As wildfires spread in California and floods hit western Europe, where lies the hope for the future of humanity?

As we go to press, the media are full of the news about the ceasefire and exchange of prisoners being cooked up in the Middle East. But as our article insists, “whatever truces or ceasefires may be concluded in the context of future imperialist manoeuvres, they can only be temporary and will only represent momentary pauses in the reinforcement of the barbaric militarism which characterises the capitalist mode of production”.

A dispute arose a few months ago between the two French Trotskyist groups, Révolution Permanente (RP), an offshoot of the NPA (Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste), and Lutte Ouvrière (LO), concerning the Palestinian question. But behind their differences we find the same defence of Palestinian nationalism. 

How the various factions of the Dutch bourgeoisie instrumentalised the “football riots” in November 2024

First of two articles defending our view that the workers' struggles in Britain, France and elsewhere in 2022 marked an important new phase in the class struggle, a "rupture" with decades of retreat. 

Trump's election is a product of capitalist society rotting on its feet - and it will speed up the rot

ICC international online public meeting

Saturday January 25, 2pm to 5pm UK time

The election of Trump will accelerate capitalism’s decomposition

The discussion will aim to deepen understanding of the concrete perspectives for capitalism and for the working class in the coming period.

The ICC is thus following up the international online public meeting it held in October (see An international debate to understand the global situation and prepare for the future) with a second meeting on the significance of Trump’s victory. The format will be the same as the October meeting, offering translations into English, French and Spanish.

If you want to take part, write to us at [email protected]

We publish here a letter from a close sympathiser, which we think is a very lucid denunciation of the current campaign about the 'good news' coming from Syria with the fall of the Assad regime - a denunciation based on the ICC's position on the decomposition of capitalism and the slide into military chaos.

On 23 November, the Internationalist Communist tendency (ICT) held a public meeting in Paris on the theme: ‘Faced with the rise of nationalist wars and confrontations, the only perspective is the internationalist class struggle’. In this article we want to briefly underline the crucial points which emerged from the discussion.

Despite the fall of the Assad regime, the fragmentation of the Syrian state will continue, offering little respite from a multi-sided war

A sympathiser sends some critical feedback on the organisation of our international online public meeting held on 16 November, followed by our response

Since last summer, we have witnessed a real escalation of military conflicts, with fighting and massacres intensifying everywhere: Ukraine, Russia, Lebanon, Gaza, Syria.....

On 16 November, the ICC held an Online Public Meeting on the theme ‘The Global Implications of the US Elections’.

Faced with the Valencia floods, capitalism and its state state reveals its profound indifference to human welfare.

Raising taxes ‘for greater tax justice’ and ‘better public services’ is nothing more than a despicable fable peddled by the left to make it easier to accept attacks on the working class

This extraordinary election campaign, spewing out money and saturated with obscenities, just like its conclusion, the victory of a megalomaniac and stupid billionaire, reflects the abyss into which bourgeois society is sinking.

The new phase in the class struggle inaugurated by the strikes in Britain in 2022 continues....

In our view, the CWO's balance sheet of the Prague "anti-war" event fails to draw the most important lessons from it

16 November 2024, 2pm-5pm UK time

The main language of the meeting will be English, but we will have facilities to translate on the spot into other languages as well. If you want to take part, write to us at [email protected], indicating if you are happy following and contributing in English, or specifying what other language you would need to use.