The internationalists

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...

(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...

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...

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.

Against All Imperialisms and All Racial, Religious and Nationalist Traps · (This comes from an Italian comrade who writes about the increasingly explosive situation in both Tibet and China and speaks against the knee-jerk leftist support of nationalism and national liberation movements, and against a left that ignores workers when they go on strike but cheers them when they wave flags and attack...