International Communist Review - Issue 5 - 2014
The inter-imperialist contradictions and war, Carmelo Suarez (“Propuesta Comunista”, Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain)
Struggle of communists against the source of wars – Imperialism, Russian Communist Workers Party Central Committee (“Sovetskii Soyuz”, Russian Communist Workers’ Party)
The Communists, the active struggle for peace and the world anti-imperialist front, Carlos Ojeda Falcon (“Debate Abierto”, Communist Party of Venezuela)
The sharpening of the imperialist competition in the region of the South-eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans. The position of the KKE regarding the possibility of Greece’s involvement in an imperialist war, Elisseos Vagenas (“Kommounistiki Epitheorisi”, Communist Party of Greece)
On Imperialist military intervention in Latin America, Limits and contradictions, Diego Torres (“El Comunista”, Communist Party of Mexico)
Imperialist war – imperialist peace: the impact of the World War I and the Treaty of Trianon on our time, Hungarian Workers' Party (“Szabadsag”, Hungarian Workers’ Party)
World War I and the Revolutionary Movement. V. I. Lenin About the National Issue During the Revolutionary Struggle in Latvia from 1917 to 1920s, Raimonds Rubiks and Victor Matiushenok (“Latvijas Socialists”, Socialist Party of Latvia)
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Dear reader,
The 5th issue of the International Communist Review engages with the topic: “The imperialist war and the stance of the communists”. ...
2014 is the 100th anniversary of the first great world war between the imperialist powers.
The first major crisis of the capitalist system, called the "Long Depression" rocked the world since 1873 and the imperialist powers were placed in a difficult situation. ...
2014 marks the centenary anniversary of the I World War. The political situation in the modern world has been deteriorating to such an extent that we have all the reasons to consider a possibility of its “uncontrollable” development and turning regional conflicts into a full-scale world ...
July 28, 2014 marks one hundred years since the beginning of the First World War (WWI), first military confrontation characterized by Lenin in the preface to the French and German editions of his enlightened work "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism", as an imperialist war (ie, a war ...
“War is no chance happening, no “sin” as is thought by Christian priests (who are no whit behind the opportunists in preaching patriotism, humanity and peace), but an inevitable stage of capitalism, just as legitimate a form of the capitalist way of life as peace is. ...
In memory of comrades Raymundo Velázquez, Samuel and Miguel
The upcoming 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War is gradually becoming an important question in the Hungarian ideological and political struggles. ...
“Bourgeois nationalism and proletarian internationalism—these are the two irreconcilably hostile slogans that correspond to the two great class camps throughout the capitalist world, and express the two policies (nay, the two world outlooks) in the national question.”
V.I. Lenin
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