Since last summer, we have witnessed a real escalation of military conflicts, with fighting and massacres intensifying everywhere: Ukraine, Russia, Lebanon, Gaza, Syria.....
Imperialist conflicts
Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria... The capitalist spiral of militarism and chaos!
US elections
Trump's triumph in the United States: A giant step forward in the decomposition of capitalism!
This extraordinary election campaign, spewing out money and saturated with obscenities, just like its conclusion, the victory of a megalomaniac and stupid billionaire, reflects the abyss into which bourgeois society is sinking.
The malfunction of capital
Floods in Valencia: capitalism is an unfolding catastrophe
Faced with the Valencia floods, capitalism and its state reveals its profound indifference to human welfare.
International class struggle
Strikes in the United States, Canada, Italy... For three years, the working class has been fighting against austerity!
The new phase in the class struggle inaugurated by the strikes in Britain in 2022 continues....
Letter and proposed appeal
For an Appeal of the Communist Left to the working class against the international campaign to mobilise for bourgeois democracy
The ICC calls on the groups of the Communist Left to issue a common statement against the current ideological campaigns that call on us to choose between the right and left wings of the capitalist political spectrum.
First assessment of an online public meeting of the ICC
An international debate to understand the global situation and prepare for the future
On 16 November, the ICC held an Online Public Meeting on the theme ‘The Global Implications of the US Elections’.
Proletarian political milieu
Prague “Action Week”: response to the CWO’s balance-sheet
In our view, the CWO's balance sheet of the Prague "anti-war" event fails to draw the most important lessons from it
Inter-imperialist conflict
War in Ukraine and the Middle East: Two expressions of the horror and irrational madness of capitalism!
Since this article was written, recent events, and in particular developments in the Middle East, clearly confirm the article’s prediction that we are seeing the growing escalation of the war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.We have therefore written a new introduction to the existing article.
International class struggle
In Argentina, as elsewhere, workers must learn the lessons of their past struggles in order to prepare for those of the future.
In Argentina, the government of populist president Milei is launching brutal attacks on workers' living standards, but the right wing of the bourgeoisie is by no means the only enemy of the working class
Defence of the Communist Left
The death of Michel Olivier: An indecent opportunity for a new anti-ICC campaign
A response to the some very serious accusations against the ICC in a recent article by the Internationalist Communist Tendency.
Racist Riots in Britain
No to divide and rule! Our only defence is the class struggle!
The issue posed by the racist riots in Britain is not fascism versus democracy but the need for working class unity against capitalism as a whole
ICC international public meeting
The left wing of capital cannot save this dying system
A brief report on an international online meeting about the rise of populism and the problems it is creating for the bourgeoisie as a whole
Reader's contribution
New Popular Front: new instrument against the working class
Following the international online meeting on the significance of the rise of populism, a close sympathiser sent us this contribution on the role of the New Popular Front in the France
Grenfell disaster
Grenfell fire inquiry: capitalism is responsible
The recent report of the inquiry commission does not point to the capitalist system, but to the companies, institutions, managements directly or indirectly involved in the refurbishment of the Grenfell building. But it is not enough to blame particular actors, we have to dig deeper.
Xenophobic riots in Britain, anti-racist demos
Faced with racism, bourgeois democracy is a dead end!
The bourgeoisie tries to use the racist riots in Britain and elsewhere to reinforce illusions in 'democracy'.
Readers' contributions
Thoughts on the discussion on populism at the ICC’s international online public meeting in July
The discussion at this international public meeting showed that it is extremely important for revolutionaries to have a clear grasp of the phenomenon of populism (and the rise of the far right). The debate gave rise to different interpretations of the populist phenomenon and its significance. We are publishing here two contributions from close sympathisers, which provide a clear defence of the ICC’s analysis of the phenomenon.
Assassination attempt on Donald Trump
The US bourgeoisie sinks into the quagmire of instability
A first reaction to the assassination attempt on Donal Trump, written before Joe Biden’s reluctant decision to stand down from the forthcoming presidential election
Political parasitism
Confronted with the lies and confusion from the IGCL, the ICC defends its intervention on the question of war
Having re-established the facts about our platform, slandered by the “International Group of the Communist Left”, we must now defend the content of our intervention dealing with the war, faced with defamatory statements from the IGCL.
