Shipwreck of US Ambitions

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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

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United States of America
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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?

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Marxism
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Socialism and communism
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Revolutionary Perspectives

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

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Middle East
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Revolutionary Perspectives

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

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Revolutionary Perspectives

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

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Davide Casartelli
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Revolutionary Perspectives

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

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Eastern Asia
Russia and Eastern Europe
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Revolutionary Perspectives

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

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Southern Asia
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Revolutionary Perspectives

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

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Parliamentary Left and Reformism
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Proletarian revolution
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Revolutionary Perspectives

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

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France and Benelux
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Fabio Damen
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Revolutionary Perspectives

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.

Reflections on the Student Movement in France

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Armed Struggle
Student Movement
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France and Benelux
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Revolutionary Perspectives

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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Documents

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.

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