The internationalists

The European Union is an enormous experiment in capitalist development. Following its expansion in 2004 it now includes every significant state in Western Europe except for Switzerland and Norway, together with Greece, the bigger part of Cyprus and Malta around the Mediterranean and a line of eight states which emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union stretching from Estonia on the Gulf of...

On 2nd May we lost Mauro Stefanini. He was killed by cancer, the illness of our miserable age. Right up to the end we hoped his vitality and will to live would enable him to win through, but it wasn't to be. The disease won, even if it didn't succeed in humiliating him as it came up against his insurmountable reserves of courage and dignity.

(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...