The Collapse of Sterling

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(Translated from BC febbraio-marzo 2009, "Il crollo della sterlina: il fronte inglese della crisi economica") · In the early days of February 2009 the Bank of England lowered the lending rate to one percent, a figure that the subjects of her Majesty have not seen since 1694; so more than three centuries had to pass before seeing interest rates so low again.

False Friends and Real Enemies

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And what will they ask for next - blood? · (Leaflet for the national demonstration in Rome 13 Feb 2009) · National Wage Agreements - set at zero. Retire? Well perhaps to the seaside this summer but only on half board - best not overdo it! Security, permanent jobs and a wage rise to bring back our purchasing power? You’ll only see them in TV soaps! The list is endless.

The Problem is Global Capitalism!

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The Solution Lies in the Hands of the International Working Class · (Statement of the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party February 2009) · We are already in the deepest recession since World War Two and even the greatest defenders of capitalism predict it will get worse. Meanwhile they are doing all they can to hide the real cause of this crisis.

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

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The Causes · As the recent “wildcat” strikes by workers at the Total oil refinery have spread, so have the images of them holding up placards with the slogan “British Jobs for British Workers.” The media have covered the story as a racist backlash against foreign workers, but the real situation is far more complex.

Internationalist Workers Group

What’s in our name? · We are internationalist in that we support and call for a world revolution. We are workers. We are a group. · Our political tendency comes from those groups on the left of the Communist International that were expelled forming the first opposition in struggle against the counterrevolution today embodied in Stalinism or “Marxism-Leninism”.

An Anarchist-Communist Worker’s Letter from Athens

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The letter which follows was sent to the Bureau by an anarchist-communist who has been in contact with us for many years. Although the correspondence was intended to be private we felt that it gave important information and raised important issues for the workers’ movement. We asked his permission to publish it which he granted, on condition that we would make a number of things absolutely clear.

The Imperialist Massacre in Gaza

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"They create a desert and call it peace" (Tacitus on Roman imperialism - AD 98) · Even by the standards of the last 60 years the massacre of the innocents in Gaza has no precedent. The killing of 1300 Palestinians of which at least one third are children, the injuring of at least 5000 more, and the attacks on those trying to carry out humanitarian relief, demonstrate a new level of barbarism...

Workers' struggles against unemployment

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(Translation from BC) · Figures on the on the growth of homelessness throughout the United States, due to workers who until recently had a house, but lost it because of debts, or were suddenly fired, are truly alarming. For example in recent months the city of San Francisco has suffered a crisis throughout the legal and hi-tech sectors and city authorities show an increase of 257% in evictions and...

Barack Obama: Bourgeois Savior, Middle Class Messiah

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The election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States has come for many as a welcome change from the politics of the last eight years. Many would have people believe that this Democrat will be fundamentally different from a Republican. Many liberal left elements, the editors of such publications as the Nation or the Progressive Magazine (and even Naomi Klein) present Obama as a...

Repression from the Convention to the Election... and Beyond

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A “National Special Security Event” · (This was originally written during the political conventions before Obama had become president. We publish this as a reminder of the true unity of all capitalist factions when it comes to crushing any expression of protest. Here in the US the two ruling parties have finally held their elections.

Origins of the “Progressives”

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The Death of Third Party, Reformism in the US, Part 1 · Each year, the left reformist party Progressive Dane, whose power base is located in Madison, Wisconsin and in the surrounding County of Dane, hosts a political conference called “Fighting Bob Fest”. What is it about “progressivism” that leftists love so much? Bob LaFollette Jr, the “non-fighting Bob”, took his father’s political fiefdom into...

October 14th Canadian Elections Not a single vote for capitalism!

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(We are publishing this on the Canadian elections of last October.) · The October 14th federal elections are taking place in a particularly serious and complex political context. The financial meltdown that has been shaking the whole world shows no sign of letting up. During the past week, the stock markets have experienced their greatest devaluations of share prices since the 1929 Crash.

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