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Index

- 2015 - 1 - 2 -
- 2016 - 3 - 4 -
- 2017 - 5 - 6 -
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2018 - 7-8 - 9 - 10 -
- 2019 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 -
- 2020 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 -
- 2021 - 28 - 29 - 30 - 31 - 32 - 33 - 34 - 35 - 36 - 37 - 38 -
- 2022 - 39 - 40 - 41 - 42 - 43 - 44 - 45 - 46 - 47 - 48 - 49 -
- 2023 - 50 - 51 - 52 - 53 - 54 - 55 -
- 2024 - 56 - 57 - 58 - 59 - 60 -


N° 1 - May 2015
– Lessons from the five month miners’ strike in South Africa: Apartheid - 500,000 workers - Machine gun fire on strikers - Electoral circus - NUMISA calls off strike - “Anti-communist” - Strikes “damage capital” - A victory for the international working class - Compromise - Rebuild class-based trade unions
– May Day 2015 - Workers have nothing to lose but their chains and a world to win - As capitalism prepares for a new world war it has nothing to offer the proletariat but poverty - The workers must defend their standard of living today so they can destroy the global power of capitalism tomorrow!
– Pioltello (Italy), 8 June, 2014 - For the Territorial reorganisation of the Working Class
– Report on Rank and File Movements in Italy

N° 2 - October 2015
– Rome, June 8, 2015 - The Cgil attack picketing strikers - Defending and organizing the workers’ struggle
– First Congress of SI Cobas – Our Comrade’s Intervention
– For the international solidarity of the exploited of every race and country!
– Germany - GDL betrays train divers

N° 3 - May 2016
– May Day 2016 - Under the capitalist regime there can be no peace between States - So let there be war between classes!
– Paris attacks: Bourgeois terrorism
– Uniting the struggle of the international working class
– Italy - No “Christmas truce” for the struggles of the SI Cobas: Against police and regime unions
– Airbus production moved to USA
– Democratic Tunisia can’t stop the revolt of the unemployed
– Proletarians against bourgeois in Palestine

N° 4 - September 2016
– Demonstrations in France against the El Khomri law and the ambiguous attitude of the CGT
– Italy: Ikea workers divided in struggle - Introduction - Italian Base Unions still divided - Still opposing the Base Unions - Class murder
– UK: Brexit was no “working class revolt”: The rise of UKIP - Racism for dividing the oppressed - Britain votes out - What happens next? - Britain is in no position to negotiate - The Disunited Kingdom - Brexit and the working class
– Questions from the Usa on the SI Cobas and the Trade Unions

N° 5 - March 2017
– USA: After the Nightmare of the Election in the USA and the Dissection of its Corpse
– USA: Against Trump or Against Capitalism: Democracy is Fascism, Fascism is Democracy - Community or Class? - Immigration - Build Working Class Resistance: Class Unionism - Need for Class Party
– United Kingdom: Strikes on Southern Rail: Trouble on London Underground - The Fundamental Issue of Safety of Driver Only Trains
– Venezuela: Report by our Comrades: Crisis, Inflation and Workers Struggle - On the Situation in the Coast of Carabobo State (Puerto Cabello and Moron)
– Venezuela: Plain Speaking about Chavismo and Anti-chavismo: A path to Socialism? - A Struggle Against the Bourgeoisie? - Anti-imperialism? - Do they Govern in the Workers’ Interests? - A Struggle Between Capitalism and Socialism? - Nothing New under the Sun

N° 6 - June 2017
– Grenfell Tower: A Monstrous Crime against the Working Class
– May First 2017 - International Workers’ Day - In the Face of Threats of Imperialist War - Return to the Class Struggle, to October, to Communism - History repeats itself
– One Day Strikes and Solidarity on British Railways
– A Determined Bus Drivers Strike in Ireland
– Italy - SI Cobas: Class Conflict in Modena
– The need for an International Organisation of Port Workers
– The Decline of the United Kingdom: the End of its Empire in a European Context

N° 7-8 - May 2018
– May First 2018: Against Capitalism"s Wars - For Working Class Organization and Struggle - For Revolution and Communism
– Solidarity with West Virginia School Workers
– The US national strategy presented by President Trump, December 18, 2017
– On Charlottesville: Our Stance on Anti-Fascism
– Venezuela: The Inter-Bourgeois Political Confrontation Pushes the Proletariat Away from the Struggle for Its True Historical Objectives
– From Germany: On the IG Metall Agreement
– Where the Proletariat Rebels - Class struggles in Tunisa, Sudan and Iraqi Kurdistan
Reports on Italian Rank-and-File Unions:
– Two General Strikes in Italy: The ICP’s February 23rd Leaflet - February 24 Leaflet: Outside and Against of the Election Farce: Resume the Class Struggle
– The Second National Congress of the USB: Introduction - A short history of the Unione Sindacale di Base (USB) - USB Congress Report: Another ‘One Motion Congress’
– A Guide: To be used to identify the (unfortunately) numerous Rank and File Unions in Italy

