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The working class is already responding to the capitalist crisis

International Communist Current - Tue, 2008-12-09 21:51

The ‘financial crisis' is the top story in the bourgeois media. Wall to wall coverage helps to obscure the international movement of the working class which alone can provide a solution to the crisis.

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Obama election: The emperor has new clothes

International Communist Current - Tue, 2008-12-09 21:45

This statement was produced by the ICC's section in the USA just after the presidential election, when ‘Obamania' was in full flow.

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Congo: The fraud of ‘humanitarian intervention’

International Communist Current - Tue, 2008-12-09 21:39

Faced with the horrors of the war in the Congo, many people look to the United Nations to save the day. This article shows why such hopes are misplaced.

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The ‘winter of discontent’: Lessons of the wave of class struggle in Britain 1978/9

International Communist Current - Tue, 2008-12-09 21:34
Thirty years ago the working class in Britain launched a wave of militant strikes against crisis-ridden British capital in what became known as the ‘winter of discontent'. At its height this strike wave involved over 1.5 million workers in the largest work stoppage since the 1926 General Strike

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Germany 1918-19: Social Democracy sets a deadly trap for the revolution

International Communist Current - Tue, 2008-12-09 21:27

We look at how the ruling class used its most powerful weapons - not only armed repression, but also the ideological campaigns of the former workers' party, the SPD, to inflict a major defeat on the revolutionary movement. 

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WR 18th Congress Report on the British situation: Why the economic crisis hits Britain so hard

International Communist Current - Tue, 2008-12-09 20:56
Holding this congress in the midst of the credit crunch financial crisis there is absolutely no shortage of material about the state of the economy in Britain today. In this discussion it is essential to step back and take a long view of the economic crisis internationally and historically.

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Mumbai massacre: Growing tensions between India and Pakistan fuel terrorist atrocities

International Communist Current - Tue, 2008-12-09 20:30

The horrific attacks on people in Mumbai, at a hospital, in a café and hotels, at a Jewish centre, and at random bystanders in a railway station, was soon headlined "India's 9/11" across the world.This comparison had a definite significance: it contains the implicit threat that India's status as ‘victim' would be used to justify putting pressure on, or even renewing conflict with, Pakistan.

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Once again the SWP chooses its imperialist camp

International Communist Current - Tue, 2008-12-09 19:57

From a working class point of view denouncing the terrorist attacks on people in Mumbai and the repression of the Indian state is the absolute ABC of class politics.To oppose the division of the working class and reject support for any imperialism is a fundamental responsibility for revolutionaries.In contrast to this internationalist approach the Socialist Workers Party has made it very clear which side of the Indo-Pakistan conflict it supports.

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G20 Summit: The bourgeoisie is powerless faced with the economic crisis

International Communist Current - Mon, 2008-12-08 22:22
With the economic crisis now ravaging the planet, on 15 November there was a grand international meeting, which at the time was billed as a summit to 'change the world' and bring about a radical transformation in the rules by which capitalism operates.The result? Nothing, or next to it.

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Report on the British situation for the 18th WR congress

International Communist Current - Mon, 2008-12-08 22:06

We find ourselves analysing the British situation today after a year of the developing credit crunch and at the very beginning of a recession that even the chancellor predicts will be long and deep. This poses difficult questions for the bourgeoisie as it tries to keep the banking system afloat with unprecedented rescue packages and stabilise the economy. At the same time it is totally bogged down in failing military adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan alongside the USA which continue to drain resources. In spite of a policy of trying to spend its way out of the crisis, with money it has to borrow, the working class will be made to pay for the crisis.

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School students protest in Germany: the young generation returns to the scene

International Communist Current - Mon, 2008-12-01 21:50

On Wednesday the 12th of November 120.000 school kids took to the streets in Berlin, Cologne, Hannover, Munich, Trier and many other German

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The world on the eve of an environmental catastrophe

International Communist Current - Sun, 2008-11-16 14:00
The 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.

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Obama's election: the emperor has new clothes

International Communist Current - Thu, 2008-11-13 20:40

So 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.

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1929-2008: Kapitalizm çökmüş bir sistem, Fakat başka bir dünya mümkün: Komünizm!

Enternasyonal Komünist Akım - Mon, 2008-11-03 22:41

Politikacılar ve ekonomistler artık durumun ağırlığını tanımlayabilecek sözleri tüketmiş durumdalar: "uçurumun kıyısında", "Ekonomik bir Pearl Harbor" "bir tsunami geliyor" "finansın 11 Eylül'ü"... Sadece Titanik'e gönderme eksik. Gerçekten ne oluyor? Gerçekleşmekte olan ekonomik fırtına karşısında bir dizi acı veren soru ortaya çıkıyor. 1929 benzeri bir çöküş içerisinde miyiz? İşler buraya nasıl geldi? Kendimizi savunmak için ne yapabiliriz? Nasıl bir dünyada yaşıyoruz?

Sonuca dair hiçbir yanılsama olamaz. Bütün gezegen çapında, önümüzdeki aylar, insanlık yaşam koşullarında korku verici bir gerileme ile karşı karşıya kalacak. IMF'nin son raporunda açıkladığına göre, bugünden 2009'un başına kadar 50 ülke kıtlığın vurduğu kasvetli coğrafyalar listesine katılacak. Bunlar arasında birçok Afrika, Latin Amerika, Orta Amerika ve hatta Asya ülkesi bulunuyor. Örneğin Etiyopya'da 12 milyon insan resmi olarak açlıktan ölme sınırında yaşıyor. Sözde yeni kapitalist mucizeler olarak addedilen Hindistan ve Çin'de, yüz milyonlarca işçi vahşi bir sefaletin pençesine düşmek üzere. ABD ve Avrupa'da da nüfusun büyük bir kesimi dayanılmaz bir yoksunlaşmayla karşı karşıya kalıyor.

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1929-2008 - Capitalism is a bankrupt system, but another world is possible: communism!

International Communist Current - Sun, 2008-11-02 23:26
This article has already been published on ICC Online. A link will appear here shortly.

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US elections: Presiding over austerity, repression and war

International Communist Current - Sun, 2008-11-02 23:22

The 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.

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Congo: The killing fields of capitalism

International Communist Current - Sun, 2008-11-02 23:13
The 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. 

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British imperialism: a chronicle of humiliation

International Communist Current - Sun, 2008-11-02 22:56
There 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.

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Crisis of neoliberalism or crisis of capitalism?

International Communist Current - Sun, 2008-11-02 22:47
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.

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Brown’s bailout can’t save the day

International Communist Current - Sun, 2008-11-02 22:29
After 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.

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