ICConline - 2010s

ICConline - 2010
- January 2010
- - Alfred Russel Wallace and his inestimable contribution to the workers' movement
  - Copenhagen shows that capitalism has no solutions
  - Greece: One Year on
  - Homage to Comrade Robert of the GPR
  - Iran: Mousavi is not a friend of the workers
  - The conception of the Party held by Cervetto and Lotta Comunista (Part 2)
  - The conception of the Party held by Cervetto and Lotta Comunista (Part 3)
  - The persistence of religious obscurantism
  - Turkey: Solidarity with Tekel workers' resistance against government and unions!
  - Haiti earthquake: capitalist governments are all criminals!
- February 2010
- - Avatar: the only dream capitalism can sell, is a world without capitalism
  - A great loss to the ICC: death of our comrade Jerry Grevin
  - A soldiers tale
  - Anti-immigrant violence in Italy is a product of despair
  - Homage to comrade José
- March 2010
- - More declarations of internationalist solidarity for the Tekel workers
  - London and Manchester meetings: steps towards unity among internationalists
  - ICC back online after server outage
  - Suffering and suicide at work
  - The ICC's tribute to our comrade Jerry Grevin
  - Solidarity from Peru for the Tekel workers
  - Vigo: joint struggle of the unemployed and shipyard workers
- April 2010
- - An internationalist voice in Australia
  - New massacres in Nigeria: capitalist barbarism at work
- May 2010
- - "If the unions are on our side, why are there 15,000 riot police between us and them?"
  - Against the ‘medicine’ of austerity: The class struggle!
  - BA Strike: Workers’ solidarity versus the bosses’ law
  - Guayana is a powder-keg: Class identity comes through struggle
  - Kyrgyzstan and Thailand: Are revolutions going on?
  - Report on an ICC Public Forum in New Delhi - Economic crisis and class struggle
  - SWP keeping the Labour myth alive
  - Turkey: Solidarity call for the "Platform of struggling workers"
- June 2010
- - Tekel strike: How to organise outside the unions?
  - The oppression of gay people in Africa: the answer lies in class struggle, not ‘democratic rights’
- July 2010
- - Chinese workers: The new prey for ‘independent’ unionism
  - EDL: Anti-fascist fronts are not the answer
  - Failure to Extend Unemployment Benefits Reveals Impasse of the US State
  - Feel it. It is here!
  - Gaza blockade: From Israel to Turkey all states are warmongers
  - James Connolly opposes Irish independence
  - Oil slicks in Nigeria: capitalism is a world-wide plague
  - The Commune day school: Support for 'national liberation' is a dividing line
- August 2010
- - You can’t fight the Mafia and corruption with “more democracy” (on the appeals put out by Saviano in Italy)
- September 2010
- - Panama: Struggles of banana workers
  - What lessons can we draw from the Madrid Metro workers strike?
  - 18th RI Congress: Confidence in the future
- October 2010
- - CPGB: a dedicated follower of Lenin?
  - France: Refinery blockades are a double-edged sword
  - Mesut Özil, Angela Merkel and Islamophobia in Europe
  - What is a General Assembly?
- November 2010
- - Cholera epidemic in Haiti: the bourgeoisie is a class of assassins
  - Daily Mail Exposes ICC Plot
  - Environmental disaster in Hungary: When the Blue Danube Waltz turns into a Danse Macabre
  - Student/worker demonstrations: We need to control our own struggles!
  - Tekel- Turkey: Passing on the experience of the class struggle
  - Tensions mount between North Korea, China and the USA
  - Testimony on the repression meted out at the demonstration of October 19 at Lyon in France
- December 2010
- - Public meeting in Budapest
  - Reflections on the recent student struggles in Britain
ICConline - 2011
- January 2011
- - A Radical Manifesto from Gaza?
  - Appeal to the workers of Europe and the world - AG Gare de l'Est and Île de France
  - Bloody repression in Tunisia and Algeria: the bourgeoisie is a class of assassins!
  - Campaigns about the fall of Ben Ali in Tunisia: how the media serves the ‘democratic’ bourgeoisie
  - Does the Working-Class Vote Against Its Own Interests?
