Beyond Pay, Beyond the Classroom, the Educational Crisis is the Capitalist Crisis

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Education Strikes · More than a Pay Dispute · On the 24th April approximately 400,000 public sector workers came out on strike, mainly teachers, lecturers, civil and public servants, angry at the government's pay policy which everyone knows is way below the real rate of inflation and therefore represents pay cuts. For schoolteachers it was the first strike in over twenty years.

A New Workers' Party or an Old Labour Party?

A long-time correspondent recently wrote to us asking us if we intended to send any delegates to a meeting in London at the end of June organised by the "Campaign for a New Workers Party". We had received no invitation to the meeting but we have been aware for some time of this initiative. One of the great needs of our time is for workers to create a political instrument which can give...

The Economic Crisis is Structural, Deep-Seated and World Wide

Even though we knew that it was something more devastating than a mere soap bubble, when the subprime crisis first broke out we could not have envisaged how much worse it would get in such a short time. · Unprecedented State Aid ...For the Bankers · A few weeks ago the US monetary authorities took the unprecedented decision to lend Morgan Chase a stack of dollars at an almost zero rate of interest...

Fuelling the Food Crisis: Biofuels… and Imperialism

(Image - Malnutrition is already endemic across the world, without further food price increases) · At a time when global food prices are rising anyway, due to the short-term effects of freak weather conditions1 in key crop-growing areas like Australia, Canada and the Ukraine, and the long-term effects of the increased demand for meat and dairy products (which require far more grain for animal...

The Zimbabwe Crisis and Chinese Imperialism in Africa

(Image - South African Daily Sun urges its readers to consider themselves lucky, as the local “rats of higher prices” don’t have the same appetite as the Zimbabwean ones) · The Importance of Zimbabwe · The Zimbabwe elections in March have once again brought the Zimbabwe situation onto the front pages of the bourgeois press.

Persepolis

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Persepolis is the film version of Marjane Satrapi's graphic autobiographical novel (i.e. comic book) of the same name. It tells the story of Marjane and her middle class leftist family, from the overthrow of the Shah, through the heady days of the “February Revolution” of 1979 (1) and the creation of the Islamic Republic, to the Iran-Iraq war, and Marjane's subsequent self-imposed exile...

Capitalist Food Crisis: A Feast for Speculators, A Turning Point in the Class Struggle?

(Image - Given the determination of the Egyptian working class to fight their own cause this is not going to be the last of the present wave of class struggle) · In the space of a few months, the myth that there not only is no alternative to capitalism, but that there is no need for change has been shattered.

Support for workers at the FIAT factory of Pomigliano

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(We are publishing here, as received, a communiqué from our Italian comrades calling for support for workers at the FIAT factory of Pomigliano (NA). Workers at FIAT are experiencing the same attacks that workers in the auto industry worldwide are facing. An attack initiated by capitalists in the US will find its malevolent reflection as the auto industry itself scrambles to similarly shed itself...

May Day 2008 - Against Capitalism’s Onslaughts, International Class Struggle

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(We start here with our collective yearly May Day statement, published belatedly here. This English language version is produced by the Internationalist Workers Group, the North American affiliate of the IBRP) · Another May Day surrounded by conflict: imperialist wars between capitalist rivals and class war, with the world’s rulers united against the working class and the poorest people on the...

Editorial: Obama and the Electoral Circus Sideshow

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In the US left capitalism is using the rabidly militaristic Bush regime as a rallying cry to mobilize massive layers of the population behind a more articulate voice for American imperialism. Barack Obama, who is nothing more than a replacement hood ornament on the machine of American capitalism. One that is far more polished and palatable to the capitalist class than the current occupant of the...

Capitalists Get a Debt Injection

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Since the Great Depression there have been eleven small to medium recessions, the most severe one lasting roughly from 1979 to 1982. Unlike these relatively small cyclical recessions the current foundations of the US economy are far less stable. Mortgage debt now exceeds home equity for the first time since 1945. Housing prices dropped 10 percent nationwide over the last year.

Marines Invade Toledo!

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US Militarism Plans for Repression · Plans against urban uprisings and "domestic terrorism" are proceeding apace in the US with a Marine Corps exercise sending troops into Toledo, Ohio, for the purposes of anti-terrorism training. The object of such exercises is not military training, but political theater and intimidation of workers by the capitalist class.

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