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 …
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 …
¿Por qué Estados Unidos lanzó una “operación militar especial” en Venezuela? ¿Para conseguir con sus codiciosas manos el petróleo y otros recursos en ese país? ¿Para sacar a su rival imperialista China y sus aliados (Rusia, Cuba, Irán) de la región y advertir a otros países latinoamericanos del precio que podrían tener que pagar por …
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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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Este texto fue escrito para ser discutido en una reunión internacional sobre “derrotismo revolucionario” en Minerve, Francia, en agosto. Más adelante se publicará un informe sobre esta reunión. Otto Dix: Soldado herido, 1916 0. ¿Por qué este texto? Porque la reacción instintiva de la mayoría de las personas que están preocupadas y asqueadas por el …
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 …
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 …