The internationalists

All bourgeois economists are terrified by the catastrophic consequences which may be produced by SARS (the so-called severe acute respiratory syndrome) in the Chinese economy and the consequences on an international level. Will the astonishing Chinese economic development succeed in overcoming the panic of recent months or will it decline, dragging the entire world economy into the vortex of...

(The following text was originally written for the US magazine Discussion Bulletin and did actually appear in its final edition. It was written as a reply to a text published in an earlier edition of the same magazine. This was written by Macintosh, a member of the councilist organisation which publishes Internationalist Perspectives.

Fellow workers! · Capitalism’s drive for profitable accumulation has been in crisis for a long time now. In fact we have reached the point where the world’s greatest power [the USA] survives only thanks to its capacity to drain surplus value from the rest of the world in the form of parasitic income and because it does not have to pay its debts - a consequence of the enormous power of both the...

(Image - US war aims) · With the invasion of Iraq the US has announced its determination to launch pre-emptive wars anywhere in the world where it feels it has important interests and to change the governments of states which oppose its dictates. What is, in fact, announced is that the constraints under which US imperialism has operated up to now no longer apply.

Restart the strikes - Break out of the union prison · On 19th March the Firefighters’ delegates rejected the latest offer put forward by the bosses, despite the fact that the union desperately urged then to accept. The government promptly announced its intention to impose a settlement on the firefighters by force, using a legal injunction and the power of the state through the courts and the...