The internationalists

Nearly 2200 workers have been locked-out since May 2002 by Vidéotron, a Quebec-based telecommunications company. The conflict comes from the proposed transfer of 664 jobs (which would entail the actual loss of 300 more) to another communications company, Entourage Solutions. Workers transferred would lose over 30% of their present wages and their entire pension plan.

East Timor, hailed as the first democracy of the millennium, and established with the aid of the US state, with the assistance of the Australian regional satrap as the local gendarme has shown it's true colors. No clearer an illustration can be made of the reactionary nature of national liberation than in East Timor.

In the Progressive Magazine, Faleh A. Jabar puts forward the view that the Ba'ath Party regime in Iraq should be replaced by a secular democratic government. The author of the article fails to take into account the economic situation in the world and the role of the US in relation to Iraq. Furthermore the author glosses over the record of the Iraqi Communist Party that he was a member of and an...

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...