International Communist Current
The working class is already responding to the capitalist crisis
The ‘financial crisis' is the top story in the bourgeois media. Wall to wall coverage helps to obscure the international movement of the working class which alone can provide a solution to the crisis.
Obama election: The emperor has new clothes
This statement was produced by the ICC's section in the USA just after the presidential election, when ‘Obamania' was in full flow.
Congo: The fraud of ‘humanitarian intervention’
Faced with the horrors of the war in the Congo, many people look to the United Nations to save the day. This article shows why such hopes are misplaced.
The ‘winter of discontent’: Lessons of the wave of class struggle in Britain 1978/9
Germany 1918-19: Social Democracy sets a deadly trap for the revolution
We look at how the ruling class used its most powerful weapons - not only armed repression, but also the ideological campaigns of the former workers' party, the SPD, to inflict a major defeat on the revolutionary movement.
WR 18th Congress Report on the British situation: Why the economic crisis hits Britain so hard
Mumbai massacre: Growing tensions between India and Pakistan fuel terrorist atrocities
The horrific attacks on people in Mumbai, at a hospital, in a café and hotels, at a Jewish centre, and at random bystanders in a railway station, was soon headlined "India's 9/11" across the world.This comparison had a definite significance: it contains the implicit threat that India's status as ‘victim' would be used to justify putting pressure on, or even renewing conflict with, Pakistan.
Once again the SWP chooses its imperialist camp
From a working class point of view denouncing the terrorist attacks on people in Mumbai and the repression of the Indian state is the absolute ABC of class politics.To oppose the division of the working class and reject support for any imperialism is a fundamental responsibility for revolutionaries.In contrast to this internationalist approach the Socialist Workers Party has made it very clear which side of the Indo-Pakistan conflict it supports.
G20 Summit: The bourgeoisie is powerless faced with the economic crisis
Report on the British situation for the 18th WR congress
We find ourselves analysing the British situation today after a year of the developing credit crunch and at the very beginning of a recession that even the chancellor predicts will be long and deep. This poses difficult questions for the bourgeoisie as it tries to keep the banking system afloat with unprecedented rescue packages and stabilise the economy. At the same time it is totally bogged down in failing military adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan alongside the USA which continue to drain resources. In spite of a policy of trying to spend its way out of the crisis, with money it has to borrow, the working class will be made to pay for the crisis.
School students protest in Germany: the young generation returns to the scene
On Wednesday the 12th of November 120.000 school kids took to the streets in Berlin, Cologne, Hannover, Munich, Trier and many other German
The world on the eve of an environmental catastrophe
Obama's election: the emperor has new clothes
So now Obama is president. But what does it mean? Obama promised to deliver change, but this promise was nothing but ideological sophistry. The real victor in this election was not the fictitious "Joe Blow" of middle America, not the African Americans who are part of the US working class, but rather the ruling class.
1929-2008 - Capitalism is a bankrupt system, but another world is possible: communism!
US elections: Presiding over austerity, repression and war
The President of the USA is often described as the ‘most powerful man in the world'.The US President does have many formal powers, but ultimately he is just the most prominent figure in a whole state capitalist class. After the votes are counted the faces can change, but the same capitalist state still dominates every aspect of American society.