N° 9 - August 2018
– Threats of Trade Tariffs Already Deny the Bourgeois Illusions of War-Free Imperialism
– USA: The Profit of Destruction
– Behind the Farce of the 19th Congress of the Chinese "Communist" Party, The Power and the Frailty of a Great Imperialist Country: From Mao to Deng, National Independence and Capitalist Development - The Agrarian Reform - Xi Jinping and Chinese Imperialism - The New Silk Road - Recent Tensions
– UK: Fast Food Workers Out on May Day: Done with the Tories or Done with Capitalism? - What will come next? - An Arduous but Necessary Struggle
– Strikes and the Situation in Brazil
– Even in Nicaragua, the Blood of the Proletariat is Exposing “Socialism of the 21st Century”
– Class Struggles in Israeli Ports
– No Job Security if you’re in the Working Class: Report from the Second Congress of the USB (continued from previous issue: Oppose Class Divisions by Organizing on a Territorial Basis - Real Centralization or Organizational Rigidity? - The Union and the ‘Social Movements’ - The ‘Social Issues Federation’ - The Trade Union Movement and the Political Parties - Trade Union and “Political Role” - The real “Political” Objectives of the USB Leadership - Conclusion

N° 10 - November 2018
– The Rearmarment of Imperialism
– Construction Workers in Turkey face Bourgeois Tyranny
– Another Proletarian Uprising in Basra
For the Class Union:
– Aluminium Strike in Western Australia
– Letter from the US - A Report from the "Rank-and-File: Organizing the Service Industry
– Two Major Strikes in the UK
– Report on Striking Marriott Workers Across the US

N° 11 - January 2019
– Yellow Vests Movement in France: The Big Fear is that the Working Class will Move
– Brexit - no way out for the British Bourgeoisie: Falling EU immigration: a Pyrrhic victory for the populists - Ireland - The Need for a Working Class Response
– Hungarian Slavery Act
For the Class Union:
– On Immigration
– ICP Intervention on Immigration - Distributed at a Rank and File Union demonstration in Rome, Saturday 15 December: Against the attack on the conditions of all workers, natives and immigrants! - Against the “Security Decree!” - For a United Working Class Trade Union Front!
– Canada post on strike!

N° 12 - March 2019
– In the War Hotbed of the Middle East
– Cuba: Reforms to State Capitalism
– Venezuelan Regional Meeting
– Organic Centralism: How and Why
For the Class Union
– Wildcat Strikes in Mexico
– Dockers of Puerto Cabello fight for a Wage Increase
– 8th of March 2019 - Only with Communism will Women come into their own

N° 13 - May 2019
– May 1, 2019, Proletarians have no Country, they are the International Working Class!
– Report on the Mass Movement in Sudan
– For the Class Union
– Sit-ins in the Quebec Health Sector: Women at the Forefront
– IWW Summit and Strikes in Great Britain
– Workers Shutdown the US Government Shutdown
– Italy, 6 April 2019 - Class Solidarity

N° 14 - July 2019
– The New Silk Road: The Colonizers Colonized
– Unite Working Class Struggles with an United Class Union Front, Meetings held by the ICP in Turin, Genoa, Bologna, Florence, Rome, October-November 2016: The Current Situation; The Party’s Conduct towards Trade Unions in Italy after the War; The Necessary Unification of Workers’ Struggles; Base Unionism; Opposing Conceptions on the Nature of Strikes; United Class Union Front; Trade Union Struggle and Political Struggle
– The Only Defense of Dock Workers is in the Unity of Working Class Struggle - To the Port Workers of Genoa

N° 15 - September 2019
– The Stresses, Strains and Chaos of Brexit: That Margaret Thatcher started it - Political crisis - The Republic of Ireland - Democracy has no answer
– Letter from North Ireland
– Hong Kong working class needs to fight for itself against patriots and autonomists: "One country, two systems" - The decline of the former colony - Social causes of protests - Neither democracy nor Chinese homeland
– CUNY, The Educators’ Struggle is the Workers’ Struggle!
– Elections in Israel: The abstentionism of the Party against the fraud
– Environmental Disaster can only be Stopped Through Class Struggle and the Destruction of Capitalism

N° 16 - November 2019
– Turkish invasion of Syrian Kurdistan: Still Clashes among Regional and World Imperialism
– Chile: The great fear of the world bourgeoisie - The Awakening of the Lebanon: The Proletariat has Taken to the Streets
– The Strike at General Motors
– ICP Leaflet: City University of New York Teachers Negotiations
– Rome, Saturday October 26: For a class union front
– Marco Giacomelli

N° 17 - January 2020
– The Dead End of Inter‑Class Street Protests
– UK Election Solves Nothing
– French General Strike
– Montreal Port Struggle
– Lock‑out at ABI Bécancour: A Year of Usual Capitalist Contempt
– Wobbles

N° 18 - March 2020
– For Anti‑Militarism and Proletarian Internationalism
– State of the American Presidential Elections
– On the Coming Economic Crisis
– Against Bosses, the Bourgeois State and Regime Unionism
– To Readers in Quebec
– Wobbles
– The Great Lessons of 1917

N° 19 - April 2020
– The pandemic is not above the classes
– Covid-19 treatment for capitalism means no relief for the working class
– Coronavirus vs. Capitalism
– Pandemics, Profits and Proles
– Wobbles
– Vitoria (Spain): Work ’Cannot go on like this’
– Letter from a Machinist in Wisconsin Regarding Work Continuation
– Rank and File Mechanics Actions at American Airlines

N° 20 - May 2020
– May Day 2020: World Capitalism, Only Concerned with its own Survival, Exploits and Abandons the Working Class to the Contagion - Capitalism can and Must be Overthrown Everywhere
– Coronavirus measures - UK - We are Not in this Together!
– For The Class Union
– The price of oil collapses - In deflation the material itself rebels against its commodity form

