"Regular readers of Revolutionary Perspectives will know that we have been republishing, with minor additions, the article “The Economic Foundations of Capitalist Decadence”. Originally published in 1974 this was one of the founding documents of the Revolutionary Perspectives group which became part of the Communist Workers’ Organisation in 1975. Written half a century ago its central premises have stood the test of time, and in the first two parts we have only made light edits to the original. However, in this part we enter the period through which, for all the turmoil and change of the last half a century, we are still living. Given that turmoil, we have naturally developed a longer perspective than that posed in the original."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-09-08/capitalism-s-economic-foundations-part-iii

"Unable to revive the rate of profit, capitalism is incapable of overcoming its crisis of accumulation. Although in recent decades the state has withdrawn — albeit never completely — from the direct management of companies and entire sectors of public services, it has nevertheless only changed the mode of its intervention in favour of capital."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-09-12/considerations-on-the-new-state-capitalism

"In truth, the green transition is a green façade for what can be summed up as “war ecology”. Whereas the architects of the New Deal in the 1930s sought to secure workers’ submission to rearmament under the auspices of social legislation, today, right- and left-institutional parties alike seek to secure submission to rearmament under the auspices of not only social but environmental legislation."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-09-14/war-ecology-will-not-save-the-planet

"Putting past defeats behind us, we can become one contingent in an international struggle, against the social system whose existence is at odds with the workers’ interests (and for whom the workers are, at most, expendable sources of profit, and cannon fodder for the Third World War): capitalism."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-09-21/to-throw-a-wrench-in-the-bosses-plans-we-need-to-take-control-of-the-struggle

"The war in Ukraine has already claimed an enormous human toll and imperialist tensions the world over only continue to tighten while the corpses pile up. We have heard already from media and political talking-heads that the war in Ukraine is a fight between democracy and autocracy. In truth, this conflict is the product of a decaying social system whose ever more frequent crises compel it to pursue war as a means of profit-making."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-10-02/no-war-but-the-class-war-statement-from-nwbcw-sydney

"As long as the capitalist system persists, we will never escape the shackles of economic crisis, war and massacres, ecological destruction, and worker exploitation. If we do not struggle today, we will be begging tomorrow. Today's general strike, and the struggle to oust Yoon Suk-Yeol's regime, must become a "class war" to overthrow the capitalist system."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-10-03/against-the-capitalist-crisis-for-the-class-war

"Bilan et Perspectives now brings together several comrades and has several close supporters. Readers will no doubt have noticed that the journal has become more regular and more militant. To translate this progress into reality, Bilan et Perspectives has decided to go a step further and formally affiliate with the ICT. Bilan et Perspectives will take the name of the Groupe révolutionnaire internationaliste (Revolutionary Internationalist Group)."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-10-09/welcome-to-the-revolutionary-internationalist-group-as-french-affiliate-of-the

"Since the start of the war in Ukraine, our whole political perspective has been based on the recognition that this war is a decisive moment in imperialist history. And this turning point needs a new response from revolutionaries and from the Communist Left. We must abandon the useless, sectarian polemics of the past, in which each group tries to prove that it’s better than the rest. Today, the situation is far too serious and dangerous for such petty games."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-10-10/presentation-and-reports-from-the-public-meetings-in-paris-and-saint-nazaire

"Thus the working class on both sides is driven to massacre defenceless populations and allows itself to be massacred in order to wage a so-called "holy war" or defend a supposed "democracy", in reality for the interests of opposing bourgeoisies, who can perpetuate their domination only by the oppression, exploitation and blood of the proletariat."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-10-11/the-latest-butchery-in-the-middle-east-is-part-of-the-march-to-generalised-war

"The latest confrontation is irrevocably connected to the machinations of the big imperialist players, engaged in a competition that foreshadows generalized war. For those who say Palestinians have something to gain by being cannon fodder, in a conflict to decide which faction gets to administer their exploitation: the descent from fantasy to reality is vertiginous."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-10-12/the-descent-from-fantasy-to-reality-in-the-arab-israeli-conflict

"Our position is, and has always been, internationalism with no exceptions. No exceptions, not out of abstract idealism but out of a consistent materialist opposition to capitalism and its imperialist survival strategies."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-10-18/there-is-no-state-solution-only-class-war

