The internationalists

Introduction · Two years ago, in a note on Russia (1), we made the observation that the Russian bourgeoisie’s new course, in the incarnation of the old KGB man Putin, was aiming to rebuild its imperialist power which had been seriously compromised by the last phase of the “Soviet” era and the devastation of the Yeltsin epoch.

We are reproducing here some of the articles which our comrades in the Internationalist Communist Party (Battaglia Comunista) published during and after the events in Hungary (and also Poland - see Revolutionary Perspectives 40) in 1956. They are introduced by a text written on the thirtieth anniversary of the rising by our late comrade Mauro Stefanini to explain the factual background to the...

(From Battaglia Comunista #12, December 1956-January 1957 - Translated by the CWO in 2006) · We quote from a programmatic note edited by comrades of Socialism or Barbarism (Socialisme ou Barbarie). · "These ideas (of revolutionary Marxism) have been systematically deformed and finally abandoned by the traditional “socialist” and “communist” workers’ parties which are completely dominated by an...

(From Battaglia Comunista #12, December 1956/January 1957 - Translated by the CWO in 2006) · The economy of the USSR is today the acid test for revolutionary organisations who would base themselves on the revolutionary tradition of the proletarian movement. Their strategy and tactics towards the working class and in relation to imperialism in general depend on the answer they give to this colossal...

Lamenting the Death of the Program of Liberal Capitalism · Over a year has passed now since the flooding and destruction that came in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Popular discussion in the bourgeois press has largely died down as well. The disaster itself cracked the veneer of the most powerful nation earth and showed the ugly systemic brutality of capitalism, racist to its very core.