International Communist Party

WHAT DISTINGUISHES OUR PARTY: The political continuity which goes from Marx to Lenin, to the foundation of the Communist Party of Italy (Livorno, 1921); the struggle of the Communist Left against the degeneration of the Communist International, against the theory of „socialism in one country“, against the Stalinist counter-revolution; the rejection of the Popular Fronts and the Resistance Blocs; the difficult task of restoring the revolutionary doctrine and organization in close interrelationship with the working class, against all personal and electoral politics.

First of May 2024: Against all imperialist wars!

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No need for many words: only the pathetically deluded fail to see that, in the depths of the capitalist economy, with the peaks and dips in its decades-long crisis, a new and widespread conflict is being prepared - one even more devastating than the two past world wars and the countless “minor wars” that preceded and followed them: the last of the series, the war in Ukraine, and the slaughter of the Palestinian proletarians in and around Gaza.

We will not pay for your wars!

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Wars are not unavoidable. They never have been.
They are the avoidable consequence of the bourgeoisie’s rule.

There is no peace without a constant and unyielding struggle against the rule of the bourgeoisie!

We will not allow the title of “defenders of peace and human rights” to be claimed by those who have never offered anything but an economic and social system that perpetrates daily the violent exploitation of wage work over the majority of humankind, and destroys the natural resources of our planet, everywhere and mercilessly – an economic and social system that has now become intolerable.

Fight the ferocity of imperialism

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The ferocity with which, since 1948, the State of Israel has carried out the role entrusted to it (not without conflicts between them) by the victorious powers in the second world slaughterhouse - that of armed gendarme in defense of an area swollen with oil, a reservoir of cheap manpower, pregnant with current and potential social tensions – sums up to the nth degree what is happening in these days and weeks in and around the Gaza Strip.

Every war is preceded, accompanied and followed by an intense, suffocating ideological mobilization.

Israel and Palestine: State terrorism and proletarian defeatism

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We have considered it more than opportune to republish here the evaluations and comments from early 2009 devoted by our Party to the battle that had broken out then in those very months (Operation Cast Lead) as a new chapter in the interminable war that the State of Israel is waging with the complicity and direct responsibility of all the “Arab” states in the region - a complicity which, up until the “Yom Kippur war” and then the Lebanese attack, took place with an apparent military confrontation and then through diplomatic dialogue, ending up with political and economic agreements. From “Operation Cast Lead” to the one now going on, called “Operation Iron Swords”, nothing has basically changed, if not the exponential increase in the military power unleashed in the Gaza Strip onto a defenceless population, in a bloodbath that now verges on genocide.

Alongside the men and women of the Palestinian proletariat!

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Strangled by the State of Israel, tortured daily by constant harassment and killings, stuck in a blind alley of vain nationalist promises from all the Arab bourgeoisies in the region (including the Palestinian), sacrificial victims of all the more or less subterranean wheelings and dealings of western and Middle-Eastern States, the Palestinian proletarians, both men and women, in the Gaza Strip are about to suffer the umpteenth wave of slaughter after the previous ones - perhaps long past but never forgotten with anger and horror - of Tell Al-Zataar (Lebanon, August 1976) and Sabra and Chatila (again Lebanon, September 1982), as well as the many more which followed. More hundreds and thousands of Palestinian deaths (men, women, children, old people) will thus add to the daily martyrdom suffered ever since that unlucky day in 1948, when the victorious powers in the second world bloodbath made the newborn State of Israel into the armed police of an area that was too “sensitive” (to use a term dear to today’s geopolitics) for their respective economic interests and political-strategic balances.

The long job that awaits us

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The sequence of events that has marked the first half of 2023 should be considered and understood as a whole for what it has to tell us, without isolating individual components.

After the great flare of rebellion from Iran’s young proletarians in autumn 2022, which showed just how hard it is for the State – the armed extension of the ruling class – to contain the anger of the exploited, in the opening months of the new year a wave of unrest swept Great Britain, affecting many sectors in the world of work. After only a short time, in France widely supported demonstrations against pension reform spread for several weeks. In the meantime, strong protests shook the world of work in Germany. And for the moment we can pause here.

France. After the rebellions in the banlieues, what’s to do now?

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Events around the outbreak of rebellions in the French banlieues between the end of June and start of July this year, after the cops’ cold-blooded murder of a young proletarian on the streets of Nanterre, are well known enough to warrant returning to the narration: in fact, it is not sufficient to add up figures, breaking news, names and episodes, to understand what was going on. For a political evaluation of use for the future, it seems far more useful to us to dwell on a few points we consider to be significant.

First of all, it should be pointed out that the rebellions that have broken out in the past few years have not affected the “suburbs of the empire” alone, where there is less possibility of control, prevention and social repression, but the ancient metropolises right at the centre: just let’s think of what happened in the USA in 2020. So we write ‘Nanterre’ but we might read Minneapolis, and vice-versa…

France: While the Riots Raged …

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As young proletarians from the banlieues angrily faced up to the cream of the French Republic’s repressive regime during recent riots, an aging and green-behind-the ears protester held up a banner featuring the slogan: “Disarm the Police”.

A metaphysically absurd demand.

The State isn’t some kind of body appointed to oversee the “collective good”. It is the “collective capitalist” that exercises the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, and underwrites its monopoly of violence.

For the Uncompromising Defence of the Proletariat’s Living and Working Conditions Types of organization, Methods and Objectives of the Struggle

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Necessity of the Struggle for Economic Defence

From a communist perspective, the historical aim of conquering political power by means of a party-guided revolutionary insurrection, in order to establish THE dictatorship of the proletariat – the only possible way to obtain a classless society – must always be at one with the necessity that the proletariat fights here and now to defend its living and working conditions against the ever present pressures exercised by capital. The Communist Party cannot afford to ignore this defensive battle: it has to intervene to give it some direction and, possibly, direct it. Reformist enemies and capital would have the battle restrained in a purely economic terrain; employing its characteristic everyday guerrilla tactics, the Party using it instead as an opportunity to provide training and a school for the class war.