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Es sind fünfzig Jahre her, seit Frankreich den größten Streik in seiner Geschichte gesehen hat: annähernd 9 Millionen Streikende! Nach der Niederlage von 1917 und der darauf folgenden Periode der grausamen stalinistischen Konterrevolution, nahm das Weltproletariat im Mai 1986 den Weg seines Kampfes wieder auf.

Dieses Ereignis in Frankreich war in erster Linie der spontane Ausdruck einer internationalen Bewegung des Proletariats, etwas was die Bourgeoisie immer versucht hat zu verbergen um es auf eine große weitgefächerte Bewegung zu reduzieren: Revoltierende Studenten, die sexuelle Befreiung, die Befreiung der Frauen, die Infragestellung der Autorität in den Familien, die Demokratisierung bestimmter Institutionen wie der Universität und neue künstlerische Ausdrucksformen.

Und auch heute ruft die herrschende Klasse diese Episode der Geschichte der Arbeiterklasse in Erinnerung um sie nur noch tiefer verzerren zu können.

Nicht nur indem man sie immer in eine einfache Studenten- oder Hedonistenrevolte verwandelt, sondern auch vor allem indem man das Gewissen und jede Form der Reflexion angreift, die die etablierte Ordnung in Frage stellen könnte.

Jede Vorstellung von Revolution gehöre nun der Vergangenheit an und es seien bloß noch exzentrische Träumereien verwöhnter Studenten.

Diejenigen die wiederum diese Propaganda der Bourgeoisie ablehnen, müssen auch heute in der Lage sein zu diskutieren, was der Mai 68 wirklich repräsentierte. Wir müssen versuchen die Lehren zu ziehen um den revolutionären Kampf zu führen und auch fortzusetzen. Das wollen wir bei unseren nächsten öffentlichen Treffen in Berlin und Zürich tun!

IKS, Mai 2018. auf de.internationalism.org sind auch weitere Textbeiträge zum Thema zu finden.

Thema:

Die Gewichtung des Mai 68 als proletari-schen Kampf bewahren!

Termin:

Samstag, 30 Juni, 2018 - 18:00

Adresse:

Volkshaus Zürich

Stauffacher Str. 60

CH-8004 Zürich

Polemic: the weaknesses of the ICP on the question of populism (Part II)

Proletarian milieu

In this second part we're responding to the main criticisms that the International Communist Party (Le Proletaire) makes of us by opposing their approach with our method and our framework of analysis.

Huelga de maestros de Virginia Occidental (USA): las movilizaciones en el sector de la educación demuestran que el proletariado no está derrotado

Durante dos semanas a finales de febrero y principios de marzo, los maestros de las escuelas públicas del estado de Virginia Occidental estuvieron en huelga. Esta huelga no fue una maniobra del Estado para provocar una derrota de los maestros a manos del sindicato. Por el contrario, la ira, la resistencia, la militancia y la voluntad de los maestros de resistirse a los canales institucionales establecidos para expresar sus quejas parecen haber tomado a la burguesía, tanto a nivel estatal como nacional, más bien por sorpresa. Aunque la huelga ya ha terminado y los maestros han regresado a sus puestos de trabajo después de haber ganado sólo parte de las concesiones que buscaban del estado, este episodio marca quizás el desarrollo más importante en la lucha de clases en los EE.UU. desde las movilizaciones de 2011, en particular la resistencia a la austeridad del sector público en Wisconsin y el movimiento “Occupy Wall Street”[1].

Reunión Pública sobre Mayo 68

Reunión Pública de la CCI¿Qué pasó en Mayo 1968?

Te invitamos a participar en una discusión para responder a la pregunta:

¿Qué significó mayo del 68 ?

La burguesía mundial contra la revolución de octubre (I)

Como cabía esperar, los portavoces de la burguesía no permanecieron insensibles al centenario de la revolución de Octubre de 1917. Como en cada década, las mentiras y el desprecio han inspirado los artículos de periódicos, documentales y entrevistas de televisión que se han ido sucediendo durante varias semanas.

