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ニュースアグリゲータEKS: Turkish ımperialism’s latest adventure in northern IraqWe are publishing here an article from the Turkish group Enternasyonalist Komünist Sol (EKS), which analyses the different imperialist interests and rivalries underlying the Turkish army's recent incursions into northern Iraq. We consider it important for several reasons: first and foremost, by offering a clear analysis on an internationalist basis, it strikes a blow against both Turkish and Kurdish nationalism, in a region where the propaganda campaigns of all the competing bourgeois factions are doing their utmost to stoke nationalist hatreds so as to use the workers and poor masses as cannon fodder in their own sordid struggles for power and influence; second, it gives a voice to the feelings of indignation and revolt among the workers in Turkey who have been conscripted into this bloody conflict, and gives the lie to the bourgeoisie's claims, in Turkey and elsewhere, about universal popular support for the war.
The sources, contradictions and limitations of the growth in Eastern AsiaUp to now capitalism has shown a conspicuous inability to develop the countries where two-thirds of humanity live. Now, with the incredible economic growth in India and China - and throughout East Asia generally - we hear it shouted from the roof tops that from henceforth it will be able to develop more than half the world and that it would be able to go even further if only all the constraints imposed on it were to be eliminated. If wages and working conditions were to be levelled down to those obtaining in China, it is claimed, then growth in the West would also rise to 10% a year. This raises theoretical and ideological questions of great importance: does the development in East Asia represent a renewal of capitalism or is it no more than a stray occurrence in its on-going crisis? To answer this question we will consider the phenomenon throughout the whole of the sub-continent, though we will examine China more closely as it is the most publicised and the most representative example. Food riots show the need to overcome capitalismDuring
the past weeks a series of revolts, protests and strikes against the rising
food and energy prices have broken out in many countries of the capitalist
periphery. At recent meetings the guard dogs of the capitalist institutions -
IMF, World Bank and G 8 - have warned of a gigantic destabilisation and
conflicts in almost 40 countries around the world.
It is no coincidence that the hunger revolts are erupting now, since the sharp rise in food prices is not a natural disaster but a result of the sharpening of the capitalist crisis. Financial Turmoil: A Worsening Economic CrisisOn
February 28th, even though he acknowledged the risk of an economic
slowdown, President George W. Bush declared, "I don't think we're headed for a
recession...I believe that our economy has got the fundamentals in place for
us...to grow and continue growing, more robustly than we're growing now. So we're
still for a strong dollar."
Elections and Ruling Class StrategyThe
electoral circus is clearly at the heart of the political strategy of the
bourgeoisie in the current period. Revolutionaries differ from the bourgeois
media pundits because our concern is not to make electoral predictions or succumb to immediatist and empiricist
temptations in dissecting the minutiae of the day-to-day evolution of the
electoral circus...
The Class Struggle in the USThere are so many things that are going wrong in
today's world -- wars without end that are killing and displacing millions
around the world; health epidemics that condemn millions to early deaths and
suffering; famines; homelessness; degradation of the environment that is menace
the future of all life on earth; growing pauperization of the working masses of
the world....
The Strengthening of the Repressive ApparatusFor the past seven years the American ruling class has
moved relentlessly and forcefully to use the events of 9/ll as the pretext for
pushing through a tremendous reinforcement of the repressive apparatus of the
capitalist state. While ostensibly designed as a means to combat the
“terrorist” threat from Islamist fundamentalism, the strengthening of the
repressive apparatus is a means that the state will not hesitate to use against
any threat to its dominance...
Tibet: Human rights and state repression both serve imperialist interestsThis article has already been published on this site here: Internationalism’s 2008 Territorial ConferenceAnyone
who has followed the ICC press in the last couple of years has certainly
noticed the articles where we saluted the emergence of a new militants in the
working class searching for political understanding and willing to take
militant action to defend proletarian interests.
Correspondence on the Union QuestionDear Internationalism. I've read your series on how decadence affects capitalism in the International Review. Even though the union movement is portrayed as being progressive in the 1920's and 30's, it had moved away from being a worker's movement and became a hindrance on the working class. In the US, the situation was different... May 1968: The Student Movement in France and The WorldThis article has already been published on this site here: Capitalism can’t feed the worldUN Secretary Ban Ki-moon has said that “the dramatic
escalation in food prices worldwide has evolved into an unprecedented challenge
of global proportions”. While the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation
(FAO) estimates that globally average food prices have risen 57% over the last
year, this average is exceeded by certain staples.
Local election results: Labour sinks with the economyThe 1st May local election results were a very bad setback for the Labour government, with only 24% of the vote, the lowest share since 1968, the loss of a number of councils in their core areas of support, and most spectacularly Boris Johnson's victory over Ken Livingstone in the London Mayoral election.
Reaffirming our position on the student movement in Venezuela of May 2007At our public meetings, via e-mails and forums (one of them being Revleft), we have received criticism as much from outside as inside Venezuela. We are accused of giving a proletarian character to a petty-bourgeois movement with nothing to do with a real proletarian struggle, or of supporting the children of the rich of the country who oppose the Chavist regime. We reaffirm our position for the following reasons... Fidel Castro retires: The problem is not the rider but the horseWe have received the following article written by a comrade - a member of the ‘Nucleus of Internationalist Discussion' in the Dominican Republic. We salute his contribution. The article is a condemnation of the Cuban regime, that since the fall of the USSR, is still trying to continue the great lie of the 20th century - identifying Stalinist barbarism to "socialism" - and in these last years it has allied itself with Chavez's regime to renovate that lie with its "21st century socialism". International Women’s Day: only communist society can end the oppression of womenOn March 8th, all
the feminist groups once again commemorated International Women's Day with the
full blessing of the radical petty bourgeoisie represented in the various left
wing groups (the Socialist Party in particular). Once again this day,
associated with the struggle of working women, will be perverted and
transformed into a giant democratic and reformist masquerade.
Financial storms, inflation, redundancies: It’s a crisis of the whole systemImmediately after the US Federal Reserve pushed JP Morgan
Chase into an emergency salvage plan for Bear Stearns, Gordon Brown felt it
necessary to reassure people in Britain
with an article in the Sun (19/3/8).
The Prime Minister wrote that "When a major bank in America
has to be rescued over a weekend and billions are wiped off share markets
across the world, I understand that people are worried about the future."
Bilan 1935: Evolution of British imperialism (part 2)The Treaty of Versailles stamped out British imperialism's
most formidable competitor in the decades that preceded the war. The antagonism
between Britain
and Germany was
at the centre of the tensions that led to the world conflict. But the threat of
German expansionism was only kept in check at the cost of the growing
domination of an even more formidable force...
The bourgeois state of Chavez attacks the steel workersThe Chávez government - with the support
of the opposition and unions- has unleashed repression against the workers of
the Steel Zone of Venezuela
who are struggling for their most basic necessities. Here we see the real Senor
Chávez and his "socialism of the 21st century".
To all those who have no frontiers: to the proletariat of Ecuador and ColombiaWe have received from some comrades in Ecuador a position about the military tensions with Colombia following the incursion of its troops onto Ecuadorian territory on the 1st March, when they attacked the FARC. We are publishing the complete text here along with our commentary in order to animate and contribute towards an internationalist discussion. |
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