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Revolutionary Marxist journal Revista Marxista Revolucionaria World Revolution Revolución Mundial World Revolution …The First International laid the foundation of the proletarian, internatio- nal struggle for socialism. The Second International marked a period in Revolución Mundial which the soil was prepared for the broad, mass spread of the movement in For the refoundation of the Fourth International o a number of countries. The Third International has gathered the fruits of the Issue 1 / N 1 work of the Second International, discarded its opportunist, social-chauvi- Por la refundación de la Cuarta Internacional Autumn / Otoño 2018 nist, bourgeois and petty-bourgeois dross, and has begun to implement the dictatorship of the proletariat. …The epoch-making signicance of the Third, Communist International lies in its having begun to give eect to Marx’s cardinal slogan, the slogan which sums up the centuries-old development of socialism and the working-class movement, the slogan which is expressed in the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Mundial / Revolución Revolution World Spring 1919 V. I. Lenin …To say that the building of the new International is “untimely” is the same as to declare that the class struggle, and in particular the struggle against war, is untimely. In the present epoch, proletarian policy cannot but place before itself international tasks. International tasks cannot but demand the welding together of international cadres. This work cannot be deferred even for one day without capitulation to imperialism. Of course, no one can predict just when the war will break out and at what stage it will nd the building of new parties and of the Fourth International. We must do everything possible to make the preparation for the proletarian Why “World Revolution”? World Panorama revolution move faster than the preparation for a new war. ¿Por qué “Revolución Mundial”? Panorama Mundial Savas Michael-Matsas Jorge Altamira Spring 1935 L. D. Trotsky Are China and Russia imperialist? Argentina under IMF ¿China y Rusia son imperialistas? Argentina bajo del FMI Levent Dölek Gabriel Solano Karl Marx and the future Das Kapital and communism Karl Marx y el futuro El Capital y el comunismo Savas Michael-Matsas Sungur Savran October revolution and women La revolución de octubre y las mujeres Marxism and women Armağan Tulunay El Marxismo y las mujeres Estudios sobre el imperialismo Viglieca, Frencia, Altamira Studies on imperialism The strategy of the CP of Uruguay: 1968-1973 Daniel Gaido La estrategia del PC del Uruguay: 1968-1973 Autumn / Otoño 2018 Autumn Resolution of the Euro-Med Conference Nicolás Marrero Resolución de la Conferencia Euro-Med Revolutionary Marxist Journal World Revolution September 2018 Contents / Indice 3 Savas Matsas Why “World Revolution”? / ¿Por qué “Revolución Mundial”? World situation / Situación Mundial 17 Jorge Altamira World Panorama / Panorama Mundial 49 Levent Dölek The Character of War in 21st Century: Are China and Russia a target or a side of the war? / El carácter de la guerra en el siglo XXI: ¿China y Rusia son imperialistas? 73 Gabriel Solano Argentina under the tutelage of the IMF/ Argentina bajo la tutela del FMI Bicentenary of Marx / Bicentenario de Marx 99 Savas Michael-Matsas Karl Marx and the future / Karl Marx y el futuro 115 Sungur Savran Das Kapital: The book for communism / El Capital y el comunismo Women’s Emancipation / Emancipación de las mujeres 153 Armağan Tulunay The land of the October revolution: a country of women walking on the road to emancipation / La tierra de la revolución de octubre: el país de las mujeres en el camino de la emancipación 209 Olga Viglieca, Cintia Frencia, Jorge Altamira Marxism and the liberation of the working class women / El Marxismo y la liberación de la mujer trabajadora History / Historia 263 Daniel Gaido Studies on imperialism (I) / Estudios sobre el imperialismo (1° parte) 301 Nicolás Marrero The strategy of the Communist Party of Uruguay between 1968-1973 / La estrategia del Partido Comunista del Uruguay entre 1968-1973 International Activity / Actividad Internacionalista 333 Resolution of the Euro-Mediterranean Conference (Erethria) /Resolución de la Conferencia Euro Mediterranea (Erethria) Revolutionary Marxist Journal Foreword World Revolution Why “World Revolution”? September 2018 Savas Michael-Matsas1 The international working class and all popular, oppressed, exploited, impover- ished and socially excluded masses all over the world are experiencing social dev- astation, war, mass migration, fierce battles on multiple fronts, a permanent struggle for life. The drama is not ending. The greatest challenges in history are in front. Ten years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the