

As the different factions of the ruling class in the Philippines both from Right and Left are very busy in their intra-factional squabbles through the issue of maintaining or amending the capital

Amidst the desperate moves of the international bourgeoisie to stop the continuing decline of the system by intensifying the attacks on the working class, May Day of this year is not simply an international day of protests and demonstrations against world capitalism but an opportunity to learn the lessons of proletarian struggles against capitalist attacks since 2007.

Right and Left of the bourgeoisie tried to hide these lessons. The former: by covering-up the spreading of the struggles in many countries. If they are oblige to admit them through media, they make sure to describe them as "riots, violence and the handiwork of few violent elements" to sow fear among the masses or justified the state's violent suppression. The latter: by distorting the lessons and the real dynamic of struggles.

The Right faction of the Filipino bourgeoisie led by the Arroyo regime is trying very hard to hide the real state of the crisis by saying that  the Philippine economy is "not gravely" affected by the deepening world crisis of capitalism because the economic fundamentals are "still sound".

This distorted argument is ridiculous and irritating.  It misrepresents the truth behind world capitalist crisis and the complete integration of the national economy to the world economy. The purpose of the ruling faction's analysis is to protect its power and domination against its rivals who want to oust the former.

The ICC's press in the Philippines
On bourgeois elections
Reflections of the Philippine Left
Young Searching Elements in the Philippines
Class solidarity: Powerful weapon against capitalist attacks
May Day 2009 Statement
National Situation in the Philippines (adopted by Internasyonalismo, December 2008)