English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.31,  January 2020

CONTENTS

South Korea as an Imperialist Power
On the nature of South Korean monopoly capital and the ensuing programmatic tasks of the workers vanguard
I. Some General Considerations
1. The Relevance of the Issue
2. Definition: What Constitutes a State as Imperialist?
II. An Overview of South Korean Monopoly Capital
3. Historical Background: Extraordinary Conditions Allow for Rapid Industrialization
4. South Korea as a Highly Industrialized, Modern Capitalist Country
5. South Korean Monopoly Capital: Domination of Domestic Market
6. South Korean Monopoly Capital: Global Players on the World Market
7. South Korean Monopoly Capital: The Role of Capital Export
III. On Some Political Issues Resulting from South Korea’s Imperialist Transformation
8. The Emergence of a Labor Aristocracy and Inequality within the South Korean Working Class
9. The Political Role of South Korean Imperialism and its Limited Independence
IV. On Some Objections
10. The Stalinist Myth of South Korea Being Still a Neo-Colony of U.S. Imperialism
11. The Mistaken Conception of Sub-Imperialism
V. Anti-Imperialist Program and Revolutionary Tactics
12. The Program of Revolutionary Defeatism
13. Anti-Imperialist Tasks in South Korea Today
Appendix: A Historic Analogy: Marxist Tactics in Germany in 1891 and 1914
Footnotes

Capitalist Development in South Korea and Taiwan (1996)

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English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.32,  February 2020

CONTENTS

What did the latest Near-War between the U.S. and Iran Reveal?

Some Notes on the Inner Contradictions of the US Policy in the Middle East

On the Elections in Britain and the Role of Zionism

A Temporary Truce … to Prepare for another War
On the Meaning of the “Phase One” Deal for the U.S.-China Cold War

A Very Self-Confident Imperialist Great Power
Some notes on China’s self-image as a leading actor of the global order

Save the Planet from Capitalist Destruction!
Thesis on Ecology

English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.33,  February 2020

CONTENTS

World Perspectives 2020:

A Pre-Revolutionary Global Situation

Theses on the World Situation, the Perspectives for Class Struggle and the Tasks of Revolutionaries
Adopted by the International Executive Committee of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT) on 8 February 2020

Introduction

The most important turning point in world politics since 2008

Global wave of class struggles

Another Great Recession has begun

The Decay of Capitalist Civilization

New Cold War between the U.S. and China

Imperialist Aggression against Semi-Colonial Countries

Deep domestic political crisis in the U.S.

Crisis of Leadership and the Task of Building a Revolutionary World Party

Appendix: Open Letter: The Time Has Come!

Footnotes

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English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.34,  March 2020

CONTENTS

Racism, Anti-Semitism and Zionism

by Yossi Schwartz

I. What is Racism?
The roots of racism

II. The Extermination of the Indigenous Peoples of North America
Indian Victories
Anti-Indian Racism Today
Indians and Zionist

III. Black Slavery
Slave Rebellions
Jews and Black Slavery

IV. Anti-Semitism in Slave Society and Feudalism
The new Anti-Semitism between the later part of the 19th century and World War 2
Anti-Semitism in the US
World War 2

V. Islamophobia
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in France
Zionism as Racism
Anti-Semitism Today
Israel and Iran

VI. Conclusions

Footnotes

English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.35,  April 2020

CONTENTS

Zionism – the Wolf in the Cloth of a Sheep

The Role of the Simon Wiesenthal Center

On the Composition of the International Working Class

A new report of the UN’s International Labour Office with interesting figures about social developments between 2000 and 2018

Once again on the Composition of the International Working Class

Some additional information which confirm the shift away from the old imperialist countries towards the South as well as China 2018

A Powerful Confirmation

A bourgeois study on the revolutionary character of the current historic period

Dogfight among Social-Imperialists

A telling attack on the Chinese regime by the Japanese Communist Party

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English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.36,  April 2020

CONTENTS

Manifesto: COVID-19 - A Cover for a Major Global Counterrevolutionary Offensive

We are at a turning point in the world situation as the ruling classes provoke a war-like atmosphere in order to legitimize the build-up of chauvinist state-bonapartist regimes

No, most likely it is not COVID-19 that is going to kill you

A manageable epidemic became public enemy number one distracting from the real killers

The 2019 Corona Virus and the Decay of Capitalism

Ex-IMF Advisor: “Corona Virus Crisis is also an Opportunity”

How the ruling classes try to utilize COVID-19 to utilize their crisis

COVID-19 and the cruel Double Standard of Imperialism

What agreement with measures like social distancing and lockdowns really means

No, the Corona Virus is not the Main Cause of the Global Economic Slump!

Bourgeois Media Officially Recognize the Beginning of another Great Recession

2019-nCoV and the Virus of Chauvinism

A comparison with measles and the reactionary Anti-Vaxx campaigners

What the RCIT Stands for

English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.37, May 2020

CONTENTS

Open Letter: Act Now because History is Happening Now! 

A Revolutionary Action Program to fight COVID-19

How could WHO and World Bank exactly predict COVID-19?

The Close-Down Policy is killing

The Corona Pandemic is not the Problem but only a Symptom of the Decay of the Capitalist System

For an International Conference on the Struggle against the Global Capitalist Crisis!

3.4 Trillion Reasons: ILO study on the consequences of the COVID-19 crisis

COVID-19 and the Lockdown Left: The Example of PODEMOS and Stalinism in Spain

COVID-19 Crisis in Nigeria: State Repression and the Left

Israel / Occupied Palestine: The Major Mistake of the Arab Joint List

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English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.38, June 2020

CONTENTS

Yossi Schwartz: Slavery, Colonialism, Imperialism, Military Rule, Plagues... COVID-19 in Nigeria
Slavery and Colonialism
Imperialism
Coronavirus and Africa
Conditions in Nigeria
Israel and the Corrupted Leaders of the Nigerian Capitalist Class
The Nigerian Working Class
General Strikes and the future of the Revolutionary Workers Party
Footnotes

Michael Pröbsting: The Police and Surveillance State in the Post-Lockdown Phase
A global review of the ruling class’s plans of expanding the bonapartist state machinery amidst the COVID-19 crisis
Introduction
An expected development
The Lockdown was not directed against the pandemic
Which “new normal” is the ruling class planning for?
China: the most successful regime in making “Big Brother” omnipresent
Moscow follows the Chinese model and creates a “Cyber Gulag”
The U.S.: “the ancient past known as February” and today
European Union: surveillance and the model of “red/green zones”
India: State Bonapartism under semi-colonial conditions
South Africa: Lockdown imposed by a “progressive” government
Conclusions

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English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.39, July 2020

CONTENTS

The Global Popular Uprising against Racism and Police Violence

Fighting for Socialist Revolution in Kenya and Globally! Joint Statement on Fusion between the Revolutionary Socialist League (Kenya) and the RCIT

Action Program: Forward to a Free and Socialist Kenya!

Britain: Keir Starmer, a loyal Servant of the British Capitalist State

Brazil: Social-Bonapartism of the Lockdown Left in Practice

When Ultra-Leftism marries Social-Bonapartism and Gives Birth to “Post-Marxist” Obscurantism. A reply to the CWG/ILTT

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English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.40, July 2020

CONTENTS

USA: Justice for George Floyd!

A Pre-Revolutionary Situation Has Opened Up in the U.S.

United States: Is a Bloody Counterrevolution Looming?

Why We Speak about a Pre-Revolutionary Situation in the U.S.

Arming of the Popular Masses or Reforming the Police?

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