The internationalists

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.