The article which follows is a translation from Battaglia Comunista 3 (March 2020), paper of our Italian affiliate, the Internationalist Communist Party. Italy has currently one of the worst death rates from coronavirus (4%), higher even than China’s. This despite locking down over a dozen towns in Lombardy, closing all schools and […]
Capitalism
Works laying out the Left’s view of contemporary capitalism.
The New Middle Class – Anton Pannekoek
This essay is a formulation of the relationship between the middle class and the traditional Proletariat in 1909. The middle class is here spoken of as a contingent on wage-labour as its means of survival whilst being elevated into the upper echelons of highly stratified enterprises. The middle class is […]
From Worker Aristocracy To Insecurity – ICT
Imperialism’s New Course Introduction The article below is taken from the latest edition of Prometeo, the theoretical journal of the PCInt (Battaglia Comunista), our sister organisation in Italy. It was originally translated for publication on the IBRP’s (International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party) internet site as part of our policy to make more […]
The Current Crisis and the Tasks of Communists – ICT
Perspectives for the CWO as discussed in its AGM, November 2019 Overview Capitalism, the most dynamic mode of production in history, has created a world economy and the material means (productive forces) to support the present world population of 7.7bn. Everyone could be living comfortably without hunger or undue toil. […]
The Argentinean Cordobazo – May 1969, a moment in the resurgence of the international class struggle – ICC
Fifty years after the workers’ uprising in the city of Córdoba, it is still necessary to reflect on its meaning, because throughout those same fifty years the left apparatus of capital has been presenting distorted versions of its origins and the political responses it generated, preventing the working class from […]
What distinguishes revolutionaries from Trotskyism ? – ICC
What distinguishes revolutionaries from Trotskyism? Submitted by International Review on 5 November, 2009 We are publishing two articles from Internationalisme, organ of the Gauche Communiste de France[1] dedicated to the question of Trotskyism and written in 1947. At this time, Trotskyism had already abandoned proletarian internationalism by participating in the Second World War, unlike the […]
Ten Theses on Marxism Today – Karl Korsch
This short essay written by karl korsch in 1950 and commonly known as the “Zürich theses” marks an important point within the development of the post-war communist milieu by virtue of its historic role as a reconfiguration of the Marxist dialectic and an assessment of weak practical and theoretical points […]
1917 – The Proletariat Takes Power, ICT
“On the evening of October 24th the Provisional Government had at its disposal little more than 25,000 men. On the evening of October 25th, when preparations were underway for the storming of the Winter Palace, the Bolsheviks assembled about 20,000 Red Guards, sailors and soldiers before that last refuge of […]
Capitalism and communism – Gilles Dauvé
Communism is not a programme one puts into practice or makes others put into practice, but a social movement. Apart from perhaps a clearer understanding, those who develop and defend theoretical communism are moved by the same practical personal need for communism as those who are not especially concerned by […]
The Dual Power, Vladimir Lenin
The basic question of every revolution is that of state power. Unless this question is understood, there can be no intelligent participation in the revolution, not to speak of guidance of the revolution. The highly remarkable feature of our revolution is that it has brought about a dual power. This […]