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International Communist Review - Issue 6 - 2015

The imperialist unions, the inter-imperialist contradictions and the stance of the communists, Makis Papadopoulos (“Kommounistiki Epitheorisi”, Communist Party of Greece)

In the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Act of Accession of Spain to the European Economic Community: a class-oriented assessment, Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (“Propuesta Comunista”, Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain)

Lenin’s approach to the analysis of imperialist alliances and to the use of contradictions between imperialists for developing revolutionary strategy of struggle under the conditions of modern Russia, Russian Communist Workers Party Central Committee (“Sovetskii Soyuz”, Russian Communist Workers’ Party)

NATO as a regulator of imperialism, Ali Somel (“Gelenek”, Communist Party, Turkey)

Class character of interstate unions in America, Pável Blanco Cabrera and Angel Chávez Mancilla (“El Comunista”, Communist Party of Mexico)

From the Comecon to the European Union: Hungarian experience, (“Szabadsag”, Hungarian Workers’ Party)

The European Union of Inequality: Latvia in the Arms of Transnational Capital, Fridijs Bokiss (“Latvijas Socialists”, Socialist Party of Latvia)

NATO and the EU: Inter-state imperialist alliances, inter-imperialist rivalry, expansionism, the threat to peace and the dangers of aggression and war, Gerry Grainger (“Think Left”, Workers’ Party of Ireland)

Table of Contents

Editorial

V.I. Lenin’s article entitled “On the Slogan for a United States of Europe”[1] was published on the 23rd of August 1915 in the newspaper “Sotsial-Demokrat”, no. 44. ...

The imperialist unions, the inter-imperialist contradictions and the stance of the communists

A century has passed since the historic theoretical confrontation between Lenin and Kautsky in relation to the definition that determines the socio-economic content of imperialism, as well as over the theory of “Ultra-imperialism”. ...

In the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Act of Accession of Spain to the European Economic Community: a class-oriented assessment

On June 12th, 1985, after arduous and lengthy negotiations for 23 years, the treaty by which Spain was incorporated as a full member of the European Economic Community (EEC) was signed in a solemn ceremony held at the Royal Palace of Madrid. ...

Lenin’s approach to the analysis of imperialist alliances and to the use of contradictions between imperialists for developing revolutionary strategy of struggle under the conditions of modern Russia

Nowadays communists in Russia have been facing the problem of establishing their position regarding the conflict of Russian capitalists with a part of Western imperialistic Oligarchy. ...

NATO as a regulator of imperialism

For the last quarter of a century, the main discussion about NATO was its mission after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Why did it continue to exist? ...

Class character of interstate unions in America

A class approach that puts aside populist criteria is necessary, and this is done on a scientific basis, using the Marxist method of analysing reality, considering the degree of development of capitalism, the process of concentration and centralization in the imperialist phase, emphasizing what ...

From the Comecon to the European Union: Hungarian experience

Hungary has been a member of the European Union (EU) since 2004. But the longest in the last hundred years integrational experience was the 42 years (1949-1991) spent in the Comecon - The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. ...

The European Union of Inequality: Latvia in the Arms of Transnational Capital

An idea of the need to unite Europe, which in the nineteenth century looked like a conglomerate of separated monarchies that were permanently at sword’s points with each other, had been expressed by many prominent historical figures from Napoleon Bonaparte to М.А. Bakunin. ...

NATO and the EU: Inter-state imperialist alliances, inter-imperialist rivalry, expansionism, the threat to peace and the dangers of aggression and war

In March 1946, Winston Churchill, in a speech delivered at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, USA called for the creation of an Anglo-American Alliance to fight “Eastern Communism”. The US President, Harry S. Truman, was present with Churchill on the platform. ...