The internationalists

(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...

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...

(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...

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.

We are reproducing here for readers of English three contributions made by our Italian comrades of Battaglia Comunista to the current fight against the so-called “reforms” of the right-wing Berlusconi Government. Readers in Britain, and elsewhere, will recognise the nature of the cuts in a state school and university system which has served its purpose for the ruling class.