Against Imperialist War! Against Capitalist Peace!

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These are dangerous times. The post-war boom ended half a century ago. With it went capitalism’s last promise of a relatively better life. In the 1970s and ‘80s workers resisted the first attempts to make us pay for the crisis.(1) Yet despite the militancy, this only provoked industrial shutdowns in capitalism’s heartlands.

The Middle East Crisis: An Update

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(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 Real Scandal is Capitalism

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After winning one of the dullest elections in history,(1) where less than 60% bothered to vote, Labour has quietly slipped into office to carry out the task of managing UK incorporated. The main job is to reassure international capital markets that their investments are safe — no more Liz Truss profligate spending announcements based on unsecured borrowing or energy price guarantees.

Blast From the Past: Revolutionary Perspectives on Strikes in Scotland

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(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...

Recent ILA Port Strike Exemplifies Union as a Tool of the Ruling Class

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The recent strike at 36 major container ports throughout the East and Gulf Coast is the first strike to be launched by the ILA since 1977. It has been estimated that the strike would cost the U.S. economy billions per week, or even per day for some higher estimates. Taft-Hartley was not invoked and its potential usage was disavowed despite being used in 2002 against the ILWU on the West Coast.

War in Lebanon: Another Massacre of the Working Class

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On October 1st the IDF invaded Lebanon with the brutal objective of creating a security belt south of the Litani river. The Lebanese army withdrew, with some return fire, from the ‘blue line’, and hours later Iran launched retaliatory missile attacks with some piercing Israel’s various anti-missile systems.

Thames Water, Macquarie, and the False Choice of Nationalisation

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Introduction · Before their election win on 4 July, the Labour Party leaked to the press a “shit list” drawn up by Sue Gray, the Chief of Staff of the Leader of the Opposition, of potential crises that could befall the new government in the near future if they were to be elected.(1) Top of the list, above such headaches as public sector pay negotiations and prison overcrowding, was the collapse...

Unending Barbarism: The Causes that Led to the Middle East Crisis

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One of the questions that the most astute observers asked themselves after the tragic attack of 7 October, and throughout the period of Israel's response in this devastating war, was and is: "how is it possible that the secret services of Tel Aviv did not know about Hamas’ attack?". Is it conceivable that Mossad and Shin Bet, which are seen as the most efficient secret services in the world,...

Peace Calls are Part of the War Game

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Imperialist war and its atrocities are part of a capitalist world order which sends workers to die for the profits of their national capitalists. So, we reject support for capitalist war from any of its sides, and support workers’ struggle against it: from the most embryonic actions like desertion and refusal to ship arms, to the final revolutionary action that can stop world war in its tracks...

The Class War in Italy: Striking Workers Attacked in Prato

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On the night of 9 October the picket line at the gates of the Lin Weidong leather goods factory in Seano (Province of Prato) was attacked with iron bars by at least half a dozen hooded thugs. “Next time we’ll shoot you,” the attackers shouted as they ran off after the beating. Four people were injured, two workers and two members of Sudd-Cobas grassroots union which had called the “the strike...

The March Towards Generalized War: Presentation from the IWG’s Annual General Meeting

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(On July 27-28 the IWG held its first AGM. The meeting was a great achievement with most of the affiliate attending in person or tuning in elsewhere. The meeting served as a major milestone in the development for the ICT’s US affiliate serving as an example of its organizational capabilities.) · Imperialism · Modern imperialism was brought on by the concentration of capital and the development of...

News from a World in Turmoil: Chinese Imperialism in Africa and the Mediterranean

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(When capitalism is in crisis, when profit rates are falling, when the GDP growth of the most advanced countries is at minimal or zero levels, when states can barely survive under the weight of increasingly unsustainable national debt, when capital flies from the real economy to chase the chimera of easy profits leading to a vicious cycle of speculation that generates financial bubbles and...

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