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xxx  At the beginning of January, in Rosarno, a town of 15,000 people in Calabria in the south of Italy, there were violent confrontations between local and immigrant workers, a pure expression of a society in decomposition.When workers fight for their own demands, the way is open to overcoming all such divisions and offering real hope for the future. We have recently heard of the death of José Ferran, an anarchist militant, a Spanish political refugee in the wake of the war in Spain between 1936 and 1939. Published here is a poem, by a comrade of the ICC, called "A Soldiers Tale". The escape from "natural selection" through the development of humanity
The most important point first: immediately following are the words of Alfred Russel December saw a return to massive protests in Iran. Despite the fact that it is difficult to know exactly what is going on there at the moment, it is important for communists to try to analyse and understand what is happening. One year ago, there were three weeks of massive struggles in the streets of Greece over the police murder of a young anarchist, Alexandros Grigoropoulos. This article looks at what has happened since then. Ignorance of the historic evolution of the species comes directly from the religious creationist doctrine still widely broadcast today. The vogue of this dogma is shown in the reinvention of the universe through a flourishing of creationist Christian museums in the United States. "One accord, yet discord";[1] "Last-minute scramble to save face at climate
talks";[2] "Obama's climate accord fails the test"[3]...
the verdict of the media was unanimous: the ‘historic' summit had ended in
fiasco. In the last two articles, which appeared in issue number 142 and number 143 , we saw how, apart from a formal mention of Lenin on the question of the party, the theoretical framework and the political practice of Cervetto and of Lotta Comunista (LC) corresponds to a conception and method whose vision is a bourgeois one. In this article we will see how this bourgeois vision is not a result of an inadequate understanding of Lenin's teaching, but rather of a real distortion of the latter... The Proletarian Revolution
Group (GPR) in Austria has asked us to publish this obituary of their comrade
Robert, who died on 7 December. The ICC learned with great consternation about
Robert's sudden death. We want to express our deepest solidarity to those who
were close to him, especially his partner. Murderers. Capitalism, its states, its bourgeoisie, are
nothing but murderers. Tens of thousands of people have just died because of
this inhuman system. In the last issue of the paper we published the first in this series of articles and in response we have received several letters from sympathisers of Lotta Comunista (LC). These comrades expressed their disagreement with the critique that we made concerning the lack of an international vision in Cervetto's view of the construction of the party. ICC OnlineArticles published online onlyThe election campaign is already underway and one of the main points at issue between the parties is the problem of Britain's vast mountain of debt. The poor of Haiti have been remorselessly attacked and abused by the "international community" and particularly the USA. The extent of this disaster shows capitalism's responsibility for it and its total incapacity to be able to deal with its aftermath because profits are its key. Sometimes we meet people who are concerned that, faced with enormous attacks on its living standards, the working class response is nowhere near the level needed to resist them.But even if we restrict our horizon to the UK, over the last few months we have seen a good deal of discontent among workers. The Chilcot Inquiry is now the 5th inquiry linked to the Iraq War. Six years after the invasion and despite the withdrawal of British forces, the conflict continues to haunt the British ruling class. ‘Class war' language is not very fierce in the hands of Labour and its left-wing supporters, but it has succeeded in convincing a third of voters that the Tories are the party of the ‘upper classes'. This article is available in the ICC Online section This article is available on ICC Online This is an updated version of the article Greece:One Year On. Throughout January there have been numerous strikes and street demonstrations in Algeria Here is a report of a meeting held recently in London entitled ‘The (im)possibility of revolution?' It was addressed by three speakers: the anthropologist Chris Knight; William Dixon, a professor of economics and former member of the old Radical Chains group; and Hillel Ticktin, a Professor of Marxist Studies in Glasgow and editor of the leftist journal Critique. After Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, the great powers turn their attention to Yemen and Somali, on each side of the Gulf of Aden, and to Iran. World RevolutionWorld Revolution is the ICC's monthly publication in BritainAccording to a certain school of academic
Marxologists, councilists and anarchists, marxist theory entered a period of
sterility after Marx's death in 1883.
The social democratic parties and the Second International, in this
view, were actually dominated by "Engelsism", an attempt by Marx's second
fiddle and his camp-followers to turn Marx's method of investigation into a semi-mechanical
system which falsely equates radical social criticism with the approach of the
natural sciences. As the global economic crisis and social decomposition
worsen, living conditions throughout the world, particularly in the
underdeveloped countries, become increasingly intolerable. The accumulated
effects of economic deprivation, natural catastrophes, warfare and ethnic
cleansing, famine, and outright barbarism have become stark everyday reality
for millions of people, dramatically increasing pressures for mass migration... On the occasion of the recent bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth, the ICC published several articles about this great scientist and his theory of the evolution of species. These articles are an aspect of something that has always been present in the workers' movement: an interest in scientific questions, which is expressed at the highest level in the revolutionary theory of the proletariat, marxism... 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 ReviewThe International Review is the ICC's theoretical quarterlyInternasyonalismo
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 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 InternationalistThe ICC's press in India
The dramatic Republican victory in the Massachusetts Jan. 19th election which destroyed the Democrats filibuster proof margin in the Senate seems for the moment to have thrown the bourgeoisie's plans to "reform" health care into complete disarray. Murderers. Capitalism, its states, its bourgeoisie, are nothing but murderers. Tens of thousands of people have just died because of this inhuman system. (Published here is a new introduction to the article puiblished, on ICConline, on 15th January 2010.) After more than two years of grim economic news, last year came to a close with cheers for the supposedly "budding" economic recovery. However, so far 2010 does not seem very promising. In early January Internationalsm hosted its second weekend-long Days of Discussion conference in New York, once again bringing together sympathizers, readers, and correspondents from across the US and Canada for the opportunity of political discussion and theoretical deepening. Published here is the presentation 'Lessons of the Russian Revolution'. This presentation, by a non-ICC member, was made at the days of discussion, held in the US in January 2010. Published here is the presentation on state capitalism, delivered by a non-icc member at the days of discussion, held in the US, in January 2010. After 8 years in Afghanistan, the international force led by the USA is sending in more troops. Far from a blow for democracy or the ‘war on terror', this conflict is turning the region into an ever worsening hell. Today, a year after Obama's inauguration and the euphoria that accompanied it, what assessment can we make of the "change" that Obama was supposed to deliver? There's been plenty of change but not much of it for the better. InternationalismThe ICC's press in the United States |
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