The internationalists

A graveyard for the working class · Sixteen years ago we wrote: · "With a collapsing economy, increasing regionalist pressures, and in the background the sensitive issue of border disputes with all its six neighbours, the independence of Yugoslavia is becomingly increasingly untenable. And as the Red Bourgeoisie ponders its options in their luxurious Adriatic villas, the cities of Yugoslavia abound...

The theses on Crisis and Imperialism which were presented and approved by our last Congress (1983) outline the possible outcomes of the economic crisis which had broken out in the early 1970's. · The tendency is clear: we are not witnessing a conjunctural crisis which can be resolved in a more or less greater period of time, but a permanent economic crisis the epilogue to which can only be a new...

"In the present period of decadence of capitalist society, the union is called upon to be an essential tool in the politics of conserving capitalism, and therefore to assume the precise functions of a State organ." (P.C.Internazionalista Conference on the Trades Unions, 1947.) · Thesis 1 · It is an accomplished and irreversible fact that the trades unions are subjected and incorporated into the...

The need to present an overview of this issue of Internationalist Communist draws sharply into focus the gravity of the situation faced by the world's workers. As the longest economic crisis in capitalism's history continues on its downward spiral there is no let-up in the attacks on the people who produce the world's wealth.

(From Battaglia comunista n.10 October 1996) · Introduction · In the autumn of last year the French press (from the right wing Le Figaro through to the social democratic Rouge ran a series of articles which tried to maintain the lie that the Communist Left had joined in the denial of the Nazi Holocaust.