  - Ivory Coast: A masquerade that could end in a bloodbath
  - Solidarity with the proletarian revolts in North Africa and the Middle East
  - The South Korean ruling class tears aside the veil of its “democracy”
- February 2011
- - 100 years after the death of Robert Tressell
  - Egypt: The class struggle takes centre stage
  - How the bourgeoisie uses the drug trade
  - Leftists fuel bourgeois campaigns about ‘revolution’
  - Revolts in Egypt and the Arab states: The spectre of the development of the class struggle
  - Wisconsin Public Employees: Defense of the Unions Leads to Defeat
- March 2011
- - Post your responses to the catastrophe in Japan!
  - Sentencing of Korean militants
- April 2011
- - Understanding the period - class analysis and events in the Arab world
  - Libya: a humanitarian war? No: an imperialist war!
  - Earthquakes, tsunamis and nuclear accidents in Japan: capitalism is a horror show
  - Book review: a change of regime is not a revolution
  - In the Ivory Coast, a bloodthirsty imperialist conflict
  - 10 shades of non-revolution
  - Anarchists and communists debate the Black Bloc
  - Eddie Izzard and the Yes to AV Campaign
  - Struggles of Uttar Pradesh road transport workers, defeated by unions
- May 2011
- - Film Review:Cave of Forgotten Dreams
  - The Bristol revolt: not colour or community but class
- June 2011
- - Marxism and Science, by Chris Knight - Parts I and II
  - Special Report on the 15M movement in Spain - Updated July 7th
  - In the Ivory Coast, an imperialist battle between bloody killers
  - Explosion at Chevron refinery
- July
- - An echo of events in Spain and Greece
  - Preliminary notes towards an account of the “Movement of popular assemblies” (TPTG, Greece)
  - War in Libya: An internationalist position from the KRAS
  - Brixton, Zurich, Amsterdam, Berlin: The spectre of social revolt
- August
- - Beyond Machiavelli: the conspiratorial nature of the capitalist class
  - Israel protests: "Mubarak, Assad, Netanyahu!"
  - Solidarity with Striking Verizon workers!
  - Syria: Brutal repression and imperialist manoeuvres
  - Norway attacks show extent of social decomposition
- September 2011
- - Analysing the riots from a working class standpoint
  - Change of Regime in West Bengal: A mystification of Change!
  - Drug trafficking and the decomposition of capitalism
  - Making political hay out of a hurricance
  - The movement of the Indignados
  - War and famine in the Horn of Africa
- October 2011
- - Homage to our comrade Claude
  - The ‘9/11 Truth’ Movement and the Machiavellianism of the Bourgeoisie
- November 2011
- - Israel-Turkey relations, or the race to be a regional power
  - “Bolivarian Socialism”: A leftist version of “wild capitalism”
  - Workers against the ‘Socialist Guayana Plan’
  - Speed of neutrinos: is scientific progress faster than its shadow?
  - Oakland: Occupy movement seeks links with the working class
  - Anarchist Bookfair: opportunities to discuss the class struggle
  - The beginning of struggle or just another token gesture?
- December 2011
- - The Occupy Movement: Response to Capitalism’s Attacks Hampered by Illusions in “Democracy”
  - Alicante: an open assembly of workers in struggle
  - Reflections on the riots of August 2011 (part 1)
ICConline - 2012
- January 2012
- - Kent Communists discuss the ‘Anti-Parliamentary’ Tradition in Britain
  - Marxism & Conspiracy Theories
  - Fukushima: one year after
  - Manchester Anarchist Bookfair 2011
- February 2012
- - Internationalism is the only solution to the Kurdish Question!
  - No immunity from economic crisis or class struggle
  - Drama in Port-Saïd, Egypt: a police provocation aimed at the entire population
- March 2012
- - Activism no substitute for class action
  - Bourgeois "justice" is not the answer for Trayvon Martin
  - Declaration for revolutionary organization, Belgrade (2011)
  - The Occupy Movement on the West Coast: how "organizing the unorganized" led to division
  - Bosses back off but we still can’t trust the unions!
  - "In order to liberate ourselves from debt we must destroy the economy"
  - Workers take control of the Kilkis hospital in Greece
  - Mass poverty in Greece, it’s what awaits us all
  - Occupy LSX Evicted: Reflections on the Occupy Movement in Britain
  - "Tahrir, Liberation Square"
  - Reading notes on science and marxism
  - All-India workers’ strike of 28 February 2012: General strike or union ritual?
  - 28 March strike: Why are we not united?
