On the 80th anniversary of the end of World War 2, we are republishing below two articles from L'Etincelle, the newspaper of the French Fraction of the Communist Left, and an article from our International Review which highlights the crimes of the ‘Great Democracies’.

We are publishing two contributions from participants in our 5 April 2025 international online public meeting of the ICC, and on the April 26 meeting in London on the same question, on tensions within the American bourgeoisie, both of which aim to continue and deepen the debate initiated at the meetings.

The clash between India and Pakistan is by no means the first, but it is taking place in a much more dangerous global context

The horror being played out in Gaza is not an exception in this period of growing barbarism

June 21, 2025, 2-5pm UK time

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This resolution was adopted in early May 2025 by the 26th Congress of the ICC. As such, it can only take into account events and situations prior to that date. This is obviously the case for any position on the international situation, but in the present case it is particularly important to note this because we are currently witnessing a rapid succession of particularly spectacular and unpredictable events of major importance on the three main levels: imperialist tensions, the economic situation of global capitalism and the balance of forces between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie.

Looking beyond the technical reasons for the historic context behind this phenomenon

A report on the online public meeting of April 28 focused on developments in the international situation, which are particularly serious and complex.

Should we be surprised by the intensification of war preparations by the Labour Party? No, we should not: since the First World War, this party has a long history of supporting and waging imperialist war.

The celebrations of VE Day are part of a wider campaign aiming to prepare us for new imperialist wars

Recent demonstrations in South Korea, Serbia, Turkey and elsewhere are a sign of political and social crises but it is important to analyse the real political source of these movements.

Trump's self-defeating economic policies are a product of the complete dead-end of world capitalism

The struggle of retired workers to resist the permanent attacks on their living conditions unleashed by the bourgeois state in the context of the global economic crisis and austerity policies. 

A trade union offensive aims to fragment workers struggles, with new attacks on the horizon.

The deafening campaign around Trump’s ‘crazy decisions’ and ‘authoritarianism’ is a classic strategy of the bourgeoisie to make people believe that chaos, destruction and massacres are the fault of ‘irresponsible’ or ‘delusional’ individuals (Trump or Putin today; Hitler, Mussolini or Stalin yesterday...) and not the expression of the historical bankruptcy of the capitalist system.

The obstacles facing the search for clarity on how to fight capitalism's wars

The split between the US and Europe is not just a product of Trump's whims, but the culmination of a historical process unfolding since the collapse of the Russian bloc in the early 90s. 

The war-economy and the position of the working class.

For a more developed critique of the various radical ecologist theories, see our recent articles:

The only solution to the infernal spiral of ecological and military destruction is to overthrow capitalism and move towards communism. But the bourgeoisie will never accept the end of its system, the end of its privileges, the end of its existence as a dominant and exploiting class. It will try to maintain its obsolete system at all costs. Only a world revolution can put an end to this agony. For all those who are concerned about the state of the planet and the fate of humanity, the essential question is: what social force is capable of bringing about revolution?