New ICC publications for September 2015

Articles published this month

A new front opened by Turkey and NATO will deepen imperialist chaos in the Middle East

Monday, August 24, 2015 - 18:59

After four years of the war in Syria and around a year since the establishment of the “Caliphate” of the Islamic State, a new turn by Turkey, fully backed by the forces of NAT0, sees it enter the war, dumping its previous jihadi allies and turning its fire on its Kurdish “partners in peace”. A number of questions are raised by Turkey’s new front: why this turn now by Turkey? What does this mean for the Turkish/Kurdish “peace process” and its two-year old “cease-fire”? Are there any elements within the forces of Kurdish nationalism that represent the interests of the working class in any way? Will this move lead to any sort of halt or alleviation in the descent of the whole region into instability and war?

South Africa from World War II to the mid-1970s

Sunday, August 23, 2015 - 14:52

This article highlights the formidable effect of the apartheid system on the class struggle, combined with the action of the trade unions and parties of the bourgeoisie, up until the end of the 1960s when, faced with the unprecedented development of the class struggle, the bourgeoisie had to “modernise” its political apparatus and revamp its system.

Zimmerwald and the centrist currents in the political organisations of the proletariat

Sunday, August 23, 2015 - 14:43

An internal text originally published during debates within the organisation in 1984, which gives an extended account of the different tendencies present in the Zimmerwald Conference against the World War, held in September 1915.

ICC public meeting - World wars, capitalism’s decline, and the internationalist response

Wednesday, August 19, 2015 - 17:58

The International Communist Current is organising a day-long public meeting in London on October 10 2015.