  - Statement on the social movements of 2011
- April 2012
- - Welcome to the new ICC sections in Peru and Ecuador
  - Occupy Zurich: When the movement becomes exhausted
  - Iran: diplomacy is war by other means
  - Massacre of civilians in Afghanistan: “I am going to help my country”
  - Spanish indignados’ movement: What remains of 15M?
  - Come to a day of discussion: what can we learn from the social movements of 2011?
  - China: the intensification of workers' struggles
- May 2012
- - Solidarity with the oil workers of Kazakhstan in the face of state repression
  - French elections: the leaders change, but austerity and exploitation remain
  - Mali: a coup d’etat which increases the chaos
  - You can’t fight austerity through elections!
  - Colonial atrocities in Kenya: another crime to lay at the door of British Imperialism
  - Statement on the recent strikes in the Military Police in Brazil
  - Why the terror in Peru?: The Shining Path and the struggle of the working class
  - Ecuador: The “citizen's revolution” means hitting the working class harder
  - Diamond Jubilee: Down with all monarchs– and down with all bourgeois republics!
- June 2012
- - Crisis in the Euro Zone: The bourgeoisie has no alternative to austerity
  - Notes toward a history of art in ascendant and decadent capitalism
  - Sexual freedom is impossible under capitalism
  - June issue of World Revolution
  - London Olympics: Tales of imperial cunning, austerity and repression
  - Marxism: best defence against media manipulation
- July 2012
- - Marxism & Islam
  - Student strikes in Quebec
  - Homage to Il Jae Lee
  - Turkish Airlines Strike: workers up against bosses and union
  - Recent Supreme Court Rulings on “Obamacare” and the Arizona Anti-Immigration Law: A Momentary Respite in a Downward Spiral
  - Success and failure of the Bauhaus
- August 2012
- - Women's condition in the 21st century
  - Discussion on art in ascendant and decadent capitalism
  - Demonstrations in Japan: indignation is spreading
  - World economic crisis: BRICS don’t float
  - Austerity in Spain
  - Synthesis of the discussion on Islam
  - Discussion is the lifeblood of the revolutionary movement (isn’t it?)
- September 2012
- - Imperialist powers fuel war in Syria
  - Wildcat Strike in Antep, Turkey: “We Want to Live like Human Beings”
  - Problems with the website - fixed!
  - Airline strike in Turkey: militant workers expose the unions
  - Persecution of Gypsies in France and Europe
  - Increasing exploitation from Taylorism to Toyota and Lean
  - Solidarity with the Chicago Teachers!
- October 2012
- - One year on from “liberation” and Libya sinks into chaos
  - Spain, Greece, Portugal, Italy...growing anger about the crisis
  - Anti-Islam film and Salafist demonstrations: Hatred, obscurantism and media manipulation
  - Capitalism has no future: that’s why we need a revolution
  - Presidential elections in Venezuela: Both Chavez and the opposition parties are against the working class
  - Struggles in Spain: Why do the unions always lead us to defeat?
  - Furor Over “Voter Suppression”: Political Expedience and the Democratic Illusion
- November 2012
- - 'Super storm' Sandy: The Wrath of Mother Nature or the Irrationality of the Ruling Class?
  - Re-election of President Obama: The Bourgeoisie Prepares to Enact Austerity
  - Israel/Palestine: Populations held hostage by imperialist war
- December 2012
- - Sandy Hook Massacre Shows the Descent of Capitalism into Barbarism
  - Spain: Debate on the general strike
  - The Class Struggle In The US: What Point Has It Reached? How To Go Forward?
  - Israel-Gaza conflict - the rotten fruit of decadent capitalism
ICConline - 2013
- January 2013
- - 20th Congress of Révolution Internationale: Building on the acquisitions of the ICC
  - Attacks on Benefits - Once again, workers pay for the crisis!
