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1. Debate on Libcom on the NHS: How do we defend the social wage?

   ... need healthcare, we need it even if we cannot afford to pay for a hip replacement, a stay on coronary care, or even a prescription charge. However bad it is, however long the wait for an appointment or treatment, however that treatment is restricted by lack ...

   World Revolution - 2013-07-07 17:42

2. 1995: 20 years of the ICC

   ... Current was formed. This is a considerable lifespan for a proletarian organisation, when we consider that the IWA only ... the trades unions - which the working class had founded for its own combat, but which had gone over to the bourgeois camp. The vast ...

   ICC - 2011-11-01 22:51

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

   ... political apparatus but the regimen of the ruling classes for whose service it was founded " (Trotsky, The History of the Russian ... resources " (Ana M Pankratova, Los consejos de fabricas en Ia Rusia en 1917 ‘The development of the struggle between capital and ...

   International Review - 2021-08-19 21:07

4. State and dictatorship of the proletariat

   ... that this phase could only precede and be a prep­aration for a communist society in which there would be neither classes, nor political ... between this vision and that of the anarchists who reject en bloc the state, the period of transition, and above all the dictatorship ...

   International Review - 2010-11-27 02:03

5. The riots in France are not part of the struggle of the working class

   ... Our public meetings and open meetings aim to be the place for fraternal debate where participants can pose questions and put arguments ... the theme ‘Proletarian revolution is the sole perspective for the future of humanity’ in Tours , Marseille, Nantes , ...

   World Revolution - 2006-02-07 12:03

6. Internationalisme 1952: The evolution of capitalism and the new perspective

   ... part of the cycle crisis-war-reconst­ruction-crisis. For this reason, and in the somber atmosphere of the cold war between the USA ... Capitalism can still use local wars as a temporary outlet for its contradictions and antagonisms but it can't launch a generalized war as ...

   International Review - 2008-10-04 19:55

7. 30 years after the “German Autumn”: state terror yesterday and today

   ... by the Red Army Fraction (RAF) provided the pretext for a wave of repression unparalleled in post-war West German history. It was a ... to which the kidnapping of Schleyer was merely a pretext for putting on a display of power and justifying new repressive measures became ...

   ICConline - 2022-02-26 14:53

8. The Mature Marx - Past and Future Communism

   ... had worked on in the period 1881-2, and which were the basis for Engels’ Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State. Engels ... on the Russian commune (see below) was quite prepared to en­dorse the view that “ the new system to which modern soci­ety is ...

   International Review - 2021-07-10 15:50

9. Correspondence on Crisis Theories and Decadence, Part 1: Our reply

   ... doubts about the decadence of capitalism. The starting point for the comrade is the fundamental position put forward by the 1 st   ... to explain the historic crisis of capitalism (the tendency for the rate of profit to fall and the tendency towards overproduction). We ...

   International Review - 2005-08-20 15:24

10. Polemic: In the light of the events in Poland -- the role of revolutionaries

    ... numbers of yesterday's student rebels opted for the quieter pastures of organic living and whole meal bread-baking. The ... the bourgeois order. Others sought to compen­sate for their lack of confidence in the class, for their political isolation, by ... at ‘control­ling' the mass organs of the class, but at en­couraging the workers to take all power into their own hands, to abandon ...

    International Review - 2010-07-12 04:00

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