Revolutionary Communism - New Series#28

English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.28, November 2019

CONTENTS

Another Great Recession of the Capitalist World Economy Has Begun
The economic crisis is an important factor in the current dramatic shift in the world situation
Introduction
The beginning of the Great Recession
Economic downturn in the old imperialist economies …
… as well as in China
A crisis of profits
Confirmation of the Marxist analysis of China’s class character
Remarks on the peculiar character of the current Great Recession
Footnotes

Are We Nearing a New “68 Moment”?
A massive upsurge of global class struggle in the midst of a dramatic shift in the world situation
Introduction
The relevance of the democratic question
Violence and pacifism
Spontaneity and raw mass consciousness
The role of backward ideologies
United Front Tactic
Is this a new 1968?
Petty-Bourgeois pessimism makes political preparation impossible
The Great Arab Revolution: a humiliating lesson for demoralized reformists and centrists
The urgent necessity of a revolutionary party – national and international
Footnotes

What the RCIT Stands for