Five Years since the Occupation of Iraq

History: 
2003: Second Gulf War
Publications: 
Aurora (en)

Capitalist Terror: War Without End · Five years ago 10 million people around the world marched against the impending war in Iraq. An unprecedented 2 million marched in London alone. It was a massive rejection of all the lies spread by the Bush and Blair regimes. People then did not have to wait for “dodgy dossiers” to know that there were no weapons of mass destruction, there was no support for Al...

Only the World Working Class Can Halt Imperialist War

Regions: 
Middle East
History: 
2003: Second Gulf War
Publications: 
Aurora (en)

February 15th 2003 · Reflecting on the failure of the huge demonstration in 2003 to stop Britain going into Iraq, Andrew Murray, Chair of the Stop the War Coalition, argued that even though the demonstration had not stopped this war it might stop the next. It would be comforting if it were true, but unfortunately it is not.

US Imperialism’s Hundred Years War?

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Middle East
History: 
2003: Second Gulf War
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Imperialism
Facts: 
Conflicts
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

(Image - McCain: ready for 100 years’ war) · Imperialism: Five Years since the Invasion of Iraq · The Costs of the War · Since the US invasion Iraq five years ago this month almost 4000 US military personnel have been killed and another 29 000 wounded. Against that, almost 1 200 000 Iraqis have been killed and 4.5 million Iraqis are refugees.

Capitalist Equality Means Low Pay for All

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Workers' conditions and struggles
Contracts and wages
Discriminations
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

"Instead of the conservative motto, “A fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work!” they ought to inscribe on their banner the revolutionary watchword, “Abolition of the wages system!”" (Marx, Value, Price and Profit) · Reformism, as the old saying goes, is a great idea in theory, it just doesn’t work in practice.

Death at Work: Capitalism is Bad for Your Health

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Workers' conditions and struggles
Health and social assistance
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

The following article was inspired by the paper of the Italian affiliate of the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party, Battaglia Comunista (January 2008). It reported on the dangers faced by miners around the world, every day. Much of what follows is directly translated from the article. However, the very direct threat of working underground and relying on the capitalist bosses to...

Germany: Solidarity with our Transport Worker Comrades

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Central Europe
Facts: 
Workers' conditions and struggles
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

(Image - Demonstration of BVG workers and sympathisers) · Striking is the Only Language the Bosses Understand! · (We translate below a leaflet produced by the GIS (Gruppe Internationalister SozialistInnen), a group in Germany with which we have fraternal relations. It concerns a strike on the BVG (Berliner Verkehrsgesellschaft, which runs local transport in Berlin).

Food and Fuel Price Rises: Inflation Returns to Centre Stage

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Energy, oil and fuels
Food
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

(Image - Mexican demonstration against rising maize and tortilla prices) · Whatever else has changed with the advent of today’s global, supposedly free-market capitalism, in-built inflation remains a fact of life. It was the “runaway” inflation of the 1970s and 1980s which encouraged the advanced capitalist states - those with the lowest rate of accumulation - to go global and abandon attempts to...

Re-Reading Marx in the Light of the Sub-Prime Crisis

Politics: 
Marxism
People: 
Giorgio Paolucci
Basics: 
Crisis
Financialization
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

(From Prometeo 16 Series VI - 2007) · Despite the central banks literally bleeding themselves white to satisfy the financial markets’ demands for liquidity, the financial crisis which exploded last August has now engulfed the world economic system. · Previously optimistic forecasts for the future of the global economy have been replaced by pessimism.

Environmental Debate: “Do you have to be Red to be Green?”

Politics: 
Environmentalism
Facts: 
Environment and resources
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

A World to Win · In February the CWO were invited to participate in a discussion at Sussex University on the question, “Do you have to be red to be green”. The discussion was called by the student ”Environmental Society” and “Socialist Students Society”. · Speaking on the issue were representatives of the “Green Party”, the “Brighton and Hove Transition Towns Movement” (1), the “Socialist Party”...

Italian Communists Inside Stalin’s Gulags

Politics: 
Italian Communist Left
Stalinism
History: 
1936-38: Great Purge
Facts: 
Repression and control
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

(Translated from Prometeo 15, June 2007) · 1936, 1937, 1938 ... it was during the course of these three years that the Stalinist regime wiped out the entire Bolshevik old guard as well as every form of class opposition by means of its notorious show trials. In fact, the obscure work of the “troika”, or rather the three member commissions charged with prosecuting, judging and condemning the...

Housing - A Few Notes from the Inner City

Facts: 
Housing
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

Correspondence - The following letter is a reader’s response to the article Housing - A Never-ending Crisis under Capitalism in Revolutionary Perspectives 43 · I must admit I was gladdened by the article on housing. Personally I suffer in terms of housing needs. I have the joy of living in an inner city area of a northern city, not on a sprawling and unkempt estate, but an area noted for its...

The First Years of Soviet Rule in Petrograd

History: 
1917: Russian Revolution
Facts: 
Books, art and culture
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

A review of Alexander Rabinowitch’s The Bolsheviks in Power (Indiana University Press, hardback, 494 pages, published December 2007) · We have had to wait 35 years for this sequel to Professor Rabinowitch’s The Bolsheviks Come to Power. This earlier work was enormously influential and when the CWO produced its pamphlet 1917 (1) back in the 1980s it owed a great debt to The Bolsheviks Come to Power.

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