Desde finales de 2023 soplan vientos de tensiones bélicas en América del Sur. Venezuela y Guyana asumen medidas en el plano diplomático y militar, debido a la disputa que mantienen durante años por el territorio del Esequibo.
Son ya diversos países en los que han tomado presencia los partidos populistas, e incluso, en algunos de ellos han ascendido al gobierno. Los partidos populistas han ganado protagonismo en por lo menos una decena de los parlamentos de países de Europa, sin embargo, el accionar más relevante lo definió el arribo de Trump en el gobierno de los Estados Unidos, por no hablar del Brexit adoptado en el Reino Unido, pero no es menos importante la extensión que ha tenido en América Latina, con el gobierno que Bolsonaro estableciera en Brasil, o el que actualmente se instaura en Argentina con Javier...
The ICC welcomes the rapid reaction by Internationalist Voice to the escalation of the war in the Middle East: analysing the attacks between Israel-Iran and putting forward an unswerving denunciation of the Israeli and Iranian bourgeoisies.
Au cours des dernières décennies, il est devenu évident que le capitalisme fait peser une grave menace sur les conditions naturelles qui constituent la base de l’existence humaine.
Dans un contexte d’accélération des tensions impérialistes où le chacun pour soi est la règle, les bourgeoisies occidentales, en Europe comme aux États-Unis, redoublent d’efforts pour propager dans les médias les pires campagnes bellicistes.
Bruno Le Maire nous avertit cyniquement : « le gouvernement n’est pas une pompe à fric ». Il nous rappelle que c’est bel et bien la fin « du quoi qu’il en coûte ». En réalité, les prolétaires n’ont jamais goûté de prétendues « largesses » et ne s’attendent pas aujourd’hui plus qu’hier à des « cadeaux de l’État ». Cela, alors qu’il plonge dans la misère une partie croissante de la population et particulièrement les ouvriers.
L'attentat sanglant du City Hall à Moscou, le cynisme de Poutine en Ukraine, le jusqu’au-boutisme criminel du gouvernement Netanyahou… tout cela confirme que le système capitaliste est en faillite. Et ce processus ne peut que s’accélérer, à l’image du délitement effrayant du Moyen-Orient...
Вслед за 800 мирными жителями и 300 израильскими солдатами, погибшими во время рейда ХАМАС на Израиль 7 октября, новый виток варварства привел к тому, что 150 человек были застрелены и 300 ранены, некоторые из них ножами, отрядом боевиков Исламского государства (ИГ), напавшим на рок-концерт на окраине Москвы 25 марта. В промежутке между этими двумя трагическими событиями ужасы израильского наступления в Газе и усиление кровопролитной войны между Россией и Украиной привели к тому, что целые города стерты с лица земли, постоянно сводятся в могилу толпы невинных людей. В Газе уже погибло более...
IInd Congress of the ICC
We must take into account the impossibility of arriving at a transitional phase with notions that are fixed, complete, which don't allow any logical contradiction and which exclude any idea of transition.[1]
A) The period of transition from
capitalism to communism
The platform of the ICC contains the essential acquisitions of the workers' movement concerning the conditions and content of the communist revolution. These acquisitions can be summarised as follows:
Some of our recent discussions seem to have lost track of the aim of this whole debate. With all the different exegeses on "gentile" society, the dissertations on absolute monarchy and the scholastic war of quotes back and forth, we risk losing sight of the fact that the ICC did not embark on these discussions to show off our reading notes or to rival academic treatises on “the state”. We are trying to shed some light on questions which will become extremely urgent and tangible in a moment of revolution and we do this from a direct commitment to the revolutionary process.
