The Charlie Hebdo Massacre

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Another Signal of Capitalism’s Decline into Barbarism · After the French anti-terrorist squad’s blitz there is no doubt that the shocking and barbarous murders of 12 people at the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, and 4 more at a kosher supermarket, was the work of jihadist militants. The already rising racist and small-minded nationalist movements across Europe and the world have been gifted...

City Link: A Story of Our Time

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The way City Link workers (2,356 delivery drivers and 371 admin staff) heard that their jobs had gone speaks volumes for the precarious situation of workers today. For Jon Moulton, a ‘private equity investor’ who has made around £100m over the past three decades, mainly from buying up bankrupt companies and attempting to ‘turn them around’, the collapse of City Link is just one venture that...

Will SYRIZA save us from the clutches of “European” capitalism?

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As expected, on 29 December, the Athens Stock Exchange greeted the prospect of a January 25 general election with a drop of 4%, to add to 9 December’s fall, when it lost 12.7 %, dragging down other European exchanges with it. · This was due to the failure of the Greek government to get its candidate elected to the presidency of the Republic in the dying days of 2014.

Towards Socialism - Notes on the Transitional Phase (Part I)

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(This article expresses the opinions and ideas of individual comrades and not necessarily those of the ICT as a whole. See Introduction to Discussions on Socialism. ( · "But the historical development of the antagonisms immanent in a given form of production is the only way in which that form of production can be dissolved and a new form established." (K.Marx , Capital, Volume I, Chap. XV p.

The Price of Oil Collapses Whilst Imperialist Competition Rises

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In an economic crisis that shows no sign of ending as well as in the tragic grip of an imperialist barbarism that never ceases · According to the classical analysis of neo-liberalism nothing unusual is happening. Indeed, all theories trying to explain what is behind the price fall are doomed to failure or, at best, are useless suggestions that do not belong to the real world but take refuge in the...

The Guayaquil General Strike 1922

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This is a translation of a leaflet originally written by the Ecuadorian group Proletarios Revolucionarios. We are not publishing it because we necessarily agree with everything expressed, for example, anarchist terminology and the wording regarding parties may be interpreted as a criticism of our axiomatic position that a revolutionary organisation, centralised and globalised, is a necessity for...

TTIP: Trade Wars and Imperialist Manipulation

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On 11 October demonstrations organised by NGOs and charities like 38 Degrees, the World Development Movement and War on Want took place throughout Europe (in Hamburg, London, Ljubljana, Berlin, Madrid, Helsinki, Vienna, Paris) against the proposed so-called Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or TTIP. Many heard about TTIP for the first time that day.

Marx, Stalin and Katniss Everdeen

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The effects of the absence of revolutionary projects on the cultural consumption of youth · A well known effect of the current crisis of the mode of production is that it involves a loss of legitimacy resulting in it being challenged by a fringe element of the exploited. Faced with this revolt, Capital has many defences.

México - The nth Illustration of the Marxist Theory of the Capitalist State

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"...the state is an instrument for the suppression of the working class, nothing else!" · At the time of writing, a rising tide of anger is shaking Mexico. International media broadcast images of masked youths administering violent reprisals against the police, some wielding machetes, some behind captured police riot shields.

The Titan Works and the Struggles of “Labour”

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(The following article is translated from the front page of Battaglia Comunista which was distributed throughout Italy but particularly at the assembly of workers of Titan, a factory with which the organisation has long had links. We are publishing it here for the general issues it raises about the situation of the working class in the face of austerity throughout the world.

Morales re-election as President of Bolivia – What anti-imperialism? What socialism?

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"This victory is a triumph for anti-imperialists and anti-colonialists" said Evo Morales re-elected for a third consecutive term as president of Bolivia. To make matters worse and inflame the minds of many "anti-imperialists", he dedicated the victory to Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, the dead. Venezuelan president.

The Bloodbath in Syria: Class War or Ethnic War?

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The Arab Winter · How long three years seems. In early 2011 it seemed that a fresh wind of revolt was stirring from the East and spreading throughout the Arab world.(1) Massive protests and workers’ strikes in Tunisia and Egypt had terrified the ruling class to the point where they felt the need to depose their own heads of state.

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