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1. The History of Sport Under Capitalism (Part I) - Sport in the ascendant phase of capitalism (1750-1914)

   ... the ancient games. The Olympianism of the ancient Greeks was not at all based upon the idea of records or the obsession with performance ... and mental universe of the contemporary games - even if the military aspect, the war between cities, and even the mercantile dimension. ...

   World Revolution - 2013-03-09 09:34

2. The Russian Revolution (part 2): The Soviets take power

   ... Review 71 ), we saw how the Russian revolution was not, as the bourgeoisie's propaganda says, a ‘mere coup D'Etat', but ... generals, tried to drag the workers and soldiers into a new military slaughter. In the same way, these great peddlers of ‘human ...

   International Review - 2021-08-19 21:07

3. From Junk Food to Famine: A system that poisons and starves, Part 2

   ... “no”! It is simply the production of commodities whose content and quality don’t matter so long as they find a place on the world ... produce … but sell to whom? To the hungry? Certainly not! Lacking sufficient solvent markets the goods were very often destroyed or ...

   ICConline - 2014-01-18 13:47

4. From the election of president Nelson Mandela in 1994 to 2019

   ... on its most barbaric traditional weapons, the police and military forces, the dynamic of class confrontation was unprecedented: the ... “black power”. Indeed, the South African proletariat did not lose its combativity, as we will see later, but it faced many serious ...

   International Review - 2022-01-17 21:49

5. Iraq: American occupation in crisis

   ... Iraq has sent any semblance of political stability and military gains achieved during the last year down the drain. The death toll ... of Najaf can only be a factor of further destabilization, not only in Iraq, but also throughout the whole region. While a last minute, ...

   Internationalism USA - 2013-07-07 15:04

6. German Revolution, X: The reflux of the revolutionary wave and the degeneration of the International

   ... the army - to sabotage the movement and to empty it of its content. Finally, through provoking a premature uprising and above all by ... and encirclement, the Russian working class, through the military offensive of the Red Army, had won the civil war, but it was ...

   International Review - 2010-09-22 03:21

7. The German Revolution, Part XIII : 1923, Part 2 A defeat that marked the end of the world revolutionary wave

   ... a distraction from what they considered the primary task - military preparation of insurrection - and that the councils would even serve ... 1919 German revolution. Thereafter, the KPD was not content to remain in error, it asserted itself as a champion of opportunism. ...

   International Review - 2010-10-25 09:57

8. War, militarism and imperialist blocs in the decadence of capitalism, Part 1

   ... gives the lie to any illusions about the ‘easing’ of military tensions, and illustrates in a striking manner one of the ... have bled dry the countries in which they have taken place (not to mention the horrible massacres they have provoked). Among a ... In its growing barbarism, capit­alism was no longer content to devour the workers in uniform – the whole working population was ...

   International Review - 2006-01-29 22:17

9. Chinese imperialism in Africa

   ... 27/10/6) declared “African leaders and their people will not be cheated by lies that China’s presence in Africa is neo-colonialism” ... in Sudan is the defence of Chinese oil interests. It has a military force in place in Sudan to guard 1506 kilometres of pipeline, a ...

   World Revolution - 2021-07-15 09:43

10. The 1937 "May Days" in Barcelona

    ... to a lack of a leadership capable of ordering a progressive withdrawal and, above all, faced with the treason of the leaders of the CNT: ... only supported it, but also tried to coordinate it at the military level. But without having already agreed realisable political aims, ...

    International Review - 2014-09-29 22:14

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