In the elections held last week for the 9th Executive President of Sri Lanka, the National People’s Power had put forward pro-people policies emphasizing the interests of the people and succeeded in having its leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake elected and sworn in as President. The basis of this victory can be seen as the culmination… Read More »
Comrade Mao Zedong, the great communist thinker and leader, was born on 26 December 1893. In celebrating his 100th birth anniversary, we hereby make this declaration in order to extol his great contributions to the theory and practice of Marxism-Leninism and point to their continuing significance, vitality and urgency in the contemporary world situation. We… Read More »
Recently, the European Coordination Committee of the ICOR sent out a draft Call for a day of mobilization against the wars of capital. Unfortunately, this draft actually distorts the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and propose a completely invalid analysis. For starters, the allegation that the war in Ukraine began just on February 24, 2022, is completely wrong. Actually, this war began in the spring of 2014, when the Kyiv chauvinistic neo-Bandera regime tried to suppress the national liberation movement in the southeastern border region with… Read More »
Today the world is on the threshold of momentous events. The crisis of the imperialist system is rapidly bringing about the danger of the outbreak of a new, third, world war as well as the real perspective for revolution in countries throughout the world. During the last few years revolutionary struggles have erupted, including in… Read More »
Alexander Lukashenko’s regime is neither “red” nor progressive. Objectively, it expresses the interests of state-monopoly capital, linked with Russian imperialism and trying to maneuver between it and the West. The hopes that were pinned on Lukashenko in the mid-1990s as a “man of the people” did not come true. Today it is a regime of the Putin or Nazarbayev (ex-president of Kazakhstan) type. He is just as liberal in economics (he carries out privatization,… Read More »
Many of the resolutions of the Third ICOR World Conference1 do not meet their objective which is to unite and orient the communists all over the world. They are low in quality and rather unclear. There are some obscure formulations2 in them which even the Main Coordinator of the ICOR and the ICOR Office could not explain. Some statements are even politically wrong and harmful. The resolution “Resistance Against Erdogan Dictatorship” contains Erdogan’s distorted… Read More »
We refrain from signing the ICOR resolution for the following reasons: inaccurate assessment of the pre-bourgeois Islamic-fundamentalist ISIS as “fascist”; one-sided assessment of the moods of the Arab and especially the Turkoman population; inadequate description of non-interference (as well as some sympathy and even support of Kurds by arms) of the imperialist powers as direct aggression against the Kurds.
Generally speaking, it would be better not to destroy any monuments, especially those which have artistic or historical significance. Such actions are often burdened by the risk of vandalism, the irretrievable destruction of cultural and historical values and the discordance among the broad masses of the people. However, it should be understood that old cultural values are not a sacred cow, especially if it is not about highly artistic works or… Read More »
As the United States is the sole superpower in the world today, their foreign policy and not their internal policy is essentially more important for the proletariat and the people of the world. To put the question in the contrary way means locally closed-mindedness and egoism. Although it is incorrect to completely deny the reactionary innovations in US domestic policy under Trump such as attempts to tighten antisocial austerity measures and favoring right-wing fans of the patriarchal slave-owning past. These politics hit… Read More »
We reaffirm our commitment to the principle of national self-determination in connection with the referendums on independence that took place on September 25 in Iraqi Kurdistan and October 1 in Catalonia. The Catalans have separate (from the Castilian Spaniards) ethnic identity, their own language, their own experience with statehood1 and subsequent history of a national movement against the policy of assimilation and oppression pursued by Spain2. Catalonia has no less grounds for independence than, for example, Portugal or neighboring Andorra.3. The current Spanish regime is the restoration… Read More »