The internationalists

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.

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...

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...

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.

(Image - Port Au Prince before the earthquake) · It’s still not known exactly how many people died in the earthquake of January 12, but current estimates are that over 200,000 people have lost their lives. Reuters announced that figure could jump to 300,000 once all the bodies are recovered. A further 250,000 are said to be wounded and one and a half million people are estimated to be homeless.