Ukraine: Rivalry between Imperialist Powers escalates

 

Ukraine/Russia: Down with imperialist colonialism!

 

Introduction

I.             What are the Criteria for an Imperialist State?

Imperialism and Super-Exploitation

II.           Russia: The Nature of its Monopoly Capital and its Status as a Great Imperialist Power

Monopolization

State Capitalism

Excurse: The Breakdown in the 1990s and Putin’s Solution of a Bonapartist-Restorationist Regime

Russia’s Rise as an Economic Power

Capital Export of Russian Monopolies

Russia as a Great Political and Military Power

III.          Rebuilding the Empire: Putin’s Drive to Expand the Grip of Russian Imperialism

Russia’s Internal Colonies

Putin’s Eurasian Union: An Imperialist Attempt to Subjugate Central Asian and Eastern European Semi-Colonies

Migration and Super-Exploitation

IV.          The Distinguishing Characteristics of Russia as an Imperialist Power

V.           The Arguments of Our Critics

WIVP (South Africa): Russia is a Semi-Colony of German Imperialism

LCFI: From “Imperialist” to “Pre-Imperialist” China and Russia

The LCFI Schematic: An A-historic and Un-dialectical Understanding of Imperialism

The Great Imperialist Powers before 1914

Lenin, Trotsky and the Bolsheviks on Russia as an Imperialist Power

An Ultra-Left Version of Kautskyianism

Inverted Social-Imperialists

VI.          Appendix: Political and Economic Problems of Capitalist Restoration in Russia (2001)

The Putin regime as a strong bonapartist-restorationist regime capable of pushing through capitalist restoration

Russiaas a weak imperialist power

On the concept of restorationist Bonapartism

August 1998: a pre-revolutionary crisis which ended in a counter-revolutionary defeat for the workers movement

Whiter Russia?

The democratic question and permanent revolution

Endnotes

 

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May Day 2014: Joint Statement

 

Elections in South Africa: No Vote for the ANC! Critical Support for the WASP! Forward in Building a Mass Workers Party!

 

Egypt: Solidarity against General Sisi’s Machinery of Repression!

 

Report on the demonstration against the military regime in Egypt

 

Israel: Long live International Women’s Day!

 

Tunisia: For the immediate Release of David Leandro Hofstadter!

 

Occupied Palestine/Israel: Enough with Symbolic Protests!

 

Brazil: Report on Teachers Trade Union Assembly on 4.4.2014

 

Brazil: Report on Teachers Trade Union Assembly on 11.4.2014

 

Counterrevolution and Mass Resistance in the Ukraine

 

Russia and China as Great Imperialist Powers

 

Russia and China: Reply to Chris Slee and Walter Daum

 

Theses on Recent Major Developments in the World Situation (April 2014)

 

Successful Meeting on Book Launch of German Translation of “The Great Robbery of the South”

 

New Books from the RCIT

 

Revolutionary Communism No. 22 has 52 pages.

Thailand: Smash the Developing Military Coup!

 

Thailand: How Should Socialists Fight Against the Coup?

 

Thailand: Ultra-Leftism and the Coup

 

The Conflict over the Paracel Islands in East Asia

 

Ukraine: After the Fascist Pogrom in Odessa

 

Russia: Stop the Attacks on Migrant Workers Rights!

 

Russia continues its Repression against Migrants

 

General Sisi: The Butcher of the Egyptian People

 

Report of a Demonstration against the military dictatorship in Egypt

 

The Fatah-Hamas Agreement – Another Road to Nowhere

 

Israel/Occupied Palestine: Interview with Hila Slutsky

 

Open Letter to a South African Socialist on the Elections

 

Brazil: Unify the struggles!

 

Austria: Police Defends Fascists and Attacks Anti-Fascists!

 

25 years ago: The Chinese Stalinist’s Tiananmen Square Massacre

 

New Book from the RCIT: The Great Robbery of the South

 

New Book from the RCIT: Cuba‘s Revolution Sold Out?

 

RCIT: What do we stand for

 

Revolutionary Communism No. 22 has 40 pages.

Palestine: Forward to the Third Intifada!

Down with Israel’s New War!

