Revolutionary Communism - New Series#90

English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.90, June 2023

 

 

Contents

 

Sudan and the Permanent Revolution


Inter-Imperialist Rivalry: China Is Cutting its U.S. Treasury Bond Holdings
On the financial consequences of the political and economic decline of the U.S. as a hegemonial power.


“Can China Replace the U.S. as Hegemon?” - A Misleading Question!
On the discussion about the perspectives of the Great Power rivalry


“Ukraine is a Proxy of the West?” – Facts versus Myths
New studies show the limited character of Western aid to the Ukraine


Loudly Proclaimed Opportunism and Deafening Silence
On the Russian RRP’s support for the social-chauvinist KPRF and its failure to oppose Putin’s war against the Ukraine


Artificial Intelligence: A Leviathan Monster Serving the Ruling Class
Theses on Artificial Intelligence and its application in the period of capitalist decay. A first approach from a Marxist viewpoint.

 

 

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Revolutionary Communism - New Series#89

English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.89, May 2023

 

Contents

 

Zionism and the Bourgeois State


A New Study on Excess Mortality in the Period of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sweden’s had the lowest excess mortality of all European countries in 2020-22.
This is another confirmation of the Marxist’s opposition against the Lockdown policy.


Is US aid to Ukraine really ‘unprecedented’?
New studies destroy the myth propagated by supporters of Western and Russian imperialism


Where is Russia hiding its money?
Why EU authorities claim they can not find most of Russia’s foreign assets


Trotsky’s Transitional Program: A Strange Translation Error
Notes on a mistake in the English-language translation of Trotsky’s
Transitional Program which is distorting its meaning concerning imperialist wars

 

 

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Revolutionary Communism - New Series#88

English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.88, April 2023

 

Contents

 

Towards a Turning Point in the Ukraine War?
The tasks of socialists in the light of possible lines of development of the war
of national defence in combination with the inter-imperialist Great Power rivalry

 

On the History of Al-Aqsa

 

 

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Revolutionary Communism - New Series#87

English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.87, March 2023

 

Contents

 

COVID Counterrevolution and Fertility Rate

Comparing China and Sweden provides telling results about the devastating consequences of the Lockdown policy

 

What Can We Learn from the Popular Rebellion against Lockdowns and “Zero-COVID” in China?

An Open Letter to the comrades of LIT-CI

 

Perspectives on the General Elections in Nigeria

 

On Russia’s War Economy

Putin’s escalation of militarism puts enormous strain on the country’s economy

 

How to Support Ukraine’s Liberation War without Taking Side in the Inter-Imperialist Rivalry?

A fraternal criticism on a new LIT-CI statement and its polemic against the PTS/FT

 

Greece: Social-Patriotic KKE Calls for the Defence of “Our Country’s Sovereign Rights”

 

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Revolutionary Communism - New Series#86

English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.86, February 2023

 

Contents

 

Henry Kissinger’s Desperate Call for Imperialist Peace
An intelligent strategist articulates the fear of the ruling class about the Ukraine War and Great Power rivalry imperialism


The Zionist Slave Labor Camps in 1948


COVID-19: What Did Authentic Marxists Say about China’s Lockdown Policy in Spring 2020?
In contrast to the Lockdown Left, the RCIT opposed chauvinist state bonapartism from the very beginning


Ukraine War: Once More on Military Aid and Inter-Imperialist Rivalry
A critical contribution to a debate among Trotskyists in the U.S.


Russia: A Disguised Support for Imperialist Armament
The RRP (Russia) deepens its opportunist adaptation to the social-chauvinist KPRF

 

 

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Revolutionary Communism - New Series#83

English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.83, January 2023

 

Contents

 

Socialists Should Support the Transfer of Russian State and Oligarchs Assets into Ukrainian Hands!
Contribution to a discussion among socialists on how to strengthen the Ukrainian resistance against Putin’s invasion without lending support to Western imperialism


Nothing Learned and Nothing Forgotten
The theory and practice of Alan Woods’ IMT demonstrates its continuing adaptation to pro-Russian social-imperialism


Anti-Imperialism: The “Right to Resist” … and the Duty of Marxists
The centrist sophistry of CWI/IMT/ISA


Great Power Rivalry: Deepening of Differences between Stalinist Parties
Notes on the XXII International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties in Havana (and the so-called “Paris Declaration”)


Protests against “Zero COVID” in China: An Embarrassment for the Lockdown Left
The popular rebellion against the COVID Counterrevolution refutes the analysis and program of the opportunist left (with Alan Woods’ IMT as an example)

