The internationalists

(As we go to press the struggles in France show no sign of dying down. We cannot do full justice to all that is going on but we can give a flavour of what is happening behind the headlines in this leaflet from Toulouse. It shows that at least some workers recognise the fact that ritual responses are not enough against an intractable and increasingly desperate class enemy.

Like someone who's been found guilty of a crime they did not commit, the working class bemusedly finds itself in the state penitentiary waiting for further punishment to be doled out. While Cameron and Osborne chant the market mantra of the need to 'cut the budget deficit' they pick and choose where the axe will fall.

With the austerity measures about to really kick in this autumn some sections of the working class such as those on London Underground are already showing signs of fighting back. As ever the ruling class are anticipating this by stepping up their propaganda campaign by talking of “union power” and “the winter of discontent”.

Contemporary Britain is a multiethnic, multi-cultural society and in keeping with the doctrines of political correctness we are told to celebrate and respect the cultures of all national, ethnic and religious groups, especially those that originate in the ‘third world’. · And if we are supposed to respect all cultures no matter how stupid and reactionary they may be, why can’t we also celebrate...

ICT Introduction · The global drive against the world working class in the name of budget rectitude (as demanded by the same “markets” that brought the huge state debts in the first place) has taken a slightly different form in the US since the Federal Government has been baling out the bankers whilst local states have been cutting their spending.