  - Capitalism produces the housing crisis
  - French intervention in Mali: another war in the name of peace
  - Greece: Curing the economy kills the sick
  - The History of Sport Under Capitalism (Part I) - Sport in the ascendant phase of capitalism (1750-1914)
  - The History of Sport Under Capitalism (Part II) - Sport in decadent capitalism (from 1914 to today)
  - The History of Sport Under Capitalism (Part III) - Sport, nationalism and imperialism
  - We are all scroungers now
  - Winterbourne View, Mid Staffs: All the ‘compassion’ capitalism affords
  - Workers’ groups: The experience in the UK in the 1980s (Part I)
  - Inter-imperialist war ravages Syria
- February 2013
- - Workers burn to death in Bangladesh
- March 2013
- - Barbarous gang rape in Delhi
  - Food adulteration – it’s not just horsemeat
  - From cardinals to commissars: bourgeois power and sexual abuse
  - Malnutrition and food waste show the absurdity of decadent capitalism
  - Neither right nor left have a solution to the economic crisis
  - Notes on the early class struggle in America - Part I
  - The development of British foreign policy under Cameron
  - Tunisia, Egypt: the dead end of the ‘Arab revolution’
  - Workers Groups: The experience in the UK in the 1980s (Part II)
  - ‘Marriage for everyone’: only communist society can put an end to sexual discrimination
- April 2013
- - Against the threat of war in Korea
  - Boston Bombing: Terrorism Serves the State
  - Come to a day of discussion: capitalism is in deep trouble – why is it so hard to fight against it?
  - Imperialist conflict between China and Japan
  - Internationalism is the only response to the Kurdish issue
  - Notes on the subterranean maturation of consciousness
  - Thatcher: Just another cog in the capitalist state
- May 2013
- - Aufhebengate
  - Chávez' legacy: the defense of capital and the deception of the impoverished masses
  - Chemical weapons in Syria: winding up the war rhetoric
  - Cyprus: tax haven for the rich, poverty for the rest
  - False Justifications for Murder
  - Syria descends into imperialist hell
  - The industry of murder
- June 2013
- - A bee in the bourgeoisie's bonnet
  - Brazil: Police repression provokes the anger of youth
  - Turkey: The cure for state terror isn't democracy
- July 2013
- - Hannah Arendt: in praise of thought
  - "Raped by State"
  - Chancellor’s careful but relentless development of austerity
  - Day of discussion: Impressions of a participant
  - Egypt highlights the alternative: socialism or barbarism
  - However it’s funded the ‘labour movement’ serves capitalism
  - Mandela: a human face for capitalism
  - NSA Spying Scandal: The Democratic State Shows Its Teeth
  - The NSA scandal
  - The war in Syria expresses the slow disintegration of capitalism
  - War before civilisation
- September
- - Against Morsi, against the military: for class struggle!
  - Book Review - The Alternative to Capitalism
  - Frankenstein and the Luddites
  - Hunger in the 'rich world'
  - Solidarity appeal for the renovation of Gondolkodó Autonóm Antikvárium (Gondolkodó Autonomous Bookshop), Budapest
  - Syria vote: impasse of British imperialism
  - Syria: behind the diplomatic game, the impasse of a murderous system
  - Syria: imperialist war or class solidarity!
  - Talk of recovery masks the underlying disease
  - The social movements in Brazil, June 2013
  - The Spying Game - Part 1
  - Zero hours: insecurity faces the whole working class
- October 2013
- - The attack on the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi
- November 2013
- - 60 years after the death of Stalin - Stalinism still emits the stench of counter-revolution
  - Attacks on benefits are attacks on the whole working class
  - Debt Ceiling Crisis 2.0
  - From Junk Food to Famine, Part 1: A system that poisons and starves
  - German Elections: The Bourgeoisie Prepares For The Coming Storms
  - Grangemouth: Bosses attack and Unite ties workers’ hands
  - Greece: Democracy and Fascism need each other
  - Lampudesa tragedy: Capital and its politicians are responsible
  - Milliband and the Mail: Marxists are not patriots
  - Tribute to our comrade Jean-Pierre
  - Universities strike
- December 2013
- - 'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there' (or the strange case of ‘Comrade’ Bala)
  - Capitalism is in deep trouble - why is it so hard to fight it?
