Janesville GM: The End of a Long Decline

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Janesville GM is set to close its doors in January, 2009. In 1970, when its’ workforce was at its largest, GM employed around 7000 workers at the Janesville plant. · The regional economy is faced with a serious economic crisis, where the state teeters on the edge of bankruptcy and thirty regional banks having posted losses in the second financial quarter of 2008.

While Union Leaders and Democrats Make Speeches

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(Image - South Central Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO) President Jim Kavanaugh speaking October 2 at the Wisconsin State Capitol building - “Gingerbelle” and “Sweet Lorraine” referred to on the signs are the names given to their two newest multi-billion dollar papermaking machines) · Last August the final word went out that the Kimberly paper mill, built in 1889, was closing.

On Certain Recent Developments in Canadian Trade-Unionism

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(Editor’s note: This is wholly in line with many similar statements from union leaders in the US, from John L. Lewis to Andy Stern)

Gaza - The Imperialist Massacre Goes on

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Up to the present, the Israeli operation “Cast Lead” has produced almost 500 dead, many of them civilian, and 2000 wounded, of which half are in a serious condition. It is a butchery which has had few precedents in the unending conflict in the Middle East. The ferocious Israeli reaction to the launch of Qassam and Katyusha rockets by Hamas after 18 months of political and economic isolation has...

Voices from the Struggle in Greece

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(We are publishing here a document we have received by a circuitous route from a group in Athens. We as yet know nothing about this group or the authors but we are making this document more widely known, partially to combat the bourgeois propaganda that what is happening in Greece is just the “mindless violence of people who call themselves anarchists”, and to contribute to a wider struggle...

Capitalism Has Outlived its Usefulness

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Whatever else happens, 2008 will go down as the year when capitalists lost confidence in the market. In a dramatic U-turn, the free market credo that has been shoved down our throats for almost three decades, has been replaced by calls for central banks to inject liquidity, for governments to coordinate fiscal stimuli and generally for the state to pick up the pieces and sort out the consequences...

PCS Strike - Death by a Thousand Delays

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It’s not an easy decision to go on strike. Not only will you get no strike pay from your union, leaving you a day poorer, but your work will have piled up in your absence. Normally one or two day strikes are just enough to hit you in the pocket without doing too much damage to your employer. And at a time when unemployment is rising faster than it has for decades, going on strike isn’t an easy...

Is Capitalism Finished? Report on a CWO Open Meeting

(London, 1st November 2008) · We are publishing here the introduction prepared for the above meeting to make it available to a wider audience. In the introduction to the main speaker one of our comrades outlined the seriousness and the nature of the present crisis. · The seriousness of the crisis is recognised by the main spokesmen of the bourgeoisie, for example the governor of the Bank of...

Is Capitalism Finished?

In March 2006 we wrote in Revolutionary Perspectives 38 in the conclusion of an article on “The New Economy” · "We have had to clarify how capital’s extortion of unpaid labour from the workforce is the real source of wealth and in so doing have found that, far from overcoming its accumulation crisis, not only has the ratio of the value producing workforce to the unproductive workforce increased...

Recession in China - Workers Start to Fight Back

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The Chinese “Miracle” · The myth that was once widely circulated about China was that it has “decoupled” from dependence on the rest of the world economy. This has been well and truly exploded by the capital crisis which has engulfed the world this year. Despite its phenomenal rate of economic growth, China has demonstrated that it is not immune from the economic virus sweeping the globe.

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