New ICC publications for the month: December 2019

Articles published this month

Consequences of the US/Europe divorce

Labour remains a party of war

Should we be surprised by the intensification of war preparations by the Labour Party? No, we should not: since the First World War, this party has a long history of supporting and waging imperialist war.

War ideology

VE Day parades: Not our victory!

The celebrations of VE Day are part of a wider campaign aiming to prepare us for new imperialist wars

“Popular revolts” in South Korea, Turkey and Serbia

Workers must not let themselves to be drawn into demonstrations for the defence of democracy

Recent demonstrations in South Korea, Serbia, Turkey and elsewhere are a sign of political and social crises but it is important to analyse the real political source of these movements.

Tariff wars

Capitalism has no solution to the global economic crisis!

Trump's self-defeating economic policies are a product of the complete dead-end of world capitalism

Class movements around the world

Argentina: the struggle of pensioners is our struggle

The struggle of retired workers to resist the permanent attacks on their living conditions unleashed by the bourgeois state in the context of the global economic crisis and austerity policies. 

Belgium

The working class under pressure from the economic crisis and militarism

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

Anti-Trump campaigns

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

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.

Imperialist war and the class struggle

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

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

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

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

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. 

The latest stage in the new world disorder

For class struggle against militarisation and wars

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

6) Further Reading

Radical ecologism or communism: further reading

For a more developed critique of the various radical ecologist theories, see our recent articles:

5) What is the social force that can bring about revolution?

The only solution to the infernal spiral of ecological and military destruction is to overthrow capitalism and move towards communism. But the bourgeoisie will never accept the end of its system, the end of its privileges, the end of its existence as a dominant and exploiting class. It will try to maintain its obsolete system at all costs. Only a world revolution can put an end to this agony. For all those who are concerned about the state of the planet and the fate of humanity, the essential question is: what social force is capable of bringing about revolution?

4) Communism is the only solution to the ecological crisis

Because it is a society without classes and exploitation, without nations or wars, communism is the only real solution to the ecological crisis.

3) Faced with the ecological crisis..... Can capitalist states change their spots?

In 1972, the Earth Summit, the first major international conference on the environment, was held in Stockholm, Sweden. Under the aegis of the United Nations, the 113 states present made a commitment to combat pollution. A declaration of 26 principles, an action plan with 109 recommendations and the creation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) were adopted.

2) The ravages of war

Picture: Kuwait, 1991

Since 1914, war has become a permanent feature on all continents. Two hundred conflicts, two hundred million deaths, two cities flattened by atomic bombs! Napalm, chemical and bacteriological weapons, cluster bombs, killer drones... the latest technology at the service of barbarity.

1) Is it possible to stop the destruction of the planet?

The state of the planet is catastrophic. The climate is warming faster than any scientific forecast, causing fires, droughts, storms, floods... The oceans are acidifying, and with them the rainfall; vegetation under water or on land is suffering the disastrous consequences. Worldwide deforestation is breaking records every year, and asphalt is covering more and more land. Pollution contaminates everything: greenhouse gases, pesticides in the soil, plastic particles in the seas, pharmaceutical molecules in rivers.... to the point where fish doped with oestrogen are changing sex!

Dossier: Ecology

Manifesto on the ecological crisis

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.