The following text was written by Marlowe for discussion at the internationalist meeting in Brussels 2023 where “the periodisation of capitalism’ was the theoretical subject on the agenda. It is followed by a shorter text that addresses the periodisation question specifically. The main text has two parts. In the first, Marlowe traces out the trajectory …
As we write this, the guns are silent in Gaza. The rain of bombs, continuing until almost the last minute before the cease-fire came into effect, has finally stopped. But rather than an end of the war, this is most likely a pause. How long will it last ? Only 42 days, if no agreement …
The pro-revolutionary movement has lost its Nestor. On December 16 Henri Simon, age 102, died peacefully in his sleep. He will be missed. It was through struggles at the work place, in which he ran counter to the trade unions and the Communist Party, that the young Henri came to politics. In 1951 he became …
A leaflet IP published in december 2023 on the slaughter in Gaza raised a discussion within our group. What was objected to was that the leaflet related the mass murder committed by the IDF to Israeli capitalism’s need to control and reduce a surplus population that yielded no profit for it, and that it saw …
TODO ENCAJA Después de más de una década de conflicto sangriento en el que más de 600.000 personas fueron asesinadas y más de 14 millones se vieron obligadas a huir de sus hogares, la guerra “civil” siria parecía haberse establecido en un punto muerto y una partición de facto del país. Y, sin embargo, solo …
WARS IN THE MIDDLE EAST (1) After more than a decade of bloody conflict in which more than 600.000 people were killed and more than 14 million were forced to flee their homes, the Syrian ‘civil’ war seemed to have settled in a stalemate and a de facto partition of the country. And yet, only …
La ira por el aumento del costo de vida, la oposición a las guerras, la sensación de estar amenazado, el miedo al caos y la inseguridad, todo contribuyó a la elección de un (no tan) nuevo presidente de los EE.UU. que aumentará el costo de la vida, se preparará para más guerras, acelerará las amenazas …
El empeoramiento de los desastres climáticos y las brutales guerras que se libran ahora en Europa, África y Oriente Medio muestran que la destrucción tendencial de nuestro futuro por parte del capitalismo se está acelerando. Además, las guerras se utilizan, no sólo en las propias zonas de conflicto, sino en todo el mundo, para hacer …
Anger over the increased cost of living, opposition to wars, the sense of being threatened, fear of chaos and insecurity, all contributed to the election of a (not so) new US president who will increase the cost of living, prepare for more war, accelerate the threats to life on this planet and sow plenty of …
The worsening climate disasters and the brutal wars now raging in Europe, Africa and the Middle East show that capitalism’s tendential destruction of our future is accelerating. Furthermore, the wars are used, not just in the conflict zones themselves but all over the world, for massive propaganda for nationalism, for drumming up support for the …
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