Against Red Carnations and Left Necrophilia! For Communism!

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"What is now happening to Marx’s theory has, in the course of history, happened repeatedly to the theories of revolutionary thinkers and leaders of oppressed classes fighting for emancipation. During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns...

Zimbabwe - As Economic Collapse Looms the Vultures Gather

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Introduction · The recent police repression in Zimbabwe has again exposed the desperate economic and social situation in the country. In mid-March an opposition “prayer meeting” was attacked by Zimbabwe police; one young man was shot dead and the leaders of the opposition Movement for Democratic change (MDC) who were going to the meeting were severely beaten.

Centre of steelmaking shifts to Asia

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(We are publishing below a discussion text on the Tata takeover of Corus. The text deals with some of the consequences of globalisation and its implications for imperialism and the working class. The conclusions both explicit and implicit are the subject of discussion in the CWO. More will be published on this issue in future editions of RP.

May Day 2007 - IBRP Statement

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Global Capitalism Brings Misery to Millions - Only the World Working Class Can End that Misery · “Everything is for the best in this best of all of all possible worlds” is the latest message from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund about the state of the global economy. As May Day 2007 approaches the IMF celebrated the prospect of a fifth year of high world economic growth.

The Legacy of US Reaction

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Editorial · The American middle class, subject of the ravings of the bourgeois media and academics alike, is a potent myth. Contrary to this myth, the Luxembourg Income Study Database ranks the US fourteenth out of the fifteen countries included in their rankings. This statistical database defines the term “middle income” as being those households with incomes from 62.

Canada - Work Related Fatalities on the Rise

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While a good number of post-modernists and ultra-left “theoreticians” question the extent and harshness of the exploitation of workers, and in some cases, the very existence of the working class in today’s Western capitalist economies, a recent report published in Canada sheds new light on a continuing reality: capitalism kills and the death toll is rising.

Latin America: Between Populism and Imperialism

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(We publish the following article in its entirety. First appearing in issues 38 and 40 of Revolutionary Perspectives, the journal of the Communist Workers Organisation in the UK, and given the rise of left nationalist leaderships in countries once considered unquestioningly under the thumb of US imperialism and the persistence of massive broad popular struggles in the region for which the left...

May Day 2007 - IBRP Statement

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Global Capitalism Brings Misery to Millions - Only the World Working Class Can End that Misery

BA and Civil Service Fight

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Workers’ Resistance Grows Despite Union Sabotage · As we go to press, 200 000 Civil Service workers are taking part in a one-day strike whilst British Airways workers have just had their strike called off by Tony Woodley, once Trotskyist militant, now boss of the TGWU. Over 100 000 jobs are still at risk in the Civil Service, and a further 5% cut in staff costs is planned by the Treasury from...

University Top-up Fees

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We are publishing a leaflet which was distributed at a number of universities in November last year. The proposed increases in top-up fees, will hit students hard and most will have 5 figure debts before they even start their first job. When New Labour said in the 1997 election that they believed in “education, education, education” they forgot to mention that they also intended to make students...

Trident and the “Faslane 365” Protest

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Trident and its replacement - Nuclear Weapons · In December, the government introduced a White Paper recommending the replacement of Britain’s Trident nuclear missile system. The Trident system, which is a submarine launched, nuclear armed, ballistic missile system, is due to end its operational life in about 2025. The new system would, we are told, last to the 2050’s.

Is “The Falklands’ Factor” Still With Us?

Introduction · It is 25 years this spring since the start of the Falklands War and the Government has announced four days of commemoration to mark the anniversary of the final victory in June. This seems extravagant for a war which was ostensibly one of the most pointless in modern history. All this attention underlines that this war has had an impact on British ruling class thinking which has...

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