The Internationalist Communist Tendency
Submitted by Internationalis... on Feb 22 2020 14:13
The International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party was formed in 1983. In order to give clearer expression to our existence as a united international organisation we decided to change the name of the organisation to the Internationalist Communist Tendency in 2009.
The Fall of the Berlin Wall and “The End of History”
Submitted by Internationalis... on Nov 13 2019 13:10
Today (9/11/19) marks the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (which did not quite make its own thirtieth anniversary). It will be accompanied by the usual capitalist paeans to the wonders of democracy and the capitalist way of doing things. The following article from Communist Review 8 (later Internationalist Communist) appeared in January 1990 but has never been reproduced digitally before. It was our deeper reflection not only on the collapse of the USSR’s empire in the East but the burgeoning crisis of world capitalism as a whole
Capitalism under the Red Banner: Seventy Years of the People's Republic of China
Submitted by Internationalis... on Oct 7 2019 12:33
Seventy years ago, on 1 October 1949, the People's Republic of China was proclaimed by Mao. Here we reproduce an article which originally appeared in Communist Review 8 (January 1990), published by the ICT (or IBRP as it was then) in the aftermath of the suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests.
Another look at the organisation question
The following text was published in 1982, over the name “Cormack”. It is an attempt to draw lessons from the Bolshevik experience, not only for the abstract “theory of the party”, but also for the concrete problems of communist organisation we face in the here and now, when any emergence of anything you might call a revolutionary party is far, far over the horizon.
The war in DR Congo: behind the slaughter and looting stand imperialist interests - IBRP
Article from 2008, looking at the interests of various factions involved in the ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Iraq: Oil, Blood and Class - International Bureau for a Revolutionary Party
Article written by the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party on the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
