The internationalists

“Una vita al servizio della lotta di classe” - From “Gramsci: tra marxismo e idealismo” - Edizioni Prometeo, 1988 · Onorato Damen was born in Monte S. Pietroangeli (Ascoli Piceno), December 4, 1893. Always a revolutionary militant he lived in the first person as victim and protagonist for more than half a century of class struggle, not ceasing, not even for a day, in his tasks as a revolutionary...

This has been a war against the working class · There have been 11 weeks of bombing. Countless people have lost their lives. Many more have been made refugees. There is opposition to the war in all of the countries involved and on all levels, from the US to Serbia. · Now they are talking about peace. Our beloved leaders would like us to believe that this is a result of the combination of 'force and...

(Statement of the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party on the NATO bombings of Yugoslavia) · What cynicism! What hypocrisy! Day in, day out millions upon millions of human beings all over the world are exploited like animals for starvation wages. Millions more live in absolute poverty. None of this offends the delicate consciences of the gentlemen of the bourgeois press who are trying...

(Statement of the IBRP, 25.3.99) · Introduction · The NATO bombings in Yugoslavia cannot be understood as a single event. They are part of a continuing story of contemporary capitalism. All the features that make up the horrors of life under this decaying social system are present. The first is the capitalist crisis. The crisis of accumulation first arrived in the early 1970s.

In IC15 we wrote on “The Political Roots of the ICC’s Organisational Malaise”. The article was our attempt to explain why the International Communist Current (ICC) had suffered a severe crisis (particularly in its most important section in France) and why this had led them to lash out at other communist organisations, in particular the Communist Workers’ Organisation (CWO), the British affiliate...