Report of a recent intervention by the ICC at an 'anti-war' meeting Germany

We are drawing attention to the “Resolution on opportunism and centrism in the period of decadence” from our 6th Congress because, although first published 40 years ago, it is as relevant as ever, given that the struggle against opportunism, i.e. the penetration of bourgeois and petty ideology into the workers’ movement, can only be a permanent struggle for revolutionaries.

Sunday, 21 of March, 2026

2-5pm UK time

In response to the escalation of war in the Middle East, the ICC has published a new article on its website (Capitalism is war! It's capitalism that must be overthrown!) and is holding an online public meeting in English:

Please write to [email protected] if you want to attend.

We republish a resolution from our 6th International Congress, which, though produced 40 years ago, remains as relevant today as it did then, since opportunism remains a constant danger for every revolutionary organisation fighting a society in which "the dominant ideas are the ideas of the dominant class" (Marx).

1) Academic debate on the question of centrism is impossible. As a concept, centrism was born and has developed in the workers' movement in the face of the necessity to demarcate the political forces present in the class struggle, in particular with a view to the constitution of class parties in the present epoch of wars and revolutions.

1) On the eve of the 1980s, the ICC designated these years as the ‘years of truth', in which the formidable extent of what was at stake in the whole life of society would be clearly revealed. Half-way through this decade, the evolution of the international situation has fully confirmed this analysis:

-- through a new aggravation of the convulsions of the world economy which were manifested from the very beginning of the ’80s in the most important recession since the 1930s;

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We republish a resolution from our 6th International Congress, which, though adopted 40 years ago, is as relevant today as it was then, since opportunism remains a constant danger for every revolutionary organisation fighting a society in which "the dominant ideas are the ideas of the dominant class" (Marx).

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