Capitalism on the Brink: Only the International Working Class Can Provide an Historical Alternative to WW3

The past four months have seen a preponderance of events that confirm that the ruling classes of the main powers take the prospect of a generalized war as a given. The historically unresolvable contradictions of global capitalism mean that the defense of each national capital becomes a matter of life and death for each of them. As a result, (...)

International Situation

United States: Workers’ Defeat, UAW’s Victory and Preparations for Generalized Imperialist War

“The UAW has announced that their dedicated union members who fought together, stood together, and walked the picket line together have now voted together to ratify their record contracts. These historic contracts reward the autoworkers who have sacrificed so much with record raises, more paid leave, greater retirement security, and more rights (...)

The Union Obstacle in the United States: an ICC Article We Support

Many will be surprised. Below, we publish a recent article from the ICC, which we support for its political criticism of the intervention of the “Bordiguist” group Il Partito Comunista Internazionalista. [25] This group has recently expanded into the United States, where it publishes The Communist Party. The – obviously relative – echo that this (...)

Proletarian camp

Ten Years of the IGCL: What Balance?

In the imperialist phase of capitalism, and from a general point of view, there are only two ways out: one capitalist: war; and the other proletarian: revolution. Only workers’ insurrection can prevent the outbreak of war. This fundamental consideration, if it is not to remain a theatrical statement of political ornamentation, must become the (...)

Our Policy towards the Proletarian Camp and the Internationalist Communist Tendency

The aims of our interventions are to participate in the struggle for the consolidation of communist forces in order to constitute the world party of the proletariat. Today, the fight for the communist party requires that we push both for consolidation and polarization around the Internationalist Communist Tendency and as well to fight against (...)

Public Meeting of Bilan et Perspectives (ICT) in Paris

At the end of September, Bilan et Perspectives, the group in France that has since become the Groupe révolutionnaire internationaliste (GRI), affiliated to the Internationalist Communist Tendency, held its first public meeting on the theme Against Imperialist War, the Future Belongs to International Class Struggle! Around thirty comrades (...)

History of the Workers Movement

The Tactics of the Comintern from 1926 to 1940

We are continuing the publication of Vercesi’s contribution The Tactics of the Comintern, written for the Internationalist Communist Party’s Prometeo journal in 1946-1947. The Chinese question, which culminated in the massacre of the proletariat perpetrated by Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang in Shanghai in 1927, was a key element – at first a (...)