The internationalists

In Cairo University’s Great Hall the grandiloquence of the American President was lavish. That Obama is a great orator is well-known, but in order to understand the real message behind the rhetorical exercise, we need to take into account three things. · The first is that US President is caught up in the most severe economic crisis since the Second World War with all the problems that brings, not...

Since their public emergence in the autumn of 2008, the International Communists who publish The Commune have managed to establish an impressive range of activity including the publication of a monthly paper, several pamphlets and leaflets and a series of public meetings and discussion groups. But who are and what is The Commune and, is their appearance on the political scene to be welcomed by...

(Leaflet for a demo in Sheffield, UK) · Iranian ruling class splits · On the one side - those sectors which more or less look to the family of the Ayatollah Rafsanjani (one of the richest and most powerful in the country), who are tired of the limitations on economic activity imposed by international sanctions and want a greater opening towards outsiders.

(We received the following document from a courageous Iranian internationalist. As far as we understand he has sent it to a number of internationalist left communist organisations and his position is one we would fully endorse (even if we would have liked more on the concrete organisational issues such as existing class organisations and the need for an independent political organisation of the...

To answer the basic question - what is fascism? It is essentially, the response of the ruling class to the working class under certain conditions when the normal approach of the pseudo-democratic method of domination has ceased to function. As such fascism is not really another form of society, it is not revolutionary, it maintains the rule of the class which ruled before it.