International Courier

DOWNLOAD INTERNATIONAL COURIER HERE! This special issue of International Courier presents a recent synthesis of the heterogeneous situation in which the European proletariats find themselves, although they share a context of economic and social crisis in the midst of the war in Ukraine. We place special emphasis on the waves of struggle that have taken […]

The International Courier magazine number 19 is dedicated to Black Africa. Imperialist colonization and the complicity by national governments are present along the history of the continent. The struggles for independence and against Apartheid have been the answer. The International courier addresses all these issues from a marxist perspective. Futhermore, the International Courier will have […]

In 1975, the United States suffered a severe military defeat in the Vietnam War (the first in its history). This defeat limited the capacity for direct military intervention by U.S. imperialism and led to a policy adapted to this reality that we have called “democratic reaction”.

  In the beginning of the 80’s, Nahuel Moreno, founder of the IWL-FI, debated extensively and in depth with the Frenchorganization OCI (Internationalist Communist Organization, led by Pierre Lambert) regarding its policy of capitulation to the Popular Front headed by the Social-democrat François Mitterand, thus expressed in several materials. We extract the main part of one of those debates in 1982, which is […]

In 1905, the Russian proletariat starred in the first great wave of strikes of the twentieth century. for the first time, in the midst of land occupations, union strikes and break of the military hierarchy, the Soviets emerged.

Besides serving to interpret the world, the speech is a tool for transmitting ideologies. It also serves to legitimize and explain the actions of social classes, which generally act in defense of their interests. When it is related to relationships of domination, between classes, states, civilizations or people, one’s speech plays the role of supporting […]

In September this year, when the Zimmerwald Conference completed its 100th anniversary, a lot of articles and essays referring to this event was published. And predictably, in most of them, explicitly or implicitly, Lenin’s policy on this conference is considered an example to be followed to address the current situation.

In September 1915, a handful of leaders of the Second International gathered at the Zimmerwald Conference, in Switzerland, to try to reach a common position against the First World War. Among them were Lenin and Trotsky.

His life Liev Davidovich Bronstein was born on October 26, 1879, in the Ukrainian village of Yanovka, Russian Empire. Jew, son of middle peasants, he adhered to Marxism at 19 and went on to organize the workers of the region in a political and trade union organization called “South Russian Workers’ Union.”

When Friedrich Engels died in August 5, 1895 in London, it could be read on the theoretical journal of the German Social Democracy, Die Neue Zeit, that with his death “Marx also finished to die.” There was not an exaggeration: in fact it is very difficult to separate Marx from Engels, distinguish their works or […]

Nowadays it is becoming common to claim that there is no such thing as truth; what would exist are merely interpretations, particular points of view (knowledge), all equally valid. And that any attempt at knowing the truth would be nothing but sheer arrogance and pretentiousness of those naively seeking to cage the complexity of existence […]

In 1945, 70 years ago, Ta Thu Thau (great fighter against French colonial rule and the main Trotskyist leader in Vietnam) was shot by Stalinists, under the orders of Ho Chi Minh. We are publishing a short biography by another Vietnamese Trotskyist, Ngo Van Xuyet. It first appeared on Revolutionary History, Vol. 3, N. 2, […]

Forty years ago, on May 1975, the American imperialism was defeated in Vietnam by the resistance of the Vietcong and all the Vietnamese people. In 1967, before that defeat, the Argentinian Trotskyist and founder of the IWL-FI Nahuel Moreno wrote Chinese and Indochinese Revolutions [1] where he gives an account of both revolutions that changed the world.

This short article by Rosa Luxemburg shows the steps given by the working class in the world to create the First of May or, as she says “a proletarian holiday celebration” to demand the eight-hour working day.

Pietro Tresso (Blasco) was born on the 30th of January 1893, in Magrè di Schio in the province of Vicenza, in Italy.

The first issue of our program shows interviews with IWL-FI militants, in which they explain the main events of the class struggle in their countries.