  - Nicaragua: the Sandinista government represses the workers
ICConline - 2014
- January 2014
- - 1914 ‘commemoration’: Right and left justify imperialist war
  - Capitalist 'Astro-turfing' Finds its Way Into the Unions
  - Cuts: capitalism has no alternative
  - From Junk Food to Famine: A system that poisons and starves, Part 2
  - Immigration: workers have no country
  - Mali, Central African Republic: behind the democratic alibi, imperialist war
  - The Spying Game - Part 2
  - Ukraine: Russia’s offensive against its great power rivals
  - ‘Recovery’: once again the bourgeoisie administers the drug of credit
- February 2014
- - Refuse collectors strike in Madrid
  - The birth of American democracy: "Tyranny is tyranny"
- March 2014
- - The bourgeoisie tells the working class that it doesn’t exist
- April 2014
- - Class Struggle in China
  - The indignation of Venezuelan youth derailed by democratism
  - There will be no peace
- May 2014
- - 1984-85: How the NUM served to defeat the miners
  - Communiqué to our readers: The ICC under attack from a new agency of the bourgeois state
  - Five years of carnage and of bourgeois hypocrisy
  - Soma mining disaster: capitalism is responsible
- June 2014
- - 1914, 1944, 2014: Capitalism means war
  - Egyptian Elections: the ‘Arab Spring’ passes from hope to terror
  - Euro elections: capitalist decomposition and the search for scapegoats
  - The recovery bubble
  - Ukraine slides towards military barbarism
  - War in Iraq: decomposing capitalism can only give birth to chaos and barbarism
  - World Revolution: publication changes
- July 2014
- - Day of Discussion - World War One: how the workers were mobilised for war, and how they put an end to it
- August 2014
- - 1914: The Socialists Betray Socialism
  - Middle East: war, pogroms, and the destruction of consciousness
- September 2014
- - A fire in the master’s house is lit
  - Correspondence with a member of the CPGB
  - Iraq: The "Islamic State" is a product of the decomposing world order
  - Left wing communism and the left wing of capital
  - Review of Melvin Bragg’s documentary on John Ball
  - The incoherence of British imperialism
  - The lessons of the Spanish assemblies
  - The weakening of a superpower
  - Ukraine: reverberations of an imperialist ‘civil’ war
- October 2014
- - Ebola: capitalism in decay spreads new epidemics
  - Hong Kong's "Umbrella Revolution": soaked by democratic ideology
  - How the working class brought an end to World War I
- November 2014
- - On all continents, capitalism sows war and chaos
- December 2014
- - Anarchism and imperialist war: Nationalism or internationalism?
  - Chancellor’s autumn statement: The state is not being rolled back, it is leading the attack
  - How the 2nd International failed the workers in 1914
  - Immigration: xenophobia right and left
  - The first shop stewards’ movement: From proletarian response to trade unionist obstacle
  - The war in Spain in the 1930s: An internationalist voice from the US
ICConline - 2015
- January 2015
- - Massacre in Paris: terrorism is an expression of rotting bourgeois society
  - The film "Merry Christmas" and the real story of the 1914 Christmas Truce
- February 2015
- - Doctor Bourrinet, fraud and self-proclaimed historian
  - The Massacre of students in Mexico: the real face of rotting capitalism
- March 2015
- - 21st Congress of Revolution Internationale: A painful but salutary crisis for the future of the revolutionary organisation
  - Leftists give credence to Syriza’s ‘anti-austerity’ claims
  - Paris killings: an excuse for increased militarisation
  - Proletarian politics against bourgeois electoralism
  - Resolution on the social situation in France
  - Syriza’s ultra-nationalism - there are no national solutions to the crisis
  - Ukraine: an imperialist war on both sides
- April 2015
- - Militarism and decomposition in the Middle East
  - Statement of solidarity with the ICT
- May 2015
- - 8th May: Let's Remember
  - Drowning in the Mediterranean: the ‘crime against humanity’ is capitalism
  - Rosa Luxemburg belongs to the proletarian revolution, not to the social democrats!
- June 2015
- - Theses on the Class Struggle in Britain
- July 2015
- - 70 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  - After the election the bourgeoisie’s ideological offensive continues
  - Brutal attacks on working class living standards will continue
  - Capitalism means austerity, none of its parties oppose it
  - Fragility of the British ‘recovery’
  - Greece: An attack against the whole working class!
  - Introduction to the Korean edition of Rosa Luxemburg’s The Crisis in German Social Democracy (the “Junius Pamphlet”)
  - Islamic State cannot destroy the real idols of our time!
- August 2015
- - A new front opened by Turkey and NATO will deepen imperialist chaos in the Middle East
  - ICC public meeting - World wars, capitalism’s decline, and the internationalist response
- September 2015
- - Max Raphael and a Marxist perspective on art (Part 1)
  - Migrants and refugees: the cruelty and hypocrisy of the ruling class
  - The bunkerisation of world capitalism
  - Tianjin: Verify everything, don’t forget anything!
