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Slogans Foreign to the Proletariat, Alienated Workers' Consciousness - ICG

"Political economy conceals the estrangement in the nature of labour by ignoring the direct relationship between the worker (labour) and production. It is true that labour produces marvels for the rich, but it produces privation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labour by machines, but it casts some of the workers back into…

To valorise itself, value must be partly invested in constant capital (purchase of equipment, buildings, raw materials...), and partly in variable capital (purchase of labour force). As its name suggests, constant capital only transmits its own value to the commodity produced, by way of work of course. The second part however (that part of variable capital which allowed the purchase of the labour force) has its…

Below we have published a translation of two texts, examples of the forms taken today by the dictatorship of the economy.

The tyranny of value in process - the affirmation of the revolutionary programme.

We have put the main texts of our reviews in various languages, our theses of programmatical orientation, etc. on it and have had many first-time contacts through this medium. We thought it necessary to place a short text introducing our group and explaining its trajectory on this site. We also judged it useful to publish this in our central reviews, because the text brings together and summarises a part of our…

We don't want to enter into the polemic provoked some years ago in the Basque Country and in Spain as to whether or not the execution of Miguel Angel Blanco by ETA and the campaign of the Spanish State marked an irreversible qualitative jump in interbourgeois (imperialist) war; it is of far greater interest to us to denounce the repugnant spectacle of popular adherence to the state's mobilization.

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. Capital has developed through poles, poles where wealth is concentrated coexisting with…

Two Leaflets: Against capitalist war and peace - Communism #12

The position of revolutionaries confronted with capitalist war is always the same: to oppose social revolution to war, to struggle against "their own" bourgeoisie and "their own" national state. Historically, this position is called revolutionary defeatism because it openly proclaims that the proletariat must struggle against the enemy which is in its "own" country, that it must act so as to bring about its defeat…

Nationalism and Islamism Against the Proletariat - ICG

In April 1993, we published an article entitled "Aids, pure product of Science" in French in Communisme No.38. Since then, it has been translated and published in our central reviews in Spanish and English (Communism No.8) and has been sent around the world, giving rise to much reaction, republication and reproduction.