No Side to Choose Along the Durand Line

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The drums of war are beating again, this time along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, but the impact is far beyond the mountains of the Durand Line.(1) This is not a border issue; it is another tremor within the global crisis of capitalism and a step towards imperialist slaughter. · According to the bourgeois press, this particular conflict started when Pakistan accused the Afghan Taliban...

Middle East in Flames: Next Step Toward Global Capitalist War

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(Statement of the Internationalist Communist Tendency) · "Our aversion to war is not just for humanitarian and sentimental reasons, but the fact that it is ultimately conducted against the proletariat." (Onorato Damen at the first conference of the PCInt, 29 December 1945) · Over four years ago we raised the spectre of an insoluble capitalist crisis leading the world towards a generalised...

Iran: Communism or Barbarism

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Like a broken record, the USA is bombing a country due to humanitarian concerns or supposed “Weapons Of Mass Destruction.” Where have we all heard this before? US and Israeli bombings are confirmed to have killed around 50 children at an elementary school, some protestors and over 500 so far. The US is calling for regime change in Iran due to the latter's bloody repression but regime change...

NY Presbyterian Nurses Fight on their Own Terms!

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(Document written for the February 2026 NY Presbyterian nurses strike.) · Even though NYSNA and the hospitals seemed ready to call it a day, the nurses at NY Presbyterian bravely continue their strike. After the Presbyterian nurses’ bargaining committee rejected an agreement because it did not cover key demands, NYSNA forced a vote on it anyway to end the strike alongside the nurses of Montefiore...

M. N. Roy and the National Question

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"A great man is great not because his personal qualities give individual features to great historical events, but because he possesses qualities which make him most capable of serving the great social needs of his time, needs which arose as a result of general and particular causes." · So wrote Plekhanov in 1898. Roy was certainly no “great man” even by leftist standards.

Your Party and the Green Party: Two More Dead Ends

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Since the failure of the Corbyn project in 2019, the capitalist left in Britain has been politically homeless. It has taken a rudderless Labour Party presiding over economic stagnation and crumbling public services, as well as playing second fiddle to the fake-populist Reform Party by copying its anti-immigrant and authoritarian rhetoric, to force left-wing groups to action.

Venezuelans Suffer Under the Scramble for Oil

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US Attack on Venezuela · The quality of life for the worldwide working class is plummeting as the burden of the international crisis of capital is placed on our shoulders. This burden is felt all the more acutely by the people who are made to suffer for the crime of living in contested territory. US sanctions on Venezuela have contributed to a complete crash in living standards, with the average...

Iranian Workers Raise the Banner of Class War

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Conditions for workers in Iran are catastrophic. The collapse of the currency, corruption, inequality, austerity, unpaid wages and unemployment are coupled with average inflation of 42%, but much higher inflation for staples such as food which is 72% and bread 113%. These are figures for late December and have all since increased.

In Iran and Elsewhere: Intensifying the Class Struggle is the Only Way Out!

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An Iranian journalist, in his report on the recent massacre in Tehran, writes: · "Not knowing which voice to believe is a horrifying and sorrowful truth; but knowing the truth and yet being unable to speak it is even more horrifying.(1)" · There are elements of truth in this statement and it is one with which millions of Iranians and non-Iranians alike can deeply relate.

Review of Their Wars - Our Dead: Anarchist Reflections on Anti-Militarism

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(Alex Alder and Bill Beech (eds.), Their Wars – Our Dead: Anarchist Reflections on Anti-Militarism (2025, Active Distribution), · Since the war in Ukraine, the anarchist movement in the UK and elsewhere has split on the question of internationalism. The authors of this book are in the internationalist camp and have published it in order to make their views known.

Workers' Testimonies of the Bloody Repression in Iran

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While various reactionary and imperialist forces continue to exploit the situation(1), the latest protests in Iran have been drowned in blood. Current estimates of the death toll vary from at least 3,000 to over 30,000.(2) Tens of thousands more have been injured or arrested. We are yet to find out the real scale of the violence.

Welcome to Class War

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We welcome the formation of Class War, the nucleus of a new group in South Asia. These comrades have initially come together through the work of NWBCW South Asia, but increasingly felt the need for a permanent political organisation as their natural next step. Planting the seeds for a future revival of the class is by no means an easy task, but we hope to travel along this road together.

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