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

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.

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

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.

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

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. 

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

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.

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

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 war-economy and the position of the working class.