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The Period of Transition Decadence of Capitalism Unions Against the Working Class Left Wing of the Turkish Communist Party Manifesto on the October revolution World War I Purchase Subscriptions Buy from ICC Buy online Buy offline Racism/Anti-racism Slavery and racism, tools of capitalist exploitation Published by ICConline Thursday, 23 July, 2020 - 09:10 Racial tensions in the United States are related to the role played by the slave system in the development of primitive accumulation in that country. Slavery existed throughout the Americas and the Caribbean (Brazil, Spanish colonies, the Caribbean islands) but in no other developed country has this system conditioned social relations and the obstacles to working class unity as much as in the US. At another level of development and importance, the case of South Africa has some similarities. Polemic The groups of the communist left faced with the Black Lives Matters protests: a failure to identify the terrain of the working class Published by ICConline Sunday, 19 July, 2020 - 11:13 The aim of this polemic is to stimulate a debate in the proletarian political milieu. We hope that the criticisms we make of other groups will give rise to responses because the communist left can only be strengthened through an open confrontation of our differences. Covid-19 The fuel for conspiracy theories is the decomposition of capitalism Published by ICConline Wednesday, 8 July, 2020 - 18:28 "It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness” as Marx famously said. Today, the reality of most people’s ‘being’ across the globe is deteriorating in a dangerous and bewildering manner: wars, economic hardship; environmental degradation, enforced migration and this year, in addition, a new virus. These material conditions of growing chaos and confusion – plus the apparent absence of a credible alternative – are the soil nourishing the proliferation of ‘conspiracy theories’. Racism/Anti-Racism The answer to racism is not bourgeois anti-racism, but international class struggle Published by ICConline Thursday, 11 June, 2020 - 22:24 Police take the knee - but still beat-up demonstrators The anger at the cold-blooded police murder of George Floyd is real, and it has been shared by white people as well as black, by Latinos, Asians, and among the young in particular. But we live in a society which is dominated materially and ideologically by a ruling class, the bourgeoisie or capitalist class. And anger in itself, however justified, is not enough to challenge the system that lies behind police violence, or to avoid the many traps laid by the bourgeoisie. The protests were not started by the ruling class. But it has already succeeded in pulling them onto its own bourgeois political terrain. Pandemic Special dossier on Covid-19: The real killer is capitalism! Published by ICConline Thursday, 28 May, 2020 - 09:43 This dossier contains all the articles on the present COVID19 health crisis. Interclassist Movements Balance sheet of the public meetings on the “Yellow Vest” movement Published by: ICConline Sunday, 2 August, 2020 - 09:21 An account of the discussions at our public meetings on the "Yellow Vests" movement in France. The issues raised in these meetings have a wider significance than this particular movement, since the working class today is being called on to participate in a whole series of protests which are either of an interclassist character, like that of the "Yellow Vests", or which are posed on a directly bourgeois terrain, like the "democratic" protests in Hong Kong or the Black Lives Matter demonstrations. A danger to the proletarian political milieu On the adventurist element in Spain Published by: ICConline Sunday, 19 July, 2020 - 11:24 A close sympathiser of the ICC makes an appeal to the organisations of the proletarian political milieu to take up their responsibility in response to the dangerous manoeuvres of an adventurer. Conspiracy Marxism & Conspiracy Theories Published by: ICConline Saturday, 21 January, 2012 - 18:00 The article below, published in 2012, complements the new article "The fuel for conspiracy theories is the decomposition of capitalism" which looks at the proliferation of conspiracy theories about the origin or role of the Covid-19 crisis. It is striking how in the intervening period, the acceleration of capitalist decomposition, and particularly the rise of populist parties and governments, has brought these distorted visions into the mainstream. But it remains as necessary as ever for marxists to show why such approaches are a significant barrier to understanding the real workings of this system. Covid-19 pandemic Generalised capitalist barbarism Or World proletarian revolution (International leaflet) Published by: ICConline Friday, 10 April, 2020 - 21:49 We are publishing this international statement of the ICC on the current Covid-19 crisis in the form of a "digital leaflet" because under the conditions of the lock-down it is clearly not possible to distribute a printed version in large numbers. We are asking all our readers to use all the means at their disposal to disseminate this text - social media, internet forums, and so on - and to write to us with information about any of the reactions and discussions that this provokes, and of course with their own views on the article. It is more than ever necessary for all who fight for the proletarian revolution to express their solidarity with each other and maintain their connections. While we have to isolate ourselves physically for the time being, we can still come together politically! Solidarity with health workers – against their employer, the capitalist NHS Published by: ICConline Sunday, 24 May, 2020 - 08:29 This coronavirus pandemic has shown up the inadequacies and failures of all health services under the capitalist system. Despite the very real differences in their resources, or lack of resources, the degree of organisation by the state and the degree of involvement of private firms, they are all based on two essential aspects of capitalism: the nation state and the need to extract as much value from those who work in the sector for as little money as they can get away with. Covid-19: despite all the obstacles, the class struggle forges its future Published by: ICConline Tuesday, 12 May, 2020 - 14:17 New York Amazon workers on strike against lack of safety procedues After the promising signs of a new mood of resistance in the working class, exemplified by the strikes in France in December-January, the Covid-19 pandemic and the global lock-down have created enormous difficulties for the class struggle. But what is in some ways remarkable is the fact that, despite the omnipresent fear of contagion, despite the apparent omnipotence of the capitalist state, the signs of class combativity that we saw in the winter have not simply evaporated but, in an initial phase and faced wi...