N° 21 - June 2020
– Racism Protects the Capitalist System - Only the Working Class can Eradicate it: Take Action Against Racist Violence - Form Workers’ Assemblies - Force Businesses to improve immediate conditions - Support the protests - The working class has the power to transform society
– The Dangerous Implications of the Collapse of Oil Prices
– Raleigh’s reaction to the Uprising - A Struggle Between a Working-Class Movement and Bourgeois Collaboration
– Prison Revolts Around The World: Imprisoned Workers Suffer Under Emergency Measures
– From the archives: American Dream under Fire (Communist Left No.5 January-June 1992)

N° 22 - July 2020
– Internationalism Will Defeat Racism! The Juneteenth Port Workers’ Strike
– Against Class Collaboration, For a Proletarian Anti-Racist Movement
– The Imaginary "General Strike" on May 1
– Action by Agricultural Workers in Yakima, Washington
– Walk-Out at Portland Whole Foods: The Pandemic Demands Class Consciousness

N° 23 - August 2020
– Two Months of Protests in Portland, Oregon: Trump the Fascist? - The Direction of Militarized Policing - More fluid tactics
– The Attorney General’s “Anti‑Extremism” Task Force
– Only the workers’ struggle against capitalist exploitation will overcome the social subjugation of race, nationality, gender, religion: The same commodity in different containers - What is the class answer?
– The Class Struggle and Imperialist Conflict in Hong Kong: Trade Unions in Hong Kong - Proletarians Defend Bourgeois Interests - The Necessity for Class Autonomy
– Tensions on Chinese-Indian Border: Historical Relations between Imperialist Powers - The Present Situation is Unstable
– For the Class Union: Bath, Maine - Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Montreal, Quebec - Portland, Oregon

N° 24 - September 2020
– Fascism Can Never Solve the Crisis of Capitalism: A Historical Perspective: The Communist Party of Italy’s, Report on Fascism presented to the Fourth Congress of the Communist International in 1922
– U.S. and Chinese Imperialisms Face Off at the Taiwan Strait: U.S. Protection - The US-Iranian co-management of Iraq - Partial folding
– The temporary withdrawal of the United States from the Middle East
– For a Clear Distinction Between Unions and Political Parties
– Port Workers Strike in Montreal

N° 25 - October 2020
– Against the Electoral Circus: For the Class Struggle!
– Lenin and Abstentionism (from “Il Soviet” 1920)
– A Monstrous Alien Force
– U.S. and Chinese Imperialisms Face Off at the Taiwan Strait (part 2)
– Port Workers Strike in Montreal (Update)
– Reject your Heroes, reject the NBA’s False Message!
– Las empresas, sus gobiernos y los sindicatos del regime se unen para defender la plusvalia y la ganancia

N° 26 - November 2020
– Class Struggles Win. Elections Don’t
– War in Armenia and Azerbaijan
– In Belarus: Behind the Scenes a Strong Working Class Keeps on Pushing
– Letter from Turkey
– Letter from Wisconsin
– Against Political Fronts and Reformist Illusions: A leaflet distributed at strikes in Rome and Milan, Oct. 2020
– Lockout at Jean Coutu: Leaflet in Quebec, Oct. 2020: Lockout at the distribution center - The lockout, this employer violence - The problem of corporatist unionism and regime unions - Solidarity, the workers’ only lever

N° 27 - December 2020
– Pandemics and World Capitalism - Communism Will Liberate Science to Serve Humanity: The Road Ahead
– The Origins of the Nigerian Uprising
– Covid in the UK
– Nurses Strike in Alberta
– High Speed

N° 28 - January 2021
– Protests in France - For the abolition of capital and wage labor! Long live the dictatorship of the proletariat!
– A Cure for Capitalism - the Covid‑19 Vaccines and the Economic Crisis
– The Rise of Amazon
– Lenin, the Organic Centralist - New Translation from Our Party - The Formation of the Bolshevik Party
– Pennsylvania Nurses Strike

N° 29 - February 2021
– Heart of Democracy: The Riot at the U.S. Capitol
– India - Between Peasant Protests and Workers’: Strikes: A great general strike contained by opportunism - The new laws on agriculture and peasant protest - Indian agriculture - The dramatic condition of the peasantry - The peasant movement and its contradictions
– Trans-Pacific Partnership: Revived as CPTPP
– 100th Anniversary of the Communist Party of Italy

N° 30 - March 2021
– For Women’s Freedom, For Communism! - International Working Women’s Day
– Amazon, There Will Be No Justice - There is Just Us!: Yes to Bessemer Amazon Union, No to Service Unionism - Workers! Don’t Give Up Your Power: Strikes and other Work Actions - Turn Solidarity Actions Into Direct Actions - Build the Class Union - Internationalize the Struggle, Make Common Cause with Amazon Workers In Canada, Germany, Italy, UK
– Europe’s Vaccine Wars, The First Shots in a Wider Trade War: The trade war gathers speed
– The Draghi Government in Italy: Apparent Democracy, Reigning Fascism
– Gamestop, Reddit, and the Failure of the Bourgeois Left

N° 31 - April 2021
– The Coup in Burma and the False Promises of Democracy
– Strikes and Repression in Piacenza and Prato, Italy - ICP Leaflet to Prato Textile Workers, March 20
– Istanbul Municipal Workers Strike Against Social-Democratic Bosses: What happened? - What should be done?
– Disaster at Georgia Poultry Plant

