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1. Iran hostage crisis shows weakness of US and UK

   3751 reads The seizure of 15 British military personnel by Iran represents a serious escalation of the tensions ... are elements of the US and British bourgeoisies that favour withdrawal, such a retreat would simply leave Iraq a prey to the surrounding ...

   World Revolution - 2007-04-02 20:30

2. Suez 1956: Britain forced to accept its subordinate role

   ... keep Israel and Egypt apart. In reality, after the initial Israeli offensive, the two powers attacked Egypt, which retaliated by sinking ... sought to lead Europe, most British politicians have been content to play second fiddle to America.” This hints at the ...

   World Revolution - 2006-09-05 20:39

3. Sectarianism, an inheritance from the counter-revolution that must be transcended

   ... ‘rival' sects. Since social and material practice is not permit­ted to determine the truth, each isolated sect, inevitably cut off ... will be the role of the revolutionary party tomorrow ". The content of this brilliant, ‘non-opportunist' logic is the following: if ...

   International Review - 2009-05-11 22:18

4. Imperialist powderkeg in the Middle East

   ... to Israel. During this period there were three major Arab-Israeli wars: 1956, 1967 and 1973, and behind each one of them could be ... Storm - in the Gulf. The real target of this slaughter was not so much Iraq as the USA’s former great power allies, who were forced to ...

   World Revolution - 2004-12-26 19:00

5. The rise and fall of Autonomia Operaia

   ... struggles, the proletariat will rediscover the political content of its genuine class autonomy through a radical critique of the ... line was criticised, because it theorised that " the military structure was the only one capable of fulfilling a revolutionary role, ...

   International Review - 2008-10-09 14:55

6. Balance sheet of 70 years of 'national liberation' struggles, Part 3

   ... phrase, to be sure, has been preserved, but its real content, its function has been perverted into its very opposite. Today the ... subordination of the infrastructure and communications to military activity; enor­mous ‘defence’ costs, etc) - all of which produces ...

   International Review - 2008-05-15 20:48

7. 1919 - Foundation of the Communist International

   ... in 2009, there is one that the media and historians will not talk about other than briefly and then only with the conscious aim of ... the fleet and army in France, as well as among some British military units refusing to intervene against Soviet Russia.... Lloyd ...

   World Revolution - 2009-05-16 10:58

8. Decadence of capitalism (ii): What scientific method do we need to understand the present social order...?

   ... of the 20th century dealt a death-blow to this confidence. Not only did symbolic place-names like the Somme and Paschendale, where tens of ... are doing. Hence, when studying historical change, we cannot content ourselves with studying the ideas and beliefs of an epoch, or ...

   International Review - 2009-06-08 12:36

9. Darwin and the Workers Movement

   ... theorise and look for historical processes when others were content just to categorise phenomena or accept existing explanations. A typical ... in a letter to AR Wallace, 22/12/1857) He was also not afraid to take observations from one field and use them in other areas. ...

   ICConline - 2009-02-09 18:52

10. Germany 1918-19 (iii): Formation of the party, absence of the International

    ... one of the most important of revolutionary qualities, should not lead us to conclude that the role of the proletarian party was peripheral ... the imperialist war. It is a well known fact that the German military actually helped Lenin and other Bolshevik leaders to return to Russia, ...

    International Review - 2009-06-08 13:01

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