Charleroi, Detroit, Boeing, Volskwagen... Local Strikes and the March to Generalized Imperialist War

The first fifteen days of September have been marked by dramatic developments. Work stoppages, followed by a management lockout, took place at the Audi plant of the Volskwagen (VW) group in Brussels on the 9th and 10th. The same night, an umpteenth bloody bombardment by the Israeli air force resulted in nineteen dead and sixty wounded, adding (...)

International Situation

An "Age of Chaos" or of Deepening Capitalist Crisis? (CWO)

We share the essential of the political orientations of the editorial of Revolutionary Perspectives issue 24, published by the Communist Workers Organisation, the affiliate group of the Internationalist Communist Tendency in Great Britain. Part of this text introduces the issue of the journal and may seem inappropriate for our columns. Yet, in (...)

Political Capacity and Ideological Strength of the Western Bourgeoisies

The Political Stakes of the US Presidential Election

In so-called revolutionary circles, particularly in anarchist and radical circles, it is not uncommon to simply denounce the “electoral circus” on the occasion of each election, especially in Western countries with a democratic tradition. A kind of political indifferentism is then expressed with regard to the moment and the political stakes that (...)

Dissolution of the French Parliament and Governmental Instability: Expressions and Factors of the Weakening of French imperialism

By dissolving Parliament following the European elections on June 9 French President Macron surprised everyone, especially within the political forces of the state apparatus, starting with his own supporters. Above all, he made a political error. Nothing forced him to dissolve the government. A poor political strategist, his calculation was (...)

Debate within the Proletarian Camp

Internationalism “in Action” or Internationalism “in Word”

“The concept of “adherents of internationalism” is devoid of all content and meaning, if we do not concretely amplify it” (Lenin, Under a False Flag, 1915) The outbreak of the war in Ukraine undeniably marked a rupture and the opening of a dynamic towards World War 3, which only the international proletariat, as both exploited and (...)

Debate on the Theory of Capitalist Crisis

The following text by Anton Pannekoek dates from 1934. We republish it from Marxists.org. Its main purpose is to criticize the theories of the automatic or mechanical collapse of capitalism due solely to its economic contradictions. This excludes, explicitly or otherwise, the revolutionary intervention of the proletariat. Pannekoek attacks and (...)

History of the Workers Movement

The Tactics of the Comintern from 1926 to 1940 (Part 4)

The Tactics of Anti-Fascism and the Popular Front (1934-38)

We are continuing the publication of Vercesi’s text on the stages of the degeneration of the Communist International from 1926 onwards, and the class political alternative that the Left Fraction of the CP of Italy then presented to the proletariat and to other oppositions – that around the figure of Trotsky – and communist lefts – German-Dutch. (...)