The internationalists

(From Battaglia Comunista #10, October/November 1956 - Translated by the CWO in 2006) · From first impressions of the dramatic events which have unfurled over the last few days in Poland and Hungary it would appear that a genuine process of disintegration is spontaneously occurring in the Soviet bloc that was created, nurtured and defended by Stalin at all cost, including the use of terror.

East Timor appeared in the news media once again April and May of 2006. The conflict between factions within the regime erupted into full scale rioting and the suppression of a military rebellion. Since the founding of the newest and poorest country in the world, they have been embroiled in an ongoing dispute with Australia over the exploitation of gas fields in the Timor strait.

IBRP Statement · Each day the news brings to light the devastations spread by capitalism in crisis. The evermore frantic quest for sufficiently lucrative profit rates imposes on the one hand greater levels of exploitation of the working class, unemployment, lack of job security, generalized misery, and on the other hand an always more frequent resort to war.

Capitalism’s crisis requires more aggressive policies · Though frequently but erroneously portrayed as a moderate and peace loving country, recent developments in the Canadian state’s foreign and internal policies reveal its fundamentally imperialist and increasingly aggressive nature. While Iraq remains the focus of world public opinion, Canada, in close alliance with other so-called moderate...

As we were going to press we learned of the death from cancer of our comrade Andre Claisse (alias Goupil). Our website will contain further tributes to him but here we record his contribution to the struggle for the emancipation of the working class which he maintained to his dying day through a brief biographical sketch written by Jean-Louis Roche which Goupil himself approved of.