A DEMOCRACY TO DIE FOR
“Russia’s war in Ukraine [is] a fight for global democracy, experts say”1 When the elite speak of freedom and democracy, duck and take cover! We know this story all too well. Once our ancestors fought and died to liberate Jerusalem for the one true God, then for King and Country, for the Fatherland, for der …
SOLIDARITY AND THE PANDEMIC
This is a response to the article Neither Idiots nor Sheep by comrade Sander. In it, Sander explores the impact that the virus has had on the economy and criticizes those, who, particularly in the left, essentially deny the reality of the virus by joining the no-vaxx camp, often mingling with reactionary forces on the …
AGAINST CAPITALIST WAR !
The following powerful text was written by the comrades of La Oveja Negra in Argentina. No war is easy to understand, no “geopolitical” situation is simple to grasp. Even less so when it is assumed that there are no social classes in the world: there are only countries, leaders and political ideologies. Thus, there are …
DON’T FIGHT FOR “YOUR” COUNTRY !
Everybody hates war. Most of all the people who send other people to die on the battlefield. They claim that they abhor it, but alas, they’re forced to it by the other side. The other side, which is encroaching on our traditional hunting grounds. The other side, which is invading a “sovereign” nation. We have …
BARBARISM RESURFACES IN EUROPE (not that it ever went away)
The onslaught of the Russian military against the population of Ukraine is grotesque. Cruise and ballistic missiles and tanks are used indiscriminately against residential areas in cities and towns, and within days of its launch a million refugees and displaced people flooded the roads and railways; such numbers have not been seen in Europe since …
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NEITHER IDIOTS NOR SHEEP
2021, the second year of the covid 19 pandemic but unfortunately not the last, is over. In 2020, rather curiously, the hottest social conflicts were not directly related to the pandemic, but to police brutality, racism, the climate. In 2021, it was different. How to deal with covid became the focus of countless quarrels and …
Interpretation or Change?
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.” – Marx, Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach Of late, some members of IP have shown considerable interest in some works of academic Marxists. I offer here some observations on academic versus revolutionary Marxism. Not all academic Marxists are academics; Michael …
“Hide and Bide”
or Did China really rise without trace? At the 2017 Chinese Communist Party congress, Xi Jinping openly broke with Deng Xiaoping’s 1990 maxim for the Chinese Communist Party: “Hide your strength and bide your time.” According to Xi, China was now in a “period of strategic opportunity.” This may have been a reference to Trump’s …
Mac Intosh
Our comrade, Mac Intosh, died on 27 August. His sudden death has shocked us profoundly. He has been a mainstay of Internationalist Perspective since our founding in 1985; he will be sorely missed as a dear friend and comrade. First and always, Mac Intosh was a militant, a revolutionary Marxist for whom participation in the …