http://internationalist-perspective.org/blog A pro-revolutionary blog Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:15:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 1. Compared to the analyses of the ICC, from which Controverses only recently split, this text is a clear step forward. No longer are we confronted with simple formulas; there is a real attempt to deepen that must be welcomed. 2. Still, and this is understandable since their separation is recent ... http://internationalist-perspective.org/blog/2009/11/01/a-few-remarks-on-the-presentation-of-controverses-on-the-crisis/ The following text was released by a group which recently left the ICC. We will shortly post our response to it. The original text contained several graphs which are not available for reproduction here. The subject of this public meeting (Which crisis of capitalism?) being vast, the only aspect that ... http://internationalist-perspective.org/blog/2009/11/01/a-text-by-%e2%80%9ccontroverses%e2%80%9d/ The following post is letter from Gilles Dauvé of Troploin in response to our review of End Notes 1 October 12, 2009 Dear Internationalist Perspective: Here are some remarks on the review of End Notes on your blog, July 26, 2009. First, I’d like to say that you give a ... http://internationalist-perspective.org/blog/2009/11/01/end-notes-a-response-a-letter-from-gilles-dauve/ Internationalist Perspective held a public meeting in New York on October 15, 2009 on the current econimc crisis. Here is a report on the meeting. IP Public Meeting, New York, October 15, 2009 There were 15 at the meeting (besides IP): several “class struggle” anarchists, linked to NEFAC, though critical of ... http://internationalist-perspective.org/blog/2009/10/26/report-on-internationalist-perspectives-public-meeting-in-new-york/ The following is a post by a member of Internationalist Perspective on a list about China. It was written in as part of a thread of Maoist China. First, on your last point. While I don't have an extensive knowledge of China during its Maoist period, I would not be ... http://internationalist-perspective.org/blog/2009/10/26/what-was-china/ The economic crisis will not go away. More stimulus spending or less may alter the pace but not the course. This crisis is more than a conjunctural downturn. It is the fever of a sick civilization. Capitalist civilization is sick of old age but will do anything to survive. Those who ... http://internationalist-perspective.org/blog/2009/09/17/the-crisis-has-raised-the-stakes-public-meeting-in-new-york/ “End Notes” is the new publication of comrades who left “Aufheben,” apparently because of disagreement over how much emphasis should be put on discussion with the milieu of the “communisateurs,” especially “Théorie Communiste.” As can be seen in the first number of End Notes, these comrades are determined to pursue ... http://internationalist-perspective.org/blog/2009/07/26/%e2%80%9cend-notes%e2%80%9d-1-a-review/ A strike now completing its fourth week at Ssangyong Motors in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, remains a standoff as of this writing. The strike echoes in many ways the dynamic seen in the recent Visteon struggle in the UK and in battles over auto industry restructuring around the world. Involving, on ... http://internationalist-perspective.org/blog/2009/06/21/pyeongtaek-strike-continues-in-south-korea/ IP-presentation at the Midland Discussion Forum Meeting, Birmingham, April 25 2009 There is no need to repeat that capitalism is in its worst crisis since the 1930’s –this has become a mantra in the media. Where we differ, is how we explain this crisis. They say it’s caused by greed, bad ... http://internationalist-perspective.org/blog/2009/04/28/crisis-the-response-of-the-working-class-the-role-of-pro-revolutionaries/ Looking at the world today, we see an urgent need for revolution, contrasting with a profound weakness and division of pro-revolutionaries. Some of their disagreements are serious. And yet, pro-revolutionaries also have something essential in common, internationalist, revolutionary, positions that separate them from those, whose pseudo-revolutionary discourse, in the end, ... http://internationalist-perspective.org/blog/2009/03/02/appeal-to-the-pro-revolutionary-milieu/