The internationalists

The new joint US and Canadian Internationalist Notes (IN) published last November has been just about sold out. Both the French and English editions were distributed by the hundreds in the two countries were we operate and also sent to a considerable amount of subscribers and correspondents in other countries of the world.

(Statement of the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party) · For the thirteenth consecutive night, working class suburbs mainly occupied by immigrant workers have been the victim of riots. At first these were in the suburbs on the outskirts of Paris and then were extended to the provinces where they were repeated in cities like Lyon, Bordeaux and Nantes...

The recent dispute at Gate Gourmet, where baggage handlers walked out in solidarity with sacked catering staff, is one of the clearest examples of the way the unions take over class struggle to divide, isolate and help defeat workers. The circumstances behind the dispute show the arrogance and contempt with which the bourgeoisie treats the working class.

(Statement of the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party) · With the clinical sharpness of a laser beam Hurricane Katrina has opened up a whole series of issues about the nature of today's class society, the level of the economic crisis, the culpability of capitalism for ecological disaster, and also the fact that capitalist rule is neither as powerful nor as permanent as many believe.

"The strongest performing sector in the UK economy is business and financial services." · "Business and financial services continue to form the largest single sector of the UK economy, and in 2003 accounted for 31.7 per cent of the total, which was more than double the size of the manufacturing sector.