class struggle

Why the Working Class is Key

Submitted by Internationalis... on Aug 7 2020 12:23

Some may wonder why we keep harping on about the working class. Let’s briefly explain…

Pandemic Politics in the UK

Submitted by Internationalis... on Aug 5 2020 12:10

In the UK, the coronavirus crisis has brutally exposed the significance of the endless cuts to the NHS as well as the incompetence of the Johnson government. From failure to organise protective equipment for medical staff to the catastrophic decision to return elderly COVID-19 patients to care-homes, the shambles of the bespoke track-and-trace scheme and shipwreck of the scheme to re-open schools in England, the government has lurched from fiasco to debacle.

Green Apocalypse - Luther Blissett & Stewart Home

Green Apocalpyse was published by Unpopular Books in October 1995. It was an intervention in the lengthy and bitter disupute between the primitivist Green Anarchist Network and the communist Neoist Alliance.

Austerity for the Essential: The Struggle of Personal Support Workers

Submitted by Internationalis... on May 10 2020 22:04

Mainstream news sources, for the last decade, have been reporting on the increased frequency of the “hallway healthcare” phenomena in Ontario hospitals. Over this time the problem has grown into a norm, rather than an alarming exception.

Covid-19 Exposes the Irrationality of Capitalism

Submitted by Internationalis... on May 3 2020 21:58

The realities of life under Covid-19 lockdown, whatever the specifics, are strange. Over the last two months or so, many of us will have seen empty shelves in supermarkets where once-familiar products like flour, eggs, soap and toilet roll are seemingly in short supply. Is this because there are not enough of these products being produced? Have the supply lines broken down, so that existing products aren’t reaching the shelves? Are customers buying these things in a panic, leading to temporary shortages? Are speculators buying them, to sell at a profit later?

May Day 2020: Against the Virus that is Capitalism

Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 30 2020 13:05

The world proletariat has in the past celebrated May Day in some dramatic situations: from the imperialist world wars which forced workers to kill, die and produce for their class enemy — their own capitalist class — to the many occasions when the ruling class has unleashed its repressive machine to crush those struggles aimed at making exploitation less onerous, and the chains of the bosses’ oppression a little less heavy.

What Does the Communist Left Do?

Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 24 2020 11:55

What we will focus on in the following is how we understand the inseparable link between theory and practice and how that reflects on our activity.

Class Struggle in the Time of Coronavirus: An Incomplete Chronicle of Events (16-21 March)

Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 23 2020 19:37

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

Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 22 2020 16:24

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.