Hollywood Screenwriters on Strike vs Oppenheimer and Barbie : Proletarian Struggle or March to Generalized War

Two American films are on the screens, Oppenheimer and Barbie. For several months now, there has been a strike for higher wages: that of Hollywood screenwriters. The very people who write for the movies. Two films and a strike “in the zeitgeist”. A summary of the current situation. Despite his pacifist conscience, in the film Oppenheimer (...)

International Situation

The Drive to World War (CWO-ICT)

The Drive to World War (CWO-ICT) June marked the beginning of the spring counteroffensive in Ukraine. The preliminary results are in: at most a few dozen square kilometres of strategically insignificant territory have been exchanged for perhaps tens of thousands of human lives. With each passing day, the entire operation resembles the (...)

On the Recent Strike of British Columbia Dock Workers

Starting on July 1st of 2023, there was a strike of 7,400 dock workers in the Canadian province of British Columbia that shut down more than 30 ports. The ILWU reported that 99.24% of the members voted in favour of the strike, continuing the recent trend in Canada of unionized workers voting overwhelmingly to strike. Each day, these ports move (...)

How Capital Uses Leftist Identity Politics and LGBTQ Rights for its Imperialist Warfare

“The fight for Ukraine is also a fight for LGBTQ rights.” So proclaimed Vanity Fair in March 2022 with its article on Ukrainian LGBTQ activists during the Russian-Ukranian War. Such arguments have become increasingly common for NATO apologists who continuously use the language and logic of social justice to advocate for the continuation of the (...)

Revolts and riots in French cities

We reproduce here the position taken in leaflet form by the International Communist Party, which publishes Le prolétaire in France (pcint.org), on the riots that have just broken out in the French suburbs and cities following the police murder of a 17-year-old youth. We agree with its gist. Just one political interrogation: the leaflet ends (...)

New World, Old World (Battaglia comunista, ICT)

That we live in a world in constant becoming now seems even superfluous to remember, so lapidary is it. “Todo cambia” [Everything changes], as the symbol of Argentina’s singing Mercedes Sosa used to sing, referring to the things of the world as it passes and goes. We live in an age where you go to sleep at night and get up the next morning with (...)

Struggle against Opportunism

Political Impasse of the International Communist Current

In all our activities, we try to be consistent with our conception of the central role of the proletarian political party – and in its absence of the communist groups and minorities – in the revolutionary process and future of our class, as well as in its daily struggles. Therefore, it is by principle that we regard the congresses and other (...)

25th Congress of the ICC: “Destruction of Humanity” or Generalized Imperialist War? (July 2023)

The International Communist Current has held its 25th congress, which it reports on in a presentation. [48] This was accompanied by the publication of various reports on imperialist tensions, the economic crisis and the class struggle, as well as an Update of its theses on decomposition. This time, there is no new questioning or opportunist (...)

Political Dilemma of the ICC Minoritarians: Be Consistent and Tackle the Dogma of Decomposition

As this issue draws to a close, the ICC publishes a text by Ferdinand, Disagreement with the International Resolution of the 24h Congress of the ICC [56] – accompanied by a Response to Ferdinand – both only in French so far. And so, two years after this congress. The first is in addition to the texts already published under Steinklopfer’s (...)

History of the Workers Movement

Russia, Revolution and Counter-Revolution 1905-1924, A View from the Communist Left

We draw the attention of all our readers and revolutionary militants, especially those who can read English, to the publication of the book Russia, Revolution and Counter-Revolution 1905-1924, subtitled A View from the Communist Left. We strongly encourage anyone who can read English to obtain it from Prometheus Publication by contacting the (...)

The Tactics of the Comintern from 1926 to 1940 (Prometeo, #2-4, 6-8 of 1946/1947)

The following text on The Tactics of the Comintern from 1926 to 1940 was published in 1946 and 1947 in numbers 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 of the journal Prometeo of the Partito Comunista Internazionalista, founded in Italy in 1943. Because of its length, we too are obliged to publish it in several editions. To our knowledge, it has never been translated (...)