La violencia organizada en Oriente Medio ha suscitado una profunda indignación en todo el mundo. A pesar de las ruidosas proclamas de su compromiso internacionalista de los bordiguistas, su defensa concreta del internacionalismo no es inequívoca. Para algunos, al apoyar la lucha contra la "opresión nacional" de los proletarios y las masas palestinas, para otros, al defender la idea de que estas masacres generarán un desarrollo de las luchas obreras en la región y en todo el mundo, estos grupos revelan ambigüedades peligrosas sobre cómo promover y defender el internacionalismo proletario en...
The discussion going on now about the resolution concerning the state after the victory of the proletarian revolution must not be seen as some sort of speculation on an abstract theme. The theoretical work of a political group is different from that of a bourgeois centre for scientific research. The latter is composed of specialists who study this or that discipline by placing themselves “outside it”. Their “objectivity” resides in their professed “neutrality”. Research is a professional business.
1) Early in the succession of the various modes and forms of social production after the dissolution of the simple and crude communism of primitive times, the state appeared at a certain moment, determined by the economic development within a given territory. The state supplanted the consanguineous gens. Its existence was necessary both because of the growth (though still very slight) of social wealth and because production remained incapable of satisfying the expanding needs of the collectivity.
In opposition to the draft resolution on the state in the period of transition, which asserts that there is no mode of production in the transition period, the Toronto comrades state that: "When the workers dominate politically, they dominate the economy since they already have the levers of production, literally, in their own hands". And: "Socialised production is the mode of production, that is, production of use values, the communist mode of production in embryo".
Definition: When the class conscious world proletariat has overthrown the bourgeois order on a world scale, when all states have been over-thrown, when all opposing armies have been defeated, in short, when the “civil war” has been won, then, by definition, the so-called period of transition has begun.
To begin with, we must recognise the importance of the problem of the period of transition. The platform itself points this out in the section concerning the dictatorship of the proletariat:
The experience of the Russian revolution has shown the complexity and seriousness of the problem of the relationship between the class and the state in the period of transition. In the coming period, the proletariat and revolutionaries cannot evade this problem, but must make every effort to resolve it.
In the Platform adopted at the First Congress of the ICC in January 1976, the question of the relationship between the proletariat and the state in the period of transition remained "open":
The experience of the Russian Revolution has shown the complexity and seriousness of the problem of the relationship bet-ween the class and the state in the period of transition. In the coming period, the proletariat and revolutionaries can-not evade this problem, but must make every effort to resolve it.[1]
The following text is an attempt to put for-ward a general conception of the state and the dictatorship of the proletariat without trying to come to any definite conclusions. It is a contribution to the present discussion on the period of transition dealing with the basic question of the form and content of the proletarian dictatorship. A more detailed explanation, especially of the more problematic points, will be under-taken in another document.
The following text is a report of a meeting held by the group Révolution Internationale in February 1972. The subject under discussion was “the content of socialism”. This was the first time the group as a whole had dealt with such a subject. The aim of the meeting was not to pretend to end up with a ready-made, immutable theory on what the content of socialism should be, but rather to open up the discussion, to begin dealing with the problem by studying the experience of past revolutions and the theories put forward by revolutionaries throughout the history of the workers' movement.
In the period of decadence when the private bourgeoisie has been replaced by the state bourgeoisie, the confrontation between the working class and the “state-boss” is always a direct one.
The open conflict between Israel and Iran marks a further extension of imperialist war in the Middle East. Come to this meeting to discuss the internationalist response. 2-5pm, UK time, Saturday 4 May
Selon les commentateurs bourgeois, un raz-de-marée politique a eu lieu aux Pays-Bas en novembre. Les élections ont failli donner à l’ensemble des partis une majorité absolue, et le PVV de Geert Wilders est devenu de loin le plus grand parti. Un certain nombre de partis traditionnels, piliers du système politique pendant des décennies, ont vu leurs sièges au parlement réduits de moitié, comme les chrétiens-démocrates, ou ont survécu grâce à la formation d’un cartel comme dans le cas des sociaux-démocrates du PvdA dans un cartel avec la Gauche Verte.