Reflections on the Student Movement in France

The Struggle Against the CPE · The resistance of young workers and school and university students against the de Villepin Government’s attempt to create greater labour flexibility in France has been one of the most encouraging events of recent years. · The Capitalist Crisis · Since the early seventies global capitalism has been faced with a crisis of accumulation caused by the law of the tendency...

May Day 2006

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Against War, Against Capital, Workers of the World Unite! · Between fragile recoveries and severe recessions, the world capitalist crisis continues to tighten in on itself. So year after year the international proletariat, the penniless masses, find themselves locked in the grip of exploitation, poverty and war.

Against All Anti-Working Class Attacks! Against the CPE!

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The Government’s attacks on all workers are continuing. Today it is the young who are in the line of fire just as other sectors were before because the CPE (Contrat Premier Embauche or First Employment Contract) is part of a coherent package of measures. For some years the ruling class has made an ever larger part of the working class (starting with the young) insecure, with temporary contracts,...

State Terrorists on the Loose in Britain

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The announcement last week by the Metropolitan Police that their “shoot to kill” policy is entirely justified underlines how much democracy we have left in Britain. Despite the murder on July 22nd 2005, by armed officers of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian worker who just happened to be resident in London, the state reserves the right to kill innocent people in cold blood.

Iraqi Occupation - Neither Islam nor the West Have Anything to Offer

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It is not hard to grasp the evil of the war in Iraq. Over 110,000 civilians have been killed by armies which claimed to be bringing “freedom and democracy”. But torture is still torture however “democratic” the torturers say they are. The assaults in Abu Ghraib prison and by British soldiers on civilians in Al-Amarah have demonstrated that this war is not about saving Iraqis from an evil dictator.

Islamic Repression in Iran - Tehran Bus Workers' Gaoled

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Tehran Bus Workers’ struggle · In January bus drivers in Tehran carried out an unusual protest. They displayed photographs of various arrested union members in the windows of their buses and kept their headlights on all day. The workers were demanding freedom to organise and wage increases which had been expected for more than 4 years.

The UK and Capitalism's New Economy - Part Four:The Illusion of a Productive Economy

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So far in this series we have been subjecting capitalist claims about the wealth generated by today’s service-dominated economy to a Marxist value analysis. It is now time to draw these threads together and see what they tell us about the current state of well-being of UK capital. First, then, a reminder of some of the significant points established so far.

The Revolt of the Parisian Suburbs

Translated from Prometeo Series VI No 12 (January 2006) · In our last issue we published a brief article on the revolt which took place on the outskirts of Paris and other French cities and the Bureau statement on it is published in Internationalist Communist 23. Here we are publishing a longer reflective piece from the theoretical organ of our Italian comrades of Battaglia Comunista.

Hamas Victory - The Reasons for Victory and the Perspective for Palestinians

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(Translated from Battaglia Comunista 2/2006. This article is only avalaible in the web version of RP38.) · The data so far available (mid-February) show an overwhelming victory for Hamas. The victory, 75 seats out of 132, more than 50% of the votes, was widely predicted. The reasons for victory are to be found in a series of factors.

Latin America - Between Populism and Imperialism (Part I)

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Is the US losing its grip over its own backyard? As military and economic power is advancing all over the planet a series of victories of “Left” governments have created new pressures for it in South America and the Caribbean. Following the electoral victory in Brazil of the so-called Workers Party headed by Luiz Ignacio da Silva, “Lula”, in Venezuela Chavez’ successful defence of his regime...

Workers Fight Outside Unions

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Mentions of strikes in news reports generally comes in two forms; the pre-strike hysteria at the selfishness of striking workers and how everybody will suffer as a consequence, and the post-strike dismissal of the action as poorly supported and ineffectual. Reports on the recent strikes in the UK have been no different, although as the state tightens its grip on all aspects of our lives it is...

The Turner Plan - Its Time to Pension Off Capitalism

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Capitalism is in crisis and for thirty years they have tried to make us pay for it. First they destroyed our wages with inflation, then they destroyed our jobs through restructuring and then they increased our exploitation in the drive for productivity. And still this is not enough: Now they want to deny us a right to even a minimum standard of living in retirement.

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