The limits to the efforts of the bourgeoisie to shore up its fragmenting political apparatus.
Election results in Britain and France
The capitalist left can't save a dying system
ICC international online public meeting on elections in Britain, France and the US
The capitalist left cannot save a dying system
The meeting will be held between 2pm and 5pm UK time on Saturday 20 July. If you want to attend, please email us: [email protected].
The political apparatus of the ruling class
The rise of populism is a pure product of capitalist decomposition
The European elections have confirmed the reality of a process of weakening which is affecting all the political apparatuses of the bourgeoisie throughout the world.
Pro-Palestine demonstrations around the world
Choosing one side against another always means choosing imperialist war!
Although the majority of those taking part in the demonstrations against Israel's assault on Gaza are motivated by real feelings of indignation, they are caught in the trap of nationalism, and thus support for imperialist war.
Election circus
Populism on the rise in Europe, the RN on the doorstep of power, the New Popular Front... The future belongs to the class struggle, not to the election circus!
The rise of populism is a pure expression of the decomposition of capitalism - but the bourgeoisie can still use its own decay against the working class
Report on the economic crisis
This crisis is going to be the most serious in the whole period of decadence
This report bases its assessment of the current severity of the economic crisis on the achievements of marxism and the elements of its evolution since the late 1960s, as set out in various ICC publications.
Readers' correspondence
Thoughts on the upcoming US elections
We are publishing two letters sent to us by close sympathisers who took part in an ICC meeting with US contacts, focused on the upcoming US elections and the growing divisions within the US ruling class
Trotskyism
Another fake International … Despite its new coat the Trotskyist IMT remains an enemy of the working class
When workers are looking for revolutionary clarity they will come across currents masquerading as 'communist' that are actually driven by the needs of capital.
Revolutionary press
WR 400: Fifty years of intervention in the working class
With this issue, the ICC has now published four hundred editions of World Revolution. The first issue came out in May 1974, so the publication has been going for fifty years.
Gangsterisation of society
Haiti, a classic expression of putrefying capitalism
In Haiti, as well as in an increasing number of other countries in Latin America, the decomposition of this system takes the form of the merger between the state and criminal gangs.
War in decomposing capitalism
Terrorist massacre in Russia: capitalism sinks ever deeper into chaos!
The Moscow slaughter by Islamic State terrorists once again reveals the chaotic nature of today’s multiple imperialist conflicts
The fight against opportunism
The fight against opportunism, a vital challenge for the revolution
The refusal to work together with other groups of the Communist Left defending the historic principles of this current in favour of collaboration with the forces of the "marsh" (the confused zone between proletarian positions and those of the left of the bourgeoisie) has a name: opportunism.
The fight against imperialist war can only be waged with the positions of the communist left
The Communist Left is the only real heir to the marxist tradition of struggle against imperialist war.
Two years on from the Joint Statement of the Communist Left on the war in Ukraine
A first balance sheet of our appeals to the Communist Left to make a joint statement on the current imperialist conflicts.
Imperialist disputes
War tensions between Venezuela and Guyana: workers must reject the call to defend their country
With the growing conflict between Guyana and Venezuela, and the recent storming of Mexico's embassy by Ecuadorian police in Quito, it's clear that national and imperialist rivalries are spreading in South America as well as other regions of the world
Internal debate on the world situation
New response to Steinklopfer
Continuation of a debate within the ICC about the growing drive to war, its nature in the phase of decomposition, and the state of the class struggle.
Steinklopfer: response to the reply of the ICC from August 2022
Continuation of a debate within the ICC about the growing drive to war, its nature in the phase of decomposition, and the state of the class struggle
Life of the ICC
Public Meeting in Madrid: The invaluable contribution of Bilan to the struggle for the world party of the proletariat
An account of a public discussion about the historical method of the Italian Communist Left and its contribution to the communist programme.
Workers' struggle
Shock measures met with manoeuvres by the unions and the left of capital... In Argentina, the proletariat is under attack from all sides
Workers are not only faced with vicious economic attacks from the government, they also have to deal with traps set to divert their discontent.
Internationalism against leftism
What is 'Lotta Comunista' in reality?
In Britain, the group Lotta Comunista hides behind the “Internationalist Workers Club”, which runs food banks in London. It may at first sight look like an internationalist organisation from the tradition of the Communist left. This article argues that appearances can be deceptive.
Révolution Internationale 500
The revolutionary press is a political compass and a fighting weapon
The ICC's paper in France reached its 500th issue in January.
Position of the internationalists in the 1930s
Bilan & the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine
The articles reproduced here were originally published in 1936 in issues 31 and 32 of Bilan, the organ of the Italian Fraction of the Communist Left. The Fraction was obliged to outline the marxist position on the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine following the Arab general strike against Jewish immigration, which had degenerated into a series of bloody pogroms.
Resolution on the British situation, December 2023
British capitalism and the development of the class struggle
Resolution on the state of the British capitalism and imperialism, and the response of the working class to the crisis, adopted at a recent ICC conference
Special Dossier "War in Ukraine"
Ukraine Dossier: Capitalism is War - War on Capitalism!
A selection of articles, analyses, leaflets and statements on the unfolding inter-imperialist war following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Capitalist barbarism
War atrocities used to justify… new atrocities
In the new war in the Middle East, the crimes of one side are being used to justify the crimes of the other, as in all wars of this decaying system.
The 1872 Hague Congress of the First International
How the ICT denies the lessons of Marxism on the fight against political parasitism
The Internationalist Communist tendency has recently published an article which whitewashes Bakunin’s intrigues against the International Workingmen’s Association. This is our response.
