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Recently published articles on Darwin xxx  Daily we are told that we have to tighten our belts, accepts
jobs losses, pay cuts, lose of pensions, increased work rates for the good of
the national economy, to help it cope with the deepening recession. At British
Airways they have even pressured workers to work for nothing for a whole month,
with the threat of unemployment hanging over them... You’ll have seen quite a few economic ‘good news’ stories recently, proclaiming the green shoots of recovery. Stock markets have enjoyed impressive rallies. At the time of writing, it seems that these have run out of steam, but the Dow Jones is still 29% higher than its most recent trough in February... This movement started as a protest about cheating in the elections and protesters were originally mobilised in support of Mousavi. However, the slogans quickly became more radicalised. There is a huge difference between Mousavi's feeble protests to the supreme leader about the ‘unfairness' of the elections, and the crowd's chants of "death to the dictator and the regime". "But it's not just the ‘dangerous' industries, oil rigs, construction, etc., that are a permanent danger to workers. The Health and Safety Executive has been accused of a major underestimation of deaths and injuries..." Readers of our press are by now well aware that the ICC has gone to
great lengths in the last few years
to open its internal discussions to the growing numbers of young – and not so
young – militants emerging from the working class these days. The emergence of new
militants searching for political clarity and the means to contribute to the
revolutionary struggle is itself a reflection of the global process of
maturation of class consciousness... Since NATO was founded the world has moved on and global imperialist relations have profoundly changed. However, NATO is still there. And what's more a growing number of countries are asking to join it. So what function does it serve today? Omar al-Bashir certainly has a cardinal responsibility for the massacre of the Sudanese populations, but did this barbarian achieve all this horror on his own, or did he benefit from the support of other criminals hiding behind him? State capitalists are just as much oppressors as private capitalists. We already know about the model of the ‘New Deal', the Stalinist Soviet Union, Fascism and Nazism, etc, all models that have served the interests of the bourgeoisie, defending capitalist class relations, and Chavez, Lula, Morales etc are doing nothing different" The perspective here is for the war on terror to more and more become actualised in Pakistan with ever increasing dangers, both for its population and the wider region. ICC OnlineArticles published online onlyAll this turmoil in the world of official politics is the expression of a deeper malaise. Capitalist society is rotting on its feet and offers no perspective for the future. The ruling bourgeoisie increasingly resembles a bunch of petty gangsters out for number one. The campaigns about the state of Britain's parliamentary democracy are not only designed to hide the fact that real political power is concentrated elsewhere. It also serves to distract attention from the deepening economic crisis. The revelations about MPs expenses have confirmed what a lot of people suspected. Whether our representatives are cheating or just bending the rules it certainly looks like the Westminster porkers have their snouts in the trough. In the lead up to the local and European elections, great play has been made of the threat posed by the British National Party. It is true that the BNP represent a particularly odious form of racism. When it comes to campaigning in the EU elections on the basis of out and out nationalism, the left is not be outdone by the right. No2EU, a coalition initiated by the RMT union, supported by various leftist groups, serves up its own brand of nationalist policies. Twenty years ago, seven weeks of demonstrations that took place in more than 400 Chinese towns and cities met with brutal repression from the Chinese state. The repression in Tiananmen Square on the night of 3-4 June 1989, in which hundreds (or possibly thousands) of people were killed was condemned internationally. The arrival of the Democrat Barak Obama to the head of the world's leading power has given rise to all kinds of illusions about a possible change in the strategic orientations of the USA, a change opening up an ‘era of peace'. On 24 May North Korea issued a statement that it had carried out a second nuclear test. In response to this, there has been widespread condemnation from the ‘international community' with the USA, which currently has an estimated 30,000 troops stationed in South Korea, stating it would initiate patrols in the seas around the North. In this series of articles, we will try to understand why, at each major imperialist moment - such as the two world wars - the majority of the anarchist milieu, on the one hand, was unable to defend the interests of our class and allowed itself to be gripped by bourgeois nationalism, whereas, on the other hand, a small minority succeeded in defending proletarian internationalism. The first part of this