Do All Organizing Roads Lead to Bernie? A Response to Eric Blanc’s Interview on Dead Pundit Society From a West Virginia Teacher and Strike Leader
West Virginia teacher and strike organizer Michael Mochaidean argues against an interpretation of the recent wave of teachers' strikes that links them to the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign. This article was originally published by the Black Rose Anarchist Federation.
Socialist Dog Catchers (or Presidents) Won’t Save Us
With Bernie Sanders entering the race to be the Democratic candidate for the 2020 election, Pádraig Sinjun discusses whether diverting resources from grassroots struggles to electoral campaigning is really the way to pursue class struggle.
Fighting On Home Turf: Community Politics & the IWCA
A Black Flag article on the working class community politics of the Independent Working Class Association (IWCA) from 2003.
Peoples Assembly Election Carnival: Leftist "Yellow Vests" show their true colours
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 15 2019 17:25
On 5 January demonstrators wearing yellow vests assembled in London to demand a ‘hard’ Brexit that will fulfil their nationalist fantasies. In reality that will not happen because it runs so sharply against the interests of the ruling class both in Britain and elsewhere in the European Union.
Bolsonaro and the Crisis in Brazil
Submitted by Internationalis... on Oct 11 2018 15:13
The fall out from the financial collapse of 2007-8 continues. Its latest tremor is in Brazil. The commodities boom before 2007 allowed the Brazilian Workers' Party [PT] to claim that it was redistributing income but in reality it did little. Once the commodity prices fell (and especially that of oil in 2014) the state finances were in a mess. And just about every major political figure from Lula to Temer has been tainted with corruption. Enter Jair Bolsonaro.
Abstentionism and anarchism
An article by Camillo Berneri arguing that electoral abstentionism should not be considered dogma by anarchists, written shortly after the victory of the Popular Front in the Spanish elections of February 1936. The translation does not imply endorsement.
AMLO or the "anti-imperialism" of the Mexican bourgeoisie
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jul 11 2018 21:58
We have translated the following article on the Mexican election from the Spanish blog Nuevo Curso. We share its estimate that the new government will be as anti-working class as all previous Mexican governments despite the rhetoric of the new President, López Obrador. We also agree that his appeal to the Mexican ruling class lies in his aim to eradicate graft and end the impunity of the corrupt in the system.
Sánchez Becomes Prime Minister of Spain
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jun 15 2018 15:27
The rulers of all the major capitalist states have no solution to a world economic crisis which in various forms has now dragged on for decades. In the last few years chronic insoluble economic crisis has increasingly translated into political crisis. This has produced not just changes in government but questions about the institutions of these supposedly democratic regimes.
Italian Elections: there’s nothing more depressing in a desert of ideas and perspectives
Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 2 2018 11:47
Given the current programmatic poverty of the bourgeoisie, not voting is a duty. However, today, that isn’t enough.
The Electoral Trap
An article published on October 2017 in the first issue of 'Intransigence', a collaborative effort between the Workers' Offensive group in Miami and other internationalist communists in the United States. This article argues for principled abstentionism, or non-participation in bourgeois elections, citing their harmful role of integrating workers as willful participants in the capitalist order.
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