New ICC publications for the month: June 2023

New publications this month

World Revolution 405 - February-May 2026pdf

Articles published this month

History of the workers' movement

The fight against the dominant ideology

We are drawing attention to the “Resolution on opportunism and centrism in the period of decadence” from our 6th Congress because, although first published 40 years ago, it is as relevant as ever, given that the struggle against opportunism, i.e. the penetration of bourgeois and petty ideology into the workers’ movement, can only be a permanent struggle for revolutionaries.

ICC online public meeting

Escalation of war in the Middle East: A new step into capitalist barbarism

Sunday, 21 of March, 2026

2-5pm UK time

In response to the escalation of war in the Middle East, the ICC has published a new article on its website (Capitalism is war! It's capitalism that must be overthrown!) and is holding an online public meeting in English:

Please write to [email protected] if you want to attend.

Fight against the dominant ideology

Resolution adopted by the 6th ICC Congress on Opportunism and centrism in the period of decadence

We republish a resolution from our 6th International Congress which, though produced 40 years ago, remains relevant today, since opportunism remains a constant danger for every revolutionary organisation fighting a society in which "the dominant ideas are the ideas of the dominant class" (Marx).

6th Congress of the ICC

Rejected resolution on Centrism and proletarian political organisations

1) Academic debate on the question of centrism is impossible. As a concept, centrism was born and has developed in the workers' movement in the face of the necessity to demarcate the political forces present in the class struggle, in particular with a view to the constitution of class parties in the present epoch of wars and revolutions.

Resolution on the international situation

1) On the eve of the 1980s, the ICC designated these years as the ‘years of truth', in which the formidable extent of what was at stake in the whole life of society would be clearly revealed. Half-way through this decade, the evolution of the international situation has fully confirmed this analysis:

-- through a new aggravation of the convulsions of the world economy which were manifested from the very beginning of the ’80s in the most important recession since the 1930s;

War in Iran

Capitalism is war! It's capitalism that must be overthrown!

Our initial internationalist response to the new war between the US, Israel and Iran

ICE killings, calls to ‘defend democracy’:

In the United States too, the rot of global capitalism is accelerating

The brutal repression being unleashed in the USA is not simply down to Trump and his clique - it is an expression of the putrefaction of an entire global system