Faced with the Course to War, Establish a Line of Defense Grouping Together the Most Combative Proletarians

The degree reached by the crisis and the resulting impasse for capital, makes the dynamics of the generalized imperialist war, which was until then only a perspective playing an indirect role – if one can say so – in the course of events, a direct, immediate factor today of the policies, decisions, reflections of the governments and capitalist (...)

International Situation

Communique on Trump’s Election Victory : The American Bourgeoisie to Accelerate its Preparations for War

Trump’s massive election to the US presidency is neither accident, nor a coincidence, nor the result of a crisis or deep division, let alone chaos, within the American bourgeoisie and its political and state system. Nor is it the result of any madness on the part of the voters, nor of any irrationality taking hold of the world’s leading (...)

What changes with Trump in the White House ? (ICP-Proletarian)

We reproduce here an extract from an ICP-Proletarian article, “Russian-Ukrainian war: imperialist peace on the horizon...”, which essentially echoes the political analysis and content of our previous communiqué on Trump’s election. Its particular interest lies in the fact that it goes further than our position, and puts forward some serious (...)

The Crushing of the German Proletariat and the Advent of Fascism (Bilan#16, 1935)

We have already said that we do not confuse today’s "populist right", such as Trump or Meloni in Italy, with the fascism of the 1930s. Nor do we believe that today’s situation is simply a remake of the 1930s. Nevertheless, there are certain parallels between the political instability of governments and the rise of the ’radical’ right that (...)

Resolution adopted by the NWBCW committees in Canada – Down with the War!

Partly in response to a strike of postal workers in Canada and the work of sabotage carried out by the unions in the country, the Toronto and Montreal No War But the Class War committees jointly adopted the resolution reproduced below. The text of this resolution is adapted from the resolution proposed by the Petersburg committee of the (...)

Public Meeting of the “Groupe révolutionnaire internationaliste” (ICT) in Paris

Last November, a public meeting was held in Paris organized by the Internationalist Communist Tendency (ICT) group in France. Readers wishing to gain a fuller picture of the debates that took place can refer to the GRI’s report [11], which provides an excellent summary of the discussions. And if they wish to verify or add to their knowledge, (...)

Debate within the Proletarian Camp

Programmatic theses (Barbaria) and our Comments

We have read and discussed the programmatic theses recently published by the revolutionary group Barbaria. [14] They are available on its website and translated into various languages. We thought it would be useful to send Barbaria our critical comments. In themselves, they may seem “very” critical. Certainly, we seem to share the main class (...)

Debate on Capitalist Crisis: Comments on an IBRP article (IFICC, 2004)

We publish here an article from the Internal Fraction of the ICC (IFICC) dating from 2004. It was published in its bulletin 26. The political aim of this republication is several-fold. Firstly, we are continuing our effort to re-appropriate and reflect on crisis theory and the debates it has provoked, which we began in the previous issue by (...)

Text of the Workers Movement

The Tactics of the Comintern from 1926 to 1940

The first part of the chapter - see our previous issue – on anti-fascism and the Popular Front in Vercesi’s text, The Tactics of the Comintern, had dealt specifically with the Comintern policy following Hitler’s accession to power in Germany; with the shift from the “struggle against social fascism” to that of “anti-fascism”, as a moment of the (...)