"Imperialist conflict has a tendency to revive historical traumas. As the Israeli government and Hamas trade insults over who's the biggest "Nazi", internationalists need to be able to parse the propaganda. Reductio ad Hitlerum rarely, if ever, makes for a convincing argument. Quite often, it's a tool of political deception hiding behind a calculated appeal to emotions. In the piece we have translated here, our Italian comrades criticise how certain Stalinists have abused the historical analogy of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the context of the "Arab-Israeli conflict"."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-10-21/falsification-of-history-and-the-warsaw-ghetto

"We think the necessary duty of communist militants in situations like this is to state unequivocally that all nations are capitalist, there is no ‘national’ road to liberty, that all capitalist solutions are a disaster for our class and ultimately for humanity, that the only solution to war, misery and environmental destruction is the working class destroying capitalism and bringing about a world where production is planned to satisfy human need. But this first step is not in itself enough. Revolutionaries also need to organise. We need to be able to take our message – a message that, let’s not be modest here, we think is a matter of life or death for the working class – to the class, massively and repeatedly, wherever we can gain a hearing. It is not enough to proclaim that war is bad and decide our job is done. We must find ways to talk to workers, to have real conversations, to really influence people."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-10-23/the-tasks-of-revolutionaries-in-the-face-of-capitalism-s-drive-to-war

"Across the world working class people are being slaughtered, from endless battles in the Ukraine, to mass murder in Israel, to ethnic cleansing in Gaza. The USA and EU are making one military bloc, and China, Russia and Iran are moving to make another. As the working class becomes increasingly impoverished and many of us can now barely afford to eat or heat our homes – and as environmental disaster approaches ever-closer on the horizon – the future looks bleak. The answer cannot be support for cross-class alliances in the mistaken belief that national liberation equals self-determination and a progressive step forward."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-10-26/no-war-but-the-class-war-statement-from-nwbcw-tyne-wear

"The wars that capitalism is now unleashing, and the ones yet to come, are a product of the imperialist epoch. Our understanding of what imperialism means is based on more than a century of experience and reflection. Much of that we owe to revolutionaries who came before us, and in that spirit we have translated the piece below, drafted in the midst of the First World War."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-10-29/radek-s-theses-on-imperialism-1915

"As the death toll in Gaza grows, many of the victims children, the double standards of imperialist realpolitik are laid bare. For our ruling classes, some lives are worth more than others. It is economic, political and military alliances which decide what atrocities get talked about and where."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-10-30/imperialist-hypocrisy-in-the-east-and-west

"In short, governments attack the living standards of the workers at home with repression and austerity policies that gut social spending, justifying their assaults in the name of so-called “national defense”, which has always been the defense of the bosses’ political and economic regime, while they attack our working-class brothers and sisters in other countries with bullets and bombs! Experiencing such constant attacks on their living conditions, workers can only respond as they have so far: through class struggle. But this revival in workers’ combativity is quickly coming up against the institutions of the system, whose function in this situation is to prevent open class struggle from breaking out."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-11-09/usa-renewal-of-workers-initiative-is-real

"Despite the obstacles, class unity of all sectors of the working class regardless of national origin is the only route out of the upswing of wars which our rulers are already imposing on us, and which are a prelude to a wider conflagration that would engulf the world. This alone is the basis for a fight of the global working class for a new system of production where we stop fighting each other, abolish national borders and start producing collectively for human need instead of profit."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-11-13/workers-have-no-country-no-to-nationalism-yes-to-class-unity

"Capitalism is guilty for the climate crisis. It is a decadent, oppressive social system that lives thanks to not only the exploitation of the working class, but also thanks to the pillaging of the world's resources and destruction of its environments."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-11-15/capitalism-promises-annihilation-by-climate-catastrophe

"This year’s COP, the annual UN climate change conference where emissions targets are debated and set, is being held in the UAE. That this is one of the world’s largest oil producers, is an excellent example of the blatant hypocrisy of the international political and economic ruling class. Oil and gas companies have an outsized presence at the COP events in order to show that the petrochemical giants take the problem seriously – and also to ensure that no resolutions are taken which could seriously affect their bottom lines."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-11-17/green-capitalism-is-a-myth

"Wage cuts, precarious jobs, collapsing health service, school buildings falling down, inflation, widespread poverty and deprivation experienced by large swathes of the country – that’s the state we are in. Of course, the government is not interested in solving these issues. Both parties have become too lazy or incompetent to even pretend to help, preferring instead to compete over idiotic culture-war issues while calamities pile up around them. The crooks who run our water companies are dumping sewage into our waterways while they line their pockets with public money, decades of neglect have left our schools at a literal risk of collapse, and now even basic goods are becoming unaffordable."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-11-18/cost-of-living-crisis-capitalist-crisis