Malignant Ulcers of Capitalism: The Proletarian Struggle for Reproductive Freedom (Part 2)
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 16 2021 15:09
In our first part on reproductive struggles in class society, we highlighted some of the facts and dangers surrounding abortion and contraception. We also commented on the family unit and prostitution – two phenomena Marxists deem to be flipsides of one another and inseparable from the struggle for reproductive freedom. In this piece, we shed light on sterilization, sex selective abortions, religion, and bourgeois laws as specific to the needs of capital, noting the consequential damages to the proletariat.
Malignant Ulcers of Capitalism: The Proletarian Struggle for Reproductive Freedom (Part 1)
Submitted by Internationalis... on Nov 27 2020 15:06
In this first piece on reproductive struggles in class society we bring to focus some of the facts and dangers surrounding abortion, as well as the family unit and prostitution, two phenomena that Marxists deem to be flipsides of the same coin, and inseparable from the struggle for reproductive freedom.
The Election is Over: The Capitalist Class has Won
Submitted by Internationalis... on Nov 14 2020 13:09
Statement from the Internationalist Workers' Group, affiliate of the ICT in the USA.
On the Anniversary of the US Bombing of Bosnia
Submitted by Internationalis... on Sep 17 2020 11:17
The demise of the USSR in 1990-1 was quickly followed by the splintering of Yugoslavia as rival imperialisms sought to draw different parts of it in their orbit. The Internationalist Workers’ Group article which follows reminds us of one particular horror of the war that followed.
Against Police Reform - For the Abolition of Capitalism
Submitted by Internationalis... on Sep 5 2020 21:09
Just as this piece was ready to go online, yet another blatant police shooting of a black US citizen in full sight has triggered angry protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Jacob Blake has been left paralysed from the waist down. Added to the re-run of nightime curfews, tooled-up police and National Guard lining up against protesters came a follower of "Blue Lives Matter": 17 year old Kyle Rittenhouse, with loaded rifle, promptly shot three people, killing two of them.
On Minneapolis: Police Brutality & Class Struggle
Submitted by Internationalis... on May 31 2020 12:44
Flyer distributed by comrades and sympathisers at protests over the murder of George Floyd.
Coronavirus is Not the Same for All
Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 6 2020 15:57
We are happy to publish this correspondence with an Italian comrade translated by the IWG. It illustrates, once again, despite all the propaganda that “we are all in this together”, what the working class really represents for capital … lambs to the slaughter, especially in dramatic situations like the one we live in.
Initial Thoughts on Coronavirus and its Fallout
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 10 2020 17:10
The article which follows is a translation from Battaglia Comunista 3 (March 2020), paper of our Italian affiliate, the Internationalist Communist Party. Italy has currently one of the worst death rates from coronavirus (4%), higher even than China’s. This despite locking down over a dozen towns in Lombardy, closing all schools and universities throughout the country, banning public gatherings and telling Italians who attend any social gatherings that they should keep one metre in any direction away from the next person.
USA: Overview of Auto Workers' Strike
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 12 2020 21:24
The article here, from our ICT affiliate in the United States, evaluates the longest strike by US car workers in a decade. After six weeks, members of the United Auto Workers voted for the union’s deal with General Motors.
Abstention: A Class Response to Capitalist Elections
Submitted by Internationalis... on Sep 12 2019 19:56
By abstaining from bourgeois electoral politics and building our own revolutionary organizations we are best placed to build our own political forces up to take advantage of the political crisis of bourgeois rule that manifests itself in disaffection from the ruling parties. For workers, elections are an exercise of ritual humiliation perpetrated upon them by those who exploit them.
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