N° 32 - May 2021
– May Day 2021: Only World Revolution Can Stop the Crisis of Capitalism
– Daunte Wright: Against Democratic Racism - For General Class Struggle
– Anger Erupts in Northern Ireland
– UK “Slaveroo” Riders Strike Over Pay and Working Conditions
– Amazon: Bessemer (Alabama, USA) - A Referendum Used Against the Workers’ Struggle

N° 33 - June 2021
– May 15, 2021, Israel-Palestine: A War on Behalf of Bourgeois States
– On the Repeal of Abortion in Poland
– Covid-19: Overcoming Global Vaccine Inequality
– Port of Montreal: Capitalism needed a special law to put an end to the strike
– On the Suez Canal Debacle
– CUBA: Bringing Order to their Capitalism
– For The Class Union: - Australia, Pakistan, Serbia, Spain - ICP Leaflet Distributed in Venezuela: Fight for an Increase in Wages

N° 34 - Juli 2021 - pdf - printable
– “We’re Not Backing Down” - Working Class Confidence Grows: Volvo Trucks - Warrior Met Coal - Health Care Strikes: “Summer of Chaos” - Marathon Petroleum - Restaurants, Groceries and Food Manufacture - Donuts! - Fritos! - Pickles! - Hooters! - Burgers! - Kroger! - Public Workers: New Orleans - Elizabeth City, North Carolina - Concluding Remarks
– Welcome to the HeatDome
– Bourgeois Construction: The Florida Building Collapse
– Death and Justice in Capitalism
– UK Electricians’ struggle - A powerful end to a decade long fight: Another attempt at introducing deskilling role - Final Round in Gateshead
– The Division of Powers in Bourgeois Democracy
– For The Class Union - Italy: June 18, A United National Strike of Logistics Workers - For the unitary strike of rank-and-file trade unions in logistics! - For the establishment of the United Class Union Front!
– The Murder of a SI Cobas Militant: The Perpetrator is the Bourgeois Regime!

N° 35 - August 2021 - pdf - printable
– Cuba’s proletariat in revolt against capitalism’s crises
– Italian national demonstration at GKN-auto
– Greenwashing in China
– Catastrophic flooding in north-western Europe, another environmental crisis: The Eifel, a cursed land - Floods in China and Turkey - Capitalism has no solution
– A century after the occupation of factories in Italy: The context - Occupied factories and armed proletarians - Not a proletarian offensive, not a bourgeois offensive - Guaranteed reformism - After the betrayal of social democracy - After a hundred years
– For the class union: Frito Lay strike - USA fast food workers - Brazilian rail workers - Colombian protests

N° 36 - September 2021 - pdf - printable
– Afghanistan: Return of the Taliban
– 20 Years Since September 11th
– Mexico: Cooking Gas Prices Rise and Wages remain in the ditch
– Vax / No-vax
– Constitutional Wrangles and Election Hysteria: The 2020 Presidential Campaign - The so-called January 6th Insurrection - The Military and other State agencies begin their work - Further discrediting of the Election process
– For the Class Union: Quebec Health Care Workers - Greece, New Labor Law - Pakistan, Recen Labour News - Germany, Railroad Strikes

N° 37 - October-November 2021 - pdf - printable
– The Growing Crisis of the Capitalist System Pushes It Towards War: Despite The Crisis, World Military Spending Continues To Grow - United States dominates, China follows - Minor But Well-Armed Powers - Only The Non-Pacifist Proletariat Is Anti-Militarist and Anti-War
– AUKUS - A new war pact between imperial powerhouses of Capital
– Andrea Rovere - RIP
– UK truckers fight back against lousy pay and conditions: Fuel crisis - Safety issues
– Workers-Toilers’ Rally in Istanbul
– Workers Struggles Italy: GKN Workers as an Example of a Class Union Movement - Rome, monday 11 october 2021, Hurray for the general strike of the rank and file trade unions!, For a Class Union Front for the defense of the immediate interests of the working class, For the rebirth of the One Big Union: outside and against the regime unions
– FOR A CLASS UNION - News and interventions of the class struggle:
-- The IWW: Class Union or One Big Union?:
-- Strike at John Deere
-- Militancy in the Building Trades: Painters Union, Portland Oregon - Carpenters Seattle A local newspaper wrote - Share in the McGuide FB group - Seattle Teamster Concrete drivers
-- Another Major Strike of South African Steel workers
– IATSE: Kill the Proposal!

