The internationalists

(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.

The Electoral Road to Nowhere · On May 1st, hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers demonstrated in the streets against the draconian anti-immigration legislation. Called “a day without immigrants”, the day of protest shut down shops, restaurants, construction sites and stopped work in parts of the agricultural and industrial sectors of the economy.

Recent months have seen an escalation of the fighting in Afghanistan with NATO taking military control, first of the southern province of Helmand and then - at the end of September - of the whole country. The difficulties NATO is encountering militarily and the high casualties have brought with them the realisation that the Afghan war is far from over and may yet be lost.