The internationalists

Davos, Quebec, Gothenburg, Genoa... this year has been one of 'anti-capitalist' protests. To judge by the response from state security forces it seems that governments see these protests as a massive threat. In fact the anti-capitalist or anti-globalisation movement is no more than a thorn in the side for the powers-that-be.

(Internationalist Notes' statement distributed at the protests during the Summit of the Americas. Translation from the original French version.) · Can there be a single person living in Canada who hasn't heard of the important summit to be held in Quebec City, from April 20th to the 22nd 2001? For months now, we have been witness to an unprecedented media barrage.

Considered objectively, despite its "Marxist" and "communist" airs, the socialism of the Latin American "left" has, in reality, a bourgeois-democratic orientation. From the outset it has been the ideological head of a simple bourgeois nationalist/reformist movement adorned with a socialist phraseology.

(Historical Appendix - Statement from Prometeo, Year 21, 1 November 1943 - the first issue in Italy after the collapse of Mussolini's central government.) · Introduction · In November 1943 the first issue of Prometeo to be published inside Italy since 1924 appeared.(1) It was published by the Internationalist Communist Party (Partito Comunista Internazionalista/PCInt) which was just being formed...

Comrades! · Globalisation is a term dear to the bourgeoisie and its mass media but we’d prefer to call it what it really is - imperialism. With this term we means the present mode of existence of capitalism which sees the undisputed domination of finance capital on the one hand and the capacity to distribute throughout the entire planet the different stages of the process of production (from...