The Eurozone Crisis:There is an Alternative but it is not on Any Electoral List

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Crisis
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Europe
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Revolutionary Perspectives

The British Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson once famously remarked that a week is a long time in politics. And indeed it is amazing how quickly the capitalist class can forget. Take how the current phase of the crisis really started. If you read the financial commentators or listen to politicians in any country today, whether in the UK, US or Europe itself you would think the world crisis of...

Putin's Plutocratic Rule Continues

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Democracy and dictatorship
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Russia and Eastern Europe
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Documents

In the Kremlin’s gilded throne room of the Tsars to the tune of Russia’s Stalinist national anthem Vladimir Putin was sworn in as President of Russia last Sunday (May 6). Outside the opposition, mainly professional middle class were taking on the police. The Daily Telegraph described the scene. · Placing his hand on a copy of the constitution, Mr Putin swore to "respect and protect the rights and...

May Day 2012: Empty Ritual or Working Class Celebration?

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Aurora (en)

Over the years the significance of 1 May in Britain as a day of international class solidarity has been lost for the majority of workers in Britain. We don’t even share the same day for celebrating as the rest of the world’s workers. Ever since the introduction of the May Bank Holiday way back in 1978 local May Day parades are spread over the holiday period and rarely occur on May 1st itself.

There is an Alternative But We Need to Fight For It

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Documents

Capitalism and the Cuts · A System in Crisis · Even the ruling class admits that capitalism is in deep crisis. Their speculative bubble has burst and the consequences of their crisis are obvious to everyone. They cannot hide from us the fact that the working class everywhere will have to pay for years in order to get them out of the hole the capitalist order is now in.

Where We Come From - A Brief History

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Documents

The following document is an old introduction to the basic history of the Internationalist Communist Party (Battaglia Comunista) which was founded in 1943 and is the oldest continuously existing organisation of the Communist Left. Its history is now part of the history of the current Internationalist Communist Tendency. Further historical information can be found elsewhere on the site.

Open Letter To Our Fellow Workers in Germany

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Workers' conditions and struggles
Basics: 
Crisis
Politics: 
Communist left inspired
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Documents
Regions: 
Balkans
Central Europe

(The following document was written by comrades in Greece and as a contribution to the internationalist fight of the working class has been translated in to German. It has been distributed as a bilingual leaflet in several factories in Berlin and elsewhere by comrades of the GIS - German affiliate of the Internationalist Communist Tendency) · "Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur [Change the names,...

Down with patriotism - Long live internationalism

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Documents

(Statement on the 25th March Parade in Athens) · A few days ago (7 March) we were watching a sickening spectacle of the events that took place in the parade in the island of Rhodes; a local community which for years has proclaimed money as the highest value in life, embodying in the most characteristic way the modern Greek petty-bourgeois idea of "glamour".

Bradford West: A Victory for Capitalist Democracy

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Documents

The by-election victory of George Galloway has aroused euphoria in sections of the social democratic left (to the left of Labour of course) and islamophobia amongst some sections of the capitalist right. Overall however the real victor has been the capitalist system. · Already myths are being created and nobody can match Gorgeous George himself on that.

Fascist Intimidation in Bolzano

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Documents

Internationalist Solidarity with the Attacked Comrades · On the evening of 18 March two comrades of the “Friends of Spartacus” of Bolzano were attacked by two fascists, one of whom is a well-known militant of the Student Block, youth wing of the fascist organisation “Casa Pound”. Our comrades responded decisively to the attack and the attempt at intimidation failed.

Falklands War = War Against Workers

Facts: 
Conflicts
Basics: 
Imperialism
History: 
1982: Falklands War
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives
Regions: 
South America

The lies of the bosses · Thatcher is lying when she says that troops have been sent to the South Atlantic to defend the rights of British subjects. Galtieri is lying when he says he‘s trying to get rid of British “colonialism”. The lies about the Falkland War are all part of the preparation for World War Three.

Thirty Years On: The Falklands War and the Working Class

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Revolutionary Perspectives

It is now thirty years since the Falklands War took place. Many alive today will have only the vaguest idea about what it was all about. It came at a particularly sharp moment in the economic crisis in Britain and the CWO saw it as a key event at the time. Despite our size we gave out tens of thousands of leaflets calling on workers in both Argentina and Britain to strike against the war and...

Solidarity with the Greek Proletariat

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Workers' conditions and struggles
Publications: 
Documents
History: 
2010: Greek debt crisis
Regions: 
Balkans

The Greek crisis: Bosses united, Workers Divided. For How Much Longer? · For the Greeks, who are paying for the economic catastrophe of their country, their enemies have a name and a surname: They are called the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund, and together form the so-called troika , the capitalist leadership of the Old Continent that won’t allow any further...

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Axe falls on UK disabled
2012-05-14

Half a million people are set to lose their disability benefits under government plans.

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said he was determined to introduce radical reforms to disability allowances which could slash the annual cost by £2.24 billion.

