Venezuela: The dead-end of the "Bolivarian Road to Socialism"
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jun 15 2017 20:46
There was no revolution in Venezuela. Being against neo-liberalism is not the same as opposing capitalism but only one form of it. However, it does feed into the social democratic narrative of Corbynism. Today, in the middle of an election campaign, the assertion that “Venezuela is socialist” is happily repeated by right wing papers and politicians to gloat over the social disaster which Venezuela has become.
Don't Vote - Prepare the Resistance
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jun 2 2017 13:36
For years the world capitalist system has been in economic crisis. No matter what policies various governments have tried (from increased spending, to privatisation and letting the banks speculate on anything and everything) this crisis has not gone away. It got worse in 2007-8 when the speculative bubble fuelled by the banks burst. We have been paying the consequences ever since. Despite talk of a recent recovery, real incomes of the majority have continued to fall.
Against Exploitation, Crisis and War - No War But the Class War!
Submitted by Internationalis... on May 4 2017 11:31
May Day Statement of the Internationalist Communist Tendency on the current international situation and the challenges facing the working class a century after the Russian Revolution offered so much hope and brought so much despair.
The show must go on: a modest attempt to explain a world that has gone mad - Argelaga
An editorial published in November 2016 on the website of the journal, Argelaga, on the state of the “spectacle” after Trump’s election, claiming, among other things, that although recent trends indicate that “the spectacle of decomposition is not the decomposition of the spectacle”, in part because “the masses … only want to follow the person who assures them that their addiction to abundant consumption and security can continue”, “the end of the industrial cycle that began after the Second World War” nevertheless entails “constant outbreaks of resistance [that] indicate that, without too much memory and, therefore, with little lucidity, the struggle for emancipation continues”.
Obamaniaco- dépressif (réflexions d’un…) – Bernard Lyon
November 2008 article by Bernard Lyon on the election of Barack Obama.
The breakdown of a relationship? Reflections on the crisis - Endnotes
October 2008 text from Endnotes, not published in any of their issues.
Where are we in the crisis? - Théorie Communiste
2014 Théorie Communiste article on the continuing (post-2007) crisis, and its broader implications.
On the Line Vol. 3, No. 2 (May-June 1980)
The Vol. 3, No. 2 (May-June 1980) issue of On the Line, the monthly newsletter of the New York based Libertarian Workers Group.
