Communication Workers’ Union Sabotages Postal Workers’ Struggle

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Déjà vu · On the night of 4-5 November the leadership of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) carried out their own plot to blow up the workers’ resistance to the one of the most aggressive managements in Britain. The postal strikes were called off in the early evening of 4 November but the actual agreement with the Royal Mail management was not signed until after 1.00 a.m. on 5 November.

Nationalism against the Working Class

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Nationalism
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British Isles
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Revolutionary Perspectives

The rise of the British National Party (BNP), the fact that it could muster a million votes in recent euro elections, that it has returned two Euro MPs, that its leader Nick Griffin has appeared on BBC’s Question Time whilst at the same time racially aggravated incidents are rising coincides with the naked crisis of global capitalism, most obviously felt here in the UK and elsewhere in terms of...

The Berlin Wall Still Building Propaganda

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The fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago heralded a new era, a Golden Age of capitalism. · Communism was dead, the Cold War was over and years of peace and prosperity lay ahead. At least that’s what workers were told at the time. When Gorbachev embarked on the road of Perestroika and Glasnost in the ‘80’s, little did he realize where it would end.

Environmental Disaster or Communism There is No Third Way

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Copenhagen Fiasco · The United Nations Climate Change Conference, to be held in Copenhagen in mid December, has been billed as one of the most important meetings of world leaders ever. Its president Connie Hedegaard declared that; · “If the whole world comes to Copenhagen and leaves without making the needed political agreement, then I think it’s a failure that is not just about climate.

The Thirtieth Anniversary of the Death of Onorato Damen

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Italian Communist Left
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Davide Casartelli
Onorato Damen
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1925: Comitato d'Intesa
1943: P.C.Internazionalista
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(4th Dec. 1893 - 14 Oct. 1979) · “Without the revolutionary party, every revolt will exhaust itself within the system.” · Onorato Damen was one of the most representative and prestigious figures of the International Communist Left. When still very young, he fought against revisionism in the PSI and the opportunism of Turati, Treves and Modigliani.

Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism and Revisionism

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1933-45: Nazism
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Discriminations
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(From Prometeo 1 Series VII · On Monday 16 November Channel 4 put out a Dispatches programme entitled “Inside Britain’s Israel Lobby” which revealed not only that millions of pounds were being channelled to both major political parties by the Zionist lobby (as it should have been more correctly called) but also that there were news operations purporting to work in Britain which operated out of an...

The Power of Yes, by David Hare

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This play, which opened at the National Theatre in October is about the financial crisis or as Hare puts it, the four days when “capitalism ceased to function”. The author admits it is not a play but an attempt to tell a story. It is poor theatre in the normal sense. It is instead a type of intellectual journey in which the author attempts to discover why, on 15 September 2008 capitalism ceased...

The Fall in the Average Rate of Profit - the Crisis and its Consequences

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Fabio Damen
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Crisis
Exploitation and accumulation
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Revolutionary Perspectives

(From Prometeo 1 Series VII, July 2009 - In our last issue we published an article from Prometeo, the theoretical journal of Battaglia Comunista (PCInt) on the cost of the crisis so far for to the working class. Here we present a second article from that issue on the same theme of the economic crisis, this time on the prospective for the capitalist crisis whose underlying cause is not financial...

Learning from the Revolutionary Experience in Russia

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1917: Russian Revolution
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Revolutionary Perspectives

(Review: “The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-24 Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite” by Simon Pirani, Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2009, 289 pages, paperback, £26 or thereabouts) · "It is not a matter of this or that secondary question of tactics, but of the capacity for action of the proletariat, the strength to act, the will to power of socialism as such.

The “Istituto Onorato Damen” - A Small Clarification

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PCInt-ICT
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Documents

(From Battaglia Comunista 9 - 2009) · An association taking the name “Istituto Onorato Damen” was formed on 30 April of this year. The association was formed by comrades who for several years were the Catanzaro section of the Internationalist Communist Party. These comrades were formally expelled from the organisation on 10 May at the AGM (1) but largely because the, by now, ex-section of...

The International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party becomes the Internationalist Communist Tendency

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PCInt-ICT
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Documents

(Report on the Milan Meeting of the IBRP 26-27 September 2009) · When the Bureau was founded in 1983-4 we set out some clear guidelines to which we have adhered to this day. · 1. We were not the party, nor even a prefiguration of that party, but an organisation to which those wishing to be part of the fight for a future international and centralised party of the working class could adhere in order...

To End War We Have to End the System That Causes It

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Central Asia
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2001: War in Afghanistan
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Conflicts
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Aurora (en)

Across the world many people will be joining the demonstrations against this war in Afghanistan and many others that are wreaking havoc around the planet. There is no doubting their sincerity. There is much to protest about. Since the so-called “end of history”, and the “new world order” were announced in 1990, millions have been massacred around the globe.

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