- October 2015
- - A contribution towards a balance sheet of the technicians' strike at Movistar in Spain
  - Calais: Bourgeois double talk over the refugees
  - ICC Public Meeting: 1915, 1945: the development of internationalist opposition to imperialist war
  - In defence of the ICC and marxist revolutionary organisation (reply to an ex-member)
  - Migrants and Refugees: Victims of Capitalist Decline, Part 1
  - Once more on decadence: some questions for the ‘deniers’
  - Sylvia Pankhurst: Why revolutionaries are against the Labour Party
  - Syria: Russian intervention escalates the chaos
  - The Communist League of Tampa and the question of the party
  - The great Labour tradition of defending capitalism
- November 2015
- - Homage to our comrade Bernadette
  - Paris: Down with terrorism! Down with war! Down with capitalism!
  - Reply to the ex-members of our Turkish section
- December 2015
- - ICC public meeting, London 10 October 2015 - Summary of presentations and discussion
  - Sylvia Pankhurst - From Feminism to Left Communism
ICConline - 2016
- January 2016
- - British bombs will increase the chaos in the Middle East
  - Capitalism is bankrupt, communism is a necessity
  - Floods in Britain: the social effect of capitalist production
  - Middle East: The historical obsolescence of the nation state
  - Migrants and refugees: victims of capitalist decline, Part 2: The depth of the counter-revolution
  - Stop the War Coalition: an ‘alternative’ policy for British imperialism
  - The working class and the wars of decomposing capitalism
- February 2016
- - On the book “And if time didn’t exist?” by Carlo Rovelli: thought in movement
- March 2016
- - German policy and the refugee problem: playing with fire
  - Health scandal at Flint, Michigan: Capitalism is poison
  - James Connolly and Irish nationalism
  - Max Raphael and a Marxist perspective on art (Part 2)
- April 2016
- - 40 years ago the nascent Spanish democracy murders the workers of Vitoria
  - EU Referendum: What’s best for British capitalism is a false question for the working class
  - Once again on the party and its relation to the class
  - Podemos: New clothes at the service of the capitalist emperor
  - Terrorism: a force for imperialist war and against the class struggle
  - What does it mean to struggle as part of the working class?
- May 2016
- - Labour, the left, and the “Jewish problem”
  - What is the real nature of the Nuit Debout movement?
- June 2016
- - France: Scandal of the abattoirs
  - Iran and Saudi Arabia, twin peaks of capitalism’s decomposition
  - Migrants and refugees: victims of capitalist decline, Part 3: The Cold War
- July 2016
- - Cleaning up the image of the democratic state
  - Duterte Regime: The lure of the strong man and the weakness of the working class
  - EU, Brexit, populism:Against nationalism in all its forms!
  - Growing difficulties for the bourgeoisie and for the working class
  - Repression shows the true face of the democratic state
  - Union ‘radicalism’ helps impose attacks
- August 2016
- - A report on the July 2016 ICC London Day of Discussion
  - Terrorist attacks in France, Germany, America: Capitalism carries terror within itself, like the cloud carries the storm
- September 2016
- - The ‘burkini’ debate in France: sowing the seeds of a pogrom mentality
  - The “New Turkey” brings new problems for the country, the Middle East and beyond
- October 2016
- - Aleppo: World capitalism’s latest crime against humanity
  - Brexit result and the rise in xenophobia
  - Corbyn mobilising discontent behind a capitalist programme
  - Deliveroo, UberEats: Struggles by precarious and immigrant workers
  - Questions from comrade Link and some replies
  - Reply to the Communist League of Tampa: Why communists oppose participation in bourgeois elections
  - The question of the relations between nature and culture (on the book by Patrick Tort, Sexe, Race & Culture)
  - Trump v Clinton: Nothing but bad choices for the bourgeoisie and for the proletariat
- November 2016
- - On the Trade Unions: A Reply to Mhou
  - President Trump: symbol of a dying social system
  - Spain: the Indignados movement five years on
ICConline - 2017
- January 2017
- - Migrants and refugees: victims of capitalist decline, Part 4: from the collapse of the Berlin Wall to the new walls around Europe and the US
- February 2017
- - Brexit: British capitalism struggles to limit the damage
  - February 1917: The workers’ councils open the way to the proletarian revolution
  - Review: "I, Daniel Blake", a film by Ken Loach
  - The working class needs to rediscover its own voice
- March 2017
- - A reply to Link: The ICC as a Fraction
  - ICC public forum, London 15 April: The Trump election and the crumbling of capitalist world order
- April 2017
- - Presidential campaign in France: populism and anti-populism, two expressions of capitalism’s dead-end
  - The election of Donald Trump and the degradation of the capitalist political apparatus
  - Using the London attack to strengthen the dominant ideology
- May 2017
- - Manchester Bombing: Terrorism shows the putrefaction of capitalism
  - Report on the ICC London Public Forum on Trump’s election and the rise of populism, April 2017
- June 2017
- - "Make America Great Again" means further war and instability
  - Elections and Democracy: The future of humanity will not be decided through the ballot box
  - Grenfell Tower fire: A crime of capital
  - Hard times bring increased illusions in Labour Party
  - Once more on decadence: What does it mean to say that capitalism is a historically transitory system?