N° 38 - December 2021 - pdf - printable
– The Struggle of the Cadiz Metalworkers Shows the Way to Fight Attempts at Further Exploitation
– Strike at the Container Port of Piraeus/Athens: A death foretold - Our struggle is for all workers - COSCO is forced to come to terms - A fourth dock
– Karachi, A Capitalist Hell: The new agreement with China - Capitalism dominates in Karachi - Expropriation - The destruction of proletarian neighborhoods - The whole city is suffering - The necessity of Communism
– The Class Origins of the Mapuche Insurgency in Chile - Only Workers’ Struggles Can Free Native Peoples from Oppression: Economic Origins of the Conflict - The Course of Events - Foquismo Has Done Nothing for Native Workers - Militarization Against “Native Rebellions” Is not Limited to Chilec- Only Workers’ Struggle Can Free the Native Laborers from their Oppression
– The National Strike of ex-ILVA and Piombino steelworkers: For a Class Union Line - For United Action by the Combative Unions

N° 39 - January 2022 - pdf - printable
– The Causes of Inflation
– In Kazakhstan the working class has shown what it is capable of doing and what it will do
– War and hunger in store for the proletariat in Turkey
– Tornados in Illinois: Dying for Profits at Amazon
– A leaflet distributed by our comrades in Venezuela
– The Same Path, as Always
– The tactic of the leftist party front is a counter-revolutionary policy

N° 40 - February-March 2022 - pdf - printable
– Capitalism is war - To stop it, the working class must bring capitalism down
– The Ukrainian pretext: The Encirclement of Russia – United States v. Germany – A bold move? – A united Europe does not exist – Russia is not the first enemy for the USA – The imperialist order wavers – A mad arms race in the run-up to war
– On the Collapse of Pittsburgh’s Fern Hollow Bridge
– The Rise of the Right in Quebec: Conservative Party a new force? – Upcoming Elections
– Class Struggle on the BNSF
– Class Struggle on the Rise in Turkey
– Portugal: The Socialist Party sinks the law against precarious employment – The tragicomic parliamentary comedy of the Stalinist PC – The labor movement paralyzed by opportunism
– Notes on the question of party "logo" - Hammer and Sicle: How do communists recognize themselves?
– Situation of the American Workers - By American Fraction of the Left Communist International (1947/48)

N° 41 - April 2022 - pdf - printable
– Capitalism needs war: Government armies and “people’s resistance” are being used against the working class
– Italy, Saturday, march 26, 2022: Only a mobilization of the working class can stop the war! - For a class union front for the defense of living and working conditions!
– March 8 during war-time - Women and the international communist revolution: The oppression of women originates with the class society - Narxist classics point communists in the correct direction - The socialist and communist origin of International Women’s Day - Women’s right to vote - Alexandra Kollontai’s "new woman" - The sad dissolution of International Women’s Day in democratic illusions
– 2014 - In the Ukraine: Stale nationalisms are used to cover up inter-imperialist conflict
– 2014 - War maneuvers in Europe

N° 42 - May 2022 - pdf - printable
– It is an Imperialist War: Towards a general war - The end of the Russian empire - Ukrainian ambiguity - The Donbass - NATO pressure - Against the proletariat in Ukraine - The internationalist task of the communists
– The rearmament of the German State with the support of parties and trade unions
– In Russia: God, Country and Family
– Ukraine and the Question of Fascism
– Turkey as Mediator: The Regional Imperialist Power Tries to Turn a Diplomatic Crisis into Opportunity - The war in Ukraine has once again brought Turkey’s role as a rising regional imperialist power to the fore
– From the Archive of the Left:
 The Dilemma is not War or Peace but War or Revolution (By the American Fraction of the Left Communist International (1950). Initially published in the Autumn-Winter 1950 issue of “The Internationalist”, a publication of the Italian communist left in the U.S.)
– Amazon Labor Union
– The Starbucks Campaign: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - The Solution

N° 43 - June 2022 - Labor Notes special edition - pdf - printable
Unite working class struggles with a class union front: The current situation - The necessity of the unification of workers’ struggles - Base unionism - Opposing conceptions on the nature of strikes - United class union front - Trade union struggle and political struggle
2019 Strike at General Motors: Demands - Corruption in the UAW - Counter grups - International aspects - Class unionism’s lack of organization vs the regime unions
Class union or OBU?: The IWW
Class struggle on the BNSF
Canada port on strike
Two major strikes in the UK
Dockers of Puerto Cabello Venezuela fight for a wage increase
The only defense of dock workers is in the unity of working class struggle: To the port workers of Genoa
Internationalism will defeat racism!: The juneteenth port workers’ strike
Against class collaboration: For a proletarian anti-racist movement
On Charlottesville: Our stance on anti-fascism (5/18)

N° 44 - July 2022 - pdf - printable
– The Bourgeois Attack on Abortion in the USA.
– The Proletariat in Sri Lanka Fights Against the Bourgeois State but It’s Still Lacking its Authentic Independent Class Organs: Why is there a Crisis in Sri Lanka? - The Bourgeois Government’s Militaristic Response to COVID - Imperialist War anywhere affects the proletariat everywhere - Where is the Proletariat in All of This? - The remarkable endurance of the struggle
– The Media Circus and the Performing Bears
– Italy, Friday 20 May: Strike Against the War! - After the Strike
– For the Class Union: Longshore - Amazon - Deere - Steel
– Militant Action in the UK

N° 45 - August 2022 - pdf - printable
– Colombia: the government changes but the class dictatorship of the bourgeoisie remains
– National Strike in Ecuador
– Venezuela: Worker’s struggles arise despite the betrayal of the unions and the government’s repression
– Rome, June 18: Fighting to not pay the costs of imperialist war is the first concrete step to stop it!
– “Horrors” and “War Crimes”, On the Thread of Time, 1949
– FOR THE CLASS UNION: Intervention at Labor Notes - UK government introduces Scabs’ Charter - Trucker activity in the US - Updates on the struggles of port workers and railroad workers - UAW constitutional convention - Illegal educators’ strike in Massachusetts - Correction to the Starbucks article from TCP no.42 - Chicago quarry strike
– Italy - ICP Leaflet on the Arrest of the Si Cobas and USB Leaders: The united class union front is the only way to defend workers from attacks by the bosses and the State

