The G8 Soap Opera in L’Aquila

Publications: 

Behind the scenes lies only exploitation and environmental degradation · A devastating social and economic crisis, a land tormented by natural disaster but made worse by speculative construction, where politicians who have put people and places hit by the earthquake under military control in order to carry out their so-called reconstruction without too many prying eyes.

Honduras

Regions: 
Publications: 

The Facts · On Sunday 28 June 2009 the President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya was deposed by a military coup. He was deported to Costa Rica after being picked up in his office in Tegucigalpa. Having arrived at his destination under military control, he immediately declared on the Telesur TV channel that, despite the official condemnations by Clinton and Obama himself, the American government was...

Capitalism is a State-sponsored Ponzi Scheme

Is the economic crisis over? Many capitalists think it is. World stock markets have been rising, some banks are trying to pay parts of their government bailouts back and investment banks are now claiming they are making a profit again. The economic pundits of capitalism are so relieved that they are now arguing whether the international bail out was necessary in the first place.

The Working Class are Paying for the Capitalist Crisis

Regions: 

A Tale of Our Time · The case of the Neville (1) plant in County Durham is typical. · A paternalist firm with no union founded in 1983 on a trading estate on a former coal mining site. The original partners have now taken a backseat and left control of the company to 5 directors. It had a full order book until last summer when the speculative bubble burst.

MPs’ Expenses Scandal

Regions: 

The System is Bankrupt in Every Sense · Previously in the pages of Revolutionary Perspectives we have described the inevitable link between the economic crisis of capitalism and the social crisis as relentless pressure has undermined the most basic structures of capitalist society, including the family, the education system and obviously the world of work.

The Bankruptcy of General Motors = the Bankruptcy of Capitalism

In the 1950s the slogan of US capitalism was “what was good for General Motors was good for America”. This was when General Motors (GM) was the biggest, most successful and most admired (at least by other capitalists) multi-national in capitalist history. But that was at the height of the post-war boom when, in “the greatest secular boom in capitalist history” as J.K.

FIAT-Chrysler’s Historic Agreement a Sign of the Crisis

People: 

The Workers Always Pay the Price · Its all sorted and everything turned out fine ... well almost. FIAT will provide the American firm with the technology for the production of small vehicles with low petrol consumption, competitively priced and ecologically sound. This will give Chrysler an opening in the European and Southern African markets whilst FIAT gets access to NAFTA (the North American...

FIAT - The Anti-Union Protest in Turin

Regions: 

Saturday 16 May in the workers’ demonstrations for jobs and the future of FIAT workers the anger of the Pomigliano and Nola workers exploded. The latter after a hard struggle ignored by the media were put in a “marginal department” in an agreement signed by FIAT and the unions. (1) Today the situation has worsened and the whole Pomigliano plant is in danger of closure as a result of the crisis in...

Fiat Pomigliano - Corporate Terrorism

Regions: 

Right on cue, and exactly one year after the dispute of the 316 (see Revolutionary Perspectives 46 and 47), whilst they are talking about the closure of the whole plant and are preparing new layoff plans the indictment of the most politicised workers who led the struggle against expulsion from the factory has been issued.

The Af-Pak War - Civil War in Pakistan

Facts: 

The Great Game in Central Asia - US Imperialism Increases its Stakes · In May the Pakistani military started a full scale military offensive in the Swat valley against militants of the so-called Pakistani Taliban. Swat is part the mountainous north/west of the country in the administrative region called Malakand.

The Obama Speech: New Words, Old Policies

People: 

In Cairo University’s Great Hall the grandiloquence of the American President was lavish. That Obama is a great orator is well-known, but in order to understand the real message behind the rhetorical exercise, we need to take into account three things. · The first is that US President is caught up in the most severe economic crisis since the Second World War with all the problems that brings, not...

Midlands Discussion Forum Meeting

Regions: 

(Birmingham, 25 April 2009) · The document which follows is our initial contribution to the above meeting. It was written at the request of the Midlands Discussion Forum (MDF) which organised a meeting of revolutionary tendencies in Birmingham on 25 April 2009. The invitation was: · “At a time when even our rulers admit the current crisis will be worse than the Great Depression, a heavy...

Pages

Recent posts

Contact us

  • uk@leftcom.org (UK)
  • it@leftcom.org (Italia)
  • de@leftcom.org (Deutschland)
  • us@leftcom.org (US)
  • ca@leftcom.org (Canada)
  • fr@leftcom.org (France)
  • info@leftcom.org
  • Subscribe to Front page feed