Palestine: Masses Rise Up

Austria: Rally in Solidarity with Gaza on 13 July

Austria: Rally in Solidarity with Gaza on 9 July

Israel: Hands Off Hamas!

Israel/Occupied Palestine: Release All 400 Hunger Strikers!

Summary of the Program of the Internationalist Socialist League

Iraq: Defend the Sunni Rebellion against Maliki and US Imperialism!

Brazil: The World Cup and the Mass Protests

Austria: Public Meeting on Crisis and War in Europe

Austria: Successful demonstration against Planned Fascist March

On the 100th Anniversary of 1914: The Struggle against Imperialism and War

New Book from the RCIT: The Great Robbery of the South

New Book from the RCIT: Cuba‘s Revolution Sold Out?

RCIT: What do we stand for

Special issue: Lenin’s Theory of Imperialism and the Rise of Russia as a Great Power

On the Understanding and Misunderstanding of Today’s Inter-Imperialist Rivalry in the Light of Lenin’s Theory of Imperialism. Another Reply to Our Critics Who Deny Russia’s Imperialist Character

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Defend Iraq against another Aggression of US Imperialism!

 

Yemen: Down with the Price Hikes!

 

“US imperialism controls everything in Yemen!”

 

Defend Gaza! Defeat Israel’s War!

 

Jews Say: End the War on Gaza — No Aid to Apartheid Israel!

 

Israel lost the 51-Day War but the Palestinian Liberation Struggle Continues

 

Who Won the Gaza War?

 

Israel: Violence against Women during the Gaza war

 

Report from Israel: My Experience as a Political Prisoner

 

Israel: Report on antiwar rally in Tel Aviv on 26 July

 

Ultra-Leftism and the Destruction of the Israeli State

 

Israel’s War against the Palestinians

 

Israel / Occupied Palestine: Fascists Attack Pro-Gaza Demonstration in Haifa

 

Israel: Political Intimidation of Israel’s Palestinian Citizens

 

Austria: Tens of Thousands march in Solidarity with Palestine

 

Austria: Demonstration on the Anniversary of the Raaba Massacre in Egypt

 

Solidarity Rally in Austria: Down with the Dictatorship in Egypt!

 

USA: Stop the Police Brutality! Justice for Michael Brown!

 

New RCIT Publications on Russian Imperialism

 

Threat of Argentina’s Default

 

Brazil: An Analysis of Sinpeem’s 2014 Elections

 

Swedish police in assassination attempt

 

RCIT Book: The Great Robbery of the South

 

RCIT Book: Cuba‘s Revolution Sold Out?

 

RCIT: What do we stand forNew Books from the RCIT

 

Revolutionary Communism No. 26 has 40 pages.

 

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Revolutionary Communism No. 27, October 2014

 

Hong Kong/China: Long Live the Anti-Government Protests!

 

Pakistan: Down with the Government of Nawaz Sharif!

 

Defeat Obama’s New Crusade in the Middle East

 

Down With the New Imperialist Attack on Iraq and Syria!

 

Yemen: The Mass Protests continue

 

Women’s Oppression in Israel

 

CCR and Elections in Brazil in 2014

 

Austria: Controversial Debate on Palestine

 

Austria: Cliffites and “left” social democrats invite war-mongering Zionists to anti-racist demonstration

 

Austria: Main Right-Wing Party stirs up hatred against RED*REVOLUTION

 

The CWI’s “Socialist” Zionism and the Palestinian Liberation Struggle

 

New RCIT Publications on Russian Imperialism!

 

RCIT Book: The Great Robbery of the South

 

RCIT Book: Cuba‘s Revolution Sold Out?

 

RCIT: What do we stand forNew Books from the RCIT

 

Revolutionary Communism No. 27 has 40 pages.

Special issue: The Uprising in East Ukraine and Russian Imperialism

An Analysis of Recent Developments in the Ukrainian Civil War and their Consequences for Revolutionary Tactics

By Michael Pröbsting

 

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Special issue: Building the Revolutionary Party in Theory and Practice (Part 1)

Looking Back and Ahead after 25 Years of Organized Struggle for Bolshevism

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Looking Back and Ahead after 25 Years of Organized Struggle for Bolshevism

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