 

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Revolutionary Communism - New Series#82

English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.82, December 2022

 

Contents

 

Ukraine War: The Liberation of Western Kherson Oblast and the Danger of a Great Power Deal


Russia: A Mirror of the Future
Notes on Russia’s role in the current world situation,
the global class struggle and revolutionary regroupment


“Left” Stalinism and the Program of Russian Social-Imperialism
On the latest resolution of the RKRP about Putin’s “partial mobilisation”, annexation and the Ukraine War


Spare the Dummy … and Trotsky!
Reply to a not very intelligent polemic of Alan Woods‘ IMT on the slogan of “Arms for the Ukraine”


Protests in Iran and Ukraine War: The ISA’s Double Standard
Unprincipled “socialists” combine opposition against Ukrainian resistance struggle with support for draconic Western sanctions against Iran

 

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Revolutionary Communism - New Series#81

English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.81, November 2022

 

Contents

 

A Peculiar and Explosive Combination (Notes on the current world situation)


Food and Energy Crisis: For a Strategy for Popular Uprising
Socialists need to intervene in the mass struggles with an internationalist, anti-imperialist and revolutionary program


The G-7 Oil Price Cap: A New Stage in the Great Power Rivalry
Cold War between Western powers and their Eastern rivals points towards escalation


Revolutionary Tactics in the Struggle against Putin’s Mobilisation
On some issues of the program of defeatism under the current conditions of Russia’s war against the Ukraine

 

 

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Revolutionary Communism - New Series#80

English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.80, October 2022

 

Contents

 

 

The Historical Crisis of the Imperialist System


The Struggle of Revolutionaries in Imperialist Heartlands against Wars of their “Own” Ruling Class
Examples from the history of the RCIT and its predecessor organisation in the last four decades


Russia and the Theory of “Lesser-Evil” Imperialism
On some Stalinists and “Trotskyists” who formally recognize Russia’s class character but reject the political consequences


Comrade Detlef Mühling (1952-2022). An Obituary by the RCIT

 

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Revolutionary Communism - New Series#79

English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.79, October 2022

 

Contents

 

Is Türkiye a (Sub-)Imperialist Power?
The economic, political and military features of the Turkish state,
its class character and the program-matic consequences for socialists.
A contribution to an ongoing debate amongst Marxists


A Pamphlet (with 2 Figures and 10 Tables) by Michael Pröbsting

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Revolutionary Communism - New Series#78

English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.78, September 2022

 

Contents

 

 

On Mahmoud Abbas and the Use of the Term Holocaust


Taiwan: Great Power Rivalry and National Question
On the conflict between U.S. and Chinese imperialism, its consequences for the crisis of the capitalist world order, on Taiwan’s national question and the program of revolutionary defeatism


A Marxist Slogan and its Caricature
On the social-imperialist distortion of the slogan “The Main Enemy Is At Home” in the context of the Ukraine War and the Taiwan Strait Crisis


ISA: A Kautsky-Type of International

 

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Revolutionary Communism - New Series#77

English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.77, August 2022

 

Contents

 

Ukraine War: Stalino-“Trotskyist” Chamber of Horrors

On a recently held “anti-war” conference organised by some “Trotskyists” as well as Russian Stalinist parties

 

Ukraine War: Revolutionary Defensism and Non-Revolutionary Defensism
A comradely critique of LIT-CI which falsely combines its defence of the Ukraine with support for Western imperialist sanctions against Russia


“Self-Determination for Donbass”: A Reactionary Slogan in the Service of Russian Imperialism
On the historical, theoretical, and political reasons why this slogan is contrary to the Marxist program of national self-determination as well as to the interests of the current national liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people


The Ukraine in the Imperialist Debt Trap

 

“We are not winning”
A disillusioned balance sheet of the EU’s Foreign Minister on the West’s decline in world politics

 

 

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Revolutionary Communism - New Series#76

English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.76, July 2022

 

Contents

 

Declaration of Fraternal Relations between the Socialist Tendency (Russia) and the RCIT

 

The soft and not so soft Zionism of the ISA

 

The Abyss between “Dr. Leftist” and the Mass Worker. On the social composition of the leading strata of the ex-Stalinist “Party of the European Left”

 

The Fundamental Meaning of the Ukraine War

 

“Athens Declaration” on Ukraine War: A Disorientation Smoke Grenade Critique of the “Progressive International”

 

Ukraine War: Supporting Western Sanctions Is Impermissible for Socialists!

 

 

 

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