Socialism, or communism, or whatever you want to call a society of the future, will not save us from occasional epidemics. It would however deal with them in an entirely different way. In the first place it would not try to shut up (in both senses of the word) the […]
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Italy: “We’re not Lambs to the Slaughter!” Class Struggle in the Time of Coronavirus – ICT
The Story of the Last Few Days 8 March. The Prime Minister’s Decree brought in new restrictive measures in the Lombardy-Venetia “red zone” and many activities throughout Italy were suspended, including prison visits. 8/9 March. The situation in prisons became serious. The disturbances began over a lack of communication about the risks […]
Global Protests: The Relentless Capitalist Crisis Demands the Overthrow of the System, ICT
The “atrocities” of capitalism are not attributable to this or that form of administration of capitalist production relations, but to the relations themselves. The economic crisis, the ensuing attacks on wages and working conditions, the dismantling of welfare benefits, the ever-widening social divide, the permanent wars that imperialist powers fight […]
Capitalism under the Red Banner: Seventy Years of the People’s Republic of China, ICT
Seventy years ago, on 1 October 1949, the People’s Republic of China was proclaimed by Mao. Here we reproduce an article which originally appeared in Communist Review 8 (January 1990), published by the ICT (or IBRP as it was then) in the aftermath of the suppression of the Tiananmen Square […]
On the Establishment of the Group “Emancipación”, ICT
We have been asked from several quarters to give our views on the new group, Emancipación. As a context for our reflections we start with a brief summary of our guidelines for debating, orienting and regrouping the world’s revolutionary forces. However, even in this dire situation there are many new […]