The internationalists

The Big Three & UAW Usher in a New Round of Attacks on Autoworkers · General Motors and the UAW ushered in a new round of attacks on autoworkers by hammering out a new contract while allowing a token strike to be held by some 72,000 GM workers nationwide. The strike itself forced GM plants in Canada and Mexico to halt production.

An economic study, published on June 28th by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), has statistically confirmed what most workers intuitively sense in their daily lives: that despite economic growth, they are not getting a fair shake from their bosses. Last year, 65% of Canadians told Environics Research they felt that a greater share of economic growth is going into the already...

In July 1914 the First World War broke out and at the same time a new epoch in history began. Until 1914 the workers of Europe had given their allegiance to the Social Democratic parties which made up the Second International. Although a few of its revolutionary members recognised that it was riddled with opportunism, none of them anticipated the great betrayal of August 1914.

In winning the battle against the “Old Bolsheviks”, Lenin and his supporters had successfully “rearmed” the Bolshevik Party. It now had a new programme which corresponded to the changed reality created by the February Revolution. How great a step forward this was for the Bolsheviks can be seen in the fact that Party membership leaped up, and support for the Party in all proletarian organisations...

"On the evening of October 24th the Provisional Government had at its disposal little more than 25,000 men. On the evening of October 25th, when preparations were underway for the storming of the Winter Palace, the Bolsheviks assembled about 20,000 Red Guards, sailors and soldiers before that last refuge of the Provisional Government.