Control Over the Oil Market in an Epoch Where Finance Dominates

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Internationalist Communist

Translated from Prometeo 17, June 1999 · During 1998 the price of oil fell by 29.7% compared to 1997. This is the fifth largest drop since 1921 and means the period 1986 to date has experienced the biggest price reduction in recent times (-51.1%). Despite this, however, the economic analysts still maintain that the market is afflicted by an excess supply of around 1.5 million barrels per day.

The WTO is a Symptom, the Disease is Capitalism

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United States of America
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Internationalist Communist

(On the WTO Millenium Round in Seattle, Nov. 27, 1999 - Statement of the IBRP)

War and Revolutionary Politics

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Balkans
Basics: 
War economics
Imperialism
Publications: 
Internationalist Communist

Translated from Prometeo 17, June 1999 · NATO’s war in the Balkans (which in effect meant bombarding the Yugoslav Federation from a height of ten thousand metres) proved far more than anything else recently just what an enormous gulf separates the Marxist minority from the whole of the left bourgeoisie, however radical, which still dominates the political scene.

Revolutionaries Faced With the Prospect of War

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Internationalist Communist

... and the Current Situation of the Working Class - Statement of the IBRP · The fact that the recent war in the Balkans took place in Europe itself plus the way it was fought (both during and after the NATO bombings) shows that we have taken a significant step towards generalised imperialist war. The wars which have broken out in Daghestan and other former Soviet Republics are yet another step.

ICC - Idealism or Marxism

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ICC and French Communist Left
Marxism
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Internationalist Communist

(Once Again on the Fatal Flaws of the ICC) · Introduction · The following article is from an ex-ICC member who has been in close contact with the Bureau since 1995. Unlike other ex-members of the International Communist Current, he has not resorted to the comforting theory that the working class will liberate itself without political organisation (or even worse, that all political organisations...

Sylvia Pankhurst: The Real Meaning of the Revolutionary Years

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Communist Left Inspired
Feminism
German-Dutch Communist Left
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British Isles
Publications: 
Internationalist Communist

(A review article of Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism by Barbara Winslow (published by UCL Press).) · For anyone espousing communist politics today the appearance of a book which deals seriously with Sylvia Pankhurst’s political progression from militant reformist (suffragette) to revolutionary and left-wing communist is of more than passing interest.

IBRP Platform (1997)

(This is the old IBRP Platform, for the current Platform of the ICT, see: ICT Platform (2020) · Preface · The present period · The collapse of the USSR brought an end to the Cold War. It did not bring an end to capitalist exploitation nor to imperialism and the threat of global war. · On the contrary, the demise of the USSR was due to factors fundamental to the operation of the capitalist system...

The WTO is a Symptom, the Disease is Capitalism

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United States of America
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Documents

On the WTO Millenium Round in Seattle, Nov. 27, 1999 - Statement of the IBRP · The World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Seattle has become the focus for what the Financial Times has called: · "a worrying level [of] public unease with capitalism and globalisation." (27-11-1999) · Protestors include Friends of the Earth and Christian Aid, trades unions, anarchists and left wingers, as well as...

The Work of Comrade Damen in the Communist Movement

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Italian Communist Left
Regions: 
Italy
People: 
Onorato Damen
History: 
1921: Communist Party of Italy
1943: P.C.Internazionalista
Publications: 
Pamphlets

Text of the report made on the occasion of a public demonstration on October 16, 1979, immediately after the death of comrade Damen · Comrades, · We have convened this meeting with a statement in which we communicate the loss of comrade Damen on behalf of the Internationalist Communist Party and on behalf of the International Communist Left.

A Life in the Service of Class Struggle

Politics: 
Italian Communist Left
PCInt-ICT
Regions: 
Italy
People: 
Onorato Damen
History: 
1921: Communist Party of Italy
1943: P.C.Internazionalista
Publications: 
Pamphlets

“Una vita al servizio della lotta di classe” - From “Gramsci: tra marxismo e idealismo” - Edizioni Prometeo, 1988 · Onorato Damen was born in Monte S. Pietroangeli (Ascoli Piceno), December 4, 1893. Always a revolutionary militant he lived in the first person as victim and protagonist for more than half a century of class struggle, not ceasing, not even for a day, in his tasks as a revolutionary...

The Line of Conduct of the Revolutionary Party

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Italian Communist Left
National Liberation Movements
Regions: 
Italy
People: 
Onorato Damen
Publications: 
Pamphlets

(From the outline of a motion presented by the Executive Committee in the National Congress of the Partito Comunista Internazionalista, 5-6 January 1958) · The strategy, entrusted today in the history of the revolutionary vanguard, does not consist in the futile game of discriminating between imperialist powers in struggle.

Yugoslavia

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Balkans
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Aurora (en)

This has been a war against the working class · There have been 11 weeks of bombing. Countless people have lost their lives. Many more have been made refugees. There is opposition to the war in all of the countries involved and on all levels, from the US to Serbia. · Now they are talking about peace. Our beloved leaders would like us to believe that this is a result of the combination of 'force and...

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