New Political Platform and Historical Alternative “Revolution or War”

The historical rupture provoked by the economic crisis that broke out in February-March 2020 with the Covid pandemic has two main practical consequences: the aggravation, still largely in the making even if already well advanced, of the conditions of exploitation of wage labor, of the proletarian class, and of the generalized misery on all the (...)

International Situation

Anti-China Military Alliance between the US, Australia and the UK? A Significant Step of the Dynamic towards Generalized War

The sudden announcement of the creation of a military alliance between the United States, Australia and Great Britain, the AUKUS, a sort of Asian and uniquely Anglo-Saxon NATO, represents a step, if not a leap, of extreme importance in the march towards generalized imperialist war. The event seemed to us to be of such importance that we (...)

The Covid-19 pandemic: further evidence of the objective historical necessity of communism

In March of 2021, in a video call with fellow Conservative members of Parliament, Boris Johnson hailed the rapid development of numerous effective vaccines against Covid-19 as the fruits of capitalism and greed [3]. He immediately took back what he said, possibly because he instinctively knew that capitalist triumphalism at a time of unfolding (...)

Workers’ Struggles and Revolutionaries’ Intervention

Workers’ Struggles and Union Sabotage

Little by little, all over the world, after the shock of the pandemic and the state measures of containment and control of the population, the working class tends to take up again its fight for the defense of its living and working conditions. It is certain that the economic crisis has already begun to directly affect a large part of the (...)

About the ICC’s Polemic against the ICP-Le Prolétaire: the Communist Groups’ Intervention During the Strikes of 2019 in France

“The greater the spontaneous upsurge of the masses and the more widespread the movement, the more rapid, incomparably so, the demand for greater consciousness in the theoretical, political and organisational work of Social-Democracy.” (Lenin) [18] The French pages of the ICC website published a polemic, Les graves faiblesses du PCI dans le (...)

The Fight for the Communist Party

The IGCL’s New Political Platform

The IGCL has just adopted a new political Platform. Its basic content is summarized in the Basic Positions which are reproduced below and will appear on the back page of this and future issues of this journal. Originally, at the 2013 conference of the group’s constitution, we formally adopted the Basic Positions of the International Communist (...)

Basic Positions of the International Group of the Communist Left

1) The IGCL considers and defines all its activities, both internal and external, in relation to and as moments of the struggle for the constitution of the world political party of the proletariat, indispensable tool for the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a communist society. 2) In addition to intervening in the (...)

Debate within the Proletarian Camp

Contribution: Communism and Community

The Communist Left has always defended the theoretical unity of Marxism. This had two main purposes. The first was, and still is, to block the way to the various versions of the left of capital which, although universally claiming a ’Marxist’ heritage, simply takes here and there small fragments that please them from the texts of Marx or Engels (...)