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For us the analysis of the war in Yugoslavia is indispensable. This war is not only of the greatest importance for its direct consequences for the conditions of life and struggle of proletarians in the region - it is also important for the international proletariat, and because it announces and prefigures the military conflicts that are to come.

From Communism #9

- "Is that you, Mladic?"

Despite the media and the respectable leaders of antiwar movements endlessly repeating the lie that US forces withdrew from the Vietnam War due to peaceful protests in the streets of American cities we are not fooled. The US withdrew from Vietnam because it’s military was on the verge of collapse due to widespread desertion, the killing of officers and small-scale mutinies.

Concentration camps have always existed. Every time that capital feels the need to get rid of some of the labour-force commodity, proletarians are gathered into camps and forced to work. First this is to keep them under control, to prevent them from organising themselves against unemployment and growing poverty.

Workers' Memory, Comments on Pankhurst's "The Communist Party: Provisional Resolutions towards a Programme" (July 1920), from Communism #3

Introduction

From Communism #11

"The atmosphere in Gjirokaster is mad. Popular revolt transforms itself into total anarchy, there are no more police, no more State, no more rules. The city is exuding enthusiasm, blossoming, has become excited by rebellion."
(Le Monde - 11/3/1997)

Introduction

Whatever the struggle of the world proletariat, considered in Russia, in Germany or elsewhere, we will invariably get a vision about it -in its more concrete expression in a place and in a given period of time- through the world relation force between the enemy classes.

Beyond the Celebration Anniversary : Capitalism at Work : The Bombing of Dresden - February 1945 - Communism #10

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We have published several articles describing the insurrections of March 1991 in Iraq, which were written as and when information was able to reach us. Shortly after the end of the Gulf War, we also published in French the text "Proletariat contre nationalisme" (Communisme No.36) in which, from a distance of just over a year, we tried to draw the lessons from these struggles.

From Communism #7

On August 1st 1991 there was a loud bang during the night in Tehran and we heard that a food storage warehouse had been blown up in protest at delays in distribution of welfare food allowances. People had been waiting two months for their social security food supplies. Apparently, nighttime explosions are quite common, public buses being the most frequent targets.

From Communism #6

Workers' Memory, from Communism #4

"This signifies the rashest defiance of everything that stands for law and order and the worship of the Homeland, which is the worship of institutions under whose protection groups of more or less genuine workers attempt to vent their hatred and class resentment with unspeakable abuse" said the bourgeois of the "Union", 1921.

From Communism #6

Social-democratic peace is nothing else but the peace of tombs.

The tombs of all the proletarians who struggle against the State.

International Solidarity with the Proletariat and its prisoners in Peru!

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We are publishing here a translation of an article that was first published in our Spanish review "Comunismo" (No.22 - June 86).

From Communism #9, September 1993

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Capital has asserted itself as the worldwide mode of production since the XVth century. Since then, it has cemented every brick in every mine, factory, office where it extracts surplus value from those who it exploits. It oils its machines, air planes and computers... with the blood of those from whom it extracts surplus value.

From Communism #9

From Communism #3

1. Introduction

Capital has constituted the world as totality. Abstracted from all regional particularities, it has submitted the totality of the human beings to its universal dictatorship, transforming them into simple means of its valorization. But it has not eliminated the contradictions, in the contrary, it has simplified and sharpened it.

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