We are publishing an article written by our sections in Spain and Italy, which shows that in all countries the bourgeoisie is displaying the same criminal negligence towards the pandemic and the same contempt for the lives of the exploited. The capitalist state is presenting itself as our saviour. This […]
Capitalism
The Covid-19 Pandemic: A symptom of the terminal phase of capitalist decadence – ICC
Introduction The coronavirus epidemic is leaving thousands of dead around the world. Why? Because research into this kind of virus, which has been known about for a long time, was abandoned because it wasn’t seen as profitable! Because when the epidemic took off it was more important to the Chinese […]
More evidence that capitalism has become a danger to humanity – ICC
The emergence of this new virus and the reaction of the bourgeoisie shows how the development of the productive forces has come up against the death and destruction caused by capitalism. So while China has become the world’s second economic power it has been laid low by a viral epidemic, […]
Capitalism Grappling with Coronavirus – ICT
Coronavirus has now become a pandemic that none of us wished for. And the response of the society in which we live only demonstrates the absurdity of its economic laws which cannot cope with sudden calamities and natural upheavals, including the climate and environmental disasters also looming on the horizon. […]
Initial Thoughts on Coronavirus and its Fallout – ICT
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 […]
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 […]
On the Union Question, Amadeo Boridga and Onorato Damen
An extract from the book ‘Bordiga: Beyond the Myth’, published by the CWO/ICT, available in multiple languages, on the question of working with unions. All italics in this article are the commentaries from the ICT. What follows are two further extracts from the book by Onorato Damen “Bordiga: Beyond the […]
The Destruction of Nature, Anton Pannekoek
This early article by the renown socialist scholar, as well as respected astronomer, Anton Pannekoek, goes a long way to dispel the idea that socialists have held a very productivist view about mankind’s relationship with the environment. It deserves a wide circulation within the ecology movement. There are numerous complaints […]
Rosa Luxemburg’s: The Russian Revolution, Onorato Damen
To mark the anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg’s birth 147 years ago (5 March) we offer this translation of Onorato Damen’s introduction to the Italian translation to her famous work on the Russian Revolution. Note: this was translated by Internationalist Communist Tendency (ICT). An introduction by Onorato Damen It is fashionable […]
The Guignol in History, Amadeo Bordiga
In this 1953 article from the “Thread of Time” series, Amadeo Bordiga addresses the role of the great man or “man of destiny” in history, whose modern representatives he calls “Guignols” (grotesque puppets)—devoid of individuality, vacuous, two-dimensional receptacles for the cult of personality—from Napoleon to Eisenhower, and situates this phenomenon […]