N° 46 - September 2022 - pdf - printable
– Iranian Working Class in Revolt Against Food Crisis: Workers on the Front Line - The 2022 Protests
– UK’s Trade Union Congress Struggles to Keep a Lid on Worker Militancy: Rail workers - Postal and telecom workers - Port Workers - Barristers - Airport workers - Teachers and healthcare - Civil servants -Wildcat strikes, refineries, power stations - Spontaneous walkouts, Amazon
– Another Look at the Mapuche Conflict in Chile: The economy - The colonial era - The republican era - Transformations of Mapuche society - The Mapuche political movement - The only way forward is the class struggle of the proletariat
– FOR THE CLASS UNION: Militant Coal Miners fined millions of dollars by US government - American auto union neglects industrial workers - US Postal Service propped up by workers’ sacrifices
The Shameful Lie of “Defencism”, On the Thread of Time, 1951

N° 47 - October 2022 - pdf - printable
– Class War with No Class, Notes on Anti-War United Fronts, Activism, Recruitment and the United Front
– September 2022 - The First Step to Stop the Imperialist War is to Strike to Refuse to Pay its Costs (ICP leaflet in Italy for Unione Sindacale di Base)
– Britain’s ruling class knows economic collapse is coming - and is preparing for confrontation
– The Cascading Strike Wave in the UK
– Belgian Rail Workers Strike against Cuts
– American Railroad Conflict Approaches Climax
– 1877 American rail strike: an historical lesson for today’s working class
– Strikes and elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina
– Trade Union Activity in Italy (Report from General Meeting 144, September 2022)

N° 48 - November 2022 - pdf - printable
– For a united trade union class front! - Italy, Bologna, Saturday, October 22 - To converge and unite working class struggles! - For a general movement demanding strong wage increases against the rising costs of living! - The first step to take today, to oppose the imperialist war tomorrow!
– No War but the Capitalists’ War? - International dockers movement lines up behind EUkrainian imperialism
– For an update on the Russian-Ukrainian war: The Ukrainian offensive - Russia’s Response - On the Kherson front - On the Kherson front - NATO’s involvement - The role of Turkey - Germany’s position - Russia-Iran collaboration in the military field - Trouble for Russia in Central Asia - The position of China and India - China wants time and puts the brakes on war - Conclusions
– The new wave of revolt in Iran: The antecedent, protests against rising prices - Reaction to the murder of a young woman - The reaction of the working class - Attempts at regime stabilization
– For the class union
– Industrial weight and intensity: Cycles of industrial production - The table by industrial weight - Demographic weight - Industrial intensity

N° 49 - December 2022 - pdf - printable
– American Rail Workers!
– Ontario Education Workers stand up to illegalization of Strike with threat of General Strike
– Bourgeois Repression in Turkey: Heads of the Turkish Medical Association and the Bread Producers’ Union Arrested
– Report on the 15th October 2022 Mobilization in Portugal
– Report from Pakistan
– “Public ownership” of the Railroads Brings no Gain
– France: New Strike Wave
– Capitalist Climate Change Threatens Agricultural Profits and Supply Chains

N° 50 - January-February 2023 - pdf - printable
– China’s Powder Keg: Protests against "zero-COVID" policy - Workers’ protests at Foxconn - Despite this, the virus spread(s) among the workers
– Moving Forward with the Communist Party Newspaper
– Peru: The Blood of Proletarians and the Oppressed is Spilled in the Street in the Inter-Bourgeois Conflict
– "Anti-Fascist Prejudice": Electoral Fairy Tales
– A Further Wave of UK Strikes: Army Called in to Break Strikes
– The British Labour Party and the CBI
– The Slogan of Civil War Illustrated, Lenin, March 29, 1915
– Activism and Spontaneism in the United Fronts of Inter-Class Pacifism
– The Ukrainian Economy
– Colombia: Petro Deepens Capitalism and Uses the Masses in Inter-Bourgeois Confrontation

N° 51 - March-May 2023 - pdf
– Turkey-Syria Earthquake: Destruction and Death are our Fate under Capitalism: Capitalist and Imperialist Crisis Management - Background to the Disaster: Building Excess and Real Estate Bubble - Spontaneous Mobilization Led by the Working Class - The Attitude of the Combative Trade Unions - Natural Disasters and Capitalism - Both Sides of the Border share a Common Destiny
– Rail Disaster in Ohio
– Greed blocks Navigation on the Mississippi.
– The January 8 Riots in Brazil’s Capital Blow Wind for the Flags of Bourgeois Democracy
– Italian Elections
– ICP Intervention in Portland City Workers’ Strike: Portland municipal workers Fighting for freedom to strike (Saturday, Jan. 28) - Portland: End capitalism’s violent campaign of intimidation against municipal workers (Friday, Feb. 3) - The Portland municipal workers’ strike is over (Sunday, Feb. 5)
– The 8 Months of Strike Action at New Holland
– General Strikes in France: January 19 - ICP Leaflet - Yet Another Attack on Living and Working Conditions
– Venezuela: Labor struggle at Ipostel
– Turkish and Syrian Textile Workers Unite in Gaziantep
– Russia and Georgia: By Striking, Proletarian Youth Challenge the Police State
– Georgia: Strike of Taxi Drivers and Couriers
– The Party’s Classical Theses and Evaluations on Imperialist Wars (1989)