  - Presidential election in France: it’s always the bourgeoisie that wins elections
  - Terrorism: driving workers into the arms of the state
  - UK Election result: The ruling class tries to cope with the damage to its political apparatus
- August 2017
- - Polemic with the PCI: Daesh, a decomposed corpse of the struggle for national liberation!
- September 2017
- - Anti-fascism is still a formula for confusion
  - Philippines’ “Culture of Killings”: expression of decomposing world capitalism
  - Statement on the war tensions around North Korea from International Communist Perspective (South Korea)
  - Threat of war between North Korea and the US: it is capitalism which is irrational
  - With capitalism at an impasse, the working class alone carries the hopes of the future
- October 2017
- - Aung San Suu Kyi: the bourgeoisie’s icon of peace unleashes barbarism
  - British Government: division and disarray
  - Confrontations in Catalonia: Democracy and the Nation are the reactionary past, the proletariat is the future
  - Day of Discussion on the Russian Revolution
  - Jeremy Corbyn: a saviour for British capitalism
  - The apocalypse of capital can still be averted
  - The Catalan quagmire shows the deepening decomposition of capitalism
  - The crisis in Venezuela: the proletariat suffers the misery, chaos and repression of capitalism
  - The elections in Austria reveal the growing instability of the capitalist political apparatus
- November 2017
- - Contribution to the discussion of the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917
- December 2017
- - Erdogan's "New Turkey": a prime illustration of capitalism's senility
  - ICC Day of Discussion on the Russian Revolution
  - Kurdish nationalism – another pawn in imperialist conflicts
  - One year after Trump’s victory: The US bourgeoisie struggles to manage the political turbulence
  - Yemen - a pivotal war in the fight for influence in the Middle East
ICConline - 2018
- January 2018
- - Demonstrations in Iran: strengths and limits of the movement
  - Iran: the struggle between bourgeois cliques is a danger for the working class
  - Paradise Papers: an ideological campaign in the service of the capitalist state
- February 2018
- - On Marx and Epicurus
  - On recent attacks on the ICC on libcom
  - Reflections on the split in the Anarchist Federation
  - Suffragism or communism?
  - The weaknesses of the PCI on the question of populism (part I)
  - Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution (volumes 1, 2 & 3): an appraisal
- March 2018
- - Leaflet of the group Yeryuzu Postasi on the Turkish military assault on Afrin: For an international struggle against capitalist division and war
  - Massacres in Syria, refugees in the Mediterranean: Capitalism is war, poverty and barbed wire
- April 2018
- - Britain vs Russia: a conflict between declining imperialist powers
  - Death of Stephen Hawking: a scientific mind in the service of humanity
  - France: rail rolling strikes and go-slows - Union manoeuvres are aimed at dividing us!
  - West Virginia teachers’ strike: mobilizations in the education sector show the proletariat is not defeated
- May 2018
- - Against the lies about May '68!
  - All day discussion meeting: 50 years since May 1968
  - Middle East: capitalism is a growing threat to humanity
  - On the film: The Young Karl Marx
  - The cave art of Homo neanderthalensis demonstrates what it is to be part of the human species
- June 2018
- - British imperialism: the uses of war and terrorism
  - Polemic: the weaknesses of the ICP on the question of populism (Part II)
- July 2018
- - Class struggle in Jordan’s war economy
  - Karl Marx: a revolutionary militant
- August 2018
- - Elections in Italy: populism is a problem for the bourgeoisie, an obstacle for the proletariat
  - Iraq: marching against the war machine
- September 2018
- - China’s Silk Road to imperialist domination
  - Weinstein, Trump … Feminism or class struggle?