Oriente Medio: el capitalismo es una amenaza creciente para la humanidad

Hace unos meses, el mundo parecía estar a un paso del cataclismo nuclear sobre Corea del Norte, con las amenazas de "fuego y furia" de Trump y las fanfarronadas del Gran Líder de Corea del Norte alardeando ambos de su capacidad de represalias. Hoy los dirigentes de Corea del Norte y Corea del Sur aparecen de la manita en público prometiéndonos avances de verdad hacia la paz. Trump se reunirá personalmente con Kim Jong-un el 12 de junio en Singapur.

Junio 2018

Difficulties in the bourgeoisie’s political apparatus

Labour Party's antisemitism

The British Labour Party harbours antisemites, leading to what the Chakrabarti Report in June 2016 called an “occasionally toxic atmosphere”. Furthermore this is a longstanding and somewhat intractable feature of the party, continuing despite the recommendations of the report 2 years ago, despite Corbyn meeting with the Jewish Leadership Council and Board of Deputies in April, which they described as a missed opportunity, and despite the fact that is has caused problems in recent local elections in areas with a large Jewish population....

The existence of antisemitism is, however, not sufficient to account for the campaign about it. Whether the media make a scandal of something, or whether it is hushed up, often depends on the divisions in the ruling class and the need to put pressure on a politician or a government.

Illusions in the trade unions hold back the workers’ struggle

UCU strikes

This article was written by a comrade of the ICC who works at a UK university and took part in the recent UCU strikes. Although not in the UCU or even eligible to join the pension scheme at the centre of the dispute, the comrade joined the strike in solidarity.

What the British media don’t tell us

50 years since May 1968

The two articles published in World Revolution 380 are part of a broader project aimed at re-examining the authentic legacy of the events of May-June 1968 in France. The article ‘Sinking into the economic crisis’ (see below) takes us back to a document written by the newly-formed group Révolution Internationale in 1969, a polemic against the Situationist thesis that the events were a response to a capitalist system that was “working well”.

The second article in this issue, ‘Against the lies about May 68’, (see article above) also written by our comrades in France, takes up some of the principal distortions and outright lies being spread about the meaning of May '68.

Sinking into the economic crisis

50 years since May '68

In issue number two of Révolution Internationale, published in 1969, there is an article called ‘Understanding May’ written by Marc Chirik, who had returned from over a decade of exile in Venezuela to take an active part in the ‘Events’ of May 68 in France.

This article was a polemical response to the pamphlet ‘Enragés and Situationists in the Occupation Movement’ published by the Situationist International. While recognising that the SI had indeed played an active part in the movement of May-June, it punctured their almost unlimited pretentiousness and self-regard, which led them to the frankly subsitutionist conclusion that “the agitation unleashed in January 1968 by the four or five revolutionaries who were to constitute the enrages group was to lead, in five months, to the virtual liquidation of the state”.

50 years ago, May 1968: discussion meeting

Public Meeting

To mark the 50th anniversary of the struggles of '68, the ICC is holding a public meeting to discuss the meaning of these events.

Saturday 9th June, 11am-6pm, The Lucas Arms, 254A Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 8QY

Morning Session: The events of May 68, their context and significance

Afternoon Session: The evolution of the class struggle since 1968

This is an opportunity for debate among all those groups or individuals who want to develop a better understanding of the past, present and future of the proletarian struggle. All are welcome!

The cave art of Homo neanderthalensis demonstrates what it is to be part of the human species

Pre-history

Under the heading ‘Readers’ Contributions’ we aim to encourage our readers and sympathisers to write texts and articles which can go into greater depth than is possible in our discussion forum, and so stimulate a longer term reflection. These articles, while being broadly based on proletarian politics, need not fully represent the positions of the ICC, or may deal with issues on which the ICC does not have a collective view. Here, a close sympathiser looks at recent discoveries of ‘Neaderthal art’ and the implications for a marxist understanding of ‘pre-history’.

Informe sobre las tensiones imperialistas

El informe que publicamos a continuación fue presentado y discutido en una reunión internacional de la CCI (en noviembre de 2017) para con él hacer un balance de la evolución de las principales tendencias en las tensiones imperialistas.

The world bourgeoisie against the October revolution

Russian Revolution

As we expected, the megaphones of the bourgeoisie have not remained quiet on the centenary of the 1917 October revolution.

