The internationalists

(On Monday 18 November, the CWO held a public meeting in Manchester on the topic of imperialism. We publish here the presentation followed by notes from the discussion.) · The Presentation · ‘Imperialism’, in Marxist terms, has a specific definition. It is an economic definition that explains how capitalism came to dominate the world and how it continues to survive.

(As the date indicates, the article below was written by our Italian comrades before the fall of the Assad regime, but has been updated since. It gives some indication as to what this latest piece of the imperialist puzzle might mean for the future.) · Syria: Imperialist Barbarism Flares Up Again · The civil war has restarted in an already devastated Syria.

The current situation has been described as worse than Cuba’s special period after the collapse of the USSR. The Antonio Guiteras power plant in the western province of Matanzas, failed shortly before midday on Friday October, 18 2024. At a time when the island was already coming off of the destruction from hurricane Milton. Power was temporarily restored but was cut again on the following Sunday.

(The article below is a translation from Italian of an update, written just after the Israeli attack on Iran, to the Internationalist Communist Party’s document already on our site entitled Unending Barbarism: The Causes that Led to the Middle East Crisis ( (first published in English on 23 October 2024).

(The 1970s were a period of political questioning and reawakening. As capitalism’s post-war boom drew to a close the working class as a whole suddenly faced economic hardship and, increasingly, unemployment. For a critical minority from a new generation of working class youth, a whole panoply of questions was raised — from the nature of the USSR to the possibility or otherwise of the overthrow of...