Themes for reflection and discussion
Comrades will find here a number of articles which we have grouped in themes which seem to us important for the struggle of the working class, for the working class' understanding of its own history, and for its reflection on the future of which it bears the seeds.
We hope that these articles will provoke both thought and discussion. We encourage our readers to discuss them on the site's Forum and to make their own proposals for themes which could be treated here.
What is communism?
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The alienation of labour and the study of Capital
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The revolutionary perspective and Social-Democracy
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The programme of the KAPD
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Problems of the period of transition
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A four part series on aspects of the 'Perspective of Communism', originally
published in Revolution Internationale and World Revolution in the 1970s.
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What is communism?
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What is communism?
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What is communism?
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What is communism?
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What is communism?
Decadence of capitalism
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A series of articles replying to Programma Communista and the IBRP on the dangers of rejecting the notion of the decadence of capitalism.
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The Decadence of Capitalism
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The articles grouped together here give an account of an internal debate within the organisation, on the origins and driving forces behind the Reconstruction boom that followed the 1939-45 world war.
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The question of the attitude that communists should adopt towards religion is by no means a new one, on the contrary it goes back to the beginnings of the workers' movement. In more recent times, the question of resurgent Islam has been posed since the overthrow of the Shah of Iran in 1979. In these two articles, we examine the attitude of marxists to religion, and more specifically the way in which Lenin and the Bolsheviks approached the question at the time of the Russian Revolution. They then go on to study the resurgence of islamist movements since the 1980s
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The ICC's analysis of the final phase of capitalism's decadence, its phase of decomposition, was first published in the form of theses in International Review no62, third quarter 1990. These theses provide the framework for the articles that follow, and in general for the analysis of the effects of decomposition on capitalist society as a whole.
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Decadence of capitalism
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Decadence of capitalism
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Decadence of capitalism
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Decadence of capitalism
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Decadence of capitalism
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Decadence of capitalism
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Decadence of capitalism
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Decadence of capitalism
The Communist Left
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The Miasnikov group formed part of what is called the Communist Left, on the same basis as other groups in Russia itself and in other parts of the world, particularly in Europe. The different expressions of this current found their origin in the reaction to the opportunist degeneration of the parties of the Third International and of soviet power in Russia. They represented a proletarian response in the form of left currents, like those that had existed previously faced with the development of opportunism in the Second International.
We have published their complete Manifesto, previously unavailable other than in Russian state archives and for the first time in English, in several parts. -
Texts published by the Marxist Workers’ Group (Grupo de Trabajadores Marxistas) in Mexico during the 1930s
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The Communist Left
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The Communist Left
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The Communist Left
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The Communist Left
How society evolves
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A collection of articles on the question of the historic course.
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How society evolves
Internationalism against militarism and nationalism
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A three part series that evaluates the concrete results for the working class and the populations concerned, of 70 years of struggles for "national liberation" struggles.
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A short series looking at how the national question was taken up throughout the history of the workers' movement.
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Series of articles on the 'national question' from the International Review.
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The first duty of revolutionaries in the face of capitalist
war is to defend the interests of the whole working class, as expressed in the historic slogan of the workers' movement: "Workers of the world unite!". The defence of internationalism for revolutionaries has never been an abstract principle; it is an intensely practical struggle, involving a fight for clarity inside the
political organisations of the working class, and more widely through intervention in its defensive struggles, often in difficult conditions of state repression and patriotic frenzy. This series, written by a sympathiser of the ICC, traces the development of a number of political currents within Britain through the period from the First World War, the Third International, the Second World War, and finally the enlisting of the Trotskyists in this war.
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Internationalism against militarism and nationalism
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Internationalism against militarism and nationalism
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Internationalism against militarism and nationalism
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Internationalism against militarism and nationalism
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Internationalism against militarism and nationalism
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Internationalism against militarism and nationalism
Long live the revolution!
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This series of articles published in the International Review charts the course of the Russian revolution of 1905, and asks what lessons it has left the workers' movement 100 years on.
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Long live the revolution!
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Long live the revolution!
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Long live the revolution!
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Long live the revolution!
Anarchism and syndicalism
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This series of articles examines the history of some of the principle revolutionary syndicalist and anarcho-syndicalist organisations, notably the French Confédération Générale du Travail, the Spanish Confederacion Nacional de Trabajadores, the American Industrial Workers of the World, the early British shop-stewards movement, and others. Its aim is to examine from historical experience what value the "syndicalist" tradition has for the working class today.
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Anarchism and syndicalism
Questions of organisation and regroupment
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In October 2003, the ICC first made contact with an Argentine group, the Nucleo Comunista Internacional, and began a process of debate during which the NCI gradually moved closer to the positions of the Communist Left, and to the positions of the ICC in particular. Our cooperation with the NCI included the publication of some of their articles in our press, in particular a denunciation of the so-called piqueteromovement. The documents assembled here give some detail on the group's history and the "affair" surrounding it.
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Questions of organisation and regroupment
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Questions of organisation and regroupment
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Questions of organisation and regroupment
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Questions of organisation and regroupment
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Questions of organisation and regroupment
Other themes
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A series deepening on the question 'What are workers' councils?'
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A series on the history of the workers' movement in Britain
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Other themes
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Other themes