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(Leaflet for a demo in Sheffield, UK) · Iranian ruling class splits · On the one side - those sectors which more or less look to the family of the Ayatollah Rafsanjani (one of the richest and most powerful in the country), who are tired of the limitations on economic activity imposed by international sanctions and want a greater opening towards outsiders.

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The 10th Iranian Presidential Elections 2009

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(The following text was written a few days ago by an Iranian comrade of the IBRP to explain the origins of the current crisis, A further text is planned to explain the predicament of the working class in Iran today which will also include some indications on the way forward for workers in this crisis.

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Neither Ahmadinejad nor Moussavi - Long Live Class Struggle!

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(We received the following document from a courageous Iranian internationalist. As far as we understand he has sent it to a number of internationalist left communist organisations and his position is one we would fully endorse (even if we would have liked more on the concrete organisational issues such as existing class organisations and the need for an independent political organisation of the...

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Iran at the Crossroads

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Democracy and dictatorship

Bourgeois rivalries and the recomposition of imperialist alliances behind the Iranian crisis · As we write demonstrations are taking place in Tehran and other Iranian cities which are being brutally attacked by the police, flanked by paramilitaries (from the Basiji; A type of militia incorporated into the Pasdaran or Revolutionary Guards) so it is as yet difficult to see how events will unfold.

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Fascism and the British National Party

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1925-27: Canton and Shanghai Revolt

To answer the basic question - what is fascism? It is essentially, the response of the ruling class to the working class under certain conditions when the normal approach of the pseudo-democratic method of domination has ceased to function. As such fascism is not really another form of society, it is not revolutionary, it maintains the rule of the class which ruled before it.

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China 1925-1927

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(This article is translated from Prometeo 16 – VI series – December 2007) · For Trotsky the Chinese Revolution of 1925-27 was the most grandiose event after October 1917. It should therefore cast light on aspects which bear on the contemporary situation, given that it anticipated the Spanish experience by 10 years – without the lessons provided by the Chinese proletariat being learnt – and that...

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Capitalism Has No Future

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Russia and Eastern Europe

Time for us to Stop Making Sacrifices - Let’s Organise and Fight for a Better World! · (May Day 2009 Statement of the IBRP) · It’s Their Crisis · This First of May comes at a time of dramatic crisis for the world working class. In just three months fifty million people worldwide have lost their jobs. In the USA 32.

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The ARS on the Kherson Revolt

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IBRP Introduction · We are very pleased to have received this translation (made by the comrades themselves) from the Alliance of Revolutionary Socialists (SRS) from Russia. Although we have some political differences the method of presentation of this description and analysis of the significant Kherson Revolt in February in the Ukraine is very similar to our own.

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Time to Turn "the Spectre" into Reality

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“A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism ...” (The Communist Manifesto, 1848) · With even The Daily Telegraph titillating its conservative readers with the prospects of “rage on the streets” this summer, there have been a plethora of journalistic warnings that financial meltdown will be followed by social meltdown.

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Energy Construction Workers' Strikes in Britain - A First Response to the Economic Crisis

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Workers' conditions and struggles

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Unite - or Divide? The Aftermath of the Lindsey Oil Refinery Strike

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Nationalism and the Unions · In the aftermath of the Lindsey oil refinery strike, the Unite General Secretary (for the ex-Amicus bit), Derek Simpson was pictured (between two models) on the front page of the reactionary Daily Star holding a Union Jack with the “British Jobs for British Workers” on it.

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The List that Did Exist

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