English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.22, August 2019

 

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China: Another “Success“ of the Stalinist-Capitalist Regime
Official Announcement that China has become the world’s second largest bond market

Sam Williams and “Progressive” Chinese Capitalism
An essay on the theoretical roots of confusion among centrists

Michael Pröbsting: Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Great Power Rivalry
A Review by Louis Proyect

Some Thoughts on the Split in the Argentinean “Partido Obrero“

Class Struggle in Greece – A Balance Sheet
Interview with Kokkino Nima (Greece)

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English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.23, September 2019

 

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The Point of No Return Seems to Have Been Passed
Intensified Global Trade War, currency war and arms race open a new stage in the U.S.-China Cold War

United States: The Need for a Labor Party

37 Signatures Are Worth a Thousand Words
On a letter of 37 states, including Muslim countries, sent to the United Nations defending China’s treatment of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang

On the Donbass Uprising in Spring 2014
A necessary correction of our assessment of the early phase of the “anti-fascist” Uprising in the Eastern Ukraine

India: A Prison House of Nations and Lower Castes
Essay on the social and national contradictions of Indian capitalism and the rise of Hindutva chauvinism

Thomas Spence (1750-1814): A Utopian Communist and Social Reformer

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English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.24, September 2019

 

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The National Question

The Marxist approach to the struggle of the oppressed people

 

Introduction

 

1. The Change of the Weight of the Struggle in the Semi-colonies

 

2. What is a Nation?

 

3. Ancient Nations

 

4. What It Means to Unconditionally Support the Oppressed Nation

 

5. The Position of the Second International as Social-Imperialist and the National Question

 

6. Lenin’s Evolution of Thinking on the National Question

 

7. The Third International and the National Question

 

8. Stalinism and the National Question

 

9. Trotsky and the Fourth International on the National Question

 

10. The Fourth International on the National Question after Trotsky

 

11. On Self-Determination of Oppressed Nations

 

12. The National Question in Russia

 

13. The National Question in China

 

14. The National Question in Europe Today

 

15. Settler Colonialism

 

16. Conclusion

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English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.25, October 2019

 

 

The Kashmir Question and the Indian Left Today
Marxism, Stalinism and centrism on the national liberation struggle of the Kashmiri people
A Pamphlet by Michael Pröbsting, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 26 September 2019

 

 

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Introduction

1. Summary of the Marxist Position on the Liberation Struggle in Kashmir

2. What is Social-Patriotism?

3. The Reaction of the Indian Left to Modi‘s Revocation of Kashmir‘s Special Status

4. Blatant Denial of the Right of National Self-Determination
Communist Party of India
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Excurse: The CPI(M) as a Social-Patriotic Advocate of the Indian Army
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
Excurse: On the Background of Stalinist Social-Patriotism in India

5. Platonic Acceptance of Right of National Self-Determination and Opposition to “Separatism”
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
Workers Socialist Party

6. Acceptance of Right of National Self-Determination but Refusal to Support Liberation Struggle
Radical Socialist
Committee for a Workers‘ International
Revolutionary Democracy

7. Supporters of the Liberation Struggle
Communist Party of India (Maoist)

8. Concluding Remarks

Footnotes

 

English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.26, October 2019

 

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Revolutionaries and the Slogan of “Azadi Kashmir”
Should Marxists advocate the independence of Kashmir?
Introduction
1. The Marxist classics on national self-determination of oppressed peoples
2. The algebraic slogan of the “right of national self-determination”
and the specific slogan of “independence”
3. Not only opposition against oppression but active support for the struggle of oppressed nations!
4. The occupation of Kashmir: A casualty of the colonial legacy
5. Kashmir: What do the people want?
6. Independence or joining Pakistan?
7. The Perspective of a Socialist Federation of the Peoples of South Asia
8. The importance of the Kashmiri liberation struggle for the Indian workers movement and left
Footnotes

Global Trade War: “If That Takes a Decade, So Be It!”
A telling statement of Trump’s economic adviser
Larry Kudlow about the U.S.-China Cold War

Semi-Colonial Intermediate Powers
and the Theory of Sub-Imperialism
A contribution to an ongoing debate amongst Marxists
and a proposal to tackle a theoretical problem
Brief summary of the main defects and dangers of the theory of sub-imperialism
Approximation to the problem
On some requirements of dialectical categories
Proposal of new category
Consequences for tactic
Footnotes

 

English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.27, November 2019

 

 

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Income Inequality Within the Working Class: Globally & in China
New data from the ILO report confirms the Marxist thesis on the labor aristocracy

China: Two Telling Trends
New data from the OECD verifies once again the imperialist character of China’s economy

Fight against Russian Capitalism and Imperialism!
Provisional Platform of the Revolutionary Communists (Russian Federation)

30 Years Ago: The Chinese Stalinist’s Tiananmen Square Massacre

Robert Owen (1771-1858)
An Utopian Communist and Revolutionary Social Reformer

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

 

 

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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

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English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.29, December 2019

 

 

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Are Global Popular Uprisings Caused by “Foreign Conspiracies”?
How the ruling classes around the world try to smear the mass revolts

Global Popular Uprisings: Beijing Calls West to Jointly Defend “the Rule of Law”
Central organ of the ruling Stalinist party reiterates the regime’s counter-revolutionary position

Beijing: Global Popular Uprising “Worse Than SARS”
Leading Chinese diplomat hysterically denounces the mass protests in Hong Kong and around the world

The Revolution in Iraq Continues

Nigeria: Down with the Authoritarian Regime of Muhammadu Buhari!

Kashmiri Revolutionaries join the RCIT!

The Only Way Is Self-Defense

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English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.30,  January 2020

 

 

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The Nature of South Korean Imperialism and the Tactical Consequences for Revolutionaries (Theses)

China passes the US on Global Business Ranking for first time

The New Global Wave of Class Struggles and the Slogan of the Constituent Assembly
How to apply a crucial revolutionary democratic tactic (and how not) – a critique of the opportunist deviations of the Argentine-based PTS/FT and PO/CRFI
Introduction
I. The central role of democracy and constitution in the current mass protests
II. Reasons of the central role of democratic demands
III. Marxism and the slogan of the Revolutionary Constituent Assembly
IV. Is the Constituent Assembly a road to socialism?
V. A kind of “constitutional cretinism”
VI. A socialist transformation without armed struggle?
VII. A “de-revolutionization” or “social democratization” of Marxism
Footnotes