N° 52 - June-July 2023 - pdf
– The Banking Crisis, Failure of the Capitalist Regime, Besieges All the Sanctuaries of Finance: Introduction - Labor and inflation - Tech Industry - SVB collapse - On a global scale
– Germany’s Regime Unions Struggle to Contain Militancy
– Anti-strike legislation fails to stop workers struggles in the UK
– The Growing Wave of Strikes Against Amazon in the UK: The Coventry Warehouse Strikes - March Strikes and Union Recognition - Expansion of Strikes at Rugeley and Mansfield - Amazon’s Response - Developments and Union Recognition Efforts - Critiques of the GMB and Pseudo-Left Groups - The future of labor relations in Amazon and its significance
– May Day 2023: No to Bourgeois Militarism - For the Unconditionsl Defense of the Working Class
– War in Kosovo?
– Life of the Party

N° 53 - August-September 2023 - pdf
– A Leaflet to the Workers of UPS - UPS Workers and the Working Class in the USA - For the Class Union: For United Class Action! Neither the Democrats nor Republicans! - Cut the Link Between the Unions and all the Bosses’ Parties!
– Crisis in Russia: Let All the Monstrous States of Capital Fall to the Ground
– On the Growth of Capitalism in Mexico
– The Crisis of the Bourgeoisie in Turkey: The Turkish Bourgeoisie and Elections - A Fragile Compromise - Elections Are Always Against the Interests of the Proletariat - A New Wave of Labor Struggles in Turkey - Struggles of DİSK Workers - Struggles of Turk-Is Workers - Conclusions
– The Resounding Death Knell: French Suburb Revolt Shatters Social Peace
– Nationalization and its Discontents: the Working Class
– The Oregon Nurses’ Strike in Retrospect - Our Intervention
– Life of the Party

N° 54 - October-November 2023 - pdf
– UAW Workers Stand-in for Class Unionism!
– For the Class Union. A Leaflet to the Workers of UPS: Vote No by Striking at UPS - No Workers Left Behind
– Democratic Socialism: False Friend of the Working Class: The Petty Bourgeoisie, Labor’s Executioner - Communism versus Democratic Socialism -
– Europe’s Decrepit Stalinist Parties Fail to Surprise on Ukraine
– Leaflet - For the Class Union: August 16th Public Sector Strike in Turkey
– In Brazil, as in Every Country, a Friendlier Government is still not a Friend of the Working Class
– Italy: Crucial Questions of Class Trade-Unionism Discussed at a Meeting of the CLA
– Firm Points of Trade Union Action, 1962
– Life of the Party: United Auto Workers

N° 55 - Dicember 2023 - January 2024 - pdf
– War in Gaza: All parties of the Israeli and Palestinian bourgeoisie direct their proletarians to the slaughter of a war for the defense of their profits and the survival of the rotten regime of capital
– Half A Million on Strike in Canada - Class Unions Needed: Quebec - New Brunswick
– Turkey: Prominent Labor Struggles in October
– Azerbaijani Offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh: Imperialism Can Only Resolve National Disputes with Wars and Displacement
– The Historical Causes of Arab Separatism - from “Il Programma Comunista” no.6, 1958: The Most Recent Split - The Past Cycle - The Game of Imperialism
– General Strike Against Labor Reform in Greece
– Portland Teachers Strike - It is time for OEA to take up a State wide strike strategy - Teachers need a general strike - On the School, the State and Capital: The Larger Economic Crisis, the Crisis in Education and the Education Worker Strike Wave - The True Value of Education and Teachers’ Wages - Education Funding - From the perspective of capital there is a good reason to maintain this status quo - Portland’s Public School System: A Capitalist Enterprise - In Education, There is No “Community” Interest - A Strike for PAT is a Strike for the Entire Working Class!
– The Tumultuous Progress of Indian Capitalism Between Bitter Social Tensions and Aspirations of Global Power: The Disputed Indo-Chinese Border - The Challenges of Indian Capitalism in the Present Phase of International Crises - The Industrial Contention, the Domination and Slowdown of the Chinese and the Moves of the Indian Giant - Apple’s Choices and Obstacles to Chinese Companies - Precious Microchips - Attack on the Conditions of the Working Class - The Possible Ambivalence of Indian Imperialism
– A Self-Made Labor Shortage Pushes Bourgeois Society to Abandon its Moral Edifice 10. - A Public Meeting in Genoa - Against War Between Bourgeois States! - For the unity of the Palestinian proletarians and Israel: Hamas and Israeli Government United in the Slaughter of Proletarians
– Life of the Party 2023: Rail Road Struggle 2022/23 - Portland, Or City Workers’ strike February 2023 - Rutgers April 2023 - Nationwide Meetings 2023 - Strike Wave Interventions Summer 2023 - Birth of CSAN May First 2023 - Providence Nurses Strike in Oregon
– In Memoriam: Sarah and Lena in Germany - A Eulogy Read for Comrade Mauro in Turin, Italy

