Car Workers - Only International Unity Can Bring Victory!

Regions: 

Although the economic crisis in Britain doesn’t officially exist, with pundits and politicians all talking up the health of UK plc, its effects nevertheless continue to devastate parts of the working class. The latest sectors to be hit are car workers at Peugeot and Vauxhall. Less than a year since MG Rover announced 6,000 job losses, Peugeot has announced the closure of its Coventry plant with...

British State Terrorism

Regions: 

It is now almost a year since the London bombings of July 2005 and, as we predicted, these bombings have provided the pretext for a further assault on civil rights and an escalation of repression. On the one hand, acts of parliament have been used to provide the legal basis for repression while, on the other hand, the forces of repression have been used to create a climate of terror.

Shipwreck of US Ambitions

Society on the point of breakdown · In late May and early June, first Blair and then Bush visited Baghdad to congratulate the new Prime Minister Maliki and proclaim that the formation of his government represented a new dawn for Iraq. These visits by the architects of the invasion, and their joint admission of the mistakes made after that invasion are a sign of desperation rather than a...

Immigration and Global Capitalism

Introduction · On Mayday over 1 million workers staged marches in cities across the US against the immigration bill passed by the US congress. This bill, which was passed in December 2005, will turn illegal immigrant workers into criminals and open the way for their deportation. It also proposes the use of greater force to keep illegal immigrants out of the US; the US/Mexico border is to be...

The Human Future: Capitalism or Communism?

Politics: 

The pages of this journal are filled with reports which illustrate time and again the suffering degradation and alienation which exist in today’s world. Time and again we have argued that these things are the inevitable effects of the capitalist system of production. The reasons for this are derived from the fundamental fact that capitalism is economically dependent on exploitation leading to the...

Palestine: No End to Barbarism in Sight

Regions: 

The recent massacre of a Palestinian civilians, including three children on a Gaza beach is a grim indicator that there is no end in sight to the continuing barbarism that is the Israel/Palestine conflict. It is likely that the eight deaths and 20 injuries came from indiscriminate artillery fire from Israeli gunboats, which in turn claimed to be responding to Palestinian rockets launched from...

Gas gets Heavier

We are publishing below two articles from Battaglia Comunista 4 of this year. These articles deal with the increasing specific weight of gas reserves within the imperialist system, in the light of the increase in oil prices. This price has continued to increase since the articles were written, reaching a level closer to $70 per barrel rather than the $46-7 per barrel mentioned in the first...

Gas Follows Oil

Oil’s Price Increase Contributes to the Thirst for Gas · Given the increasing difficulties in its oil supply, the US’s recent energy plan has turned that country’s attention towards internal production and marketing of gas. Its subterranean reserves are considerable, although this is partially obscured by the large investment needed to exploit them and the high overall cost.

Gas at the Centre of Imperialist Manoeuvring

The Recent Accord between Russia and China Consolidates the Strategic Axis between Moscow and Peking · The whole world economy is based on the growing consumption of energy and, consequently, oil is at the centre of imperialist conflict. The USA is the first in line in cornering the oil market for itself by force of arms, as we have said so often in the context of its military interventions in the...

India Between Thirst for Energy and Superpower Aspirations

Regions: 

Today with the USA, Tomorrow with China? · With its recent agreements for the supply of nuclear material and technology to India, the United States hopes it has made the first, but significant, steps towards building a strategic partnership. It sees in India an important potential regional ally to be used to encircle and contain the growing power of Chinese imperialism.

The Fairy Story of the Parliamentary Road to Communism

In their journal Socialist Studies, No. 57, the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) run an article “Carnage, massacres and the state.” In this text they advocate the parliamentary road to socialism and criticise the IBRP for its rejection of this. In particular, they refer to letters published with introductions in Revolutionary Perspectives numbers 34 and 35.

France: Contract of First Employment Shows that Capitalism’s Laws Know no Borders

People: 

After the revolt in the suburbs of Paris it is not just the students who struggle against increased job insecurity - From Battaglia Comunista 4 (April 2006) · On the 18th March a huge demonstration against the CPE (Contract of First Employment) was held in Paris. The CPE is aimed at those young workers under 26 years of age.

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