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1. The spread of war shows capitalism is at a dead-end

   ... in the crossfire. The Middle East historically has, for economic and strategic reasons, been the focus of imperialist confrontation and ... for example, the presence of the world’s second and third economic powers, China and Japan, taking more and more military forms (for a ...

   World Revolution - 2013-05-26 13:45

2. 20 years since May 68: Capitalism in the whirlpool of the crisis

   ... by reforms, devaluations, or any other kind of capitalist economic measures, and that it is heading straight for a crisis." ( ... period of economic instability." (see our pamphlet, The Decadence of Capitalism ) It took twenty years -- a generation -- for the ...

   International Review - 2012-11-21 23:02

3. 20 years since May 68: Class struggle: The maturation of the conditions for the revolution

   ... after being stricken, in the 30s, by the effects of an economic depression without having the means to respond to it; after having ... once again became, for millions of people, an object of debate and reflection. It’s true that for some students, ‘the revolution’ ...

   International Review - 2012-11-21 23:15

4. UKIP: looking for scapegoats

   ... which is tearing at the present social order. The world economic crisis, which has been accelerating for decades, reached a new level ... characteristic: the search for a scapegoat. During the economic depression of the 1930s, the principal scapegoat was the Jews, who ...

   World Revolution - 2013-05-13 12:25

5. Cyprus: tax haven for the rich, poverty for the rest

   ... countless tax havens, are a necessary product of the global economic crisis of capitalism. Otherwise, the Cypriot bourgeoisie, like all ... more and more risky because of the severity of the global economic crisis, financial profits in capitalism tend to come increasingly from ...

   ICConline - 2013-05-12 18:41

6. The Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05: prelude to World War I

   ... war heralded some of the characteristics of the wars in decadence. 1 The first war in the 20th century between two major powers ... of the two countries – involving new levels of human, economic and military resources: The war exhausted the finances of the ...

   International Review - 2012-11-11 17:15

7. Why is it so difficult to struggle, and how can we overcome these difficulties?

   ... in a state of bankruptcy, in particular by explaining the ‘decadence’ of the current order by showing how far it has strayed from the ... which put limits on those who come to disturb or sabotage debate. Finally and above all, the Indignados movement gave rise to an ...

   World Revolution - 2012-11-08 19:02

8. Syria descends into imperialist hell

   ... and France have been particularly active in stepping up economic, military and diplomatic support recently, with both looking to alter ... and military support as well as the diplomatic and economic support that it gets from China. In some sense this echoes the old ...

   ICConline - 2013-05-04 08:05

9. 80 years since the Russian Revolution: October 1917 - a victory for the working masses

   ... since the bourgeoisie could base its power struggle on its economic and political power already accumulated inside feudal society. During ... under the influence of the party, was best suited. But the debate was not one of principle, but concerned the vital question of political ...

   International Review - 2012-11-05 04:35

10. Against the threat of war in Korea

    ... polarisation between China and the USA, the two biggest economic nations, East Asia has become another permanent zone of conflict, with ... and lunatic the situation has become. Faced with a growing economic impasse, the regime for some years has been trying to introduce ...

    ICConline - 2013-04-24 20:54

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