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Chronology of revolts, revolutions and counter-revolutions in the world
Warning : there are certainly many omissions and we are counting on our readers to help us complete these ephemeris.
We are in the midst of a wave of revolts, revolutions and counter-revolutions and these ephemerides are therefore very topical.
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International revolutionary waves
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The international wave of social revolution (…)

After the Second World War, the far-right dictatorship continued in Portugal, crushing the working class and the entire population and imposing a backward regime and great misery on the population, who were forced to emigrate. The prospect of becoming part of a rapidly expanding bourgeois Europe was not enough for the bourgeoisie to take the plunge. There was a problem : what would the working class do once the struggle to overthrow the regime began ? It was not the bourgeoisie, nor even its (…)

THE LENINIST ATTITUDE TO WAR
What is our attitude to War ? We say to the Youth that it is “Turn Imperialist War into Civil War.” I shall not attempt to explain it. Lenin has done so in words which are the simplest and clearest that we know stating our position. Here they are :
Every war implies violence against nations, but that does not prevent the Socialist from being in favour of a revolutionary war. The class character of the war – that is the fundamental question which confronts the (…)

The Main Lessons of the American Revolution
0°) The United States is the product of two revolutions : that of Independence (1775-1783) and that of Secession (1861-1865) or anti-slavery and democratic revolution. On July 4, 1776, the delegates of the thirteen English colonies of North America proclaimed independence at the Congress of Philadelphia. They created an independent republic, after having seceded from England. Even if the proclamation of the rights of man and of the citizen (…)

What is our demand ? We want... EVERYTHING ! What democratic reform ? We want all the power ! Wealth and power belong to the working people, the billionaires and their State have stolen them from us, we are only taking them back ! Their police and their army do not defend us : they only serve the financiers ! Let’s tear down all the barriers that prevent us from expressing ourselves, from existing, from living and from deciding !!!
Some good minds find it demagogic to question the "rule of (…)

The newspaper "Los Angeles Magazine" headlined : "Power of the people, not the crown" as millions of protesters chanted "No king !" across the United States.
In the face of inter-imperialist crimes (Gaza, Ukraine, Syria, Yemen, Iran, etc.) : the Los Angeles riots... a prelude to those around the world
The timeline of the June riots in Los Angeles (USA)
The Los Angeles riots, which began on June 6, are the most combative episode of the working class in the world recently, at a time of (…)

The revolutionary socialist perspective, a myth?
Is socialism, the new dominant system established by a proletarian revolution, a myth?
Both reformists and false revolutionaries agree on one point: we must be realistic, we are not ready for socialism. Instead of asking whether capitalism is close to its final fall, they claim that socialism is not close to its advent! They deny the objective nature of the necessity of socialism (due to the need to offer an alternative to a capitalism (…)

The number one goal of the revolutionary workers : the soviets and their seizure of power
No other perspective for the world than the revolutionary power of workers organized in soviets (which requires the destruction of capitalist state power)
With all due respect to the lackeys of capitalism, the reactionaries, the reformists, the pessimists, the skeptics, the anti-communists, the anti-Bolsheviks, the anti-Trotskyists, the false Trotskyists, the opportunists, the leftists and the (…)

Young people who refuse to become victims of unemployment, poverty, dictatorship, fascism, cannon fodder for the next world war, who do not want to submit to an increasingly unjust and violent social and political order...
You will be told that it is not a few young people, even if they are waving good ideas, who will change the world, who will stop the march towards world war, who will prevent the militarization of society, who will avoid the economic, financial, and social crash, who (…)

A new Nazism appears with the new collapse of capitalism. Economic and social decay brings back the rottenness of governments...
Never again, they said after Hitler ! Never again the systematic elimination of a people ! Never again a wandering people driven from their land and condemned to walk, walk to escape the horror, the mass violence under the pretext of ethnicity ! Never again a "final solution" aimed at eradicating an entire population for racial, religious or national reasons ! (…)