International Communist Review - Issue 15 - 2026
Section I: The imperialist system today
On the Attitude of Communists Towards Inter-Imperialist Contradictions and Imperialist Alliances, Makis Papadopoulos (“Kommounistiki Epitheorisi”, Communist Party of Greece)
The Struggle For the Redevelopment of Rare Earth Metal Deposits in the World as Another Round of Inter-imperialist Struggle for Resources in a New Technological Period, Ainur Kurmanov (Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan)
Capital’s Strategic Drive Towards a War Economy in Relation to Political and International Realignments Within the Imperialist System (New Communist Party of the Netherlands)
The Rise of Nationalist and Chauvinist Currents and the Tendency of Political Systems Toward Reaction, Ástor García (“Nuestra Politica”, Communist Party of the Workers of Spain)
On the Conflict between the US and China in Latin America, Francisco Velázquez Olvera (“El Comunista”, Communist Party of Mexico)
Imperialism and the Middle East: Turkey’s Strategic Shift in the Region, Anıl Çınar (“Gelenek”, Communist Party of Turkey)
Austrian Imperialism and the European Union, Lukas Haslwanter (Party of Labour of Austria)
The Position of Italian Capitalism in the Inter-Imperialist Conflict (Communist Front, Italy)
Section II: On timely political and theoretical issues
The Conflict over the New Division of the World amid Realignments in the Imperialist System, Aris Evangelidis (“Kommounistiki Epitheorisi”, Communist Party of Greece)
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Dear reader,
You are holding in your hands the 15th issue of the International Communist Review, published 110 years after the first edition of a seminal work by the leader of the Great October Socialist Revolution, V. I. Lenin: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. ...
As it happens every time in History, the period of preparation for a great imperialist war increases the need for a substantive discussion, dialogue and theoretical, political struggle within the ranks of the communist movement, in order to formulate an effective revolutionary strategy. ...
Inter–imperialist contradictions are now most prominently visible against the background of the redistribution of deposits of rare earths and rare metals - the "oil of the XXI century", which are vital in the modern technological context of the development of productive forces. ...
The orientation of the bourgeois state towards the war economy arises from the sharpening of inter-imperialist rivalry at the global level.
The current phase of imperialism is marked by a sharpening of global competition, where imperialist powers confront one another as representatives of ...
The historical development of capitalism in its imperialist phase continuously confirms Lenin’s thesis that, as the domination of monopolies deepens and the contradictions of the capitalist system intensify, the bourgeoisie progressively abandons its own “democratic” forms of rule and turns ...
One of the characteristics of the contemporary world is the sharp competition between the economies of the United States and China, that has been taking place for the last 30 years, and which is also expressed in the political, diplomatic field, but points to a direct military clash not only ...
The article you are about to read was written before the latest imperialist attack launched by the United States and Israel against Iran. The attack has led to significant changes in the Middle East, which constitutes the subject of this article. ...
Lenin describes imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism, which differs from free competition in the development of monopoly and finance capital, the economic importance of capital exports over goods exports, and the formation of international monopoly associations that divide the world ...
Whether it is the eighth-largest economic power by nominal GDP, or the tenth by GDP at PPP, as mentioned above, Italy nonetheless occupies a high position in the hierarchy of global capitalism and in the imperialist pyramid, ranking among the world’s major economies. ...
Today, it is widely acknowledged that Francis Fukuyama’s predictions about the so-called “end of history”, following the counter-revolutionary overthrows in the USSR and other socialist states, were exposed as empty sophistry. ...
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