What's the System? Review of an Angry Workers Pamphlet
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 27 2020 14:06
The Angry Workers of the World (AWW), a group based in West London which publishes the irregular workplace bulletin WorkersWildWest, has released a pamphlet collecting their articles on history, crisis, and revolution. We want a new society – and don’t we need it! seeks to explain in a straightforward manner how the current system emerged and how a new society can replace it.
Humanity's Health or Capitalism's Profit?
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 25 2020 18:18
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.
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.
Italy: "We're not Lambs to the Slaughter!" Class Struggle in the Time of Coronavirus
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 15 2020 13:08
The line that divides this entire society into two social classes is today, in the time of coronavirus, clearer than ever.
Initial Thoughts on Coronavirus and its Fallout
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 10 2020 17:10
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.
Brexit or Remain: Workers Pay Either Way
Submitted by Internationalis... on Feb 24 2020 14:30
For the “remain” section of the capitalist class the unexpected result of the 2016 referendum meant they had lost control of the political process. Now the December general election has confirmed the “leavers” will be in control for the next 5 years.
The Current Crisis and the Tasks of Communists
Submitted by Internationalis... on Feb 16 2020 12:13
Perspectives for the CWO as discussed in its AGM, November 2019.
American Dream meets the Chinese Dream: A Nightmare on Fuyao Avenue
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 31 2020 14:37
American Factory is a 2019 documentary, distributed by Netflix and produced by Higher Ground (production company owned by Barack and Michelle Obama).
Today is Grey but the Future Looks Black
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 19 2020 15:56
New year, old music, from a well-known score sheet played out by... the Left. A "Left" that’s not ashamed to dress itself up in populist clothes, worn in the service of state capital on the understanding that this is the way to open up markets as a "progressive realisation of the patriotic ideal and the concept of nationhood". In the name, of course, of the people and the "concept of community" as understood by those who are ready to recite the hidden virtues of a renewed "capital-socialism".
Latin America Burns between Revolt and Repression
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 3 2020 16:13
For decades Latin America was the United States’ "backyard", although more recently it has also been seen as a den of "socialists". Today it is undergoing a deep crisis that spares neither the big countries such as Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, nor the small ones such as Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru.
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