The Four Horsemen of Capitalist Decay
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 22 2020 16:24
Capitalism – the current social system based on private property, wage labour and production for profit – is at a turning point. Day by day it becomes clearer that the existing relations of production have become fetters preventing humanity from addressing the urgent problems facing the whole planet. Unable to resolve its own contradictions, capitalism is instead hurtling us towards barbarism.
Yanggongju as an allegory of the nation: Images of working-class women in popular and radical texts
Hyun Sook Kim's essay examining representations of working-class South Korean sex workers for U.S. military in popular and radical texts, both of which fix the identities of the women as "bad"/"good" and treat the female body as a metaphorical map of the Korean nation.
Published in Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism (2012).
Three Stars and a Sun [bahay kubo kahit munti]
Submitted by bandilangitimph on Mar 11 2020 08:40
An introduction to antistatism and antinationalism for a Philippine audience.
US/Iran Rivalry: What No War But the Class War Really Means
Submitted by Internationalis... on Feb 29 2020 15:32
The Twentieth Century saw the emergence of “total war”. Wars which are not just between armies but involve entire socio-economic formations and inflicted on the population at large. They are wars to the death with no negotiated outcome — only the “unconditional surrender” of the loser. Revolutionary Marxists call this “imperialist war”.
The Current Crisis and the Tasks of Communists
Submitted by Internationalis... on Feb 16 2020 12:13
Perspectives for the CWO as discussed in its AGM, November 2019.
The Merchants of Death
Submitted by Internationalis... on Feb 3 2020 20:51
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2018 was a good year for arms producers.
Against Pacifism
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 24 2020 21:19
Of the many utopian positions widespread in the left today, some of the most persistent – and misguided – are various manifestations of pacifism. At its core, this type of thinking can be reduced to a single fundamental assumption: that the atrocities of imperialist war can be overcome and allayed without the disappearance of class society.
The Drums of War in the Gulf
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 17 2020 21:09
The article which follows is taken from the new edition of Revolutionary Perspectives (#14) which is just out. It was obviously written before the events which followed the British Navy’s seizure of the Iranian tanker, the Grace 1, off the coast of Gibraltar, but the substance of the analysis has not changed.
Internationalist leaflets against war with Iran
Three printable leaflet designs, with artwork by Marjane Satrapi and Crimethinc and texts by the Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists, Anarchist Communist Group and Crimethinc.
The US Attack on Baghdad
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 5 2020 17:51
Let's cut through the media fog and get to the point. The American attack in Baghdad which killed 10 people, including two Iranian politicians and Qassem Suleimani, a strong man of the Iranian regime, poses a series of problems to which we should give precise answers, even if based for now only on piecemeal information.
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