Report on imperialist tensions (November 2017)

Imperialist Tensions

The report we publish below was presented and discussed at an international meeting of the ICC in November 2017, with the aim of drawing out the main tendencies in the evolution of imperial

Against the lies about May '68!

Workers' History

From Emmanuel Macron to Daniel Cohn-Bendit, from Figaro to Marianne, from BFM TV to Radio France, the extreme-right to the extreme-left, whether criticising or celebrating it, all in their own way commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of May 68 by covering it with a shed-load of lies. This article provides an atidote...

El abril sangriento de Nicaragua: Sólo la lucha autónoma del proletariado puede acabar con la explotación y la barbarie represiva

¡la clase obrera no tiene nada que ver con el nacionalismo, aunque sea radical!

¡Solidaridad con el proletariado nicaragüense víctima de esta carnicería!

On the film: The Young Karl Marx

Art Review

Raoul Peck’s film, which has recently been released in Britain, provides us with much to think about on the bicentenary of Marx’s birth, and we certainly recommend it to our readers. But as the following article shows, it still needs to be viewed with a critical eye…

Middle East: capitalism is a growing threat to humanity

Middle East

Korea, Syria, Iran, Palestine... It’s easy to succumb to panic in a world that looks increasingly out of control – and then to slip into complacency when our immediate fears are not realised or the killing fields slip down the news agendas. But in order to understand the real dangers posed by the present system and its wars, it’s necessary to step back, to consider where we are in the unfolding of events on a historical and world-wide scale.

All day discussion meeting: 50 years since May 1968

Public Meeting

The events of spring 1968 in France, in their roots and in their results, had an international significance. Underlying them were the consequences for the working class of the first symptoms of the world economic crisis, which was reappearing after well over a decade of capitalist prosperity.

To mark the 60th anniversary of the struggles of 68, the ICC is holding a public meeting to discuss the meaning of these events. Anyone interested in discussing this important moment in the history of the working class is welcome to attend.

Francia: huelgas “en cadena” de los ferroviarios: ¡una maniobra de los sindicatos para dividirnos!

Volante difundido por la sección de la CCI en Francia ante las luchas que se han producido

En los EHPAD, los hospitales, Air France, Carrefour, los basureros, las universidades, los ferroviarios ...los días de huelga han aumentado desde hace varias semanas. Debe decirse que el presidente Macron y su gobierno golpean duro. Ayer la "ley laboral", hoy la reforma de la SNCF, mañana un nuevo ataque generalizado contra el sistema de pensiones. En todas partes y para todos los trabajadores y sus familias: baja de salarios y de los beneficios sociales, recortes de empleos y aumento de las jornadas, flexibilidad y precariedad, pauperización de los jubilados y la cacería a los desempleados.

¡TODA LA CLASE DE OBRERA ESTÁ SIENDO ATACADA!

Mayo 2018

Sinking into the economic crisis

In issue number two of Révolution Internationale, published in 1969, there is an article called ‘Understanding May’ written by Marc Chirik, who had returned from over a

50 years ago, May 1968

50 years ago, May 1968

Fifty years ago, May 68

Long live the revolution!

After decades of defeat, disorientation and submission, in May 1968 the working class returned to the scene of history. While the student agitation which had been developing in France since the beginning of spring, and the radical workers’ struggles which had broken out the previous year, had already changed the social atmosphere, the entry en masse of the class struggle (10 million on strike) overturned the whole social landscape.

Fifty years since May 68

Long live the revolution!

El comunismo está al orden del día en la historia: Castoriadis, Munis y el problema de la ruptura con el trotskismo

En septiembre de 1945, Marc Chirik escribió una carta desde París al escritor Jean Malaquais y su esposa Gally. Malaquais había trabajado con Marc en la Fracción francesa de la Izquierda comunista en Marsella durante la guerra, un período que inspiró su gran novela, Planète sans visa (título de la edición española: Sin visado), en la que uno de sus principales protagonistas es un revolucionario comunista, un internacionalista que se opone a la guerra “antifascista”, y cuyo nombre es "Marc Laverne".

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