New ICC publications for the month: May 2019 [1]

We welcome the contribution of the comrade on the June international public meeting of the ICC on the significance of the election of Trump in the USA. After Baboon's letter (Reflections on the ICC international online public meeting, 28.6.25 [4]) this is the second contribution by a close contact of the ICC. 

We are publishing here correspondence between the ICC and a comrade who has written to us from the Netherlands. We welcome his letter and especially the initiative to share his disagreements on an essential political question: the relationship between fascism, populism and democracy.

Is the radical image of the current Spanish government justified? Absolutely not!

A combative working class faces the danger of being dissolved in a 'popular' movement. As well as writing this article, our comrades in France have distributed this leaflet at the various mobilisations on 10 September: Journée d’action du 10 septembre : Peut-on changer le monde en “bloquant tout”? [8](September 10th Day of Action: Can We Change the World by “Blocking Everything?")

 In its terminal stage, capitalism cannot help spewing out irrational ideologies which look for scapegoats to blame, while it is this vey social system which is responsible for the economic crisis, local wars and ecological destruction which are forcing millions to flee their place of origin in search of  a more tolerable living conditions.

Revolutionaries are against all national flags. Not only the flags of the most powerful imperialist states, but also the flags of the ‘oppressed nations’.

Even when the ruling class admits some of the truth about the nuclear annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it's only to conceal a deeper reality: that capitalism itself is responsible for such horrors.

All over the world, the bourgeoisie is making the proletariat pay for the economic crisis of its system and the expansion of militarism through a deluge of attacks on workers. It is this accumulation of attacks, leading to a process of massive impoverishment, that is now provoking ever-growing anger among the population, particularly the working class, and a determination to fight back and refuse to accept the sacrifices demanded of them.

Despite the world-wide acceleration of barbarism, there is an alternative: the international struggle of the working class. 

The Anarchist Communist Organisation does not call for support for Hamas or Hezbollah. But its support for the 'direct action' stunts of Palestine Action is incompatible with taking an internationalist position on the war in the Middle East.

Opposing state repression does not mean we have to support the capitalist politics of Palestine Action

A war illustrating the new "scramble for Africa" which can only bring chaos and misery for the populations of the whole region.

2pm to 5pm UK time,

Saturday 27 September 2025

The 1905 revolution still contains numerous lessons for the class struggle today and in the future, and it is up to all those who recognise the need for a revolutionary struggle against capitalism to discuss and clarify these lessons in the light of subsequent experience. The meeting will be held online in English (together with other meetings on the same theme in different languages).