“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 …
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 …
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 …
We are sad to inform our readers of the death of our comrade Mac Intosh on 27 August after a very short illness. His unexpected death has shocked us. We shall write more about him and intend to prepare an edited collection of his writings.
Below is an editorial published by our comrades in Angry Workers about the latest eruption of conflict between Israel and Palestine. While we obviously condemn the brutal occupation and the conditions imposed on the people in Gaza, we remain critical of all nationalist movements. As the article makes clear, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas organizations …
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At the occasion of May First, the Argentina-based group La Oveja Negra (‘The Black Sheep’) draws up a balance sheet of past struggles against capitalism and finds a perspective of the future in the present ones. A new commemoration of May Day, 1886, allows us to remember, share, inspire, debate, reflect and agitate. We commemorate …
Half of America breathed a sigh of relief when power was finally transferred from, the would be autocrat Donald J. Trump, to the less colorful but entirely predictable Joe Biden. The Biden half believe his ascension represents a return to rationality, to social justice, to the standards of comportment expected of a liberal democracy, indeed, …
The whole world looked on with astonishment at the events at the US Capitol on 6 January. The commentators and politicians berated the orgiastic attack on the ‘beacon of democracy’; this attack gave a performance usually associated with other parts of the world (and often paid for by the US government). However, another thought went …
The plague of SARS-Covid-19 that has spread everywhere in 2020 brings into stark relief the natural behaviour of the bourgeoisie which defends only its own class interests and has no inclination to defend the interests of humanity; indeed, its very participation in dealing with the virus heightens the problems we all confront. The scrabbling for …
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A failed coup d’etat or a succesful coup de theatre? Was what happened in Washington on January 6 a failed coup? An armed insurrection against the state? A terrorist attack of the caliber of 9/11? A sacrilege in the temple of democracy? A slap in the face of America like Pearl Harbor? The equivalent of …