"One might think that the behaviour of the Biden Administration and Trump's arrogant statements on the future destinies of Canada, Mexico, Greenland and the Panama Canal, to which Russia has already raised opposition as China surely will, are a sign of power. Yet they rather hide the symptoms of an intrinsic weakness deriving from a structural crisis that has affected the entire capitalist world for decades, starting with the US."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-02-09/trump-and-the-new-golden-age

"Days of mourning were declared and vigils for the victims were held. But grief quickly turned to anger. As the first mass demonstrations, student occupations and road blockades started, the authorities responded with violence and provocation – tear gas, arrests, and attacks on protesters (including a few cases of government sympathisers ramming their cars into crowds). This only inflamed the tensions and brought more people out onto the streets."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-02-11/serbia-protests-politicians-resign-the-problems-endure

"For us, victory never looked like a US-brokered ceasefire, or a military ousting of a dictator. For us, victory will only be won in the class war that ends all wars. Palestinians will only be free when all workers around the world are free. And to this end, the working class must become an independent social force that sides with no national flags or imperialist camps."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-02-12/as-regimes-fall-and-ceasefires-begin-the-capitalist-crisis-continues

"A number of comrades in Sweden sympathetic to the Internationalist Communist Tendency (ICT) have, after years of contact with the organisation, decided to formalise their work in a group. We have taken the name Kompass-gruppen after the broadsheet Kompass, of which we have already produced two issues."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-02-13/welcome-to-kompass-gruppen

"As Bordiga once famously noted, human affairs cannot be understood as a photograph, as something frozen in time, but have to be understood as a film, a series of almost imperceptible shifts in every frame but which add up in the end to a complete change in reality. Recent events in the Middle East and their consequences (both intended and unintended) only underline the validity of that methodology when trying to understand the complicated “reciprocal interactions” in the current world order."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-02-17/regime-change-in-syria-another-twist-in-the-imperialist-kaleidoscope-another

"Thus, for the new American Administration, it is incumbent on Ukraine to accept the American diktats and for Russia to find a favourable peace solution, even if this puts it in debt to the White House for the "gifts" received. Europe must manage on its own, because the US has to play its own game with China and this involves cutting, and/or completely terminating, spending in support of anyone else to concentrate all its economic and financial resources on the primary military objective: the "threat from the East"."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-02-20/munich-security-conference-the-worst-is-yet-to-come

"The pleas of scientists fall on the deaf ears of our rulers who view the world, its people and nature as sources for the generation of profit, content in the understanding they have the wealth and means to secure at least their personal comfort and survival should the worst come to pass. There is no innate conflict between human civilisation and the natural world; only between capitalist society and sustainable existence."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-02-22/climate-disaster-intensifying

"Those who are forced to sell their labour power under conditions that grow more precarious by the day have no interest in the intensification of migration laws, whose sole and entire aim is to divide us against each other. The defence of migrants and refugees without compromise is therefore a precondition for any successful struggle for better wages, more affordable housing, and against the unfettered drive to war. Under the present conditions, insisting on such an internationalist perspective will be anything but popular. But it is a prerequisite for building class unity in order to withstand the social conflicts that loom on the horizon. Naturally, this is not a perspective we will find on any ballot paper; nor can we hope for it to be introduced to parliament in the form of any proposal or bill."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-02-23/german-election-2025-a-contest-in-racism-and-inhumanity

"Trump’s recent intentions to acquire Greenland and take over Canada show that the US is taking an increasing interest in the Arctic. The area is home to a huge number of strategic resources such as gas, oil, rare earths, gold, and lithium. The advantage of acquiring these for both economic and military purposes is obvious, not to mention the strategic geographical position of Greenland given the tension between the US and Russia. Moreover the Arctic is of interest for its potential maritime trade routes and fishing waters now that the ice is melting. The US is far from the only power interested in the area."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-02-24/imperialist-tensions-are-heating-up-the-arctic

"The higher education sector is, by all accounts, a sinking ship. Lack of government support and a decrease in the number of international students have created a serious funding crisis. Some 80% of institutions could soon be at risk of deficit. Many have already announced redundancies, course closures, are scaling down catering provisions, changing work patterns or trying to outsource services. All the while we face the now-standard real terms pay cuts to our wages. The writing has been on the wall for a long time now and the situation is only set to get worse. As usual, it’s students and workers who will be forced to pay for the bosses' crisis."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-03-04/universities-in-crisis-the-fight-is-on

