The internationalists

(May Day Leaflet) · For five years international capitalism has been unable to drag itself out of the depths of the most severe economic recession since the Second World War. Soon after September 11th 2001 the international bourgeoisie declared that the world economy's problems could be blamed completely on the terrorist attacks of Al Qaeda on the USA and on the political instability which...

To say that these are difficult times for revolutionaries is to take understatement to the point of caricature. We are living through one of the longest economic crises in capitalism’s history (at least 32 years) and yet there has been neither a resolution to the crisis nor even the beginnings of a proletarian response.

(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...

Dear Comrades, · I know that at the opening of the AGM there will be a space to remember Mauro, the comrade and the man. I am sending my thoughts to help complete the all-round profile which the comrades will certainly be giving of the communist fighter/militant. · Mauro was a natural communist: his daily life, his feelings, his spontaneous reaction to events in life, they were all an expression of...

It is perhaps too early to write or say anything dispassionate about someone who was such an enormous presence but this message comes from the entire CWO for whom Mauro was, in the words Lenin used of Bukharin, “the favourite of our party”. This is not only due to his warm and engaging personality. From the very beginning Mauro was the initiator of contact between the CWO and the PCInt.