Humanity's Health or Capitalism's Profit?
Class Struggle in the Time of Coronavirus: An Incomplete Chronicle of Events (16-21 March)
The following review is a small depiction of what’s happening in the world, outside Italy (for the situation in Italy, see: leftcom.org).
The Four Horsemen of Capitalist Decay
Capitalism – the current social system based on private property, wage labour and production for profit – is at a turning point. Day by day it becomes clearer that the existing relations of production have become fetters preventing humanity from addressing the urgent problems facing the whole planet. Unable to resolve its own contradictions, capitalism is instead hurtling us towards barbarism.
Italy: "We're not Lambs to the Slaughter!" Class Struggle in the Time of Coronavirus
Demonstration and Strike of Peroni Workers at Tor Sapienza (Rome)
On February 29th we (comrades from the CWO and Battaglia Comunista) were at the solidarity demonstration with the warehouse workers of the Italian-Japanese company Peroni in Tor Sapienza, Rome. The workers there are carrying on a bitter struggle for better working conditions which started with a week-long strike.
Initial Thoughts on Coronavirus and its Fallout
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 universities throughout the country, banning public gatherings and telling Italians who attend any social gatherings that they should keep one metre in any direction away from the next person.
Destroying Our Planet... Sustainably
As this article goes to press (December 2019), the bush fires that have been raging for weeks through six Australian states, from Queensland to Western Australia, have consumed 12.5 million acres of land and the death toll is mounting. They continue to wreak disaster as record-breaking temperatures average over 400C.
Supplementary Thoughts on The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and the Ongoing Great Money Trick
Strikes Against Pension Reform in France
US/Iran Rivalry: What No War But the Class War Really Means
The Twentieth Century saw the emergence of “total war”. Wars which are not just between armies but involve entire socio-economic formations and inflicted on the population at large. They are wars to the death with no negotiated outcome — only the “unconditional surrender” of the loser. Revolutionary Marxists call this “imperialist war”.
Can Capitalist Reform Save The Environment?
Brexit or Remain: Workers Pay Either Way
The Internationalist Communist Tendency
The Current Crisis and the Tasks of Communists
The Internationalist Communist Party
The Italian Communist Left
The Merchants of Death
American Dream meets the Chinese Dream: A Nightmare on Fuyao Avenue
Communism not Corbynism
Between Robots and Cryptocurrency
We recently published online an article from the December issue of Prometeo In Absorbing Science and Technology, Capital is Digging its Own Grave which sought to show how the heralded brave new world of technological development actually spells increasing woes for capitalism rather than its relief from crisis. Some news on both automation and cryptocurrency adds to our analysis.