The Lessons of the Spanish Civil War

(A Review of Land and Freedom, Director: Ken Loach) · Ken Loach is the only film-maker today producing anything remotely concerned with the reality of working class life. His Family Life of over twenty years ago has been more recently followed by Riff Raff and Raining Stones, films portraying graphically (if a little sentimentally) the growing poverty and lumpenisation of sections of the working...

Islamic Fundamentalism - A Capitalist Ideology

Politics: 

It is not surprising that the effects of the world crisis lead people to seek desperate solutions to the dire situations in which they find themselves. It is easy to understand how they become embroiled in a reactionary response like religious fundamentalism. Christian, Hindu and Islamic fundamentalists are all cashing in on the poverty, insecurity and social fragmentation that the capitalist...

Platform of Internationalist Communist Union Groups

Publications: 

(From no. 11 of Battaglia Comunista 1963) · How many Internationalist Communists are there? Too few for an insurrection but enough for the life of true revolutionary Marxism. Even the best revolutionary currents are forced, in their every action, to restrict themselves to a riverbed empty of water. It is no accident that the revolutionary party appears desiccated to the opportunists, while in...

Demagogy, Democratic and Fascist. The Reality of Class

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(“Demagogia democratica e fascista e realtà di classe” - From Prometeo December 1, 1943) · Each belligerent state has failed in convincing the working masses of the supreme necessity and sanctity of the massacre and thus adopts a certain social tint or a downright socialist facade. The National Socialism of Hitler has served as a cover for the military preparation of Germany; the "slow beverage"...

Party and Class

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(Internationalist archives - Appeared in 1921 in the theoretical review of the Communist Party of Italy, Rassegna Comunista, "Partito e classe", Rassegna Comunista no 2, April 15, 1921) · The Theses on the Role of the Communist Party in the Proletarian Revolution approved by the Second Congress of the Communist International are genuinely and deeply rooted in the Marxist doctrine.

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