Anti-Trump campaigns

The bourgeoisie is trying to lure the working class into the trap of anti-fascism

Published by ICConline
Friday, 25 April, 2025 - 12:29

The deafening campaign around Trump’s ‘crazy decisions’ and ‘authoritarianism’ is a classic strategy of the bourgeoisie to make people believe that chaos, destruction and massacres are the fault of ‘irresponsible’ or ‘delusional’ individuals (Trump or Putin today; Hitler, Mussolini or Stalin yesterday...) and not the expression of the historical bankruptcy of the capitalist system.

The latest stage in the new world disorder

For class struggle against militarisation and wars

Published by ICConline
Monday, 14 April, 2025 - 08:59

The war-economy and the position of the working class.

ICC Public meeting, London

The New World Disorder: What is to be done?

Published by ICConline
Wednesday, 9 April, 2025 - 08:16

ICC public meeting, 26 April 2025, 2-5pm

Lucas Arms,  245A Grays Inn Rd, London WC1X 8QY

Nearest tube: Kings Cross

Dossier: Ecology

Manifesto on the ecological crisis

Published by ICConline
Saturday, 12 April, 2025 - 12:46

A newly-published Manifesto looking at various aspects of the worsening ecological crisis, their root causes, capitalism's inability to do anything but make matters worse and the only solution available to humanity - the communist revolution: what it is, what it is not and which social force can enact it.

Imperialist conflicts

United States, Europe, Russia, China: the great imperialist upheaval - what kind of world are we going to have to face?

Published by International Review
Thursday, 27 March, 2025 - 17:44

The televised humiliation of Zelensky in the White House has thrown in the face of the world the images of a major historical upheaval, what the media have called “the great reversal of alliances”.

Transatlantic divorce, Trump's abandonment of Ukraine and rapprochement with Russia

The upheaval in alliances is exacerbating the war of each against all

Published by: ICConline
Sunday, 20 April, 2025 - 13:15

The split between the US and Europe is not just a product of Trump's whims, but the culmination of a historical process unfolding since the collapse of the Russian bloc in the early 90s. 

Correspondence

On the re-election of Trump as US president

Published by: ICConline
Thursday, 10 April, 2025 - 12:37

Discussion on the impact of populism, along with an assessment of the state of the international class struggle, are issues that rightly concern parts of the proletarian political milieu.

Contact meeting about the implications of the election of Trump for the international situation and in the US

Published by: ICConline
Saturday, 5 April, 2025 - 11:54

We publish here a contribution of a sympathiser of the ICC about the discussion at the online contact meeting of Sunday 2 March.

Contribution on imperialism from a sympathiser in India

Published by: ICConline
Monday, 27 January, 2025 - 16:03

We are publishing below extracts of a contribution from a close contact in India. We think that his denunciation of the powers waging the current conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East shows a clear internationalist position and is fundamentally different from the pseudo-internationalism of the leftists.

Why international public meetings are important for the future

Published by: ICConline
Sunday, 15 December, 2024 - 20:27

A sympathiser sends some critical feedback on the organisation of our international online public meeting held on 16 November, followed by our response.

Imperialist conflicts

Three years of war in Ukraine: a spiral of chaos, massacres and militarism

Published by: International Review
Monday, 17 March, 2025 - 15:54

A new article showing why the wars of capitalism’s decomposition can only result in the mutual ruin of the contending belligerents.

Controversy in the proletarian political milieu

The national question according to Bordigist legend

Published by: International Review
Wednesday, 2 April, 2025 - 12:33

An article tracing the historical roots of the errors on the national question maintained by the Bordigist groups. 

Polemic

“Counter-theses” or ‘counter-sense’ on decomposition?

Published by: International Review
Monday, 24 March, 2025 - 19:52

The ICC’s Theses on Decomposition is an essential contribution to understanding the current historical period. In this article we respond to a flawed critique.

Marxism and Ecology

Andreas Malm: “ecological” rhetoric in defense of the capitalist state (Part 2)

Published by: International Review
Thursday, 13 March, 2025 - 12:50

In the first part of this article, we showed that the self-styled “Lenin of ecology”, Andreas Malm, is in fact defending a completely bourgeois conception of this question, and in reality serves as an agent of state capitalism, which he aims to propagate to the working class. In this second part, we will show how much his approach is based on a fundamental distortion of the marxist vision of the capitalist mode of production and its relationship with nature.

Imperialism

The drive for a “Greater India”: another factor in imperialist disorder

Published by: ICConline
Sunday, 2 March, 2025 - 09:05

Hindu nationalists dream of ‘Making India Great Again’ but its efforts towards imperialist expansion are part of the general descent into barbarism.

