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1. Anarchist Bookfair: Direct action caught in the traps of pacifism and imperialism

   ... the last year. Although the reason for this decision was not put forward explicitly, the logic seemed to be that if you wanted direct ... at the very moment it's advancing its interests with military means. Leading figures from the government such as Robin Cook and ...

   World Revolution - 2004-12-19 10:45

2. The ambiguities of the Internationalist Communist Party over the ‘partisans’ in Italy in 1943

   ... Communist Left. During World War II, its appeals were not addressed to ‘sincere’ or ‘proletarian’ anti-fascists, but to the ... order to perpetuate the massacre of the workers. It was a military organization based (just like the SS) on voluntary membership. ...

   International Review - 2013-12-08 07:48

3. North Korea’s nuclear test sharpens rivalries

   ... regard this as an act of aggression and respond with a huge military strike. What's behind this latest display of force? In April of ... the possibility that things could get out of control, not only because of the particular irrationality of the Stalinist clique in ...

   World Revolution - 2009-06-08 20:47

4. April 1939: End of the Spanish Civil War and prologue to the Second World War

   ... of the nobility, constitutes an important (although not indispensable) step in the growing control by the bourgeoisie over society, ... a revolution in Spain? On July 18, 1936, following a military coup against the Popular Front government, the proletariat took up ...

   ICConline - 2019-08-31 11:19

5. 100 years ago: the Russian revolution of 1905 and the Soviet of workers' deputies

   ... spontaneous development of the struggle at a pace they did not always find comfortable. From the outset the soviet revealed its ... strike and the soviet. The union form appeared, but its content tended towards the new form of struggle. In the revolutionary ...

   International Review - 2006-01-14 22:45

6. Massive street protests in Hong Kong: Democratic illusions are a dangerous trap for the proletariat

   ... of half a million. [2] The Hong Kong protests were not only aimed at the extradition law but, behind this, also at the growing ... Trump's administration and other western governments are content to work and conduct lucrative trade with a multitude of odious ...

   ICConline - 2019-11-15 12:35

7. Capitalism, synonymous with chaos and barbarism (1999)

   ... burned down in some towns) that have ravaged East Timor are not new to that country. One week after Portugal granted it independence in May ... of the NATO countries forget that the first result of the military operation was to unleash the "ethnic cleansing" of Kosovo’s ...

   International Review - 2019-04-28 23:20

8. What point has the crisis reached? Historic crisis of the economy

   ... in under-developed countries. The historic conclusions are not difficult to draw. These countries went from colonialism to decolonization ... last June (+7.6%), is due in large part to increases in military expenditures (+46%) and orders of trucks and cars (+17.7%). Orders ...

   International Review - 2010-07-16 05:37

9. Theses on decomposition

   ... which lies at the origin of capitalism’s decadence does not spring from a problem of under-production, as was the case in previous ... although previous periods of decadence have been marked by military conflict, these were out of all proportion to the world wars which ...

   International Review - 2005-03-15 13:04

10. Book review: Manual for Survival. A Chernobyl Guide to the Future, by Kate Brown

    ... "liquidators" is plainly another big lie. There was a military dimension to Chernobyl in that it produced plutonium for nuclear ... the Politburo's alternative universe ", says Kate Brown.  Not that being hospitalised did much good in the face of an already patchy and ...

    ICConline - 2019-06-01 17:22

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