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The Hague Congress of the International Workingmen’s Association (aka the First International) took place in September 1872. After a tumultuous session, Bakunin was expelled by a majority vote and from then on, the red and black tendencies of the workers’ movement went their separate ways. · Or so it is said.

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North Sea Oil and Gas Fields: The Struggle Continues!

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Exploitation and accumulation

As mentioned in our recent article on wildcat strikes in the UK, back in May it was reported that over a thousand offshore oil and gas workers in the North Sea walked out across 19 rigs demanding their wages match inflation.(1) And now, according to a statement circulating across social media, more action is being planned for 8 September.

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Capitalism's Economic Foundations (Part I)

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Marxism

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Decadence

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(Part I ( – Part II ( – Part III ( – Part IV ( · The Economic Basis of Modern Imperialism · The article we are re-printing here is the first part of the first pamphlet ever produced by the CWO. It was initially published as a separate article in 1975, entitled The Economic Foundations of Capitalist Decadence, by the small collective of Revolutionary Perspectives which preceded the formation of the...

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Workers Respond to the Bosses' Class War

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Aurora (en)

For decades workers have paid for the capitalist crisis in declining real wages, austerity and job insecurity. Now all over the world price rises of basic goods are at last triggering strikes and protests. In the UK, BT workers have been on strike for the first time in more than thirty years. More strikes by rail and tram workers, airport and airline workers, barristers, bus drivers, tube...

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Nancy Pelosi's Visit to Taipei Opens a New Episode in the US-China Crisis

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Eastern Asia

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Imperialism

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(The article which follows is a translation from our Italian comrades of Battaglia Comunista. It is a reminder that the war in Ukraine is not the only theatre of imperialist conflict, as we outlined in back in Revolutionary Perspectives 19 (January 2022) [online at Indeed Russia remains, like Europe, a bit part player to the main imperialist rivalry between China and the USA.

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Cost of Living Goes Through the Roof

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Unemployment and precarity

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Russia and Eastern Europe

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Aurora (en)

In a world of rising prices, the UK’s 10% inflation rate is higher than any other ‘rich’ country and from all accounts set to rise. Domestic gas prices have gone up by 95% in the last 12 months, and electricity by 54%. Both will rise further in the autumn, when millions of families will once more face the dilemma of whether to “eat or heat”.

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The War in Ukraine Opens the Way to Global Imperialist Conflict

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No War But The Class War

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2022: Russo-Ukrainian War

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No-one can fail to be stirred by the current horrors confronting the people of Ukraine, especially its working class. They are now going through the same torment of death and displacement as the victims of imperialist war in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere across the globe in recent years. However the war in Ukraine is different in that it defines more clearly the imperialist interests of the...

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The Unaffordable Price of Capitalism

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Crisis

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Aurora (en)

Not so long ago internationalists were ridiculed for insisting that capitalism threatens not only our livelihoods, but the very future of humanity. Nobody laughs now. Ever since the financial meltdown of 2007 revealed a system living on borrowed money it has become increasingly obvious it is living on borrowed time.

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Wildcat Strikes in the UK: Getting Ready for a Hot Autumn

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The climate crisis may have brought record heat to the UK this summer but it is not the only way temperatures are rising. After more than ten years of austerity in which real wages have been slashed, after more than four decades in which workers’ earnings as a share of the wealth their labour creates have fallen, there are a few signs that the latest attempt to make us pay is the last straw.

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The Cost-of-Living Crisis is a Capitalist Crisis

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2022: Russo-Ukrainian War

(Editorial for Revolutionary Perspectives 20 ( (Series 4).) · It is easy to forget that when COVID-19 restrictions were first relaxed economists were eagerly awaiting a bounce back of the economy. There was a general clamour among business owners, landlords, and Tory backbenchers to ‘let the economy breathe’.

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No War but the Class War: Statement from NWBCW Rome

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No War But The Class War

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(We publish here a translation of the founding statement of NWBCW Rome ( You can follow their activities: @nwbcw.roma ( · Founding Manifesto of the Rome NWBCW Committee · The Russian invasion of Ukraine has opened a new phase of imperialist war. The current war is part of the general rivalry between the great imperialist powers across the world (there are 60 wars going on on the planet right now).

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Striking Starbucks Workers: When Our Conditions Are Under Attack, Stand Up & Fight Back!

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United States of America

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