New ICC publications for the month: August 2022

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Articles published this month

Movement of high school and college students in France

What makes us strong…

This is the text of a leaflet drawing out the lessons from the many demonstrations across France.

Leaflet for the October 17th demos in France

At the crossroads: leaflet handed out on 17 October

We publish here the leaflet the ICC distributed in large numbers at the massive demos in France on 17 October.  As the preamble says, “at times like this that it is vital to reflect and discuss things collectively. Because the traps into which our movement can fall are beginning to take shape”.

Dossier: France

Dossier: Movement of French high school and university students

 A collection of some of the ICC articles and leaflets produced during the October 2026 movement of high school and university students in France, plus a leaflet distributed in September 2026 recalling the lessons of the 2006 student and workers’ movement against the CPE contract of employment.

International leaflet

Student struggles in France: tip of the iceberg in the struggle of the world working class

Our international leaflet providing an analysis of the important social movements taking place in Europe. We encourage all those who agree with its contents to forward it online and to print copies from the PDF in order to hand out at any opportunity (meetings, demonstrations, colleges, universities, workplaces, etc).

Capitalism’s deadly spiral

Faced with the horror of capitalism, there is only one alternative: communist revolution

Far from being separate from one another, the combined effects of the economic crisis, war, the bourgeoisie’s loss of control over its own system, and the climate crisis interact and multiply their impact.

Leaflet on housing in Spain

The problem of housing and working conditions... is capitalism!

The defence of decent housing is part of the struggle for the living conditions of the working class, for wage rises to keep pace with inflation, against redundancies, and against social cuts in education and healthcare.

School and student movement in France

The young generation of the working class rejects a future of poverty and war

The high school and university student movement in France has grown to spectacular proportions, rapidly spreading across the whole country.

Online meeting: Billions for war, batons for youth

The struggle of school pupils and students is the struggle of the entire working class!

ICC online public meeting Sunday 18 October at 17:00 London time about the high school and university student movement throughout France.

Write to [email protected] for the link to the meeting

International class struggle

Appeal to the high school and university student movement throughout France

Flyer distributed to those taking part in the current social movement in France

France

Repression of high school students: the true face of the capitalist state is one of terror!

The reasons for young people to fight this system are multiplying: precarious work, lack of housing, the miserable state of education...and police repression. 

Burnham government

Promises, promises – of future attacks on the working class

The many forms of “hope” trumpeted by Labour leader Andy Burnham are false hopes, disguising the reality of capitalist chaos.

Billions for war, batons for youth

The struggle of high school and university students is the struggle of the entire working class (leaflet)

A leaflet distributed by the ICC in France. From Nepal to Morocco, from Madagascar to Peru, Gen Z is taking to the streets. Everywhere, a generation is worried about its future. Everywhere, the same refusal to suffer attacks in silence. Today, it is in France that youth is rising up.

War in the Middle East

An ‘anarchist’ apology for Hamas

Article replying to a vicious attack on the ICC and communist internationalism in general, on the libcom.org site.

Ecological disasters

Nepal: the deadly logic of capitalism in decomposition

Not a natural disaster, but an expression of the nature of capitalism

Editorial

In the face of capitalist bankruptcy and chaos: class struggle is the only way forward!

Capitalism is on its last legs. The working class needs to create a new society. 

ICC Leaflet on the movement against the CPE in France, 2006

A wealth of experience for future struggles

Twenty years ago, in 2006, in France, the lecture theatres – bastions of academic boredom – were abruptly roused from their torpor by the clamour of heated debates on unemployment, job insecurity, exploitation and the future.


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