(part 1) Something strange happened recently. Capitalists begging the state to regulate them and to force them to slow their growth: that is not something you see every day. But it’s what Sam Altman (OpenAI), Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Elon Musk (xAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind) and other bosses of what is considered to be the …
To continue the debate on the transition to communism, we refer our readers to an essay with the above title, written by Anwar Najmadin, a pro-revolutionary Marxist active in the Kurdish region of Iraq. It recently was published on the website of the Marxist Humanist Initiative (MHI). Early on, Najmadin explains his intent: “In much …
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Fredo Corvo, who publishes frequently on the council communist website Left Wing Communism, sent us a lengthy reaction to our debate with IDA on the transition to communism. So we added his text to the ongoing debate which you can read HERE. 1 Fredo agrees and disagrees with arguments on both sides of this debate, …
The following text is our latest contribution to a discussion we’re having with the group IDA about the revolutionary transition to communism, and specifically about the question how productive activity and the distribution of goods could be organized. The complete conversation between us and IDA can be found on a new page on our site, …
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937. Barely three weeks into the Gaza conflict, Brazil’s president Lula declared “It’s not a war, it’s a genocide.” “End the genocide. It’s not a war,” Francesca Albanese told a UN committee in November 2024. “There is no war. It’s a misnomer to call it a war,” said the genocide historian Omer …
At a pro-revolutionary summer camp last August and a subsequent meeting we were confronted with a kind of feminist ideology which, in our view, is a real obstacle to free discussion. We think a debate on feminism is necessary. The following text is an in-depth contribution to it. It is a slightly abridged translation of …
IS HE JUST MAD OR IS THERE A STRATEGY? More and more people think that the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize is suffering from serious mental degradation. They call him crazy, insane, nuts, flipped, deranged, disturbed, bonkers, lunatic, utterly mad and much more. But could it be that his rantings and obsessions hide a …
About the US military intervention in Venezuela If we had to find a slogan to illustrate what characterizes the policies of the world’s major countries today, it would be “Viva la muerte!” Their goal is to develop all the means, both material and ideological, to cause more human carnage. To make things clear, the government …
Why did the US launch a “special military operation” in Venezuela? To get their greedy hands on the oil and other resources in that country? To get its imperialist rival China and its allies (Russia, Cuba, Iran) out of the region and warn other Latin American countries of the price they might have to pay …
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The German language blog Communaut asked IP’s Sanderr to answer ten questions about the Trump administration’s policies. He did, with some help of other US-based IP members. 1. One of the more controversial questions of the day is how to read the Trump administration: A bunch of ideological lunatics in bed with self-serving billionaires and …
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