The State We Are In

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(Editorial for Revolutionary Perspectives 22 ( (Series 4).) · This issue goes to press as the UK celebrates 75 years of its National Health Service. But it’s difficult to see what there is to cheer about. Despite politicians’ assertions that more money than ever is spent on the NHS, British spending on healthcare in relation to GDP comes well behind most of the OECD rich countries.

UPS Struggle: Strike While the Iron is Hot!

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The recent situation of the working class has been treacherous, to say the least. Inflation, war, and instability prevail, while wages stay down and things only get worse. · Naturally, benefits and wages are at the top of workers’ priorities, whereas UPS is only interested in profits. UPS makes this clear via PVDs, threats to drivers, and the tempo of work inside the warehouse, along the belts...

Degrowth and Marxism: A Critique

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(Review of Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism (2023) by Kohei Saito. Published by Cambridge University Press.) · Just as the “Green New Deal” did in 2019 and 2020, “degrowth” is currently having a moment of popularity as a left-wing response to the climate crisis. Aspects of the project have been enthusiastically embraced by members of Extinction Rebellion and by many...

Capital is Content to Fuel the Fires in North America

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As of July 21st, the wildfires have displaced at least 120,000 people and burned over 100,000 km2 of land since the start of this year, from British Columbia to Quebec, with further fires yet to come. The end of June was marked by the entire East Coast enshrouded in apocalyptic smoke seen all the way across the border; effects felt in the American Midwest, as well as in Western Europe.

In Remembrance of Comrade Martin

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Martin was born in 1972 in Michigan and lived there most of his life. He was an ICT sympathizer, IWG candidate and then member over a period of around two years. Though his politics underwent significant changes over the years, he was a lifelong militant in the class struggle. · Martin's own political development must be appreciated through its sheer dynamism; he formed a political group...

The Wagner Group Revolt and Future Course of the War

In January 2022 (and before the Russian invasion of Ukraine) it was clear that Russian imperialism was operating from a situation of fear. We wrote in Revolutionary Perspectives 19 that Putin was: · "aware of Russia’s relative weakness against the combined forces of NATO. The Ukrainian conscript army itself is the third largest in Europe (over 170,000 frontline troops with many more in reserve),...

On the Recent Riots in France and the Proletarianisation of the Banlieues

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Three days after the death of Nahel Merzouk, 17, who was shot dead on Tuesday 27 June in Nanterre by a police officer who stopped his vehicle, riots have reached a rare level of violence in banlieues across France, in overseas territories and even in smaller cities usually less affected by these kinds of uprisings.

The No War but the Class War Initiative

The following document was agreed by the International Bureau of the ICT on 21 May. There is nothing like an imperialist war for revealing the real class basis of a political framework, and the invasion of Ukraine has certainly done that. The response of the Capitalist Left (Stalinists, Maoists, Trotskyists, etc.

Another Massacre in the Mediterranean

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Introduction · The following article is a translation from our Italian comrades of the Internationalist Communist Party (Battaglia Comunista). The news of the sinking of the migrant boat off the coast of Greece, with the loss of hundreds of lives, came at the same time as the grotesque state funeral awarded to the sexually predatory and crooked former Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi (for more...

"Nunc est bibendum?" On the Death and State Funeral of Silvio Berlusconi

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Nunc est bibendum?(1) It is possible and even highly probable that someone, somewhere, uncorked a bottle at the news of Berlusconi's death. This is in stark contrast to the attitude of sorrow and condolence assumed by all the political expressions of the bourgeoisie, including unions like the CGIL.

Appeal for the Creation of a NWBCW Committee in San Francisco, USA

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(The appeal we publish here was sent to us by some internationalist communists in San Francisco.) · The Main Issue Today? Revolution or War · "‘We are now in a wartime economy’, says France’s top military procurement official" (Le Monde, March 15) · "Defense budget speeds towards $1 trillion, with China in Mind" (El País, March 13) · "Vladimir Putin has already lost in Ukraine.

Imperialist War or Class War

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The Ukraine war is not just about Ukraine or Russia. It is the first step on the road to a wider war. Tomorrow we will be suffering what the population of Ukraine is suffering today. Both Russian and Ukrainian workers are suffering death at the fronts to defend ... what? The property and interests of their oligarchic cliques.

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