Ideologies of imperialist war

Anti-Semitism, Zionism, Anti-Zionism: all are enemies of the proletariat, Part 1

Published by: International Review
Thursday, 20 February, 2025 - 11:04

In this part of the article, we look at the origins of Zionism as a false response to the rise of anti-Semitism in the late 19th century

Ecological disasters

From the floods in Germany (2021) to the destructive floods in Spain (2024), the impasse of a dying capitalist system

Published by: ICConline
Saturday, 18 January, 2025 - 10:00

As wildfires spread in California and floods hit western Europe, where lies the hope for the future of humanity?

Extreme left of capital

The quarrel between ‘Révolution Permanente’ and ‘Lutte Ouvrière’: Two Trotskyist varieties of the same nationalist positions

Published by: ICConline
Friday, 17 January, 2025 - 14:22

A dispute arose a few months ago between the two French Trotskyist groups, Révolution Permanente (RP), an offshoot of the NPA (Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste), and Lutte Ouvrière (LO), concerning the Palestinian question. But behind their differences we find the same defence of Palestinian nationalism. 

Riots in Amsterdam

The Dutch ruling class makes use of populism and anti-populism

Published by: ICConline
Thursday, 16 January, 2025 - 12:31

How the various factions of the Dutch bourgeoisie instrumentalised the “football riots” in November 2024

Public meeting of the ICT in Paris

A necessary debate for the clarification of positions and principles

Published by: ICConline
Saturday, 21 December, 2024 - 09:53

On 23 November, the Internationalist Communist tendency (ICT) held a public meeting in Paris on the theme: ‘Faced with the rise of nationalist wars and confrontations, the only perspective is the internationalist class struggle’. In this article we want to briefly underline the crucial points which emerged from the discussion.

The malfunction of capital

Floods in Valencia: capitalism is an unfolding catastrophe

Published by: ICConline
Tuesday, 19 November, 2024 - 12:50

Faced with the Valencia floods, capitalism and its state reveals its profound indifference to human welfare.

Letter and proposed appeal

For an Appeal of the Communist Left to the working class against the international campaign to mobilise for bourgeois democracy

Published by: ICConline
Tuesday, 24 September, 2024 - 19:12

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.

Reader's letter

On the call for the Communist Left to make a joint appeal against the democratic campaign

Published by: ICConline
Thursday, 10 October, 2024 - 12:08

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.

International class struggle

Strikes in the United States, Canada, Italy... For three years, the working class has been fighting against austerity!

Published by: ICConline
Sunday, 3 November, 2024 - 12:26

The new phase in the class struggle inaugurated by the strikes in Britain in 2022 continues....

In Argentina, as elsewhere, workers must learn the lessons of their past struggles in order to prepare for those of the future.

Published by: ICConline
Thursday, 10 October, 2024 - 11:40

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

First assessment of an online public meeting of the ICC

An international debate to understand the global situation and prepare for the future

Published by: ICConline
Saturday, 30 November, 2024 - 10:23

On 16 November, the ICC held an Online Public Meeting on the theme ‘The Global Implications of the US Elections’.

Defence of the Communist Left

The death of Michel Olivier: An indecent opportunity for a new anti-ICC campaign

Published by: ICConline
Tuesday, 1 October, 2024 - 17:02

A response to the some very serious accusations against the ICC in a recent article by the Internationalist Communist Tendency.

Reader's contribution

New Popular Front: new instrument against the working class

Published by: ICConline
Monday, 16 September, 2024 - 11:58

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

Xenophobic riots in Britain, anti-racist demos

Faced with racism, bourgeois democracy is a dead end!

Published by: ICConline
Friday, 13 September, 2024 - 13:18

The bourgeoisie tries to use the racist riots in Britain and elsewhere to reinforce illusions in 'democracy'.

Belgium

The working class under pressure from the economic crisis and militarism

Published by: ICConline
Friday, 25 April, 2025 - 23:41

A trade union offensive aims to fragment workers struggles, with new attacks on the horizon.

Imperialist war and the class struggle

What policy for the working class faced with the increasing danger of war?

Published by: ICConline
Sunday, 20 April, 2025 - 13:26

The obstacles facing the search for clarity on how to fight capitalism's wars

Health crisis

Capitalism’s social war undermines our health

Published by: ICConline
Sunday, 6 April, 2025 - 21:38

The state of the health service is inadequate for those who need it, while it functions as an integral part of capitalism’s system of exploitation.

Consequences of the US election result

Trump 2.0: New steps into capitalist chaos

Published by: International Review
Tuesday, 25 February, 2025 - 14:45

This article explains that “the dangerous chaos and havoc that he [Trump] has unleashed on the world since he took up residence in the White House is not an individual aberration in an otherwise stable system, but the expression of the collapse of the capitalist system as a whole and of its strongest power”.

Development of class struggle

The historical roots of the “rupture” in the dynamics of the class struggle since 2022 (Part I)

Published by: International Review
Wednesday, 15 January, 2025 - 13:48

The question of 'subterranean maturation'. First of two articles defending our view that the workers' struggles in Britain, France and elsewhere in 2022 marked an important new phase in the class struggle, a "rupture" with decades of retreat. 

