A Critical Review of: “LABOR-TIME ACCOUNTING AND THE WITHERING AWAY OF THE STATE Contributions to the critique of common misconceptions” By David Adam Published this year by Red & Black Books is a collection of essays by David Adam. The scope of his booklet is a defense of a transition from capitalism to communism as …
Below we publish a statement on capitalism and war, adopted at an internationalist meeting in Arezzo, in which members of Internationalist Perspective participated. We will comment later on this and other pro-revolutionary internationalist meetings that ocurred this summer. * * * * While the global capitalist system is dragging the world into ever more war …
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The student protests are a mixed signal. On the one hand, it is heartening that students in more than 160 colleges and universities in the US are protesting the war in Gaza, and do so with passion and courage. They have inspired many others in other countries and continents to join the fight against this …
Our comrade Loren Goldner passed away on April 12th. His death represents the loss of a great militant and brings a great sadness for those who knew him. Loren’s political life began with his arrest as a student at Berkeley amidst the sit-ins and anti-war riots of the sixties. In this context Loren was radicalized …
We recently published a leaflet denouncing the war in Gaza. The intention was to distribute it at demonstrations as a means of engaging participants in discussion. After it was published on our website, it was criticized by some of our members and by others in the milieu for not being clear enough about the fact that the …
No War in Gaza! Fight the Nightmare Which Haunts Us All! War is the climax of the nightmare in Gaza. We hear the numbers rise every day, but the losses are immeasurable. Like many of the past 50 years, it is an asymmetric war, which in this case means that one side’s troops first enter …
The world watches in horror as one of the most advanced armies on earth is destroying a mostly defenseless enclosed urban zone, like shooting fish in a barrel. No wonder there is widespread outrage and a worldwide demand to stop this madness. But rather than to stop the war, many leftists want to continue it, …
On the very first day of Hamas’ sadistic rampage, the Israeli authorities took to the microphones to declare to the world that this was Israel’s 9/11. And indeed, there are some striking similarities. Between the tactics and goals of Al Qaeda and Hamas, as well as between the imperialist opportunities their actions created for the …
We publish below a text that originally appeared on the French website Lundimatin. Not because we agree with everything its author writes: we reject in particular her biological-determinist view “that perhaps the root of the problem, and of all the violence that shakes the world, is masculinity”. But we share the nausea she so passionately …
1. THE STARK PRESENT The summer of 2023 has drawn to a close. The pandemic is in the lull, ‘normality’ has resumed but the grim atmosphere has not disappeared. The climate crisis is getting worse, disasters attributed to “Mother Nature” dominate the news. But the economic crisis also proliferates. What both crises have in common …