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

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.

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.

Ukraine, Middle East...

Capitalism caught in the spiral of endless wars

Published by ICConline
Saturday, 18 January, 2025 - 08:57

As we go to press, the media are full of the news about the ceasefire and exchange of prisoners being cooked up in the Middle East. But as our article insists, “whatever truces or ceasefires may be concluded in the context of future imperialist manoeuvres, they can only be temporary and will only represent momentary pauses in the reinforcement of the barbaric militarism which characterises the capitalist mode of production”.

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

Trump 2.0

Neither populism nor bourgeois democracy ... The only real alternative is the worldwide development of class struggle against all factions of the bourgeoisie

Published by: ICConline
Friday, 10 January, 2025 - 20:22

Trump's election is a product of capitalist society rotting on its feet - and it will speed up the rot.

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?

Correspondence

On the ICC meeting on the 16th November 2024 and the origins of the “rupture” in the class struggle

Published by: ICConline
Monday, 27 January, 2025 - 15:38

We publish here a contribution from comrade Baboon on the international public forum held by the ICC on the significance of the election of Trump in the USA. The extract that follows focuses on the question of the “rupture” in the class struggle and broadly agrees with much of the ICC’s position on this. However, he expresses some disagreements about the moment at which this rupture took place and so his contribution is followed by our response on this point.

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.

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.

Racist Riots in Britain

No to divide and rule! Our only defence is the class struggle!

Published by: ICConline
Sunday, 11 August, 2024 - 07:55

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

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'.

For class unity

The working class is an immigrant class

Published by: World Revolution
Wednesday, 6 December, 2006 - 18:19

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"

Report on the economic crisis

This crisis is going to be the most serious in the whole period of decadence

Published by: International Review
Thursday, 27 June, 2024 - 17:56

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.

The fight against opportunism

The fight against opportunism, a vital challenge for the revolution

Published by: International Review
Monday, 13 May, 2024 - 13:12

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. 

Two years on from the Joint Statement of the Communist Left on the war in Ukraine

Published by: International Review
Monday, 15 April, 2024 - 19:40

A first balance sheet of our appeals to the Communist Left to make a joint statement on the current imperialist conflicts.

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”.

The historic roots of the “rupture” in the dynamic of the class struggle since 2022

Part One: On the subterranean maturation of class consciousness

Published by: ICConline
Wednesday, 15 January, 2025 - 13:48

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. 

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. 

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

Published by: International Review
Thursday, 15 August, 2024 - 21:15

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

Published by: International Review
Friday, 9 August, 2024 - 20:28

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.

Report on the political life of the bourgeoise

How the bourgeoisie organises itself

Published by: International Review
Monday, 17 June, 2024 - 17:53

An examination of the political life of the class enemy.

The struggle against capitalist war

Prague "Action Week": Activism is a barrier to political clarification

Published by: International Review
Monday, 10 June, 2024 - 00:26

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

Published by: ICConline
Monday, 1 July, 2024 - 12:19

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. 

The Middle East conflict

Dossier on war in the Middle East

Published by: ICConline
Friday, 12 January, 2024 - 10:26

A collection of articles illuminating the origins of and current conflict in the Middle East.

25th International Congress of the ICC

Resolution on the International Situation, 25th ICC Congress

Published by: International Review
Monday, 5 June, 2023 - 16:54

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.