Report on the political life of the bourgeoise
How the bourgeoisie organises itself
An examination of the political life of the class enemy.
Election circus
You can’t change society with a ballot paper
In Britain, as in France, the EU and soon in the USA, the electoral circus is again in full swing. We will be publishing various articles analysing the implications of these and other elections as expressions of the bourgeoise’s growing loss of control over its political machinery. But first we want to reaffirm the basic class position developed in particular by the Communist Left since capitalism entered its epoch of decline in the early years of the 20th century: that contrary to the propaganda of the ruling class, neither elections nor parliament can prevent the headlong rush of this system towards economic crisis, war and self-destruction.
The struggle against capitalist war
Prague "Action Week": Activism is a barrier to political clarification
A report on trials, tribulations and some small gains from an international gathering aimed at opposing imperialist war.
Marxism and Ecology
Andreas Malm: 'Ecological' rhetoric in defence of the capitalist state
Andreas Malm, of How to blow up a pipeline fame, has been called the "Lenin of Ecology". But Malm abandons Lenin's call for the destruction of the bourgeois state and falsely claims that its machinery can be used to save us from the ecological crisis.
Critique of Saito's "Degrowth Communism"
Why marxists reject all versions of the “Green New Deal”, from the mainstream to its most left wing variants
Internationalist Voice
Against the Barbaric War of Israel and Iran. Capitalism Means War and Barbarism!
The ICC welcomes the rapid reaction by Internationalist Voice to the escalation of the war in the Middle East: analysing the attacks between Israel-Iran and putting forward an unswerving denunciation of the Israeli and Iranian bourgeoisies.
40 years since the UK miners' strike
The working class has finally recovered from the defeat
The defeat of the miners' strike in Britain in 1985 has had a long-lasting, negative impact, but it is no longer a blockage on the capacity of the working class to defend its interests. In a second article, Government and unions set the miners up for defeat, we look in more detail at recent TV documentaries about the strike and the specific tactics of the British bourgeoisie to lure the miners into a trap.
TV documentaries on the 1984-5 miners' strike
Government and unions set the miners up for defeat
Whatever their intentions, the recent TV documentaries on the 1984-5 miners' strike provide evidence how a trap was laid for the workers by the twin strategies of government and unions. In a second article, The working class has finally recovered from the defeat, we look more closely at the international context of the strike and its long-term impact on the class struggle.
Economic crisis
Germany: workers will pay the cost of the economic crisis
Europe’s most powerful economy is hit hard by the combined effects of war, economic crisis, and the ecological disaster.
Proletarian political milieu
War in the Middle East: The obsolete theoretical framework of the Bordigist groups
Some revolutionary groups have defended unambiguous internationalist positions in the face of war. But Bordigist groups have been led into opportunist slidings, the trivialisation of war, and an underestimation of what’s at stake in the present situation.
Formation of the Left Opposition in Russia
A proletarian but opportunist reaction to the degeneration of the Comintern
A hundred years ago, the Left Opposition around Trotsky and others was formed inside the Communist Party of Russia. This article focuses on the opportunist errors which eventually led it to abandon the proletarian camp.
Populism in Argentina
Milei takes his chainsaw to the Argentine working class
Another example of a populist party emerging within the accelerated decomposition of capitalism and characterised by the bourgeoisie's loss of control of its political game.
World-wide class struggle or capitalist devastation
In the face of a mad rush towards chaos and war, the world-wide development of the class struggle
Articles from International Review 171 on the two poles of the world situation: on the one hand capitalism's accelerating drive towards barbarism and destruction, and on the other, the revival of proletarian struggle, opening the possibility of a new society.
After the rupture in the class struggle, the necessity for politicisation
The working class is shaking off decades of passivity. To understand the depth of the process underway, and what is at stake, a historical approach is necessary.
Discussions in the ICC
Dossier: Internal debate on the world situation
This dossier contains contributions to an internal debate relating to the understanding of the ICC’s concept of decomposition, to inter-imperialist tensions and the threat of war, and to the balance of forces between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie.
Imperialism and decomposition
The USA: Superpower in the decadence of capitalism, today epicentre of social decomposition. Part II
The first part of this article described the rise to power of American imperialism which in the decadent phase of capitalism became the dominant imperialism, leader of the Western bloc that finally triumphed over the rival Soviet bloc in the late 1980s. In the introduction to this first part, it was already emphasized that "the collapse of the Eastern bloc marked the beginning of a terminal phase in the evolution of capitalism: social decomposition", which would not only accelerate the bourgeois system's descent into chaos and barbarism, but also lead to the decline of American leadership. The second part of this article will focus precisely on highlighting this process, which began in the 1990s.
Imperialist conflicts
Resolution on the international situation, December 2023
A complement to the resolution on the international situation adopted at the 25th ICC Congress.
The Middle East conflict
Dossier on war in the Middle East
A collection of articles illuminating the origins of and current conflict in the Middle East.
Reader's letter
The ICC's fight against opportunism and parasitism
A letter from a sympathiser expressing solidarity with the ICC in its defence of the proletarian political milieu.
The proletarian political milieu
The ICT and the No War But the Class War initiative: an opportunist bluff which weakens the Communist Left.
Our critique of the recent statement of the Internationalist Communist Tendency justifying the creation of a number of local committees around the slogan 'No War But the Class War'
25th International Congress of the ICC
Resolution on the International Situation, 25th ICC Congress
A text covering the evolution of the economic crisis, inter-imperialist tensions, the class struggle and perspectives for all three, adopted by the ICC's 25th Congress.