N° 56 - February-March 2024 - pdf
– The Gazan Proletariat Crushed in a war between world imperialisms
– The International Communist Party calls upon all Proletarians to break the internal front! A party manifesto: For proletarian defeatism on both fronts of the bourgeois wars - For the international brotherhood of workers
– Proletarians of all countries unite! ICP leaflet distributed in Italy, November 24
– Germany: Capitalism is in crisis and fascism is on the rise: Rail workers lead the resistance - One sector is booming - The rise of the far right - German antifascism - National unity or class struggle
– Venezuela-Guyana: Reject the Bourgeois parties and their dispute over the Essequibo Territory
– Course of the Economy - An overview (Report at General Meeting 26-28 January): The decline in inflation - Industrial production
– Miners in South Africa Continue the Proletariat’s Struggle Against Regime Unions
– In our tradition - historical articles of the ICP: What has become of Giuseppe Sensi? (From "Seme Comunista", March 1939, Organ of the Italian Fraction of the International Communist Left)
– Strike at Özak Tekstil [Turkey] (From Komünist Parti #7): What happened - Lessons of Struggle - Internationalist Class Solidarity from the United States with the struggling Özak Tekstil Workers in Turkey! (Class Struggle Action Network)
– In memoriam: Giovanni Casertano - Mother Ginevra - Mauro

N° 57 - April-May 2024 - pdf
– International Working Women’s Day. Patriarchy is a Pillar of Capitalism and Will Fall With It
– New Worker Combativity in the United States: At UPS - Teamsters - The United Auto Workers - UAW workers move for class unionism!
– Firenze, Italy, Wed. February 21st, 2024. Struggle, Organization and Unity of Action of Class Unionism will Defend the Lives and Health of Workers
– Genoa, Italy, Friday, November 24, 2023. On the road to the revival of the Class Union
– Imperialist blocs rearm in preparation for world war - Against Bourgeois Militarism - For the Unconditional Defense of the Working Class
– The Freedom to Strike and the Theatrics of the Bourgeois Regime’s Servants
– The steady decline of wages in Italy
– United Kingdom: Strikes and Demonstrations Announce the Reawakening of the Working Class: Strikes in the Schools - In the Health Sector - In the Civil Service - Strikes in the Transport Sector
– To Reconstruct the Class Economic Organization (1975)
– The Illusion of the Minimum Wage and Workers Combativeness
– Crucial Questions of Class Trade-Unionism Discussed at a Meeting of the CLA: A fourth characterization of the CLA
– More Unrest Expected from China’s Working Class
– The Party’s Trade Union Activity in Italy
– One Year of the Class Struggle Action Network (CSAN): Reflections by party comrades on activity in CSAN

N° 58 - June-July 2024 - pdf
– The Cynical Calculations of the World Bourgeoisies and the Massacre of Palestinians
– The Hypocritical Pacifism of Trade Unions in the United States
– Why We Do Not Support the Call for Public Ownership of the Railroads
– Best Buy Restructure Leaves Workers Out on Street
– United Kingdom: The General Election Is not in the Interests of the Working Class
– Germany: The Burgfrieden Then and Now
– Turkey: On the March 31st Local Elections
– Turkey: The Lezita Strike and Internationalism
– The Chimera of Arab Unification Through Interstate Understandings, 1957

N° 59 - August-September 2024 - pdf
– England: The general election is not in the interests of the working class: Elections settle nothing!
– Bangladesh: A new social upheaval comes to shake a young capitalism -  But the student and popular movements prove powerless in the face of capitalism and can only delude themselves into thinking they are reforming it. Only the working class, organised in powerful class unions and led by the communist party, can fulfil the historic task of overthrowing it - The picture of the social crisis - From student movement to popular movement - The bourgeoisie changes uniform - The role of imperialisms - The only revolutionary programme is Communism
– Italy: Voting is not an effective tool of struggle - Worse if together with the bosses
– France: The Specter of fascism versus the myth of democratic freedoms
– Global crash / Information tecnology
– Kenya of today: The current and ongoing anti‑government protests
– Venezuela: The bourgeoisie has its president - Winners and losers both represent the interests of the bourgeoisie and imperialism!
– Third (Communist) International:
 - 1st Congres, 1919 - Theses on bourgeois democracy and the dictatorship of the proletariat
 - 2nd Congres, 1920 - Theses on parliamentarism presented by the Communist Abstensionist Fraction

N° 60 - October 2024 - pdf
– The depraved bourgeois circus in America will soon have a new ringleader
– Massacre of Palestinian, Israeli, Lebanese, Ukrainian and Russian people for a new partition

 of the world by imperialist blocs: In the Middle East - In Ukraine: The debate over long-range missiles - The adventurous foray Into Kursk - Diplomacy talks peace while expanding war
– Germany in the grip of inter-imperialist balance of forces
– All flights are grounded at Boeing
– Longshoremen’s strike in America
– Union activity of the party in the US - Strike interventions: Boeing strike in Washington/ Oregon  - UFCW Fred Myers strike - Efforts within Oregon Educators Association - Class Struggle Action Network
–  Strike at Evolution Georgia
–  Service workers: For class unionism, Against electoralism!
– May 24-26, 2024, Converging working contributions in the General Party Meeting[GM149]: Introduction of the center - Report of the study on the women's Issue - The origins of left-wing socialism and class unionism in the Ottoman Empire: Early years and founding of the Communist Party of Turkey - Origin of the Communist Party of China: After the third congress - Disparities in world steel production - Bourgeois ideology, Medieval Aristotelianism, Averroism and Occamism: Scholasticism - The rediscovery of Aristotle - Averroes and "Free Thought" - Occam and Nominalism
– To the readers