Capitalist Equality Means Low Pay for All

"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

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

Regions: 

(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

(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: 

(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 · Previously optimistic forecasts for the future of the global economy have been replaced by pessimism.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: 

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

(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: 

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

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.

Miners

Publications: 

The job of the miner is still one of the most dangerous in the world, in December several serious incidents took place in China and the Ukraine that caused the death of hundreds of workers. · These are only two amongst the most dramatic cases of recent times, death in a mine is still an everyday fact all around the world.

Deaths at work

Publications: 

In Colombia the mining sector is the setting for ever more dramatic events. On the 13th of October at Suarez, a gold mine collapsed, trapping 50 workers 21 were killed, 26 seriously injured. · The plant was ordered to be closed by the government at the beginning of September, declaring it dangerous and a health hazard.

Victory at Türk Telekom

Publications: 

Comment on the recent Telekom Strike from Gece Notları · The massive strike by over 26,000 Türk Telekom workers is over. After 44 days the strikers went back to work. At 1,100,000 working days lost it makes it the biggest strike in Turkish history after the 1991 miners strike. It is time to draw up a balance sheet of the events.

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