- October 2018
- - International Communist Current: Public Meeting
  - Mexico: It's the bourgeoisie that always wins elections
- November 2018
- - Internationalist Voice and protests in the Middle East
  - Mexico, October 1968: The massacre at Three Cultures Square, Tlatelolco, shows the real face of capitalism
  - November 11, 1918, wasn't "War, never again" - it was an armistice to save capitalism and prepare for new wars
  - Our comrade Elisabeth has left us
  - The hidden legacy of the left of capital (part one): A false vision of the working class
- December 2018
- - Ten years after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers: how the bourgeoisie tries to hide the breakdown of capitalism
  - The "Yellow Vest" movement: the proletariat must respond to the attacks of capital on its own class terrain!
ICConline - 2019
- January 2019
- - Correspondence: can the “Yellow Vest” movement open the way to the class struggle?
  - Public meetings on the German revolution: Reply to the CWO on the question of the left fractions
  - The coming elections in Israel: a class perspective
- Police violence, riots, urban guerrillas, looting... The real cause of chaos and violence is capitalism!
- February 2019
- - Crisis in Venezuela: Neither Guaido nor Maduro! The Workers Must Not Support any of the Rival Bourgeois Factions
  - Massive demonstrations of high school students against the degradation of the climate: capitalism is a threat to humanity!
- March 2019
- - Brazil in Torment
  - Capitalism threatens the planet and the survival of humanity: Only the struggle of the world proletariat can put an end to this threat
  - The hidden legacy of the left of capital (II): a method and way of thinking in the service of capitalism
- April 2019
- - Anti-Semitism dispute in the Democratic Party: The contradictions of bourgeois identity politics
  - No solution to the ecological catastrophe without the emancipation of labour from capitalist exploitation
  - Notes on the early class struggle in America: Part 3 - The birth of the US workers’ movement and the difficult struggle for class unity
  - The fire at Notre-Dame de Paris: capitalism is incapable of preserving the heritage of humanity!
  - Algeria: with or without Bouteflika, it’s always the bourgeoisie that wins elections
- May 2019
- - Book review: Manual for Survival. A Chernobyl Guide to the Future, by Kate Brown
  - Britain and Europe: where does the working class stand?
  - Resolution on the British situation
  - The British bourgeoisie is losing control of its political game
  - The spread of terrorism shows the deadend of capitalism
- June 2019
- - Appalachian coalmine pollution: we cannot fight for our health and the environment as citizens
  - George Monbiot: not exactly anti-capitalist
  - Illusions in the unions sterilise workers' militancy
  - Response to Internationalist Voice on strikes in Iran
  - The reality of poverty in Britain
  - The Tiananmen Square massacre 30 years ago: A new ideological campaign with the aim of defending capitalism!
- July 2019
- - Iran-US tensions: capitalism is chaos and barbarism
  - The American Civil War and the struggle for working class unity
- August 2019
- - April 1939: End of the Spanish Civil War and prologue to the Second World War
  - Brexit: a quagmire for all factions of the ruling class!
  - Massive street protests in Hong Kong: Democratic illusions are a dangerous trap for the proletariat
  - Only the international class struggle can end capitalism’s drive towards destruction
  - The hidden legacy of the left of capital (III): a functioning which negates communist principles
  - The hidden legacy of the left of capital (IV): Their morality and ours
- September 2019
- - Lassalle and Schweitzer: The struggle against political adventurers in the workers’ movement
  - No solution to the climate crisis without the destruction of capitalism!
  - The hidden legacy of the left of capital (V): Debate - a brutal conflict for the bourgeoisie, an indispensable means for clarification for the proletariat
- October 2019
- - Fires in the Amazon: Capitalism is burning the planet
  - ‘Yellow Vests’ in France: An inter-classist movement - an obstacle to the class struggle
- November 2019
- - 90 years after the 1929 crash: decadent capitalism can never escape the crisis of overproduction
  - Extinction Rebellion: bourgeois reformism in disguise
  - The Argentinean Cordobazo - May 1969, a moment in the resurgence of the international class struggle
  - The dictatorship/democracy alternative is a dead-end
  - The Elite and the Ruling Class
  - The future of the planet cannot be left in the hands of the capitalist class
  - The Green New Deal or the greenwashing of capitalism
  - Windrush scandal: a nationalist campaign orchestrated by the bourgeoisie
- December 2019
- - Bush-fires in Australia: a harbinger of capitalism’s future
  - Strikes in France: Unify our struggles against the attacks of our exploiters!
  - War, terror, and modern slavery in Libya

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