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1. What are workers' councils? (Part 4): The soviets attempt to wield power (1917 - 1921)

   ... moment in the history of mankind: “ For the first time, not the minority, not the rich alone, not the educated alone, but the real ... then was an army created, when the proletariat had a soviet military organ that had led the insurgency, the Military Revolutionary ...

   International Review - 2021-12-03 23:21

2. Drug Wars: Mexico – the gangsterisation of the state

   ... that Mexico is a “ failed state .” According to the US military there are similarities between Mexico and Pakistan, these states are ... popular representation. So, if the mafia practices terror, not only through its paramilitary apparatus, but even using the repressive ...

   World Revolution - 2021-08-19 22:20

3. After the 1908 mutiny: mass strikes and the socialist movement

   ... the Russian Duma, and the Ottoman bourgeoisie was determined not to hand power back to the monarchy. One of the main differences was that ... between the bosses and workers were coldly rebuffed. Military forces in Smyrna were unable to control or suppress the striking ...

   International Review - 2021-12-29 17:12

4. ICC's 17th Congress: The proletarian camp reinforced worldwide

   ... groups from the proletarian milieu at an ICC congress is not a novelty. In the past, at the very beginnings of its existence, the ICC ... situation in general, characterised by the drift towards military barbarism and the growing threat to the planetary environment, are all ...

   International Review - 2021-11-06 21:29

5. Why the proletariat has not yet overthrown capitalism, Part 2

   ... capitalist measures were presented as "workers' victories", not only by the Stalinist parties whose programmes included the complete ... the formation of a coalition government and Hungary's withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact. This last measure was unacceptable for the ...

   International Review - 2007-06-07 22:07

6. Lib-Con coalition: The ‘new way’ to introduce cuts

   ... or disguising them before a new election - whether or not they can actually last the distance. The national interest = austerity ... against BA and railworkers; threats and bullying as in the withdrawal of BA travel perks. The unions are also able to keep workers from ...

   World Revolution - 2021-06-05 00:06

7. Oil slicks in Nigeria: capitalism is a world-wide plague

   ... of such large amounts of precious raw materials does not lead to prosperity but instead to the strangulation of nature and to a ... forces in society than the mere parasitic life of the military. Barely 10 years after the beginning of the oil exploitation in ...

   ICConline - 2021-12-03 21:56

8. 19th ICC Congress: Resolution on the international situation

   ... words the world's first power runs the risk of seeing a withdrawal in “official” confidence in its capacity to reimburse its debts; ... between states, the ruling class is forced to rush towards military policies and conflicts. For the majority of historians, including ...

   International Review - 2011-09-14 19:33

9. Class Consciousness and the Role of Revolutionaries

   ... able to transform itself nor reality itself. Form and content, perceived object and conceived subject, idea and mat­ter, theory and ... in a form independent of and ex­terior to the subject, and not as human practice. Class consciousness has only to be condensed into a ...

   International Review - 2008-07-07 17:00

10. Inter-imperialist conflicts, class struggle: The acceleration of history

    ... last world war has the bourgeoisie set in motion such huge military arsenals, so much effort towards the production of the means of ... in the mini­scule Caribbean island of Grenada; French and Israeli aircraft bombarding the Lebanon -- and all this against a back-drop of ...

    International Review - 2010-07-14 23:45

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