Around 500,000 people in the UK who receive disability living allowance (DLA) could no longer be eligible for the replacement personal independence payment (PIP) under the plans, which are outlined in a report by the Department for Work and Pensions this month.

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Racist police
2012-03-31

A 21-year-old black man records his encounter with police on his mobile phone during his arrest the day after the London riots begin. The recording captures his exchange with two officers after he is handcuffed and put in the back of a police van.

Scotland Yard is facing a racism scandal after a black man used his mobile phone to record police officers subjecting him to a tirade of abuse in which he was told: "The problem with you is you will always be a nigger".

guardian.co.uk

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Forced labour
2012-03-27

VIENNA — An unemployed Austrian man on Monday deliberately sliced off his left foot with a mechanical saw and threw it into an oven ahead of a health check on whether he was fit to work, police said.

When police arrived the "desperate" 56-year-old from Mitterlabill in southern Austria was still conscious but had lost a lot of blood, local police chief Franz Fasching told AFP.

The man had mounted the mitre saw on two stools in his boiler room using nails and removed the guard plate before slicing off the foot above the ankle and around 5:00 am (0300 GMT).

Emergency services "looked in the oven and were able to recover the foot ... The foot was taken the hospital but it was so badly burned that it cannot be sewn back on," Fasching said.

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UK unemployment
2012-02-14

Unemployment could be as high as 6.3 million in the UK if a different counting measure was used, highlighting the true scale of joblessness, according to a new report.

The TUC said the higher figure - more than twice the official total - was revealed using an American measure, which includes people in part-time jobs because they cannot find full-time work and recent redundancies.

money.uk.msn.com

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Spanish unemployment
2012-02-10

For the first time in history, Spanish unemployment is over 5 million, with 5.273.600 without work, 22.85% of the active population.

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India: workers kill company president
2012-01-29

Workers at the Regency Ceramics factory in the Yanam (Andra Pradesh) killed their boss, K. C. Chandrashekhar. They raided his home and beat him with led pipes. This happened after their union leader, M. Murali Mohan, was killed by baton-wielding riot police. Police was called by management to attack a workers' picket line. Workers ask for higher pay and reinstatement of previously laid off workers since October.

forbes.com

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IMF negative outlook
2012-01-25

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slashed its growth forecasts for most major countries, warning the eurozone crisis threatens to pull the global economy into a slump.

It downgraded the world's growth forecast from 4.1% to 3.3%, and cut the UK's growth outlook from 1.6% to 0.6%.

The IMF also expects the eurozone to experience a recession in 2012, with the region's economy shrinking by 0.5%.

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Global growth down for a decade at least say the capitalists
2012-01-19

Until at least the middle of the next decade, global growth is likely to slow to approximately 3 percent per year on average–a rate somewhat below the average of the last two decades. A recovery in advanced economies will be more than offset by a gradual slowdown in emerging ones as they mature, with the net result that global growth will slow. But the biggest risk ahead for the global economy is not this slower overall growth in output but a slowdown in average output per capita, which will determine how fast living standards can be supported and raised.

conference-board.org

The World Bank’s forecasts of world economic growth (Jan 2012) has been “significantly downgraded” from its previous assessment six months ago. It now expected the global economy to expand by only 2.5 percent and 3.1 percent in 2012 and 2013, compared to the previous prediction of 3.6 percent for both years. Any rate below 3 percent is generally considered to be a recession for the world economy as a whole. Europe was now in a recession and growth in high-income countries was expected to be only 1.4 percent. Even these weak results may not be achieved.

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GB leads the world (in inequality)
2011-12-06

The pay gap between the highest and lowest earners in the UK has grown more quickly than in any other high-income country since 1975, a report has said.

Research by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found the sharp increase in income inequality, which began in 2005, leaves Britain well above the group's average.

The study - Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising - published by the forum of 34 countries that earn the most, said the annual average income of the top 10% was almost £55,000 in 2008, nearly 12 times higher than that of the bottom 10%, who earned an average of £4,700. This is up from a ratio of 8 to 1 in 1985, the OECD said.

money.uk.msn.com

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OCT 15 -global protests against "corporate greed and austerity measures"
2011-10-15

ROME (AP) — Protesters in Rome smashed shop windows and torched cars as violence broke out during a demonstration in the Italian capital, part of worldwide protests against corporate greed and austerity measures.

The "Occupy Wall Street" protests that began in Canada and spread to cities across the U.S. moved Saturday to Asia and Europe, linking up with anti-austerity demonstrations that have raged across the debt-ridden continent for months.

Black smoke billowed into the air in downtown Rome as a small group of violent protesters broke away from the main demonstration. They smashed car windows, set at least two vehicles on fire and assaulted two news crews of Sky Italia, the TV reported. Others burned Italian and EU flags

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Aurora #2012-05-01

Aurora is the broadsheet of the ICT for the interventions amongst the working class. It is published and distributed in several countries and languages. So far it has been distributed in UK, France, Italy, Canada, USA, Colombia.

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