International Communist Current
The world on the eve of an environmental catastrophe
Obama's election: the emperor has new clothes
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.
1929-2008 - Capitalism is a bankrupt system, but another world is possible: communism!
US elections: Presiding over austerity, repression and war
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.
Congo: The killing fields of capitalism
British imperialism: a chronicle of humiliation
Crisis of neoliberalism or crisis of capitalism?
Brown’s bailout can’t save the day
90 years ago: Revolutionary struggles in Germany bring WW 1 to an end (part 1)
Food shortages: Economic crisis means starvation for millions
16 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 boom
In 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 Attacks
Georgia/Russia: Imperialist Conflicts Sharpen
“Humanitarianism” in the Service of War
Economic Crisis Opens the Door to Massive Struggles
Reflecting on the Lessons of the 1960’s
May 1968 (Part 3): The awakening of the working class
It will take a revolution to end capitalism
Since 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.
Dagongmei – behind the Chinese economic miracle
Pun Ngai is professor at the Social Research Center of the Peking University and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. At present she is on tour in five European countries to present
