Kyrgyzstan - at the Heart of Russian-US Rivalry

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A few hours before the signing of the farcical “nuclear disarmament” agreement between Medvedev and Obama a violent revolt against the pro-American government of Bakiyev broke out. Almost a hundred dead and thousand wounded were left on the streets of the capital, Bishkek. The government fell and was immediately replaced by a “regency” in the person of Roza Otumbayeva, an ex-minister in the same...

Abstentionism

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Introduction · We are publishing again the “Theses on Parliamentarism”. We first published these in 1976 in Revolutionary Perspectives 3 [old series] which has for many years been out of print. We consider it timely to republish these theses for two principal reasons. The first is that the use of democracy as a weapon against the working class and in particular against independent class politics...

Dubai: Mirage of the Land of Plenty

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Dubai is interesting, both because this tiny emirate, with hardly any natural resources, demonstrates all the arrogance of the world bourgeoisie, and because it was very recently hit by the financial bubble, which was already affecting the precarious balance of the global economy. We’ll take a brief look at the economic history of the Emirate, to explain the causes of the bubble, then try to...

Obama regime targets education for massive cuts

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March 4th marked the start of renewed protests against education reform took place in California and across the US. The same day in Milwaukee, protesters were pepper sprayed and 15 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students were arrested at a protest sponsored by new “Students for a Democratic Society”.

Centralised Party, Yes - Centralism over the Party, No!

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(A Document by Onorato Damen) · CWO Introduction · We are presenting here an extract from the book Bordiga, validita e limiti d’una esperienza nella storia della “sinistra italiana” (Bordiga, Strengths and Weaknesses of an Experience in the History of the Italian Left) a collection of writings by Onorato Damen one of the principal architects of the Internationalist Communist Party which was...

The situation in Chile after the earthquake

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Self-organization of the proletarians against the disaster, the lumpen-capitalists and state failure · (By an anonymous comrade) · It would be great, having this means of dissemination, if you could take into account what is happening in Concepción and its surrounding areas and other areas affected by the earthquake.

March 1st: for the unity in struggle of all the exploited

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The attack on immigrant workers is an attack on the entire working class. The response must be solid without ethnic divisions! · (Leaflet given out on the occasion of the “Day Without Immigrants: 24 Hours Without Us”) · The Rosarno Revolt in Calabria briefly brought into the media spotlight the inhuman working and living conditions of the great majority of immigrant workers.

Capitalism’s Global Attacks Demand an International Response

Is the Worst of the Crisis Over? · Two years on and it is difficult to understate the depth of the debt crisis which has followed in the wake of the bursting of the financialisation bubble. As Martin Wolf reported in the Financial Times on January 27 2010; · “According to the IMF’s Global Financial Stability Report of April 2009, total support for the financial system from the governments and...

Remembering Dimitri

(Dimitri Papaioannou died in hospital in Parma on 27 November 2009 from a tumour which had affected his spine and brain. He was only 30 years old. All our comrades, and indeed everyone who had the good fortune to meet him, found him intelligent (he spoke three languages fluently), sympathetic and a real militant.

In Memory of Robert Perreault

Robert Perreault, a Montreal region member of the Internationalist Workers Group died from cancer at 6h00 am. on 11 January 2010. After Bertrand Desaulniers, this is the second IWG comrade to die prematurely during the relatively short existence of our Canadian group. It also follows the premature death in Parma last November of Dimitri Papaioannou (see above), a young member of our Italian...

Against a Global Capitalist Crisis, the Struggle has to be International

In the ideological world-view of the bourgeoisie the crisis is the fault of greedy bankers who took unnecessary risks which did not turn out as they wished. In reality, the bankers played a crucial role in hiding the underlying problem of capitalism, the falling rate of profit, by manufacturing fictitious profit to replace the real thing.

Racism in Italy - The Working Class is a Class of Migrants

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An identical kind of ugly racism holds good for all the advanced economies including those in “Fortress Europe”. We are printing here translations of leaflets our Italian comrades of Battaglia Comunista issued in response to the attacks on immigrant workers spearheaded by the state in the form of the right wing Berlusconi government. · The same features apply in Italy as here.

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