"Our analysis of capitalism’s underlying driving force which gives rise to periodic economic crises (the falling rate of profit and capital’s efforts to offset it) has brought us to the contemporary world and it’s now time for us to draw this study to a close. In the real world, of course, there is no closure. If there was some doubt amongst revolutionaries about capitalism’s inbuilt tendency to crises and, in the era of global capitalism, to devaluation of capital through a world war, there is much less scepticism about this today, for obvious reasons. We are about to wind up this economic overview as an increasing number of states appear to be rapidly moving, from primarily economic rivalry to military rivalry, with the prospect of a third world war being openly talked about."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-03-06/capitalism-s-economic-foundations-part-vi

"Instead, Wolff claims, the start must be made from the micro-economic level. Socialism’s future, he argues, lies in democratic worker cooperatives in the factory, store or office with all workers having an equal voice in key business decisions. Workers will hold the purse strings, money will still exist, the cooperatives will relate to the state and pay taxes, etc. He argues the state should fund the cooperatives and lend them capital. To sum up, Wolff’s proposed cooperatives exist within capitalism, need capital and operate with money and exchange on the existing capitalist market."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-03-10/understanding-marxism-capitalism-and-socialism-a-review-article

"For all the laurels that capitalism claims to have liberated humanity, the crown is covered in the appalling blood of working women. The capitalist state can grant rights just as quickly and arbitrarily as it can revoke them. Worse, liberal feminists’ calls for “women’s rights” have been used to justify barbarism, often against women. To save women in Afghanistan and Yemen from their “barbarian” men, “humanitarian” drone operators of the US military fire “humane” missiles at wedding parties. To “liberate” Gaza from the grip of “backward” Hamas, the very “progressive” IDF (Israeli military) turns homes into piles of rubble. Capitalist society is a social system that carries with it the muck of ages. The chauvinism of the past changes to adapt to the logic of capital."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-03-20/8-march-does-not-belong-to-the-bourgeoisie

"The same old solutions will lead to worsening working conditions, lower pay, and worse public services. The only area with which the government is making a break with recent tradition is a massive increase to military spending."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-03-27/sweating-the-assets-labour-s-war-on-the-disabled

"In other words, these protests are a brave and desperate cry, against war and against all sides in the conflict. In them we can hear the real voice of dispossessed masses who are beginning to see that no ruling class faction can offer them salvation. Workers around the world need to hear this cry. Imperialist wars are the direct product of a world system which ultimately cares about profit, not human lives. The one force capable of not only stopping the drive to war, but also creating a new society without war, is the mass movement of the international working class, whose very exploitation capitalism is built upon. Only such a movement could truly answer the cry coming from Gaza."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-03-28/anti-war-protests-in-gaza

"There is now a scramble amongst the world powers for once little-known metals called rare earths that are crucial for today’s technology, including military technology. China leads global production of rare earth elements and now the US and the rest of the world are trying to catch up. But what are rare earth elements?"

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-04-06/rare-earth-magnets-are-pulling-the-world-apart

"So what should we do? Abstention from elections is obviously not enough. We have to respond with class struggle. In their elections, the bosses can only offer us wage-work and war. Bourgeois democracy is nothing more than a performance to trick the working class into fighting in the bosses’ ranks. Workers’ democracy is the alternative. Strike committees; mass assemblies; workers’ councils and congresses of them; these are the forms the working class has discovered through history to exercise their class power, from the factories of 1917 Russia to the sugar plants of 2010s Iran."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-04-12/elections-and-the-working-class-alternative

"As the capitalist system increasingly engulfs the world in imperialist wars and climate catastrophes, more and more young people are looking for an alternative. The revolutionary ideas defended by the Communist Left over the last century are once again gaining wider exposure and as a consequence we see new groups appear around the world. Communism or Barbarism, based in South Korea and with contacts across East Asia, is trying to build a nucleus of the Internationalist Communist Tendency (ICT) in the region."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-04-23/welcome-to-communism-or-barbarism

"The international working class must resist the call for the slaughter of its class, and turn its ire on the capitalists who give them their marching orders. This May Day we should look to those workers who chose to fight the class war and who collectively brought down empires before they could fire another shot at their comrades, as in WWI. Whilst today we can take heart from current examples of resistance, such as the Palestinians protesting against Hamas, the Israeli soldiers refusing to fight, and the Russians and Ukrainians deserting from the war fronts. Despite their limitations, they are an important signal for the future."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-04-29/may-day-2025-against-capitalist-crisis-against-imperialist-war-no-war-but-the

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"It is 20 years since the death of our much loved comrade Mauro Stefanini (2 May 2005), a loss as premature as it was dramatic for the Internationalist Communist Party (PCInt) that held him among its best prepared and esteemed members, as it was for all the comrades of the Internationalist Communist Tendency (ICT) who knew him. Our memory of him has not diminished in all that time."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-05-02/remembering-mauro