The internationalists

On March 28, 2002 the United Auto Workers (UAW) sent a letter to the chief company negotiator for Accuride's Henderson, Kentucky plant 'disclaiming interest in representing hourly employees' at that facility. This letter ended twenty years of union representation at the factory. The 400 workers concerned were given no warning of this action by the union that was supposed to serve and...

Lamps Forever Lit - A Memorial to Kirkland Lake Area Miners · By: Bernie Jaworsky, Cambria Publishing, Calgary, 2001 · What a beautiful and moving book! This might seem strange, as it is a book about death. Over 250 pages the author, Bernie Jaworsky, chronicles what was, and still is, the life of the working class in this small town of North Eastern Ontario; a town whose name is based on a lake...

In present conditions we could have entitled this issue simply "socialism or barbarism" because that is precisely where we are in world history. It is not a rhetorical flourish, nor an exaggeration, to say that humanity is approaching a massive social and political crisis. The events of this year have speeded that process up.

We find ourselves facing yet another political/organisational crisis of the ICC, the conclusion of which is still undecided. It occurs at a delicate moment for the capitalist dynamic as well as the proletarian movement. On the bourgeois side, the drive towards war has accelerated with the military initiative of the USA following the attack on the World Trade Centre.

(From our Latin American correspondent) · A Little History · Argentina's current crisis of power has not only arisen because of the capitalist financial collapse, but from the aptitude of the hardest hit sectors of the proletariat to translate the experience of the last 20 years - during which the capitalist regime, whether under the military boot or under democracy, has plunged the working...