North Korea - Another imperialist war is being

(Image - Only the bourgeoisie could claim the Kim dynasty has anything to do with communism!) · prepared · When Bush delivered his famous “axis of evil” speech in January 2001 he specifically mentioned three countries the US intended to attack, Iraq, Iran and North Korea. We are now seeing the US invasion of Iraq, and although this has assumed a position of centre stage in the spectacle we are...

Firefighters

Restart the strikes - Break out of the union prison · On 19th March the Firefighters’ delegates rejected the latest offer put forward by the bosses, despite the fact that the union desperately urged then to accept. The government promptly announced its intention to impose a settlement on the firefighters by force, using a legal injunction and the power of the state through the courts and the...

The dollar in continual decline

(Image - 120 day record of the dollar against the euro, ending 23rd March 2003 - Note the slight, and probably temporary, recovery caused by the second Gulf War) · ... And the international monetary system falls into crisis - We are publishing a text from the January edition of Battaglia Comunista, the monthly paper of our sister organisation in Italy, the Partito Comunista Internazionalista.

Class Consciousness and Working Class Political Organisation (Part VIII): The Decline of the Russian Revolution and the Cult of the Party

Class consciousness and working class political organisation - Part eight · Introduction · In the last two parts of this article we have looked at the Russian Revolution. Despite taking place more than 80 years ago, it remains the single most important event for shaping our understanding of the question of class consciousness in this epoch.

On Class Composition and Recomposition in the Globalisation of Capital (Part I)

(We are publishing here a text from Prometeo 6, VIth series, December 2002. This discusses the effects of changes in the structure of capitalism on the structure of the working class and the political consequences of these effects. In particular, it reviews the predictions of a text written ten years ago, the translation of which appeared in Internationalist Communist Review no.

Brazil: social democracy yet again

(Image - Lula may give social democracy a workers’ face, but nothing can erase its bourgeois content) · Papers over the cracks in capitalism · Introduction · Latin America has been teetering on the brink of total barbarism for so long that any new commentary seems unnecessary but in the last few years the world economic crisis and the neo­liberal policies that have been adopted to deal with it have...

Porto Alegre

(Image - Porto Alegre, 2003: all reformism has left are utopian slogans which capitalism cannot satisfy and which can only help the bourgeoisie by “leading” the working class to defeat) · Confirmation of the urgent need for revolutionary organisation · Introduction · In January, while the annual World Economic forum of those with real economic clout was held in Davos, Switzerland, what has become...

This War is a Class War!

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The imminent invasion of Iraq is not just a war on the people there. Like all wars in capitalism’s imperialist epoch this war is part of the way the system reproduces itself. The imperialist powers in 1914 started the modern epoch by going to war not only to solve their own economic problems but also to try to prevent the rising working class from ending the system of class privilege and...

Iraq Oil, Blood and Class

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Based on a statement of the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party (1) · Humanity is once again about to experience one of its defining moments. The spectre of war is looming upon us. U.S. imperialism is about to unleash its fury upon the people of Iraq. Every day, the U.S. State apparatus is waging a preparatory propaganda war on the world scale to prepare public opinion for its bloody...

Palestine-Israel - Neither One State nor Two but Workers’ Internationalism

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Deportations, destruction, massacres of innocent and defenceless citizens: the bloody cycle which recommenced more than a year ago with the Nazi-style provocation of Sharon has tragically accelerated. Yet Israeli mini-imperialism has always had a free hand. Thanks to the US veto in the UN Israel has been allowed the luxury of invading territory which no international law could possibly permit and...

Our Basic Positions

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1. We aim to become part of the future world working class party which will guide the class struggle towards the establishment of a stateless, classless, moneyless society without exploitation, national frontiers or standing armies and in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all (Marx): Communism. · 2.

How to Fight for Peace

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Mounting demonstrations against war have shown that there is massive public resistance and we have to salute all those who are taking part in the movement against it. However we have also to warn against false friends. Those who are campaigning (like the Daily Mirror) for war to take place only after a United Nations resolution are actually preparing us for war.

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