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Latest in EnglishSchool students protest in Germany: the young generation returns to the sceneOn Wednesday the 12th of November 120.000 school kids took to the streets in Berlin, Cologne, Hannover, Munich, Trier and many other German The world on the eve of an environmental catastropheThe question of the environment has been present in
revolutionary propaganda since Marx and Engels denounced the unbearable
conditions of London in
the mid-19th century, taking in Bordiga's exposure of environmental
disasters as the result of the irresponsibility of capitalism. Today this
question is even more crucial and demands added effort on the part of
revolutionary organisations, in order to show that the historic alternative
facing humanity - socialism or barbarism - is not only a choice between
socialism and the barbarism of war, local or generalised. The danger of
barbarism also includes the threat of an ecological catastrophe which is
appearing more and more clearly on the horizon.
Obama's election: the emperor has new clothesSo now Obama is president. But what does it mean? Obama promised to deliver change, but this promise was nothing but ideological sophistry. The real victor in this election was not the fictitious "Joe Blow" of middle America, not the African Americans who are part of the US working class, but rather the ruling class. 1929-2008 - Capitalism is a bankrupt system, but another world is possible: communism!This article has already been published on ICC Online. A link will appear here shortly.
US elections: Presiding over austerity, repression and warThe President of the USA is often described as the ‘most powerful man in the world'.The US President does have many formal powers, but ultimately he is just the most prominent figure in a whole state capitalist class. After the votes are counted the faces can change, but the same capitalist state still dominates every aspect of American society. Congo: The killing fields of capitalismThe sight of thousands of desperate panicking people fleeing towns in the North Kivu region in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was a sad reminder of a war that never went away, a devastating conflict more lethal than any since World War 2.
British imperialism: a chronicle of humiliationThere can be no doubt about the government's determination to defend the interests of British national capital abroad. We have only to look at the UK involvement in the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Britain isalways pronouncing on current conflicts, even if it is powerless to influence, as it was in Georgia, and even more now with David Milliband proposing an EU force on stand-by for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Crisis of neoliberalism or crisis of capitalism?They are all telling us that this crisis announces the end of ‘neo-liberal' capitalism and that hopes are turning today towards ‘another kind of capitalism'. This new capitalism would be based on production and not finance, liberating itself from the parasitic layer of financial sharks and speculators who were presented as its champions under the pretext of ‘deregulation', ‘limiting the state', and the primacy of private interests over ‘public interests' etc. To hear them speak, it's not capitalism that could collapse, but a particular form of capitalism.
Brown’s bailout can’t save the dayAfter months in the political doldrums, Gordon Brown finally has something to be cheerful about. At one point nearly removed by an internal Labour Party coup, he's now feted by Nobel Prize winning economists for saving the world economy through the example set in the bailout of British banks.
90 years ago: Revolutionary struggles in Germany bring WW 1 to an end (part 1)On Nov 4th 1918, at Kiel, a port on the German Baltic Sea, thousands of marines mutinied against the order of the army to steam off for another sea battle. After four years of murder with more than 20 million dead, innumerable injured and the starvation of the working population; the working class had become totally fed up and was no longer ready to sacrifice itself for the imperialist war.
Food shortages: Economic crisis means starvation for millions16 October was World Food Day. It was marked by a fresh supply of statistics and analyses on the cause of food price rises, the state of food stocks and the impact on those in the most vulnerable situations. World food stocks haven't been at such a low level since the 1970s. ICC internal debate: The causes of the post-war economic boomIn International Review n°133 we began the publication of a debate within the ICC on the underlying causes of the period of post-war prosperity during the 1950s-60s, which has proven to be an exceptional one in the history of capitalism since World War I. In that article, we posed the terms and framework of the debate, and presented briefly the main positions around which it has turned. We are publishing below a new contribution to the discussion. This contribution supports the thesis presented in n°133 under the title "Keynesian-Fordist state capitalism", and attributes the creation of solvent demand during the post-war boom essentially to the Keynesian mechanisms set up by the bourgeoisie. In future issues of the Review we will publish articles presenting the other positions in the debate, as well as a reply to this position in particular as regards the nature of capitalist accumulation and the factors determining capitalism's entry into its decadent phase.
1929-2008 - Capitalism is a bankrupt system, but another world is possible: communism!Politicians and economists no longer have the words to describe the gravity of the situation: "at the edge of the abyss", "An economic Pearl Harbor" "A tsunami on the way" "The 9/11 of finance"... only the reference to the Titanic is missing. Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: Victimized During the “Recovery” Workers Face a Deluge of AttacksThe ruling class likes to call the period of time that goes from one recession to another a "recovery." What was unique about this alleged period of capitalist "prosperity" was that the living conditions of the working class actually continued to deteriorate at an alarming rate.
Georgia/Russia: Imperialist Conflicts SharpenThis article has already appeared in World Revolution no.318. A link will appear here shortly.
“Humanitarianism” in the Service of WarThis article has already appeared in World Revolution 318. A link will appear here shortly.
Economic Crisis Opens the Door to Massive StrugglesThis article has already appeared in World Revolution no.318. A link will appear here shortly.
Reflecting on the Lessons of the 1960’sThe following text was prepared as a contribution to a discussion on the lessons the 1960's initiated by the primarily Chicago-based Platypus group, which is involved in the revived SDS organization. In the spring issue of their publication, the Platypus comrades reported on their frustration on the cancellation of a public panel discussion on the political experiences of the 1960's after Mike Klonsky and Rick Ayers, prominent SDS leaders from 40 years ago, abruptly withdrew from the forum after seeing the questions that would be posed to the panelists.
May 1968 (Part 3): The awakening of the working classThis item has already been published in World Revolution no.315. A link will appear here shortly.
It will take a revolution to end capitalismSince we wrote the article ‘Are we reliving a crash like 1929?', the media has already changed its tone, no longer playing down the extreme gravity of the present economic crisis or its similarities with 1929. But it is important to put all the current talk about ‘the end of capitalism' into a clear perspective. |
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