"This is always the answer of the capitalist left. Supporting brutal regimes throughout the world because their policies are at odds with the US is merely business as usual. So what if a government is opposed to the US or allied with it? So what if this boss or that boss, this president or that president, this dictator or that dictator is in charge? Class struggle has nothing to do with workers supporting this or that capitalist alliance or bloc at an international level, nothing to do with the flag a government flies as it oppresses its own workers and makes war on the workers of its rivals."

- https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-03-05/middle-east-in-flames-next-step-toward-global-capitalist-war

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An internationalist statement against the war in Iran:

"""
The working class does not have to choose sides! The proletarians of the whole world must not succumb to the siren calls of nationalism or take sides with either camp, whether in the Middle East or elsewhere. All nations, all bourgeoisies, whether democratic or authoritarian, left or right, populist or 'progressive', are warmongers!

Despite the pompous rhetoric of hypocritical morality, pitting 'civilisation' against 'barbarism', 'good' against 'evil', 'aggressors' against 'victims', wars are nothing more than clashes between rival bourgeoisies. In these ever-increasing conflicts, it is always the exploited who are taken hostage and sacrificed for the interests of those who oppress and kill them!

To end wars, capitalism must be overthrown!
"""

https://en.internationalism.org/content/17782/capitalism-war-its-capitalism-must-be-overthrown

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At least where I'm at, the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is garnering some attention for leading anti-ICE protests.

It's worth remembering where the PSL comes from.

Socialist Workers Party split -> Workers World Party split -> Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Every one of these groups is an abomination.

1. The Socialist Workers Party was a mainline Trotskyist group founded in the U.S. by James Cannon and his followers. They defended entry into the social democratic parties and defense of the USSR since it had statified property. I call this group "mainline" since even many Trotskyists had left Cannon's orbit years before the SWP's founding, and groped towards, but failed to reach, positions already elaborated by the Communist Left since the 1920s (namely that counter-revolution has triumphed in the Soviet Union and that state property is not progressive). Politically stillborn, the SWP limps on today as boosters for Stalinist Cuba.

2. Sam Marcy broke with the SWP in the 1950s to form the Workers World Party. His gripes? That the SWP did not sufficiently support the Russian invasion of Hungary in 1956 (to put down a workers' uprising!) and that the SWP should support Maoist China. Today ardent defenders of North Korea and Belarus!

3. The PSL is formed in 2004 after a split in the Workers World Party. Their politics are essentially the same as those of the Worker's World Party. Supporters of Russia, Assad's Syria, North Korea, and China.

Just because a group uses the title "socialist" and is active doesn't mean it is any good. As the left communist Herman Gorter said:

"Whenever a group, no mater how small, bases its actions on the development of society, then it is a party, yes, the party [...]. [S]cience, theory and the tactics which flow from it are what make a workers' party, not the number of members. Conversely, a workers' party whose actions are not based on the knowledge of society is not a real party even if it has a hundred thousand supporters. It is only a crowd, masses of people gathered around a troop of demagogues."

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"The struggles driven by anti-fascism in the 'best' of cases reinforce the widespread illusion that the State is an arbiter above the classes, which is usually accompanied by seeing capital not as a social relation but as a group of multinationals or cruel and greedy men. And in the 'worst' of cases it leads to anti-fascist unity. Yesterday and today for orderly elections, to maintain capitalist normality. Yesterday and today to go to war or to accept 'states of emergency' in the name of democracy."

-- Cuadernos de Negación, "POSTSCRIPT ON FASCISM AND ANTIFASCISM"

https://internationalistperspective.org/on-the-lesser-of-two-evils-logic-of-antifascism/

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Now that the University of Alaska and UNAC (its faculty union) are headed to arbitration, we'll share this passage from the excellent article "Legal Limits on Labor Militancy: U. S. Labor Law and the Right to Strike since the New Deal" by Holly J. McCammon.

"The purpose of arbitration is to prevent a breakdown in communication between labor and capital and to preserve the continuity of production. But it is through the disruption of production that labor exerts its power in the workplace. The arbitrator's actions, therefore, work in the interests of capital and to the detriment of the structural capacity of labor to achieve its collective goals. In that the law fortifies and legitimates the arbitration framework, it often works to the detriment of organized labor."

We recommend the whole article. It supports the communist left's point that unions have been integrated into capital.

The problem isn't bad leadership (though it's often bad). It's that the unions can only fight in a very narrow legal framework. They are no longer fighting bodies of the class.

Anyway, here's the article on #SciHub:

https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.2307/800649

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Tonight's most interesting political news (it's news to me anyhow) is that there is yet another group calling itself the International Communist Party. This is a recent split, just a few months old. Here is their text on the U.S. election:

https://intcp.org/en/texts/11881/the-2024-us-presidential-election-only-capitalism-wins/

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"When contracts have to be renewed, the union feels itself the weaker party. It has to accept the bad terms the capitalists offer; no skill in bargaining avails. But now the trouble with the rank and file members begins. The men want to fight; they will not submit before they have fought; and they have not much to lose by fighting. The leaders, however, have much to lose -- the financial power of the union, perhaps its existence. They try to avoid the fight, which they consider hopeless. They have to convince the men that it is better to come to terms. So, in the final analysis, they must act as spokesmen of the employers to force the capitalists' terms upon the workers. It is even worse when the workers insist on fighting in opposition to the decision of the unions. Then the union's power must be used as a weapon to subdue the workers."

- Anton Pannekoek, Trade Unionism.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1936/union.htm

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Bordiga, quoted in Jacques Camatte's "Bordiga and the passion for communism:"

"Marxism is precisely, in essence, a foreseeing of the future. Utopianism in the strict sense is not a foreseeing of the future, but rather a proposal to mold the future."

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@argumento For a long but interesting account similar to yours, i point all readers to Paul Mattick's "Karl Kautsky: From Marx to Hitler."

https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1939/kautsky.htm

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