The historical roots of the “rupture” in the dynamics of the class struggle since 2022 (Part 2)

Published by: International Review
Wednesday, 19 February, 2025 - 10:22

The background of an undefeated proletariat. Second of two articles defending our view that the workers' struggles in Britain, France and elsewhere in 2022 marked an important new phase in the class struggle, a "rupture" with decades of retreat. 

On strikes (V.I. Lenin)

Published by: International Review
Thursday, 6 March, 2025 - 09:18

At the end of 1899, Lenin wrote an article entitled ‘On Strikes’, relating to the strikes that were developing at the time in Russia. Although more than a century has passed since this article was written, making it inevitable that some of the ideas it contains are outdated or redundant due to historical development, others not only retain their full validity but are also of definite interest considering the potential dynamic of the class struggle in the current period.

International class struggle

Belgium: workers mobilise against bourgeois austerity plans

Published by: ICConline
Sunday, 26 January, 2025 - 14:06

The current strikes and demonstrations in Belgium are another expression of a process of maturation that has been going on deep inside the world working class.

Enough is enough! We need a massive, unified movement against the attacks!

Published by: ICConline
Sunday, 16 February, 2025 - 18:16

Leaflet distributed to workers' rallies against the latest austerity plans in Belgium

History of our class

Contribution to a history of the labour movement in Egypt

Published by: International Review
Tuesday, 18 March, 2025 - 17:22

After Senegal and South Africa, in a new series, we present a history of the workers' movement in Egypt. This new contribution pursues the same main aim as the previous ones: to provide evidence of the living reality of the history of the African labour movement through its struggles against the bourgeoisie.

In defence of our organisation and the real tradition of the Communist Left

The difference between the vacuity of a presumptuous blogger and the solidity of an organisation rooted in the tradition of the workers' movement

Published by: International Review
Sunday, 16 March, 2025 - 10:12

We reply here to the Controversies blog, which has devoted itself to the noble cause of trying to discredit the ICC through lies, slanders and evasions.

After the Trump election

Faced with capitalist crisis and disorder, sharpen the class struggle!

Published by: ICConline
Sunday, 26 January, 2025 - 13:57

The Trump presidency is one expression of a decomposing social system - it's the system itself that has to go

War in the Middle East

Fall of the Assad regime in Syria: One butcher has fallen, others will bring more wars, massacres and chaos!

Published by: ICConline
Tuesday, 17 December, 2024 - 14:46

Despite the fall of the Assad regime, the fragmentation of the Syrian state will continue, offering little respite from a multi-sided war

World economy

The global economic crisis deepens, and capitalism launches more attacks on the working class

Published by: ICConline
Wednesday, 22 January, 2025 - 12:55

Despite some optimistic forecasts by the ruling class, “the capitalist system is well and truly continuing its trajectory into the abyss of a chronic economic crisis, plunging the world further into stagnation and poverty”.

A militant life

Tribute to our comrade Laurie

Published by: ICConline
Wednesday, 22 January, 2025 - 10:33

It is with great sorrow that we must inform our readers of the death of our comrade Laurie, at a hospital in Birkenhead where he had been a patient for the best part of a year.

US elections

Trump's triumph in the United States: A giant step forward in the decomposition of capitalism!

Published by: ICConline
Sunday, 10 November, 2024 - 15:20

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.

Imperialist conflicts

Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria... The capitalist spiral of militarism and chaos!

Published by: ICConline
Monday, 2 December, 2024 - 10:35

Since last summer, we have witnessed a real escalation of military conflicts, with fighting and massacres intensifying everywhere: Ukraine, Russia, Lebanon, Gaza, Syria.....

Reader's letter

Bourgeois propaganda about Syria

Published by: ICConline
Saturday, 21 December, 2024 - 18:04

We publish here a letter from a close sympathiser, which we think is a very lucid denunciation of the current campaign about the 'good news' coming from Syria with the fall of the Assad regime - a denunciation based on the ICC's position on the decomposition of capitalism and the slide into military chaos.

Economic attacks

Unemployment, job insecurity, ‘reforms’... The left-wing of capital is always out to get the working class

Published by: ICConline
Tuesday, 12 November, 2024 - 10:15

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

Published by: ICConline
Tuesday, 17 September, 2024 - 15:14

Starmer talks about the "hard choices" ahead. But the Labour Party can never chose any course but the defence of capitalism

Readers’ contribution

A discussion on the necessity and possibility of communism

Published by: ICConline
Tuesday, 24 September, 2024 - 15:55

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

Published by: ICConline
Wednesday, 4 September, 2024 - 14:21

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

Published by: ICConline
Sunday, 15 September, 2024 - 15:34

This article exposes the lie that a "revolution" has taken place in Bangladesh

New act of snitching by the IGCL

Appeal for revolutionary solidarity and defence of proletarian principles

Published by: ICConline
Saturday, 3 August, 2024 - 19:59

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

Published by: International Review
Friday, 16 August, 2024 - 13:28

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.