world financial meltdown and the Depression that followed, the still unresolved global capitalist crisis- “the worst in history” according to Ben Bernanke, former Chairman of the US Federal Bank- leads through convulsions towards new explosions. The extraordinary measures taken by central banks and governments (“quantita- tive easing”, near zero or negative interest rates, stimulus packages etc) to halt the descent into the abyss failed to provide a viable exit from the on-going catastrophe. They produced, on the contrary, new, monstrous speculative “bubbles”, worse than those that burst in 2007-2008, huge time bombs ready to explode with enormous social and political implications. The attempts of the capitalists to avoid the coming threats by turning into a reverse course, by ending quantitative easing, globally rais- ing interest rates etc. as well as the rise of economic nationalism, protectionism and the escalation of trade and currency wars internationally, brings nearer the fall to new depths of depression. Argentina’s and Turkey’s economies and currencies in free fall are only the first advanced signs of the thunderstorm coming on the global arena. The much celebrated “globalization” of capital led to the globalization of all its contradictions and finally to its own implosion. In the Bicentenary of Karl Marx’ birth, his analysis and prognosis, in his magnum opus Das Kapital, find their most dramatic historical vindication: “The real barrier of capitalist production is capital itself”. The insolubility of the crisis is strenghtening both the tendency towards imperi- alist war as well as the tendency towards social upheavals, popular rebellions- and revolution. The international world order, as it was established after World War II, is falling apart under the impact of the global crisis and the sharpening imperialist antago- nisms and international conflicts. No capitalist institution, national or international, will remain intact. Trump’s America downsized the Trans Pacific Partnership(TPP), is threatening 1 Savas Michael Matsas is the General Secretary of EEK (Workers’ Revolutionary Party) and a writer in newspaper Nea Prooptiki (New Perspective), and one of the founders of the Christian Rakovsky Balkan Socialist Center and RedMed web network. 3 World Revolution September 2018 Canada and Mexico with dissolution of NAFTA, is accelerating the disintegration of the EU, even the existence of NATO is being put under question. Donald Trump and his policies are not an isolated case of insanity but the symptom, the brutal manifes- tation of the historical forces of disintegration unleashed by US and world capitalism in advanced decay. The European Union has entered an on-going irreversible process of decomposi- tion: the Eurozone debt crisis, Greece, Brexit, Salvini’s Italy, the splits between East- ern and Western, Northern and Southern Europe, the breaking up of the French-Ger- man axis of the EU with a political regime crisis in both countries. From the war volcano of the Middle East to the Balkans and the Eastern border- lands of Europe in Ukraine, from the Caucasus to Central Asia to South China Sea and Korea, imperialism is already in confrontation, directly or indirectly, with Russia and China to fragment and re-colonize them, absorbing them in world capitalism. From the other side, a new upsurge of the masses is on the way. In the Middle East and North Africa, despite the retreat of the initial revolutionary tide and the inferno of imperialist aggression and wars, there is a series of revolts in 2018 against social misery and unemployment in Tunisia, Morocco, Iran, Iraq, Jor- dan, the Great March of Return of the Palestinian youth in Gaza, even mass mobili- zations in Israel itself against the new apartheid style Basic State Law. It is becoming clear, including in IMF reports, that the driving forces that produced the 2011 revolu- tions are still at work. In Europe, polarization manifests itself by regime crises, the rise of the far right, and the decay of bourgeois democracy, from the one side, and, from other side, the unrest among the resisting masses: continuing workers struggles in France against the anti-labor laws, the Catalan national crisis and the fall of the right wing Rajoy gov- ernment in Spain, the popular revolt in Romania against the corrupt government etc. In Latin America, the exhaustion, decline and fall of the “national-popular” bour- geois governments do not correspond to an exhaustion of the revolutionary poten- tial as the struggles in Brazil against the right wing coup, the tremendous women’s movement in Argentina for the right to a legal, safe and free abortion against the collusion of the State and the Church or the popular rebellion and overthrow of the government in Haiti demonstrate. The central question posed