Statement of the WSWS International Editorial Board
Part 3 - This is the urgent political task confronting the international working class
The eruption of the COVID-19 pandemic that began two years ago has intensified the tendencies identified by the ICFI six years ago. The pandemic is a “trigger event” that has accelerated all the fundamental contradictions of contemporary capitalist society.
The present crisis confirms both the analysis of the ICFI six years ago and the conclusions that the statement drew. “A new international movement against war, uniting the great mass of working people and youth in opposition to capitalism and imperialism, must be built,” the ICFI declared. “The same capitalist crisis that produces the insanity of war also generates the impulse for social revolution.”
The present crisis confirms both the analysis of the ICFI six years ago and the conclusions that the statement drew. “A new international movement against war, uniting the great mass of working people and youth in opposition to capitalism and imperialism, must be built,” the ICFI declared. “The same capitalist crisis that produces the insanity of war also generates the impulse for social revolution.”
The statement outlined the following essential political foundations for a movement against war:
The struggle against war must be based on the working class, the great revolutionary force in society, uniting behind it all progressive elements in the population.
The struggle against war must be based on the working class, the great revolutionary force in society, uniting behind it all progressive elements in the population.
The new anti-war movement must be anti-capitalist and socialist, since there can be no serious struggle against war except in the fight to end the dictatorship of finance capital and put an end to the economic system that is the fundamental cause of militarism and war.
The new anti-war movement must therefore, of necessity, be completely and unequivocally independent of, and hostile to, all political parties and organizations of the capitalist class.
The new anti-war movement must, above all, be international, mobilizing the vast power of the working class in a unified global struggle against imperialism.
This is the urgent political task confronting the international working class.
On Saturday, February 26, the World Socialist Web Site is hosting an international online webinar, “Fight COVID and Save Lives! Stop the Drive to World War 3!” We call on all our readers throughout the world to register and make plans to attend this critical international event today.
On Saturday, February 26, the World Socialist Web Site is hosting an international online webinar, “Fight COVID and Save Lives! Stop the Drive to World War 3!” We call on all our readers throughout the world to register and make plans to attend this critical international event today.
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