Mumbai Massacre - Imperialist Manoeuvres Mean More Terror for the Masses

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(Image - Massacre in the railway station) · The appalling carnage in Mumbai was unfortunately not an isolated incident. In Indian terms alone there have been a mounting wave of attacks which since 2004 have killed over 3,600 people. But the phenomenon is global. Since the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York, we have had the London bombings, bombings in a packed commuter train in...

Italy Fighting the Education Cuts

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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.

The War in DR Congo - Behind the Slaughter and Looting Stand Imperialist Interests

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In October a new phase of fighting in the long running Congo war broke out. General Laurent Nkunda’s Tutsi rebel forces captured several towns in the North Kivu province and advanced on the regional capital Goma, the town in which the latest peace agreement was signed only nine months earlier. The general himself modestly announced he intended to march all the way to Kinshasa and overthrow the...

Learning from the German Revolution 1918-19

9 November is an auspicious date in the German historical calendar. The bourgeois press remind us that 70 years ago this was the anniversary of Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) when synagogues were burned and 10,000 Jewish males were marched to Dachau. The first step on the road to genocide. Eighteen years ago it was the day that the GDR authorities announced the dismantling of the...

No Sacrifices for State and Nation: Do Away with Capitalism!

“For us now there is no minimum programme, no maximum programme; socialism is one and the same, that is the minimum we have to achieve today.” (Rosa Luxemburg, Foundation Congress of the Spartakusbund) · It was not so long ago that the free play of the market was commonly considered to be the non plus ultra of economic regulation.

Review: Publications from Left Communists in Turkey

Enternasyonalist Komunist Sol (1) is a group of Turkish Left Communists who have been in existence since 2005. The IBRP has had discussions with them in the past and published some of their material including an exchange of correspondence on imperialism. (2) The EKS have recently published two pamphlets in English, the first giving an historical account of the formation and subsequent defeat of...

Greece: From Anger to Resistance!

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After the deadly police shots aimed at 15 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos, there have been a wave of uprisings across Greece. In almost all cities and every part of the country, the anger at the shots and the cynical attempts by the ruling class to hide the circumstances of Alexandros Grigoropoulos’ death has found an outlet in street battles with the police.

Alitalia Strike - Long Live the "Wildcat" Struggle of Alitalia Workers

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"We want only the best human capital at the lowest possible cost." · So Sabelli, the Alitalia manager, succinctly but clearly expressed the firm’s point of view to a large union delegation a few days ago. The bosses have the unique merit of saying little but saying it clearly. The so-called representatives of the workers instead indulge in endless chatter on the company’s terms.

For a different school, for a different world

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In every society divided into classes, as is the present society, the ruling class has always restricted the dominated and exploited the right to education and study. What they give is only provided because it corresponds to ruling class interests. · Only in the second half of the sixties, when the growth of big business and mass consumption became necessary, access to education was facilitated...

Against “Law 133”, to extend the struggle!

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The academic world is in uproar. At last! - we say - after so many years of torpor despite the many reforms that have gradually increased the class character of that world. The protests in various forms are multiplying throughout the peninsula. While the government is trying to calm the situation, behind the facade it clearly sees the agitation for a situation that could get out of hand.

Lessons from Wall Street

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State intervention won’t kick-start production but it will add to the production of fictitious capital - From Battaglia Comunista 10 - October 2008 · On 3 October 2008 the US legislature approved the $850 billion salvage plan thought up by Treasury Secretary Paulson. This plan is his way of dealing with the dramatic crisis which is bringing the entire world financial system to its knees.

A Social Tsunami is Breaking on the Schools

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Education Minister Gelmini’s Lies · Perhaps it is really true that the only reality we are allowed to see is the false one put out by the television channels, as no-one is surprised any more if tacky television shows, where everything is scripted, are called “reality”. If this is so, why not go so far as to believe Minister Gelmini when he declares while announcing, just before the school year,...

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