The following thoughts were presented at an international meeting in September 2023 Today we will discuss aspects of the current global situation, such as the war in Ukraine, the mobilisation against climate change and the block confrontation between the US and China. I start this introduction to the global moment by talking about the pandemic,| Angry Workers
At our internal meeting in Sheffield in February 2023 we agreed on a collective effort to understand the current wars from a concrete empirical, historical and political-economic perspective. At the meeting itself we primarily revisited the historical context of 'revolutionary defeatism' and engaged with an empirical chronology of the last 100 days of war in| Angry Workers
This week the Bank of England raised the interest rates once more, now reaching the highest level in 14 years. But what politics hide behind this ‘economic measure’? In the global context we can see that these measures are part of a currency war, where each economic block tries to protect their market, even if| Angry Workers
We translated these points from German. They are indeed very general points, but perhaps they have to be made in these times. We don't adhere to an 'uncompromising pacifism', but insist on the need for proletarian mass violence and autonomous guerilla action against state oppression as a tactical means distinct from military and national warfare.| Angry Workers