The global health crisis is a true revealer of human nature and its contradictions. By partially blocking fundamental aspects of ordinary social life, such as work, human contact, transport, leisure, it throws a different light on many of the ideas, beliefs and practices on which the established order is based. This creates a “void” where …
LESSON ONE The first lesson is that the capitalist system is incapable of leading us through the crisis today and those to come. It is not just that most of our government leaders are craven bastards, shameless liars, andincompetent imbeciles. That, of course, is what they mostly are and none more than those leading the …
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The viral crisis has mutated into a global crisis of social reproduction with no end in sight. With the shutdown of factories, offices, schools and countless other institutions, many millions of people all over the world are facing loss of income, housing, and access to basic survival resources. Meanwhile, the deadly pandemic is raging on, …
The climate crisis is accelerating before our eyes and the whole world sees it. Australia is burning, floods and other disasters abound. Not long before the smoke of burning trees darkened the skies of Australia, it did so in South America, where the deforestation of Amazonia rapidly progresses. This catastrophe is the subject of the …
Reflections on the Green New Deal Finally, the climate change deniers have about as much credibility left as the flat earth society. The evidence is too overwhelming. The scientific data is clear: if man continues to produce and consume in a way that releases massive amounts of greenhouse gasses into the air, we are headed …
Introduction to Between the Devil and the Green New Deal In 2009, Internationalist Perspective published a lengthy article entitled “Capitalism, Technology and the Environment.” In the article, looking at the relationship between capitalism and the environment, E.R. wrote: Capital’s relationship with nature has a history of its own; it has a trajectory of development, of …
No, a good year it wasn’t. 2018 was a year of gathering thunder clouds. On all levels: economic, ecological, political and social. It became painfully clear that climate change is not just a problem for our grandchildren. Climate disasters were on the rise, including in the US where in the midst of forest fires and …
At 4:30 PM, Mon., Jan. 14, Mac Intosh, of Internationalist Perspective, will be speaking on: “The Communist Left, Class Lines, and the New Reading of Marx.” An open discussion will follow. Please join us at Victrola Cafe, 411 15th Ave. E., Seattle. About the talk: The historical Communist Left traces its origins to the revolutionary …
(The article below is written by a comrade of the ‘Cercle de Discussion de Paris. The original text is on our french page) Not so long ago it was often said that the class struggle was practically doomed, if not almost extinct. In fact, this reflected above all the reality of an exploited class which …
Nous saluons le mouvement tres important des “gilets jaunes” en France. Nous y reviendrons bientot. Pour maintenant, nou republions, sur notre page “en francais”, une analyse du site “Grand Large”, qui est animé par des camerades qui ont quittés PI, malheureusement sans nous expliquer pourquoi. We salute the very important movement of the “yellow vests” …