We re-publish in English an article, released by the Argentina-based group Cuadernos de Negacion that deals with the rise of the extreme right. More specifically, it deals critically with the use of the term “fascist” to describe this tendency. We agree with them that the danger of fascism today is not necessarily to lead us …
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We publish here a text on the period of transition; it was written for the conference held in Arezzo in June, 2024 by a member and a sympathiser of Internationalist Perspective. The subject of the period of transition has not been given the attention it is due by the revolutionary milieu in recent years and we …
Trump has been back in office for less than a hundred days, and while the charge he is leading is unmistakable, its destination remains uncertain. The two texts that follow are attempts to make sense of what is being set in motion, and what that reveals about the current configuration of political and economic power. …
The scene: the Oval Office, White House, Washington DC. Present are: Donald J Trump, president JD Vance, vice president Marco Rubio, Secretary of State Pete Hegseth , Secretary of Defense Michael Waltz, National Security Advisor A fly on the wall Waltz: Our starting point is that conflict with China is inevitable at some point. There …
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 …
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 …
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 …