article (in WR 323) by a close sympathiser of the ICC, examined the conditions for the bourgeois revolution in Britain and the lessons of the class struggle within decaying feudal society. This part looks in more detail at the political development of the class struggle in the early period of the English civil war leading to the formation of the Leveller movement. We are publishing here a statement by Revolución Mundial, the ICC's section in Mexico, about the outbreak of swine flu which began in that country. After the first weeks of panic and doom-mongering, the new strain of flu almost disappeared from the headlines. World RevolutionWorld Revolution is the ICC's monthly publication in Britain"The first global crisis of humanity" (WTO, April 2009); a recession which is "the most profound and the most synchronised in the memory of man" (OECD, March 2009)! From the very words of these great international institutions, the present economic crisis is of an unprecedented gravity... Throughout the
world, the bicentenary of Darwin's birth (12th February 1809), and the hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of the publication (24th November 1859) of his first
fundamental work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, has
been declared "Darwin Year" by both scientific institutions and media and
publishing houses... The
defeat of the proletarian revolution in Germany was a decisive turning point in
the 20th century because it also meant the defeat of the world revolution. In
Germany, the establishment of the Nazi regime, built upon the crushing of the
revolutionary proletariat, marked the acceleration of Germany's march towards
the Second World War... In preceding articles in this series, we have looked in detail at Marx's summation of the historical materialist method in the Preface to the Critique of Political Economy. We have now reached the last section of this summation: "The bourgeois mode of production is the last antagonistic form of the social process of production - antagonistic not in the sense of individual antagonism but of an antagonism that emanates from the individuals' social conditions of existence - but the productive forces developing within bourgeois society create also the material conditions for a solution of this antagonism. The prehistory of human society accordingly closes with this social formation". The main characteristic of revolutionary syndicalism
is the conception that the unions are the ideal form of working class organisation
on the one hand and, on the other, that after the revolution in the form of a
victorious general strike, they will be the basis for a new social structur... International ReviewThe International Review is the ICC's theoretical quarterlyInternasyonalismoInternasyonalismo 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 This is
the 150th issue of Internationalism, an historic moment for us as an
organization and in a larger sense for the workers' movement in the United
States. It represents a continuity in publication that began in 1970,
advocating the left communist perspective and political principles in the most
powerful capitalist state on the face of the earth. The debt trap has to some extent always been a feature
of class society. After the bourgeoisie gained control over the state in its
period of ascendancy, it tended to enact laws that mitigated the most
devastating consequences of debt. A recent
incident among teachers at New York City high school demonstrates clearly that
workers in the U.S. are making the first attempts at putting aside the
divisions imposed by capitalism, in this case those divisions that pit the ‘senior'
workers against the younger, more recently hired workers. In this sense, New
York City workers are totally part of the resurgence of class militancy and
solidarity we have been witnessing over the last three or four years worldwide. This article will be published here shortly... Against the backdrop of the unprecedented proletarian
political ferment of 1919 the U.S. working class did not hesitate for a moment
to take up the class struggle at the point of production throughout the country
in industry after industry. In all there were 3.630 strikes involving 4,160,000
workers during 1919 This article has already been published on our site here: http://en.internationalism.org/2009/wr/322/lead This article has already been published on our site here: http://en.internationalism.org/icconline/2009/philippines-turkey This article has already been published on our site here: http://en.internationalism.org/icconline/2009/02/darwin-workers InternationalismThe ICC's press in the United States ICC held a public meeting at the Industrial city of Kanpur in UP on 21st Dec 2008. The terrorist
slaughter in Mumbai at the end of November 2008 left nearly 190 people dead. On
the first night of the attack, within few minutes, 70-80 migrant workers
waiting for a long distance train on CST railway station were butchered. When
the slaughter finally ended on 29th Nov 2008, there were more than
100 rotting dead bodies of hotel employees and guests scattered all over the
attacked hotels and other buildings. 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
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