Drugs: The Other Global War

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Criminal activities
Drugs and dependencies
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Revolutionary Perspectives

The Global Drugs Trade · In recent times, the oil trade has been a principal focus of the communist analysis of imperialism, an analysis which delves beyond appearances and seeks to find the economic justification which motivates all the main players. · However, even if this focus on the economic roots of imperialist activity is entirely correct, there is a powerful case to be made for saying that...

Gaza: Why so Much Violence?

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Fabio Damen
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International relations
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Documents

The Israeli commando operation off the Gaza coast could have been carried out in a thousand different ways. Instead the Netanyahu Government decided on a show of force to the extent where nine activists are dead. They were on a small fleet of 6 ships with 600 participants in a mission to carry humanitarian aid to the inhabitants of Gaza which has been under a unilaterally-declared blockade by...

Berlin: workers report on the strike at TEKEL

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Documents

Our comrades in Turkey at the previously state-owned tobacco and alcohol concern have been in struggle for months, despite massive repression, against wage-cuts, the loss of contractual and social rights and the loss of jobs. Two of the strikers report on their struggle. · Monday 21st June, 19:30 · Galerie Kraftwerk - Rungestr.

From Poland, a letter to FIAT workers

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Documents

(Very gladly we publish below a letter - appeared - written by a group of workers of the Fiat plant in Tychy in Poland. We do not know the source, but the message content is positive. We agree with the denuonce of Marchionne's maneuvers and we appeal to class solidarity at the international level - a prerequisite to overcome this production system that, after dividing us by nationality, imposes...

Beyond Greek Resistance We Need International Solidarity

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Revolutionary Perspectives

In Britain the election is over, and to no-one’s surprise the new coalition will “Con-Dem” us to austerity measures which were not mentioned before the vote (see The First Step Forward is to Unite and Fight in this issue). The pattern is the same across the planet. · Amongst the major industrial areas nowhere is worse affected than the Eurozone, the causes of whose woes we analyse in this issue in...

In Austerity Britain

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British Isles
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2008: Global Crisis
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Revolutionary Perspectives

The First Step Forward is to Unite and Fight · The Crisis is Global · Now the election is over nobody is denying that capitalism faces a global crisis. In fact we are now being prepared by our rulers for an “era of austerity”. There was an initial shiver of panic amongst the ranks of the capitalist class as the financial meltdown of two years ago dramatically revealed the prospect of complete...

Class War at BA: Solidarity not Legality

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British Isles
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Workers' conditions and struggles
Transports
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Revolutionary Perspectives

It is class war at BA. Unfortunately, on our side, the war is being lost because the Unite union calls the shots for the workers. · BA cabin crew, currently striking as we go to press, are under enormous pressure to cave in to the BA management’s demands for job and wage cuts. The capitalist press is constantly attacking them for refusing to see sense and bow to the inevitable or lose their jobs.

Financial Crisis Engulfs the Eurozone

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2010: Greek Debt Crisis
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

Since early February the crisis, which has been developing over the sovereign debts of some of the weaker countries of the Eurozone, has brought the Eurozone countries in particular and the EU in general to a crossroads. · The Eurozone is now faced with the choice of either going forward to real economic federation or seeing the Euro collapse as a shared currency.

Chinese Workers Show Their Class

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Eastern Asia
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Workers' conditions and struggles
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Revolutionary Perspectives

Suicide is Dangerous… for Capitalist Profit · The New York Times announced on 6 June: · "The body of a 19-year-old worker named Ma Xiangqian was found in front of his high-rise dormitory at 4:30 a.m. Police investigators concluded that he had leapt from a high floor, and they ruled it a suicide. His family, including his 22-year-old sister who worked at the same company, Foxconn Technology, said...

BP’s Deepwater Horizon: Capitalism is the Disaster

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Environmentalism
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United States of America
Facts: 
Energy, oil and fuels
Environment and resources
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

As we go to press it has been announced that 7 Indian executives have been found guilty of “criminal negligence” over the Bhopal gas leak which killed between 8 and 15,000 people, and left a further 500,000 suffering from its toxic effects in 1984. They will face a maximum of 2 years in gaol and a fine of £2,100.

The Bolshevik Left and Workers’ Power

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Russian Communist Left
History: 
1917: Russian Revolution
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

(The essay we are publishing here is a translation of the “Présentation” to “La Gauche bolchevique et le pouvoir ouvrier 1919-27” written and published by Michel Olivier as one of three pamphlets which collects together in French many of the documents of the communist left in Russia. The first of these will shortly be published by the Smolny publishing house along with the previously unpublished...

Greece: A Valuable Struggle

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Balkans
History: 
2010: Greek Debt Crisis
Publications: 
Documents

It’s not the Greek debt crisis which has shaken the finances of the Eurozone. The main cause is the international crisis of wild speculation started by the profits crisis. Putting to one side the technical facts of the crisis itself, which we deal with elsewhere, what we are left with is the state of collapse that parasitic capitalism has reached in the final phase of its crisis.

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