Reader's contribution on the racist riots in Britain
Racism, anti-racism, weapons of the ruling class
We are publishing this contribution by a close sympathiser who was moved to write it in response to the barrage of bourgeois propaganda about the racist riots in Britain and the response by the main factions of the ruling class. We fully endorse its clear denunciation of this ideological attack, as well as the article's exposure of the true "record" of capitalism when it comes to the mass killing of children.
For class unity
The working class is an immigrant class
We are republishing this article from 2006 which shows not only that campaigns against immigrants have been building up over a long period; and above all it underlines the historic nature of the working class as a class of immigrants which can never have a "fatherland"
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.
A ‘Promised Land’ of imperialist confrontation
More than a century of conflict in Israel/Palestine
An article showing that, in the period of capitalism’s decadence, neither the Zionist dream of Jewish statehood or the demand for “Freedom for Palestine” can ever escape the brutal logic of imperialist war.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Economic attacks
Unemployment, job insecurity, ‘reforms’... The left-wing of capital is always out to get the working class
Raising taxes ‘for greater tax justice’ and ‘better public services’ is nothing more than a despicable fable peddled by the left to make it easier to accept attacks on the working class
Britain
No end to austerity with the new Labour government
Starmer talks about the "hard choices" ahead. But the Labour Party can never chose any course but the defence of capitalism
Reader's letter
On the call for the Communist Left to make a joint appeal against the democratic campaign
We are publishing a response from a close sympathiser to our call for an appeal by the groups of the Communist Left in response to the massive international democratic campaign of the bourgeoisie. We fully support its approach and conclusions.
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.
Readers’ contribution
A discussion on the necessity and possibility of communism
Following an online ICC discussion meeting on the question of communism, two close sympathisers combined forces to produce this account of the meeting, which we think clearly draws out its principal themes and conclusions.
Struggle against imperialist war
Prague Action Week: Some lessons, and some replies to slander
A defence of the presence and intervention of the communist left at a gathering of elements seeking to oppose all imperialist wars
Riots in Bangladesh
The uprising paved the way for another bourgeois regime
This article exposes the lie that a "revolution" has taken place in Bangladesh
Homage to a revolutionary
In memory of our comrade Enrique
It is with deep regret that we inform our sympathisers and readers of the death, at the age of 74, of our comrade Enrique. His unexpected death has put a sudden end to more than 50 years of dedication and contribution to the struggle of the world proletariat
New act of snitching by the IGCL
Appeal for revolutionary solidarity and defence of proletarian principles
The "International Group of the Communist Left" (IGCL) has been publishing new "revelations" about the ICC's internal life - in sum, information of interest to the police
International Review 172 Editorial
Faced with chaos and barbarism, the responsibility of revolutionaries
Gone are the days when, despite the reality of a world dominated by a system of exploitation that is leading humanity more and more explicitly to its doom, the media persisted in spreading a little optimism to lull the exploited to sleep by suggesting reasons to hope for a better capitalist world.
Critique of the so-called communisers, part 4
The two teats that suckle the communisers: Denial of the revolutionary proletariat, denial of the dictatorship of the proletariat
We continue our series on the “communisation” current by showing how their rejection of proletarian political power is not a “modern” conception but a regression to Bakunin’s anarchism.
Imperialist tensions
The deepening and extension of wars reflect the growing impasse of capitalism
Faced with the total impasse in which capitalism finds itself and the failure of all economic "remedies", the bourgeoisie has no choice but to rush forward by means that can only be military.
Elections in Europe and the US
Democratic campaigns against working class consciousness
With the presidential race in the United States and the European elections, the various bourgeois factions in the state apparatus have developed a vast ideological campaign in defence of democracy and its institutions, "threatened" by the rise of populism.
Democratic trap
India after the elections: A narrow mandate for Modi and more sacrifices for the working class
All factions of the Indian bourgeoisie salute the elections as a victory for the world’s biggest democracy. But the outcome offers nothing to India’s poor and exploited.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.