International Communist Review - Issue 3 - 2012
The end of the working class?, Peter Mertens (“Etudes Marxistes”, Workers’ Party of Belgium)
Contemporary Problems of the Class Struggle and the Role of the Communist Party, Dimitris Gontikas (“Kommounistiki Epitheorisi”, Communist Party of Greece)
The Use of Party Media in the Contemporary Ideological and Political Struggle of the Working Class, István Kovács (“Szabadsag”, Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party)
Proletarian internationalism is a necessary condition for the fight with the bourgeoisie, Ingars Burlaks (“Latvijas Socialists”, Socialist Party of Latvia)
The Ideology of "social partnership" and its negative impacts on the working class, Ali Ruckert (“Zeitung vum Lëtzebuerger Vollek”, Communist Party of Luxemburg)
On the so called emerging subjects. Validity of the revolutionary character of the working class and its Vanguard Party, Diego Torres (“El Comunista”, Communist Party of Mexico)
Leninism and Revisionism. In the Fundamental Questions of Theory and Practice of Socialism (The dictatorship of the proletariat, its organizational form and economic entity), V.A. Tyulkin, M.V.Popov (“Sovetskii Soyuz”, Russian Communist Workers’ Party)
Social-democracy at the service of the ruling classes. The struggle of the Communist Party, Raúl Martínez and Ramón López (“Propuesta Comunista”, Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain)
Sketches on the Condition of the Working Class in Turkey, Zehra Güner (“Gelenek”, Communist Party of Turkey)
The Communist Party and the Venezuelan working class in the dilemma of the Bolivarian Revolution, Pedro Euse (“Debate Abierto”, Communist Party of Venezuela)
Table of Contents
“To expressly highlight the vanguard role of the working class in the revolutionary process, in conditions when a series of forces dispute the Marxist-Leninist criteria of belonging to the working class, consequently, its leading position in the struggle for social progress and in the ...
We hear more and more the same story: Information technology and communication sciences have thoroughly changed production. Most developed countries are heading for a services economy or a post-industrial society. In Europe, 66 % of the working population is active in services. ...
Every Communist Party which remains fixed on its mission and resolutely focussed on its central task to prepare and organise the working class and to guide its struggle for the fulfilment of its historic mission, is obliged to guide the working class on the basis of the fundamental principle of ...
Control of information and communication has been a major source of bourgeois power since the very beginning of capitalism. However, the advent of the Internet and of wireless communication turns them into a highly effective force of oppressing working classes. ...
Nationalism, as defined structured ideology emerged in the nineteenth century and, along with liberal theories of the period, for a long time developed a certain bond with them as a factor militating against the remnants of feudal relations. ...
The attempts by the capital of having an ideological influence to the working people and their organisations are an integral part of the history of capitalism. ...
Since its making scientific socialism distinguished itself from other theories identifying within the existing society a social force called to bury capitalism and to erect a new society. This social force was the working class. ...
In 2009, the Fund of Workers' Academy that promotes learning course for workers in Russia, published a collection of "The main idea of Leninism", which has incorporated major Lenin's views on the class approach to the analysis of social phenomena and the dictatorship of the proletariat. ...
Since the birth of the labour movement to this day, an intense struggle between two tendencies has been waged within the movement: the revolutionary one and the opportunist one. ...
In March 1885, Friedrich Engels wrote an article for the London Commonweal under the heading “England in 1845 and in 1885” as a sequel to his seminal work The Condition of the Working Class in England. ...
The current systemic crisis of capitalism coincides with the development of progressive and revolutionary processes, fundamentally anti-imperialist and anti-oligarchic ones, particularly in Latin America, whose many inherent contradictions generate expectations in different directions. ...
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