ES ASÍ COMO SE VE LA DEMOCRACIA Quedan varias preguntas después de estas elecciones. Como por ejemplo: El nuevo presidente de los Estados Unidos ?Es un psicópata o un sociópata? Sea cual fuere el diagnóstico correcto, no se puede negar que estas elecciones dan testimonio de un considerable aumento del descontento, del desasosiego y la …
INTRODUCCIÓN Desde su inicio, Perspectiva Internacionalista (PI), ha sostenido la importancia de la teoría revolucionaria porque, en nuestra opinión, la revolución comunista sólo puede ser un acto conciente de transformación social, no algo en lo que la clase obrera tropieza inconscientemente, conducida automáticamente por crisis y calamidades. Pero nosotros también creemos que la teoría revolucionaria …
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Recent comments on the Intsdiscnet-list on “Fascists March on Berkeley” (4/27/17) raise that issue with which those committed to the struggle against capitalism have grappled since the 1930’s: anti-fascism. Historically Antifa or anti-fascism within the worker’s movement became the clarion call of Stalinism, and then the veritable basis of the Grand Alliance between Stalin, Roosevelt …
Introduction From its start, Internationalist Perspective (IP) has believed in the importance of revolutionary theory, because, in our view, the communist revolution can only be a conscious act of social transformation, not something the working class stumbles into unconsciously, driven automatically by crisis and calamity. But we also believed that revolutionary theory is not a …
In Pontecorvo’s film Queimada, set in the 1830s, the agent provocateur, Sir William Walker, points out that a decade can show the contradictions of a century. Fast forward almost 200 years. It only took a few days into 2016, the strains of Auld Lang Syne having barely faded away, to highlight the contradictions of the …
A Critique of the theses of the GIK and “labor coupons” (Excerpts from an exchange with Kees) Kees, you write: “The problem that I see is the following: as we are not in a situation of ‘abundance’ but in a situation of ‘scarcity’ there will inevitably be ‘exchange’ (or else total arbitrariness) based on some …
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Over the past several years Rojava or Western Kurdistan, legally a part of Syria, has been seen by many anarchists, libertarians, and even Marxists as the locus of a social revolution, one that demands solidarity on the part of revolutionaries, all the more so as it has been the object of brutal military assaults, first …
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Allons enfants de la patrie, le jour de gloire est arrivé… (“Let’s go, children of the fatherland, the day of glory has arrived…”) The opening of the ‘Marseillaise, the French national anthem The following text is a statement IP put out after the terrorist attacks in Paris last november. It was widely shared on social …
A few questions linger after these elections. Such as: is the new US president a psychopath or is he a sociopath? Whatever the correct diagnosis may be, it can’t be denied that his election testifies to a considerable increase of discontent, disaffection and anxiety in a broad swath of the American population. Trump won, by …
Capitalist states, whether they are defending local or regional economic and politico-military interests or seeking global hegemony, must constantly evaluate and re-evaluate their strategic interests, their alliances, and the threats that they confront. For American imperialism, in the waning days of World War Two, before the atomic bombs led to Japan’s surrender, it seemed apparent …
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